Yes yes, Mr. Duda. Please go back to calling for war reparations from Germany on a biweekly basis. Thanks.

Not everything that glitters is (Nazi) gold. /s

Germany here: I recently learned that a comparatively big local firm is planning to move their production to China. Some people never learn …

I remember that one documentary everyone at my school watched at least once during lessons: A bunch of animals in Africa getting drunk by eating fermenting fruit.

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Were only one instance exist or did I miss something?

This is a question of capability, not economics.

The answer? Yes. The solution, though? No.

The F35 is the overall more advanced platform. That’s simply a fact. But given the current state of the world, it is definitively the correct answer to the US’ new attitude.

The solution for the future however is pushing the two big fighter programs currently in development in the EU.

OK, I am going to try arguiung that privacy supersedes food:

To have a right to anything means there is something that I own. Owning something puts a division between me and others who can not own this specific thing: My right is my own, I do not have to diminish it by sharing. The most fundamental form of division is absence. Having a right to privacy is a right to the absence from others. Therefore the right to privacy is a more fundamental one than the right to food.

However, I agree that in practice eating in public beats dying in private any time of the day. 🤷

I fully support sending Taurus to Ukraine but I am afraid this might be one of Merz’ ‘Stammtischreden’ that he does frequently: Just blurb out whatever he thinks at the moment and sounds good while at the bar, but then decides otherwise once sobered up.

I see the point in my projects yet I am frustrated and depressed by my perceived lack of progress.

Want to start a project and procrastinate on it together?

Good point!

I am using PassAndroid

Most of the time these ‘Add to X Wallet’ buttons lead you to an .pkpass File which you can import. The app doesn’t look very nice but it does the job for me.

My head canon is that creatures such as ghosts, demons, djinns, … enter our mortal realm willingly from time to time and sometimes form a connection with a person, who they then teach how to summon them in times of need. This knowledge is then passed down.

So effectively otherworldly creatures are tourists who gave a local their number and now they get bothered by their greatgreatgreatgreatgrandkids.

It might certainly be a factor, though: German citizenship is very “valuable” in the sense that it opens a lot of possibilities for travelling. A lot of countries (and we are not just talking EU member states here) do not require as much paperwork or none at all if you own a German passport compared to a US one.

Oh, they can do that if need be. They already tested it.

Friendly reminder for everyone downvoting this piece of news. The downvote button is not a dislike button.

Not sure how to interpret your question.

In case my message wasn’t clear: I think the reason the rightwing extremist AFD has overtaken the conservative CDU in polls is twofold. On one hand the CDU is adopting more extreme rightwing rhetoric and this validates the AFD as ‘the original fascism’. Secondly the CDU opposed new debt based investments for the last four year and campaigned heavily based on this sentiment. Now they approved a plan for up to one TRILLION € of debt to finance defence and infrastructure related projects.

Why choose the off-brand when you can get the original fascism for the same one vote?

Especially considering that the conservatives fooled every voter by throwing out basically every fiscal austerity policy they so vehemently defended during the last years, the moment they won the election and now need money to form a functioning goverment.

IANAL. It’s the other way around: You do everything as required per your contract. If the company believes you owe them money for June, they will sue you if you don’t pay.

If trouble is on the horizon it is however advisable to contact an actual lawyer in advance to check your paperwork in case you missed anything.