Please start with Friedrich Merz. He can be easily replaced by an LLM, because all he does is blather made up shit and release a worrying amount of hot air while doing so.

He is the much worse guy Merkel prevented from gaining power until she retired.

He’s a rich sociopath with a penchant for telling lies and a hunger for power. Of course he has a good personal relationship with Trump, they are practically soulmates.

Came here to say this. To the guillotine with you!

They do have one of the World’s most popular gender neutral public toilets

Cars aren’t exactly a good example on how to curb enshittification, as the car industry pioneered enshittification and found a way around regulations every time so far.

That’s pneumatic Linux, though.

The noble goal of austerity comes at a cost caked in shit.

You shouldn’t worry about it not working on your phone, but refuse to use it at all.

This dystopic surveillance state shit needs to be boycotted. And the politicians and corporations pushing it should be, too.

That explains the increasing amounts of sewage detected in their waterways. Due to lack of public toilets, people go back do doing their business the old fashioned way.

A person working close to a military would avoid many “military grade” products and so on.

It’s as with anything manufactured for a public institution. It won a bid by being the cheapest (and/or bribing an official). Once you know that, you’ll look at the world with different eyes.

Pretty much anyone who speaks of “tech” tends to have no idea of that they are talking about. Same applies to people using “cyber” as if it was a real word outside of Science Fiction, and a very niche niche branch of engineering that doesn’t necessarily deal with computers.

But that would hurt their revenues. Can’t anyone think of the economy™?

Veto powers currently are the default. Which is why Putin puppets like Orban and Fico can stall important decisions. Just like the Yankee puppet UK could stall things.

They are a party for the wealthy, like the other parties.

They are the FDP for people who want to ease their ecological cobscience when driving to the organic supermarket in their hybrid SUV to buy themselves a soy latte packaged in single-use plastic.

With the German Greens, all you’ll get is neoliberalism with rainbow flags. And getting beaten up by cops for protesting against brown coal strip mining eradicating entire forests and villages, because why not?

Indeed, but they are a fair bit more compact than regular cargo trucks, because they usually at least have the engine under the cab rather than in front of it.

In general pretty much anything automotive from the USA is over the top wasteful with every resource involved, be it fuel, material, or space.

One could solve Germany’s Merz Problem with nuclear power, though. (in Minecraft)

US garbage truck

Garbage trucks and firetrucks are pretty much the only trucks in the US usually built on reasonably compact chassis without that useless stupendously long hood in front of the cab.

Here we go again…

Unfortunately, it’s an old German tradition to misuse the EU commission as a toxic waste dump for politicians too bad for domestic use. It’ll happen again.