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  • Is it really that simple? I once was stack in customer service hell with my internet provider where they weren’t able to connect me but didn’t want to cancel my service. I canceled the contract, they charged me some cancellation fees, I refused to pay, they sold my debt to a collector who was not able to collect anything but threatened that they will put me in some registry. Couple years later I was taking a mortgage and I asked in the bank if being in some registry could be an issue and they said that no, they don’t care about unpaid $200 debt. With a generic credit score that’s different. The bank will see a low score and might not care how did you get it. That gives leverage to debt collectors and shitty companies.















  • A lot of knee-jerk reactions here so to provide some context:

    The government will not do it because they are simply unable to. They were barely able to reach 3%. The ruling party and the PM do want to increase the spending but their minor, far-left coalition partner is against it. They would rather spend the money on social programs. The far-left party even voted to exit NATO altogether. They are simply not serious people. The PM finally managed to increase spending to 3% by using executive orders. They simply don’t have a path to pass a new budget and increase the spending to 5%. So yeah, it’s not the ruling party that’s shortsighted, it’s their progressive coalition partner who is against any spending on the military.