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Ich benutz einfach Reifen. Die vehindern das mein Boot in den Anleger crasht.....

The problem really boils down to a combination of NIMBYism and even more importantly lobbying. Telecom lobbied the German government to allow them to not upgrade to copper cables and upgrade those with better backend infrastructure as well. However that is always going to be worse then proper fiber.

For mobile in most countries the government issues licenses with built in fines, if certain coverage quality is not reached. Germany did not do this and the conservative government even repeated that mistake with 5G. The issue is that there are only three network providers and obviously upgrades cost money, which means less profits.

In this case the division means there are more then one ways to get to Europe. It also offers multiple different countries as options. The UK being Enlgish speaking and is culturally way closer to the US. Spain has the massive advantage of being Spanish speaking, which many Americans also speak at home. Many European countries like Germany and Italy offer citizenship by decent, which many Americans are eligable for. So in this case an advantage.

Also Europe is a much better place to live. A lot of people keep forgetting, but China is still a developing country. GDP per capita of China is about as high as that of Mexico. Another part less known is citizenship. The only way to get Chinese citizenship is by having Chinese family. Obviously that is not an option for most Americans.

No, they want Europe to pay for its own defense. That still would include buying US weapons.

Basically the US was the worlds police until recently. That gave them a lot of global influence mainyl the USD being the global currency. However it also required them to have a massive military and do things like supporting Ukraine, which obviously cost a lot. So they want other reasonable countries to pay for their own defense to keep their costs down. That however always meant still buying US weapons. The problem being that for some like the EU a working defense means less reliance on the US, hence less benefits.

Deutschland ist mit 20,2GW Erneuerbaren dabei, das sind 3,4%. Das ist fast das Tempo Chinas.

How many would know it’s a real place?

A lot of Trump supports certainly have never seen or been in a cunt.

Erstmal gibt es durchaus Politiker und öffentliche Insitutionen wie den Bundestag, welche Mastodon verwenden.

Allerdings sucht die Presse keine Infos auf Mastodon und damit posten auch Politiker nichts wirklich wichtiges auf Mastodon, weshalb die Presse nicht auf Mastodon ist. Damit können Politiker auch auf andere wichtige Accounts reagieren und so weiter. Diesen Teufelskreis kann man nur schwer durchbrechen.

Allerdings kann man da schon etwas gegen tun. Erstmal sind mehr einfache Nutzer gut für die Reichweite und wenn sie aktiv sind ist es noch besser und das sind sie meist.

Really makes your teeth hurt. Probably due to a lack of dentist drills, most of which are made in Liechtenstein.

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So there are clearly a lot of fairly succesful alternatives to Amazon.

Nope. The SPD defending the AFD. Faeser stops the publication of a report, which would label the whole AFD as a party fighting the constitution. They actively work sending refugees to countries like Afghanistan, help to criminalize climate and Palestine activists and so forth.

The only left leaning thing they actively fought for in the last term in government was raising the minimum wage a bit. Everything else which was decent left leaning policy was brought through mainly by the Greens. Sometimes even the FDP had to rightly fight the insane policies of the SPD.

I hope Nintendo stocked those Switch 2s everywhere ahead of time or it’s gonna be rough.

The EU has a 20% tariff on Chinese electronics.

This is not about tariffs. If you buy US weapons, the US has some control over their use. You generally need ammunition, spare parts, service the weapons and for some more modern ones access to US servers. The contracts also usually include clauses of needing US permission to resell those weapons.

There were some rumors that the US forbid US made weapons to be given to Ukraine for some time. The EU does not want something similar to happen, if Russia attacks them.