I bet he wishes he could just throw that particular idea out of the window.

If they get away with it in Ukraine, absolutely. They might pick a slightly smaller target next time but there are plenty of those around.

I consider not wanting to be invaded by Russia a core European value too though I wouldn’t usually phrase it like that.

affects almost no one

https://xkcd.com/1172/

I don’t think most people are worried about the US running out in the near future. It is more deliberate decisions and problems during shipping that are a reason to become independent of their deliveries as well, not just of Russia’s.

Or, more importantly, make it easier for the Russian propaganda machine to keep their own citizens isolated and completely at the mercy of state-run propaganda outlets.

More than 9 million people of working age have dropped out of the jobs market. The economically inactive population has increased by 884,000 since before the pandemic.

Looks like those 9 millions miraculously turned into 10% of themselves on the way from “people of working age” to “economically inactive population”, wonder how that happened.

To be fair so do US defence projects in terms of which state gets what.

Ah, now that makes sense, I think the problem was this part of the post

Children of immigrants born in Mayotte

which I read as

Children of (immigrants born in Mayotte)

while they probably meant

Children (of immigrants) born in Mayotte

Sounds like exactly the kind of situation that would incentivize people who have the right to immigrate to France to want to move to France though?

But if countries committing atrocities are off the table won’t that severely limit the possible destinations for people to enjoy? Won’t somebody think of the poor holidaymakers? /s

Oh no, if the entire island were to emigrate to France they would have 270000 immigrants to deal with. Typical right-wing bullshit policy.

It is not so much that everyone will have forgotten about it and more that they tend to go for first time voters who were maybe 10 years old the last time the FDP pulled the same thing.

Rail is one thing but there are also others like bike and pedestrian infrastructure, education, internet, digital streamlined government processes. Also maintenance of infrastructure in general.

Rail and other transport decisions do highlight how a lot of the economic policies do not reflect what makes sense but what the existing industry wants to survive for a few more years without adapting.

Apparently it is not quite that simple.

https://www.event-locations.de/fileadmin/Auszuege-EVM/Auszug-GEMA-S-50-01-2016uTitel.pdf

Not sure that bit is uniquely German enough to count as cultural heritage.

And if the UK rejects an update, that update cannot be released in any other nation and the public would not be informed of the decision.

That sounds like the UK wants every software and hardware vendor to flee its market.

Maybe in that particular form but the more general idea that rich and powerful people got there because they deserve to be rich and powerful and if we prevented them from getting rich and powerful it would negatively impact all of society is certainly not an exclusively western idea.

this is a western world problem

Not really. Do you think media and politicians aren’t owned by the rich and powerful in other parts of the world?

If anything people had bigger families in the past but somehow the capacity per car weight has gone down significantly, both for people and cargo.