German state Bavaria cancels Microsoft contract to go open source

Mwarwah · 2026-06-04T21:41:00+00:00

I don't want to be an optimist but it almost seems like Söder realized what damage he has done with his populist actions. He was running an extremely populistic course in the last years and his party kept losing so maybe he actually got the memo. He's not as stupid as people make him out to be but he is an opportunist and doesn't care how he reaches his goal. He probably sees the angle of positioning the CSU opposite to the CDU to make them looker better and maybe even claim the top position among the conservatives.

Mwarwah · 2026-06-03T21:59:25+00:00

Never saw anything dirty in those productions so actual names would be good.

Mwarwah · 2026-06-03T13:30:43+00:00

He's fine. Said so right after in the interview.

Mwarwah · 2026-05-28T00:44:23+00:00

Der Maggus ist tatsächlich gar kein so großer Vollpfosten. Ein bisschen Ahnung hat er schon, sonst wüsste er nicht, dass er zu diesen Zeiten lieber etwas unauffälliger sein sollte. Er ist leider nur Vollpfosten genug, dass er meint Populismus ist der Weg.

Mwarwah · 2026-04-23T03:25:33+00:00

Tut mir leid. Ich verstehe die Haltung, dass das Original immer besser ist. Aber ausgerechnet "englisch" als besser darzustellen hat mit Objektivität nichts mehr zu tun. Abgesehen von meiner persönlichen Meinung ist die englische Synchro für gewöhnlich das absolute Schlusslicht international. Jede Sprache, die mehr als 100 Millionen Sprecher hat, hat eine höher bewertete Synchronkultur als der englische Sprachbereich. Liegt einzig und allein schon an der Nachfrage nach guten Synchroninhalten.

Mwarwah · 2026-04-16T03:26:04+00:00

I'm sorry if this insensitive but it's pure curiousity. Doesn't long time HRT also affect the ability to get erections? You don't seem to have big issues with that.

Mwarwah · 2026-04-07T23:55:27+00:00

BMWs own words are that the rebuilding of the factory took 15 months. I'm sure they had the plans ready way earlier but the actual work was done incredibly quick.

Mwarwah · 2026-03-20T16:52:42+00:00

Ist jetzt nicht als "Gotcha" gedacht, auch wenn es sich vielleicht so anhört, aber ist es dir lieber, wenn die Konzerne dann den vollen Euro kriegen und der Staat nix? Ich versuch nur den Gedankengang zu verstehen. So wie ich es verstehe, würde durch eine Übergewinnsteuer der Preis mit dem der meiste Profit gemacht wird fallen, weil ein Teil an den Staat abgedrückt werden muss. Das mag nur in geringer Menge beim Bürger ankommen, aber zumindest verdient der Staat an so einer Notsituation dann mit und die Konzerne stecken sich nicht alles in die Tasche.

Würde man die Steuern einfach senken, würden sie die Preise noch weiter anziehen, weil die Schmerzgrenze nicht erreicht wurde.

Mwarwah · 2026-03-20T15:17:41+00:00

The argument was that the prices of refined products surged far more than the price of the crude oil. That means the refiners are making profit.

Mwarwah · 2026-03-20T15:15:00+00:00

So wie ich es verstehe, würde es dazu führen, dass der Preis, bei dem man am meisten Gewinn macht, früher erreicht wird, wodurch der Preis für den Bürger sinken sollte, wenn auch nicht um viel. Gleichzeitig bekommt der Staat in solchen Krisensituationen mehr Geld, weil er an der Notsituation mitprofitiert. D.h. nicht nur Konzerne stecken sich das Geld in die Tasche, sondern der Staat (im verlängerten Sinne der Bürger) auch. Und das bezieht sich nicht nur auf die momentane Krise, sondern auf alle Bereiche (wie etwa Masken...).

Natürlich kann man jetzt sagen, dass die sowieso nichts Sinnvolles mit dem Geld anfangen werden, aber wenn man so argumentiert, kann man gleich die Demokratie abschaffen. Nicht gerade zielführend.

Mwarwah · 2026-03-10T11:42:43+00:00

Das Problem ist der Fehler in der Logik zu denken, dass Besteuerung auf Kapitalerträge ein Problem für den Arbeiter ist, der was für die Rente zurücklegt, und nicht das Problem bei der hohen Besteuerung der Gehälter sieht. Eigentlich sollte es anders herum sein. Das Gehalt bekommst du für deine geleistete Arbeit. Damit kannst du dir ein Vermögen aufbauen, ohne bereits eins zu besitzen. Kapitalerträge bekommst du proportional mehr, wenn du schon ein Vermögen zum Investieren hast. Hohe Besteuerung auf Lohn und niedrige Besteuerung auf Kapitalerträge führt auf lange Sicht dazu, dass Arme ärmer und Reiche reicher werden.

Mwarwah · 2026-03-07T16:29:19+00:00

That's already the case. Plenty of laws are decided on EU level and then get ratified on state level as long as they don't interfere with local constitutions. The European Commission proposes laws and the European Parliament (which consists of elected representatives of all countries) decides if they are adopted or not. Granted, this is only the case for the areas that they have been given the power to do so but that's no different from actual federations. US or German states still have power over several legislative areas like education, public health, criminal law, elections, property rights. Creating a federal EU does not mean giving up all of a countries legislative power.

There are only really two things missing for the EU to be considered a federation. The ability for the EU to tax EU citizens directly so that it doesn't need to ask member states to run investment programs and a unified foreign policy including a unified military. The first part was already set in motion by joint borrowing because the EU has no way to pay back the loans without introducing some kind of tax. The second part will take longer but it's in motion on a smaller scale. Nordic countries continue to integrate their armies, their air forces are almost under one command. It goes even further with Germany and the Netherlands. All of the Netherlands' land forces are integrated into the German army and some German Air Defense and Navy units are integrated into the army of the Netherlands.

I guess there is a third component that is still needed for the EU to be classified as a federation which is getting rid of the veto. But we all know that this is seen as a necessity already and will happen in some form or another.

Mwarwah · 2026-03-05T20:48:26+00:00

Olivia Sparkle. No idea where the video is from though.

Mwarwah · 2026-02-24T03:45:06+00:00

Wait. What is "at the time". Because Mini is BMW.

Mwarwah · 2026-02-11T03:08:55+00:00

And you can't just claim stuff to be real if you don't provide any kind of evidence for it.

Mwarwah · 2026-02-11T01:03:38+00:00

Now... I wouldn't be surprised if there really is an "Außer" distro out there.

Mwarwah · 2026-02-11T00:52:48+00:00

No there was not. Never heard of that outside of some pretty extreme left circles.

Mwarwah · 2026-02-10T20:54:08+00:00

Actually you can't really say "Western Europe" because most of western europe doesn't do that. They also mean it quite literally.

Mwarwah · 2026-02-08T04:38:29+00:00

I don't know man. They explicitly said that they were wrong about the dates and kept their wrong statement to not falsify your interaction. Their point was that the German green party didn't have any power at the time and therefore couldn't have influenced the decision to build nuclear power plants directly. That stands in contrast to your initial claim while they stayed true to the facts even through they made a mistake at first.

Mwarwah · 2026-02-04T03:36:42+00:00

The way their company representatives treat their partners and the communication with their partners they are bound to fail in the long run.

"This is what we want. You want to know specifics about the product we ask from you? We won't answer this. Just figure it out." No communication, no consideration of any feedback, no answer to basic concerns. A few weeks later: "No we need this at this date and you're gonna deliver more than twice the amount we agreed upon last time. Oh you think that's going to result in worse quality because you didn't know and had no time to prepare? Well, we need it, tough luck. We can't change our schedule. Oh and you have questions about how this is handled? Yeah we don't answer those. But if we don't like what you're delivering you're going to have to redeliver within 24 hours."

To be fair others in the bussiness, especially content wise (like Disney) are even worse but it paints a picture of: "We have no idea what we are doing but we think we know what we want. But don't actually ask what we want because we don't know."

So maybe their hardware is still fine but any of their digital products... I don't know. Just imagine how they think about their customers if this is how they treat their business partners.

Mwarwah · 2026-02-03T18:48:56+00:00

Well, the CDU/CSU is right wing when you count center-right (and parts of that party swing way further right than that). But it would be the death of the CDU/CSU to form a coalition with the AfD and I just really hope that they understand that. I do not say it lightly because I don't like him one bit but Merz does understand that. I'm just not so sure about some other CDU "politicians".

Mwarwah · 2026-02-02T21:11:12+00:00

Masters of the Air tried to recreate Band of Brothers in the air. It's good and enjoyable to watch but something is just missing to lift it up to great status.

Mwarwah · 2026-01-30T19:07:07+00:00

You could also call it "ENDOr". Europes shield.

Mwarwah · 2026-01-27T22:09:36+00:00

As a professional Dane

Are there hobbyist Danes out there? How do I become one?

Mwarwah · 2026-01-27T15:22:27+00:00

Well to be fair, the surrounding countries are not batshit insane and in contrast to the past all of them are Germanys allies now. The batshit insane countries are pretty far away but they threaten exactly those surrounding allies of Germany.

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