SAP is a strong contender for the second worst thing Germany has ever done.

It feels more and more like the tv show BrainDead (2016) was a documentary. Shame more people didn’t see it.

That’s probably one of the most positive things written about the new pope.

From what I have read so far, he’s the “middle of the road” candidate, your average, run-of-the-mill, Catholic bishop:

A little anti-LGBT, just a bit of a pedophile protector and apologist, default-sexist … but not hard-line enough to make any of it his entire personality.

Not that this kind of coordination worked well in the 90’s. But even if it did (I was there, it didn’t), it’s incredibly hard to drag people back in time with you.

I know that Lemmy is full of dumb-phone users who exclusively communicate via PGP encrypted carrier pigeon - but that shit simply doesn’t fly if you try to coordinate a children’s birthday party in 2025.

That doesn’t take the most essential feature of such a wishlist into account:

Items are removed when purchased, preventing accidental double purchases by multiple guests.

With your E-Mail list, chances are high that you’d be getting the same item twice or more.

It was blatantly obvious at the Helsinki summit seven years ago. It’s borderline impossible to watch the footage and come to a different conclusion.

But MAGAmerica has made very clear that it doesn’t care.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

As you pretty much confirmed in your own reply, it’s both an inherently political and legal process. While this isn’t technically a mandatory step, it’s effectively a necessary one.

This is an important step in the long and arduous process to disallow a party, though.

Germany, like most countries, does have issues with law enforcement. But, as you noticed, so far our checks and balances hold - at least when it comes to fatal violence.

I don’t think you can extrapolate any trend from the extremely low annual numbers. 2024 was indeed an unusually violent year (even though official stats haven’t been finalized afaik), but looking at 2025s numbers so far, this does not appear to indicate any trend.

No, it really doesn’t. German shoots and kills, on average, fewer than 10 people per year. The total amount of bullets discharged at people hovers around 50 to 60.

In a country of 83 million.

The US population is four times larger and the number of victims of police shootings is literally 100 times higher. An estimated 1173 in 2024 and the US internationally doesn’t even properly track this number.

Heck, even France’s police kill significantly more people than Germany’s “trigger happy nazi cops”.

Not him, he’ll take whatever he can get and sell it to his cultists as the world’s greatest deal.

As usual, it’s the US taking the beating …

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I love how accommodating they are to bigger sizes:

https://nordwolle.com/products/calma

Looks like a roomy fit.

There are barely enough rest stops in many places of Europe to accommodate truck drivers just taking their mandatory rest breaks. Look at the stops along any busy German highway at night, it’s pure pandemonium. There’s an estimated 20 000 truck parking spots missing in Germany alone: https://www.adac.de/news/lkw-parken-an-raststaetten/

Now imagine that every single one of those spots (not the missing ones, not the new ones, all of them - millions) also needs a charging station. That’s a monumental undertaking.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’ll be extremely hard and would take a lot of time and money. This isn’t a “we’re halfway there” situation, we haven’t even started.

The same is true for almost any open world game with vehicles. Casually driving a car in GTA while obeying the traffic rules has been a thing from the very beginning.

This still feels different somehow, though.

And that sample size is pretty small. I wouldn’t count on the US losing a war.

Number one!? I don’t think we’re even in the double digits anymore …

Programmers who maintain code get laid off, programmers who create new code get promoted.

These kind of lay-offs always result in more bugs and more fucking up shit for no reason.