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Why the fuck does it cost money to get smarter??
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*in the US. In Germany a semester at my university costs about 300 Euros and that includes cheaper lunch and a ticket to use all public transport in the whole of Germany.
You're proud of giving students free ICE tickets? What is wrong with you???
What?
I guess the joke is that in Germany the high speed train is called “ICE” (named that way way before the US department)
ICE ="inter city express", its the German high speed rail and in fact private transportation. But you can use the regional rail network in all of Germany for free. Non students pay 58€ per month for that privilege.
I know, this was just a poorly worded joke about ICE in the US
Is this a bot? It makes no sense