Wdym lol smartwatches are everywhere now.

There’s an Extension for chrome that fixes this luckily.

I’m not sure how stable the government is in the UK but in Germany we can expect it to last a normal term if there are no drastic changes in the political landscape that drive a sharp wedge between the parties.

Won’t the next UK election be before Germany though?

Read (or listen to) Autocracy Inc by Anne Applebaum.

Why is there no concerted effort to ban bots from our internet?

I’m not an expert so you should look into this yourself but the way I understand it is that the F35 has leading EFW capabilities, the ability to be fully integrated into a digital battle management system (which is crucial in the NATO combined arms doctrine), can coordinate with autonomous drones and also has the best stealth factor.

The F35 is so much more advanced as an operations platform that the two are barely comparable and I say this as a staunch European.

He said while talking to Süddeutsche Zeitung that he would be fine with doing away with the Schuldenbremse if it’s done for investments and infrastructure, which is pretty much what happened and the next day he was back on the party line saying there would be no reform.

There is no other word for it than erratic. However to anyone familiar with politics it was obvious that they had no other chance than to reform the Schuldenbremse because their program for the election had no other way to finance itself.

I’m aware. I’m also very well aware of what kind of terrible person Merz is and that wall of text was not needed as an answer to my question. In fact however, his stance on Taurus has been firm (by his standards) and I can’t really fault him for that. I think the user replying noticed that which is why he went overboard with everything that’s wrong with Merz because they couldn’t write that his Taurus stance is okay, actually.

They will threaten Germany and the EU and they will complain, moan and cry about it. But when the decision is made they will pay their taxes and keep access to the enormous market that the EU is.

He hasn’t been steady on that at all. His flip flopping around the Schuldenbremse topic ahead of the election was completely erratic.

I was talking about Taurus but okay.

I think he’s been fairly steady on the Taurus topic, no?

Well yes, absolutely, that’s why I said that Israelis need to overcome the Netanyahu regime as well and reform their state. I agree with you regarding the power imbalance.

Good contribution and I share your concerns.

The way you are arguing you will end up in an impossible situation every time. The sooner you realize this, the better. Because yes, the Israeli government and the IDF are currently committing a genocide on the Palestinian people but at the same time, Hamas exists (in their own words) to kill every Jew in the Middle East.

Applying the “who started it” rhetoric is entirely useless because 1.) at this point it hardly matters anymore and 2.) it’s not as clear as you make it out to be, both in the modern history of the conflict but also going back to biblical times, which both sides are often evoking to legitimize their actions.

The only way forward is a two state solution and I think most rational people realize that. However this can only happen if Palestinians overcome and reject Hamas and if Israelis overcome and reject the Netanyahu regime.

And probably, if Americans overcome and reject their fascist leaders that are backing Israel to advance their own evangelical extremist beliefs.

Is that controversial on here? Seems to me like the only way to stop the fighting long term. There can’t be peace when Hamas doesn’t recognize Israel same as there can’t be peace when Israel doesn’t recognize Palestine.

Yeah but how long will that inventory last? A couple of weeks maybe? Certainly not for any of the new products they have in their schedule for the year, those will have to be a lot more expensive to keep their margins somewhat stable.

How does that even matter? If (and that’s a huge fucking if) Russia uses nukes it doesn’t matter if they’re launching from Belarus or Hungary. But with the current status quo Putin has an ally in our midst that is paralyzing our alliance.

I’d rather they join Russia, it would relieve a huge burden on the EU and we would lose nothing of value.