Yes, I guess that’s up to a debate which one is better (or none of them).

I’d say if we imagine housing as a scale from 0 to 100 where 0 means you’re homeless and 100 means you’re living in a mansion

• The US way sounds like you’re using the whole scale - you’ve quite a lot of homeless people, but also quite a lot of people living in mansions. Some people are above average, some are bellow awerage and so on.
• The soviet way is like if you’d shrink the scale to 30 to 50. You have no homeless people but also no one is living in a mansion (well … ). But also notice the best you can achieve in such system is average.

Which approach is better? I guess from “progress” point of view the US system is better. Theoretically if you’re skilled and hard working, you can get above average and live better life. That’s actually the reason why so many skilled and talented people fled the soviet union - in the west there was no “ceiling” for you. On the other hand, from humanity point of view though, the soviet system sounds much better - country caring about every single one of its citizens to have a place to live.

But I’d argue that maybe the 3rd way is best. Because well both Soviets and US are extremes. Soviets were … well … soviets. It’s like “left” on steroids. Also it failed - I mean if it was such a paradise on earth, why were so many people fleeing it.

But US is also an extreme - you’re like a capitalist lunapark. Even other countries from west are often horrified how you take care of people (or rather not care)

But there is some middle ground between these - you can have a system with focus on social issues but also not go crazy f.e. some scandinaviam countries

I add that “cannot be evicted” is a double edge sword here. Since appartments were free and were assigned more or less random (cough, cough, corruption), very often you got one or two … let’s say “interresting” neighbours

Edit: well some interresting facts from my mom who’s sitting next to me - there were quite some downsides

• My father asked for an appartment and the answer was: get married. As a single guy you won’t get anything.
• Also when you get married and have children, there’s no guarantee that you get some big appartment. Her colleague had 3 children, a husband and got 1 room appartment anyway
• There was a list of people waiting for appartments. When you were somewhere down, you wait, for years
• When she asked for an apparartment as a married woman, a “commission” arrived to verify, whether we as a familly really need one. And whether we couldn’t stay living with grandma
• When my grandma with my mom moved into a newly built appartment, they opened a window and it fell off. My grandad caught it thankfully so it didn’t break. They never openned that window again. There was no one to repair it and a replacement was basically impossible. They were able to open it again in like 2010 when she changed windows

There’s a new trend with immutable distros and they have some pros and cons. OP’s stance apparently is that they’re the future

https://itsfoss.com/immutable-distro/

Yes where I live, we use cm usually. Also height is almost always measured without shoes

I’m with you but I get it that sometimes it’s convenient. My wife likes what we call “cup recipes” in baking where everything is measured in cups/glasses (this was a new thing couple of years ago where I live). It’s very fast and convenient.

But yes, it gets out of hand. I mean “a cup of celery”? … How? Why?

Can someone list those piracy subscription services so we can avoid them as responsible citizens?

I just use stove glass cleaner

Umm what’s unhealthy in it? :)

I guess it depends how we define what’s a healthy meal but in my book few rules to eat healthy are:

• lower your sugar, flour, potatoes income to minimum
• lower your fat income and choose right fats
• eat more fruits and vegetables
• maintain right ballance of carbs, fats and proteins

A “kebab salad” sounds quite healthy in that take. Despite sounding strange that a common street food could be healthy

Kebab plate with vegetables.

A coleague of mine was eating it when he was on a diet to lose weight. It’s basically kebab/gyros meat and a vegetable salad with a dresing (usually tzaziki). You have basically no sugar in it, it’s just protein and vitamins.

Back in the day it cost like 4-5 € where I live which was pretty cheap for a lunch. Now it’d more like 6-7 € but that’s still decent