And another issue: We are currently seeing politics reversing the planned “bans” (which are not really bans) on petrol engines. So if you’re doing a phasing out of something, you have to ensure that no lobbying effort will be successful in the years until your ban starts. You have to ensure that no corrupt rightwing government, no “conservative” party “friendly” to companies and no Trump will gain power in the meantime.

You might want to watch the whole video, it is interesting.

After the war started, I took a look at russian demographics and according to the last statistics posted before the war, Russia was at around 22 million males between 18 and 40. We know that they are also recruiting older males, people from Donbas and Crimea and other countries. We know that a huge amount of russians left the country after the invasion. We do not really know how many and we do not know how many have returned due to visa issues etc.

1 million is a really, really big number

The UK ministry of defense has some additional numbers

Why?

Ok, let me propose a theory:

• We know that Hamas started this war
• We know that not only Hamas attacked Israel, but that other militias in the region attacked to - Hisbollah, the Houtis etc.
• We know that all those are closely affiliated with Iran and that they are coordinating with Teheran. It’s unthinkable that Hamas would act without consulting with Iran first
• We know that Iran and Russia are allies
• Both Russia and Iran had big problems in 2023: Russia was (and still is) stuck in Ukraine, waging a bloody “3 days operation”. Iran had massive pro democracy protests after Mahsa Aminis was murdered by the police

In this context Hamas stages its attack and the worlds eyes switch from Iran and Ukraine to Gaza. There is no news reporting from Ukraine anymore, everybody talks about Gaza. People were voting for fucking Trump because of Bidens Israel politics. The global left is fighting itself due to Gaza while the global right is winning everywhere. And there are lots of accounts around that are simply trolling.

And that totally is the playbook someone like Putin is using. Don’t be a useful idiot.

I really, really don’t understand why we are getting bombarded with posts about those 4 people here. This is the 5th? 8th? 10th article that was posted in /c/europe about this? And it’s infuriating stupid. Germany “has to save its democracy and respect the Holocaust” by letting random people destroy their university buildings? Meanwhile there were some Palestinians in Gaza protesting against Hamas, with a great risk for themselves and their lives. Nobody here did care about this. Nothing those “activists” did will help in any way to solve the conflict. Nothing, absolutley nothing. Let’s not talk about stupid people doing stupid things for stupid reasons and let’s really not smear the history of the Holocaust by doing a comparison here. Kicking out some foreigners doing crimes is not the same as fucking murdering million people on an industrial scale.

Just google “sinn fein russia”

Biggest issue is that german academia is a big clown show even for german natives. There are too few permanent jobs, everything is payed badly and people are already fighting over each position. There is no way that germany can absorb a huge amount of US researchers without increasing spending for universities. Which we won’t do.

All EV vehicles are spying. Teslas are rolling cameras with central cloud storage and Volkswagen was busted recently for leaking all locations of their cars. We shouldn’t label that as “Chinese spy-EVs”, but should enforce the GDPR for all cars

Every major powerblock will build their own constellation. The need is there, but there is no way that the militaries will give that amount of control to the USA & Musk now. Musk switched of starlink in a critical phase for Ukraine and that was the dead of the program for militaries outside of the USA

I think that there are many things to consider here:

• “correct” usage of a language is important, but we must be careful to not exclude people. English is not my native language, so this post will contain errors and if you’re going full grammar nazi, you might end up excluding people from written communication. That is not good
• languages are evolving and it is the written mission of every official language committee to keep the official guidances in line with the changes of the language. Here in germany they are changing the official rules if the language is changing and are “legalizing” some new words
• But: They are not legalizing gender neutral language due to political reasons. According to their own guidance, they have to, because that is in actual use, but they are refusing.
• And then literal nazis are talking about “correct grammar” while not being able to spell themselves and that is stupid

Let’s be honest: That is not “a push-back against semantic drift or spelling alterations”. They hate transgender people and diversity and are using every argument they can find to discriminate them.