So… who was paid how much and how many Swiss watches were in whose gift bag?

If a large country such as France is serious about such a switch I’d be surprised if they didn’t use some sort of custom distro, perhaps built upon Ubuntu. This would allow for solid compatibility with the “parent”, but also allow for some tweaking to fit the specific needs of the French government and its many agencies. To my knowledge the German state of Schleswig Holstein, which decided to switch to open source as much as possible months ago, still hasn’t decided which distro would be the best fit for their project. Such a major decision really needs good planning and cannot be allowed to go wrong.

The superb fightback that Germans also call: playing for as long as is necessary for Bayern to win.

It must have been a terrible experience serving on one of these. The death rates were also very high.

I’m certainly not cheering for a regime like the current Iranian one. I deliberately put “good guys” in quotation marks and suggested they might be the more reasonable party, as in the party that is more likely to keep its word.

It’s really difficult to look like the “good guys” in a conflict, when you’re the Islamic Regime of Iran. Somehow the current United States are making the Iranians look more and more reasonable.

It would seem like different nations are trying to find a sort of modus operandi to somewhat use the shipping lane again. Let’s see how long it takes for the US Navy to be used to keep it closed for everyone.

Das zeigt einfach wie wichtig ein lokaler Betriebsrat ist, auch für kleine Betriebe oder Standorte. Ohne eine ordentliche Vertretung der Belegschaft fühlen sich Arbeitgeber manchmal einfach zu frei und gehen womöglich über den gesetzlichen Rahmen hinaus. Indem solche Situationen erstmal zu einem Dialog führen, kann schon ganz vorne im Prozess manchmal eine andere Richtung eingeschlagen werden.

This is good news. I’m honestly surprised at how positive the last few pieces of news from Moldova usually are. It’s obviously up to the people of Moldova and the people of Romania, but I would welcome Moldova into the EU via reunification with Romania at some point in the future.

As someone who was born outside of Germany but now lives here (with no immediate plans for going anywhere else) I regularly ask myself this question. Obviously many Germans seek economic opportunity in Switzerland, but the Swiss seem to really have about enough of all these immigrants. Then there might be other destinations that some people also bring up like Denmark, Sweden or Norway, but these fail to even break the top 20 destinations statistically.

In 2024 most emigrations seem to be in the context of people returning to their other European home countries. Out of the statistical top 20 only Spain/Italy (climate, retirement) Switzerland (economic opportunity) and the United States (again, economic opportunity, but recently with more people moving from the United States to Germany than the other way around) sound like plausible targets for German emigration at scale.

In all likelihood this could just be part of the general “mopiness” that seems to be prevalent in German culture.

I believe the specific law is from 1977, but I agree with your point in general, that service shouldn’t discriminate based on gender.

From my knowledge this rule was supposedly active for decades before Germany discontinued conscription and nobody really followed it then. Why there is a need to reactivate a law that will not be followed by the vast majority and that has no enforcement mechanisms associated with it really beats me. It’s probably a mix of incompetence and “we’ve always been doing things like this”.

's Middags is er zeker meer zonne-energie. Het stroomverbruik ligt dan echter zeker ook hoger. 's Nachts is er geen zonne-energie. Door de aanzienlijk lagere vraag zullen de prijzen dan waarschijnlijk ook wel laag zijn. De belasting van het elektriciteitsnet is dan in ieder geval minder.

It’s worth considering setting up payment for various commodities in other currencies as well. Obviously the buyer and the seller have to agree, but it’s not a far stretch from accepting payment in Renminbi to also having parts of the trades done in more reliable and importantly freely traded currencies like the Swiss Franc, to name just one example.

In de podcast van de Volkskrant heb ik gehoord dat het een simpele maar effectieve maatregel kan zijn om een elektrische auto pas ’s nachts op te laden en niet meteen zodra je thuiskomt. Met moderne laadpalen kun je dat ook eenvoudig instellen.

Und dennoch bekommen Konkurrenten zum dänischen Marktführer derzeit Innovationen deutlich besser und preiswerter entwickelt. Ich finde das absolute Highlight das Beleuchtungssystem von Lumibricks.

Zumindest die erwähnten Lizenzen deuten dann doch deutlich auf die Marke LEGO. Ich finde das schon happig, dass der Artikel unter anderem darauf eingeht, dass viele Erwachsene die Anschaffungskosten der Sets doch scheuen und daher Nachfrage nach diesem Stundenbauplatz existiert. Das ist am Ende des Tages nur Plastikgranulat, das im Spritzgussverfahren in Form gebracht wird…

I’m baffled at how every FIFA boss just gets increasingly more evil and openly corrupt. Havelange at least seemed interested in football and Blatter at least pretended to be against open corruption. Now it’s just open disdain for the game and endorsement for corruption on every level.

This is a beautiful map!

Indeed, it is sensible to skip the shithole countries.

I find it funny, that football “clubs” regulalry sell assets to themselves for some financial shenanigans.