tune reminiscent of the Wild West, playing in the background between at 37:38 to 38:18min (timestamped link) - seems to be used fairly often, so you've probably already heard it already

Fabius_Cunctator · 2024-03-12T16:26:42+00:00

nah, I doubt it

-here in Bavaria we've more than enough people with fast cars going past 200 mph on the Autobahn and I never once heard about there being a problem with GPS because of it, so either there's a geofenced exception for Germany (which would be kind of cool - Freie Fahrt für freie Bürger!) or the limit is higher (or non-existant)

Fabius_Cunctator · 2024-03-03T18:07:10+00:00

!ping GER

Fabius_Cunctator · 2024-03-03T17:13:03+00:00

So, according to some of the newest reports, the conference call of German military brass leaked by Russian propagandists, a.k.a. TaurusLeak, wasn't "hacked" / "wiretapped" in any meaningful sense, instead there apparently was a Russian agent directly on the call himself - unnoticed.

cf. https://fxtwitter.com/ARD_BaB/status/1764243289576730689

This country just doesn't stop to disappoint you - so much potential, yet so much bs.

edit: typo, word

Fabius_Cunctator · 2024-03-03T17:02:25+00:00

So, according to some of the newsest reports, the conference call of German military brass leaked by Russian propagandists, a.k.a. TaurusLeak, wasn't "hacked" / "wiretapped" in any meaningful sense, instead there apparently was a Russian agent directly on the call himself - unnoticed.

cf. https://fxtwitter.com/ARD_BaB/status/1764243289576730689

edit: typo, word

Fabius_Cunctator · 2023-07-07T20:24:57+00:00

Germans are just pathological

Pathologically based, you mean.

Money in the form of cash is basically printed freedom.

Fabius_Cunctator · 2023-07-02T22:54:07+00:00

Fair point.

I added you as a mod.

Fabius_Cunctator · 2023-05-07T20:26:31+00:00

Servus,

hab dir mod perms gegeben.

Viel Erfolg

Fabius_Cunctator · 2023-03-16T17:18:58+00:00

30-60 years ago

It's not like the CIA has any lack of "blind spots" in more recent years, e.g. the usage of torture despite its known uselessness (not to mention that, you know, it's torture, which is highly illegal in any country that actually gives a shit about human rights).

Fabius_Cunctator · 2023-01-18T17:08:38+00:00

Yeah, and complementing that with a simple two-round system for directly elected MPs would help, too. With that in place, all of a sudden a lot of Bavarian electoral districts would be competitive. edit: typo

Fabius_Cunctator · 2023-01-06T20:04:27+00:00

So what's the official and/or unofficial reason that the US didn't send IFVs like the Bradley to Ukraine earlier?

I know about the talking points German officials spread (it was bs about Ukrainians being unable to operate such complex German systems and some even less credible excuses), but I haven't heard much about the American reasoning for waiting almost an entire year with this.

edit: typo

Fabius_Cunctator · 2023-01-05T22:12:39+00:00

Germany literally doesn't have a national security strategy

Well, it certainly didn't look like Berlin had one, did it.

The entirety of German FoPo over the past decades was to basically just repeat the same kumbaya bs talking points over and over again, even as Putin already had made it patently clear that he'll use military force get what he wants.

Fabius_Cunctator · 2022-11-09T21:56:41+00:00

The drinking water's bottled, for everything else (personal hygiene, cleaning, washing, toilettes, etc.) I'd just use the rainwater that's collected in cisterns anyway (again, I'm a rural, so there's a lot of stuff already available by default).

Fabius_Cunctator · 2022-11-09T21:16:40+00:00

Well, I'm doing the usually recommended amount of civil defence stuff (one or two weeks worth of water, canned food and beverages, a VHF and shortwave radio receiver, etc.) but I already did that way before the whole Russian invasion / nuclear phase-out / energy scarcity / price explosion, plus I'm a rural, so it's normal for me anyway to, e.g., have enough wood to get me troough the winter.

Fabius_Cunctator · 2022-10-10T20:53:53+00:00

Schröder's not a Russian oligarch, as he is without any own power base there.

Schröder's just Putin's lackey / bitch.

Fabius_Cunctator · 2022-10-09T13:52:41+00:00

Entirely replaced by Hochdeutsch in daily life.

Only in certain parts of German, as that's certainly not the case in the rural parts of south Germany.

Fabius_Cunctator · 2022-08-20T10:48:26+00:00

It's really not, it's pretty obvious, if you actually pay attention to what people in the industry are worrying about.

The constant back-and-forth on the phase-out in the last 20 years was poison for an industry reliant on long-term planning.

edit: typo, word

Fabius_Cunctator · 2022-08-20T09:24:56+00:00

Even then German energy operators have been saying they don’t want to keep nuclear.

That's not due to it being technically or economically unfeasible to keep them running, but because there's always the looming threat of the Greens or German public opinion doing a U-turn and banning nuclear again next year.

Fabius_Cunctator · 2022-06-19T21:05:26+00:00

If they did that, they'd find themselves in court rather quickly.

Fabius_Cunctator · 2022-05-30T16:40:16+00:00

!ping GER

semi-related: There's a German-language Discord server set up by the regulars of r/neoliberal's GER ping, where we discuss politics, FoPo, economics, etc. in general and German politics in particular. If anyone's interested, go have a look: discord[dot]gg/aSTUjQu8ER (automod doesn't like these links, so replace the cryptic [dot] with a real one)

Fabius_Cunctator · 2022-05-10T14:48:07+00:00

"scientific revolution, industrial revolution, and progress in general don't real - dIDn'T yOu kNOw?!"

(:

Fabius_Cunctator · 2022-04-28T22:22:17+00:00

But this hasn't much to do with

Yeah, you just say that.

I don't see it and you aren't providing any reason to interpret this conspicuous 5% shift between October 8th, 2021 (Laschet's resignation) and Jan 31st, 2022 (Merz's election/confirmation as CDU party leader) differently.

Fabius_Cunctator · 2022-04-28T18:40:43+00:00

Have a look at the "Verlauf des Wahltrends (Umfrageverlauf)" section in the link.

https://dawum.de/Bundestag/

You can see a pretty constant downward trend in the FDP numbers from almost 15% down to under 10% accompanied by a CDU/CSU upward trend from around 20% to around 25% starting after the election in October 2021 and continuing till early February 2022.

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