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BallPlartCallMop89 karma

Thanks. Also: please don't.

BallPlartCallMop70 karma

God kväll.

First off, thanks for motivating me to get into robotics so i can finally do something with my life, even though im shit at practical stuff, so i ended up in Programming.

If you were to build one horse sized Duckbot and one hundred duck sized Horsebots, which side would win and how many people would die in the process?

BallPlartCallMop6 karma

Im not doing this AMA, but i think i have some information you might want to hear.

I volunteered in a Refugee home here in Germany for a while and met two siblings, brother and sister, there . They came from Syria over Turkey and Greece. The situation in Turkey was simply miserable for refugees and the Greek police(?) just kept them for like a month and a half and then told them to go.

So at this point,yes, they were technically safe but Greece just does not have the capacitys to deal with such an influx since they are already drowning in their own pool of bullshit to take care of. The migrants don't all just actively come to other countries, they are sometimes told to do so(or are just sent straight back). Mind you, i'm talking about people that have actual stuff to flee from, in this case ISIS and massive airstrikes that turned half of their city to rubble and killed both of their parents.Also, most people from Syria that i've talked to spoke English and are eager to integrate, but since most folks at the facility i helped out at where Syrian i can't talk much about other countries.

Should we take in more refugees? Yes, actual refugees absolutely, but i'm not blind enough to not see that we should probably come up with a better system to sort out the bad eggs and/or deport them.

BallPlartCallMop4 karma

I'm guessing you mean the US. Very real chance, the last few Olympic Games have always seen the same 3 Teams on the Podium: Canada, Germany and the US.

Source: my memory, so i might be wrong.

BallPlartCallMop2 karma

As i said in my other comment, alot of the time they can't just choose where to stay and get distributed to other countries because small and poorer countries like Greece or Lebanon can't take that many, and Lebanon already took a fuckton compared to their population. The big camps in those countries are also demonstrably underfounded.

But you're right, you can only take the long trip if you have the money to do so.

I can't speak for OP on his view about those who are reluctant to integrate, but you might be overestimating the effect on Countries with a strong economy.