Also this is data that any reasonable company could get in like half an hour of searching and asking.

There is data on how many meals are sold a day at the mensa, how many students are enrolled, how many students live on campus…

Unless the vending machine is in the last corner of the third floor of an half empty building, all this information can be puzzled together to get a good estimate of how many people are passing the machine on a day to day basis.

You already posted this absurd whataboutism take under the German article i linked. On my requests for claritfication on the points you made, you didn’t answer of course. Despite you claiming that Israel would have only received 20 Million € by Germany, when it was 300 Million €. Also you claimed that Iran selling weapons to Russia would have something to do with it, ignoring that Israel also sold drones to Russia that are in use in the war in Ukraine.

Iran is neither responsible for Israel attacks on civillians, nor is it responsible for the full blockade of Gaza nor is it responsible for the genocidal intent that was shown in statements by Israeli officials. Statements by the Presiden, Prime minister, head of parliament, head of military that even the ICJ called out explicitly in its ruling on preliminary measures.

Not even the Israeli defense made such absurd claims like you, that Iran would be responsible for Israels actions in Gaza.

It is particularly shameful that Germans want to follow the “the other side made me do it” narrative of Israel in its genocidal actions. We full well know this narrative from the German history.

I mean in practice the key question will be, whether “my neighbour grows weed, i’ve seen a plant in the window” will still be probable cause for a search warrant or not.

If it won’t be, then you’d be good realistically.

Don’t forget to get your results peer reviewed.

Only in Bavaria, where the opposition to Cananbis is the most fierce.

When asked about the chancellors position on Taurus systems in a press conference on wednesday, his speaker Hebestreit proceeded to not answer the question, while claiming multiple times he had already answered it.

When journalists asked again he insulted them, saying that his answers would be clear and that this would be 9th grade language comprehension. When journalists continued to ask he insulted them again saying, “i was unjust to the 9th graders, maybe this is 11th grade language comprehension.”

German - Video of the press conference

No, it is much more systematic than that.

When it comes to typical money laundering or tax evasion businesses like restaurants the tax investigators can be very throughout. That goes as far calculating how much fryer oil was bought vs. how many fried dishes were declared to be sold.

What we instead see is huge issues with buying and selling properties. Not only does it remain legal against all common sense to buy them in cash and without any declaration about the moneys origin, in many places the “tough on crime, we need to fight the arab gangster families” conservatives forbid the people at the land register to report fish property deals.

Now the current government with a neoliberal finance minister pushed for austerity politics. The biggest cut in the sector of the finance ministry were tax and money laundering investigators, whose budget was cut by half.

Meanwhile property investment companies became the largest donors to political parties, exceeding energy companys in the past decade. They know the sector is riddled with crime and they know that their best customers are organized criminals. Someone who needs to launder millions of drug and prostitution money is not going to haggle over the last 10% of the price.

Where we are againt at the point that these changes dont happen over night, as there is oportunity costs associated with moving.

until 1940 London was a the centre of a global empire, albeit a dying one. Then when the last remains of the empire died off, the EU predeccessory came and Thatchers violent neoliberalization to safe London as a finance hub.

But unless we see another push like Thatchers, that this time would basically need to enslave the average Britain to the markets, i don’t see how London will keep itself afloat in the long run.

At the time London was the capital of a global empire. I do not see any structural reasons, aside from legacy convenience, why London should remain more relevant than an EU financial hub in the long run.

The currency is only relevant in the UK, the market power is weak compared to the EU or US, access to qualified workers is getting more difficult since Brexit…

One of the main benefits of London was its easy access to the European market, combined with the British privileges.

If you read the article the theme of the disagreement also seems to most revolve around animosity between France and Germany. But there is no reason to believe that the UK can profit of this indefinetly.

So on what basis would you assume the UK finance sector to remain relevant to European business in the long run and it being taken over by an EU city being “a complete fantasy”? Given your assertiveness you surely must have an in depth knowledge you could share.

Because some of these actions might qualify as criminal offenses and if Discord had knowledge about it or even supported it, they’d be complicit.

I hope it takes a few years until the next attempt. Unfortunately the enemies of privacy and other civil rights are very enduring in their attempts.

It remains worrying that so many politicians are happy to jump in front of that wagon and pull it under some pretense of wanting to fight crime. You don’t need to be tech literate to understand that hiding a key under the rug opens your door to criminals just as much as it opens it to law enforcement.

Result of gender stereotypes affecting the behaviour of female and male children, so male children grow up to be more encouraged to learn about technology and engage in risk taking behaviour.

Also inclination to risk taking behaviour is much higher in biological men than biological women, which would also give a potential reason why this advertisment works on women but not on men.

As always these attributions only represent the average of the women and men populations as a whole. Ofc. there is risk averse men and tech savvy women.

i thought he was munching it into shape so it would fit the floppy drive.

I did. 70 cents for a year was practically nothing compared to using SMS.

And if they enforced it, it would have been a sustainable business model.

I remember payin 70 cents a year for whatsapp some decade ago. They should have never been allowed to sell to facebook.

Maybe lets use the opportunity to flip the script. Reunite Ireland and offer Scotland to join, creating the United Republic of Ireland and Scotland.

Then demand the UK to change it’s name to Kingdom of England and Wales as a prerequisite to any negotiations with the EU

You raise a valid point. The social fabric in our society is ripped in such a way that old people often feel “left over” whereas in other societies they remain an integral part and can still have meaningful interactions, where they feel able to provide to society and be respected for it.

The combination of ever getting older thanks to modern medicine, but at the same time being ever irrelevant, seems more of a curse than a blessing.

Looking forward to them racing Germany to the last place.

Especially as the Republicans have a very questionable relation to Russia now.

Going from Russia-dependance to US-dependance could become the same thing geopolitically.