Yeah, because putting in a USB stick is a real solution for a somewhat secure system and not just media bullshit referenced to justify invading private homes at will.

“Your system is reproduceable, but your personality unstable” 😂

I would love to see something similiar for my country’s parliament but just fairly mentioning the most despicable individuals would by far exceed the possible post length…

As if calling it “peace deal” was the biggest problem and not the fact that the shit show that pretends to be western media is constantly pretending that every cognitive pile of vomit coming out of the MAGA clown show redefines reality.

But… how can that happen?

I was told that useless, helpless Europe was already sold out as obviously every brain-fart by some MAGA moron (magically) changes the (geopolitical) reality we simply have to accept… 🤣

I get the “used in Ukaine”-part, but why pretend that there is a difference between AfD-linked nazis and Russian troops? That’s just the same people differently flavored for another front line.

We all knew this was coming when Nexter and KMW were allowed to merge.

The common tank project which France needs to succeed was all that kept them invested in cooperation. Now that KNDS is covering the main part as one common French-German company they don’t need to pretend anymore and can continue to push hard for all FCAS development and production to be done in France by France for France, everyone else be damned.

The original Eurofighter program was the same mess

or the Boxer program (France left when the French proposal wasn’t chosen to build their own 8x8).

Ffs… even Taurus/StormShadow happened because France needs to call all the shots every time. APACHE started as a French-German cruise missile project. Yet France refused to even consider any advanced bunker-breaking warhead and so Germany left to build their own based on what was co-developed up to that point. Only for France to then change their minds later and develop something alongside the specs as envisioned by Germany with the UK. So now we have 2 conceptionally identical and very similiar cruise missiles in Europe produced by separate branches of MBDA… the actual difference? More work done by French workers because that’s all that matters.

Reiche was Parliamentary State Secretary under Altmeier (and Rötgen before) and worked on and publically defended the EEG revision of 2012. I don’t know how you define “having power” but I call writing parts of the legislation active work.

You forgot someone else working hard on the actual plans. So hard in fact that she was recently awarded with a new job as Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy…

I seriously doubt there will be much market for petrol and diesel cars in EU after 2035.

That’s basically a fact. But you don’t understand the actual goal here. They know that combustion engines are a dead end. They have known for a long time.

But between investing their own money in innovating and transitioning or investing a fraction of that money in buying politicians to keep their failing business alive a few more years and then bribing them some more to give them public money for the neccessary transition because they are too big to fail there is one strategy that optimises their profits.

In fact they do both already. They take public money or get indirect subsidies for developing their EV segment (so they have everything ready when they need to do the switch and which they openly call the future) while at the same time also paying for the propaganda brain-washing people into doubting the viability of EVs. Because every combustion engine (that has zero costs for any active development anymore) they still manage to sell is profit; doubly so when the lack of diesel and petrol forces those people to buy yet another car sooner.

No, why would it bother me.

Some people need to voice their opinions loudly, some don’t. Doesn’t matter much for me.

The number of “I’m switching to Linux” comments or the change in frequency however is a reasonable indicator for public opinion (under the assumption that there is no sudden global increase in extroverts needing to voice their opinion loudly…).

No, you don’t have lost track. You are simply reading actual articles and propaganda.

This -for example- is the latter. No, that decision is not the EU backing away from chat control but quite the opposite. They have build the foundation for creating mass surveilance infrastructure without the courts shutting them down as usual because it’s voluntary. Up to the moment there is a reasonable big distraction or some neat pretext and it suddenly isn’t voluntary anymore and fully running just the next day.

Sorry to tell you but if you believe that headline you are the main idiot here.

That’s the opposite of “backing away from chat control” but the base for creating a whole mass surveilance infrastructure now. Then they just wait for a pretext or for a big enough distraction…

That would be minimum for a short note.

Which this isn’t, so they could do this thing called … you know … journalism.

This outdated stuff where they actually inform people about details like that association being a neo-liberal lobbyism organisation representing about 0.2% of German family businesses. With such “family businesses” as Miele, Dr.Oetker or Henkel (~5, 4 and 21 billion revenue/year).

Edit: Dr. Oetker is officially denying their membership…

What’s going on is the usual framing bordering on lies in the media trying hard to normalise the far-right (totally not connected who owns the media of course *wink wink*)…

What they call “family-business” here maybe -technically correct- owned by private families. But we are actually talking about the same multi-billion € companies that already got rich through the nazis back then.

It’s like writing “up-and-coming tech start-ups praise Trump policies” but talking about Tesla and Meta.

So in reality it’s “ultra-rich think they can benefit from fascists as they always do”. But that headline would not fit the agenda.

Fun fact: Because of that decision Deutsche Bank -as if you could think of people with less morals than those- cancelled several business agreements with them. “You are too evil for Deutsche Bank to work with you” is some special kind of statement.

Edit: Rossmann (drug-store chain, 12 billion rev/year - notably not one of those founded in the 1800s and already befitting from a nazi regime once but just 50 years ago) just cancelled their membership. Let’s hope it’s the first of many…

Edit2: We can add Vorwerk and Melitta to the list…

Okay, I will note the difference: there is none; a trillion in the pockets of an US billionair that doesn’t pay taxes is the same as a trillion in the pockets of a Europen billionair that doesn’t pay taxes.

In parts maybe because who is actually producing PULS with KNDS only being more of a local distribution partner. It’s Israel’s Elbit Systems.

So that “German” system is in reality an Israeli system (with French-German KNDS still looking for partnerships to produce compatible missiles).

And the “US” system is co-developed by German Rheinmetall (with Lockheed-Martin) and fully compatible to the upgraded M270s (called MARS II/LRU/MLRS-I respectively) which Germany, France and Italy already build themselves under license and also run their own targeting software (UK, too, minus the common software project). In fact GMRS is a truckbased solution with the full-sized 2x 6 launcher like on the M270, unlike HIMARS with halfed capactity.

So that German vs US system in the headline and article are kinda skewed…

https://www.armyrecognition.com/legal-information

Interesting how PULS -developed by Israel’s Elbit Systems and only sold under the name EuroPULS in Europe via German-French KNDS- is a “German” system somehow, but GMARS -developed by German Rheinmetall in cooperation with US Lockheed Martin- is a US system…