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"Probably safer to stay out of the race for now."

What kind of attitude is that?

Good point.

If I were a small seller I would just ignore this, like many sellers on Temu do. Before you get into trouble, someone must take notice that you did not register for the recipient fiefdom's protectionism racket. And if that happens, it is not sure that you really are in trouble. As with the GDPR, this kind of regulation is almost unenforcable in practice.

Sounds to me like the author worked at XING / NewWork SE which was a particularly nice German company to work with during their heyday.

Microsoft seems to be doing anything they can to get rid of Minecraft Java users having bought a Mojang license in the past. Either they are conspiring against their users, or they just don't care.

The dubious Mojang account migration. Their lack of support for kids who got their accounts phished recently. Migrating to Vulkan breaking old hardware.

Sad story, but it was to be expected MS bought Mojang.

As a EU citizen it is really frustrating to watch that they just can't stop themselves from introducing new regulation. And we don't have non-hallucinating AI yet that can help businesses keep track of all this legislative diarrhea.

It's clear that given the same calorie input, there is little difference.

The main benefits of intermittent fasting are not in weight loss, but:

- Give your bowels the time to run the "cleaning program" (rumbling) - Reduce inflammation

A pity. I still have the ice skates I bought from them 30 yrs ago. Real quality.

Maybe you are lucky you did not become a nuclear engineer. I've heard from a woman whose late father was one that he and his colleagues all died from cancer. They did not get to enjoy their retirement much.

Hey, just wait 25 years, and fusion will be cheaper than anything ;)

So true, unfortunately. I wonder why that is the case. Maybe the majority of voters (pensionists, state employees, ...) is just not affected by these problems (yet)?

I guess you're right. It's a pity that Elon Musk was incapable of aligning with the German Green movement. So many good things (e.g. large batteries on the German grid to buffer wind and sun) could have come out of that. The Green party actually helped create the right circumstances to build the German Tesla factory quite fast. He was not exactly grateful later on, supporting their political opponents :-D But I guess their extreme wokeism did not help either.

I agree on the problem of the mainstream having trouble to fix the system that feeds their corruption. I just fear that electing proven traitors such as AfD (partially financed by Russia and China, supported by Russian bots, now bootlicking the US admin) and BSW (directly controlled from Moscow) will only make a tough situation worse.

spot on

Merkel dumped nuclear after Fukushima simply to improve her electoral calculus. As in everything she did, there were no long-term concerns. Yet to her defence it has to be stated that nuclear energy in Germany was just not economically feasible anymore at that time (when gas was still cheap, wind and sun cheaper, and burning coal was not yet frowned upon). Also, Germany had shut down their own uranium mining long ago.

France guarding the rest of Europe, that's funny! The connection had to be dropped because it did not have the capacity to supply Spain with enough power at that moment. And the connection is so small, because the French do not want competition from cheaper Spanish power generators.

The far right in Germany now calls themselves pacifists :-D Nevertheless, I would feel much safer living in a EU that has serious nuclear deterrence capabilities.

Have you ever thought about how to best prevent the US or Russia from pushing a country around?

I still do not understand how anybody can set up real-life CI on Github? Have they ever looked into real CI solutions?

It was a mistake, because it makes it harder to build up a nuclear weapons stockpile. Which Germany desperately needs.

You must have dreamed this. There is no blockade against Kaliningrad. Especially no sea blockade. In fact, there is a EU treaty in place that ensures overland transport to Kaliningrad via Lithuania.

What in fact is in place is widespread GPS jamming done by the Russians from Kaliningrad, and that impacts ships sailing the baltic sea.

"catastrophic display of the Russian systems." - that, or the Russians actually helped the Americans...

Who might be the first European head of state or similar they lift out? Ursula von der Leyen? :-D Air defenses in the EU does not seem to be in the best shape, the way Russian drones seem to operate without trouble.

Maduro making himself dictator was also a "might makes right" move tbh.

It sounds as if he had neighbours in the same building :-D

Over time this will increase the amount of pigeons close to your place.

Good points.

All variants of rent control etc. have been tried in Europe and have miserably failed. Quite the opposite, rents have been rising even more, and new construction has been reduced due to new politically induced risks.

Examples: Berlin, Barcelona

But as Barcelona shows, there is a feedback loop benefiting leftist populist politicians:

Higher rents, lower housing supply -> people frustrated -> leftist populists get more votes -> more stupid regulation -> even higher rents, even lower housing supply -> people more frustrated -> ...

This can go on for at least two electoral cycles.

That is quite a misrepresentation of history. Have you ever seen the American cemeteries from WWII in France or Italy? Then you would know that for doing "nothing" quite a lot of Americans have died to liberate Europe. And the part they liberated actually stayed free as opposed to the dictatorships installed by the Soviets.

Never, because MS has over decades maintained itself in the perfect sweet spot where they sell to executives, and not to the poor people who have to suffer the products.

Olof Palme? The socialist who squeezed tax payers out like lemons, and a bit more?

This seems to exist in almost every democratic country now, and it seems to work on quite a few voters.

I am always wondering about the hacks writing these pieces, in what place do you have to be mentally to be, essentially, a paid propagandist?