Debt my guy, debt

Certainly unusual. But sweet and salty are a good mix, olive oil carries the taste.

Now that is quite a fun game of gymnastics, but just to pick one out and ohrase it differently.

The Soviets invaded Poland to weaks late according to the treaty with Germany, because they were held back in Belarus, the Baltics and Ukraine, but gladly took the promised lands.

Yeah right. However you spin this the USSR was by no means an innocent country, nor were they anti-imperialist. They might have seen themselves that way. But that’s like me saying I am dilligent and disciplined, lying to oneself is what we do best.

Whatt your graph shows is only a reduction in percentage. The top 10% still amount to around 25% of the wealth - which is wild considering that companies that were privatly owned didn’t exist. So what equity positions are we talking about?

What? So what is the idea that Russians have the right to Russia? Communism?

Exactly, but what I would like to see is a joint procurement program, where all EU members bundle their military investements. That needs to be spread out so that all countries profit a bit and no one gets preferential treatment. Basically what Perun proposed and calculated a year ago.

Some investements are too much for any military in Europe to solely fund effectively. Such as surface warships, missiles or next gen fighters. Some projects would have massive logistical benefits, such as a joint MBT, IFV, assault rifle…

Espescially since all her achievements can be done by spending money in the right places. I don’t want to degrade her achievements but they are clearly not selfmade nor achievable by the less fourtunate 80%, 99% if you are not as beautiful as her.

You need some kind of motivation for sure, but that doesn’t have to be monetary. The feeling of fullfillment, honor, acceptance or being able to help a greater good can come a long way. The reservists of armies all around the world are on example. Germany is dependant on volunteers to organise fire departements (80% volunteers) disaster relieve (THW ~95% volunteers) sport clubs (99%) etc.

While it is a bit petty, I think it is mostly insulting to the italian defense minister. I mean you find yourself in a hot zone during vacation because your supposed ally couldn’t give less of a shit to inform you that it would start a war. So honestly, quite a reasonable crash out

In all seriousness, it would be hilarious of that were to happen all pver the country, completely eroding trust in the dollar.

Might I interest you in some juicy Euros?

Frankly this is a result of negligence by the federal government. The lawmakers could have legally specified areas that would be marked as essential and therefore exempt from Article(s) 12 (and 14) of the constitution. But they didn’t which is why the Federal wheather service lost to Weather.com in front of the German Federal Constitutional court and were henceforth ordered to demand money for their app. An app that uses data collected and paid for by the taxpayer and that is also used by private weather websites.

Germany here:

Penal sancrions against a person are a heavy violation of a persons fundamental constitutional rights. Therefore only the state mandated by the people may, on the grounds of a legal basis, imprison someone. That includes the prison itself. The states all have to facilitate their own prisoners. As in the prisoner is usually kept in the same state that they were sentenced in. The funding is decided annually by the parliament of the state. As an action by the state it can be challenged in court and the states need to have a minimum of care given to each prisoner. After all their freedom is taken away for a period of time nothing else.

Prison records are not public, society rarele gets to know if someone had been imprisoned. Exemptions are jobs that require a clear record, leakage of the name before sentencing etc. News outlets may not publish the full name nor a picture of the face of the prisoner. In fact every prisoner has a constitutional right to a chance of a normal life after prison. I have no personal experience if that actually works out.

While I have yet heard of personal experiences of German prisons, I have heard of quite a few eastern europeans that would rather be sentenced in Germany than in their home country. There have been quite a few scandals however and investigations didn’t seem too thorough.

I don’t know the the recidivism rate by heart. It’s however inadvisable to use that as any kind of factor as it’s too dependent on the crime commited, age and sex of the criminal, famiöy background etc.

What has been privatized sporadically is detention facitilies for “guilt-less”-criminals, i.e. people that suffered at the time of the crime and still suffer from mental disorders that affect the cognition of action and guilt. Schizophrenia and the like. States that privatized these facilities had to pass a very detailed law on the handling of those patients. The general well being as well as a chance to be set free has to be looked at annually by external psychiatrists as well as a judge.

Generally speaking I’d say Germany has a decent penal system. But, its theoratical focus on resocialization is not seen in high regard in the general population for some of the more heinous crimes (as well as tied to general racism).

Depends on the country. Lawyers in Germany have a minimum rate of around 220€/h. But when you factor in tax, cost of coworkers, cost of the subscriptions to legal commentaries, length of education (regularly 5 years at university + 2 years in practical education) etc. it’s actually not too much.

Final nap would be preferable

Yes, littoral as in closish to the shore. Basically glorified and extremely expensive but capable coast guard trimarans

See my edit, someone also reached out to me.

It’ politico they belong to a right-wing media outlet from Germany called Springer. They are simply shit stains of human beings - I will not give examples, but they alone caused the entire legal system develop a system on how to rectify intentional slander by the press.

I’d bet he has listened to his thoughts - so yeah he has

The Epstein files are frankly something I wish EU states would pressure the US with. Say Merz’ publicly contemplates releasing files of the BND, Germany’s intelligence agency. Even if you don’t have any files, you could always bluff and keep up the pressure.

It is however historically proven that attacks on the civilian population not only don’t demoralise the people but in fact allign the people much better with the state and the war goals than amy other means