What you need to know

• The rights chief of the Council of Europe has written to Germany’s interior minister over the handling of pro-Palestinian protests

• Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s open to speaking with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, but warns him on Taurus

• An analysis by Germany’s Housing Ministry has shown a huge increase in rents in major cities despite rules aimed at restricting rises

• Germany’s industrial sector is flagging as China’s strengthens, economists say

Tldw; officially no, it was not the official reason.

those people

I’m not saying nobody is evil, but if we treat the ones that aren’t as if they our enemies, we will end up fighting a much bigger and much stronger enemy. Better would be to focus on the few that control them. I don’t know if that’s 10,000 or 10,000,000 but it certainly isn’t 48% of Americans.

Assuming youre young and from the US, your country was long broken before it got this bad and you might not know how a society that supports people looks like. So it might not be strange you can’t see a way out, but there very likely is an actual path to a happy life. Your fate and that of your country are not glued together. There might be a wonderful life waiting for you behind these dark clouds, and the struggle you’re going through now might also mean you’ll actually enjoy it once you get there. Just take it one day at a time, and try not to lose sight of your personal horizon by staring at the bigger picture. It wont be like this the entire 60+ years ahead.

I agree on this, even though it’s an unpopular opinion democracy requires everyone to participate in one way or another. But maybe we should be careful with recruiting them into a meaningful position they aren’t all naive innocent voters who just liked what Trump had promised them.

Imagine it had to actually stop there lol

As a child i found this a very confusing verb in English. I’m dutch and the verb in German isn’t the same with English in all cases (We want = wir wollen / wij willen) but in Dutch it always has an i like in English (I want = ich will = ik wil); so for example I will sounds to Dutch ears like something you’d actually want to do. And if you will not have that it sounds like you could reply with ‘well give it to me then’.

Tesla: We need to release the product to the public asap, how else are we gonna create something that really works?

VW: https://youtu.be/Vaa3QH2hzRs

Meanwhile in Europe where MOIA is working with VW on an autonomous mini-van taxi, they first make the product work before releasing it:

Since the beginning of the year, MOIA has been testing the ID. Buzz AD in winter conditions in Oslo, Norway. Along with tests in Austin, Texas, USA, Munich, and Hamburg, these efforts expand the operational capabilities of our autonomous technology to perform in extreme climates. (https://youtu.be/Vaa3QH2hzRs)

Big difference! Will German ≠ Will in English. (The headline being RTL will Sky Deutschland kaufen).

Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary upset this week in New York City has sparked anti-Muslim posts that have included death threats and comments comparing his candidacy to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

There were at least 127 violent hate-related reports mentioning the mayoral candidate or his campaign in the day after polls closed, said CAIR Action, an arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group, which logs such incidents.

Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress including Andy Ogles, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene have been accused of spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric both by advocates and Democrats.

Good, at some point you have to admit leaving international affairs to EU didn’t result to anything - not in this case at least.

If it were all purely based on this map, all states in grey and brown could join canada and still be a country with a single (ok very long and hard to defend) border to the remaining US states.

I think there is a lot you can about side-effects on anti-conception (from condoms are a hassle to pills mess with hormones), but lately young people are more in favour of ‘natural sex’ such as you pulling out early when the woman is ovulating which is (obviously) far less effictive. But the thing is,

one should always consider both benefits and risks.

young people aren’t good at considering the the results of those results because a) their brain is still developing and b) experience comes from trying. They need to be protected against themselves, just like we do with alcohol, drugs, driving etc.

Divisions within Germany’s Social Democrats over rearmament and relations with Russia are set to come to a head at a congress starting Friday, as party leader and finance minister Lars Klingbeil faces a backlash from the party’s old guard.

One critic is the eldest son of former SPD chancellor Willy Brandt, whose Ostpolitik of rapprochement with the Soviet Union at the height of the cold war still looms large over the party.

Peter Brandt, who says he never saw completely eye to eye with his father, said he signed the manifesto because he thinks the Russian threat is overblown.

“I do not share the idea that Russia is going to attack Nato,” he said. “The Russian army has shown weaknesses in the Ukraine war.”

He added that Nato “is now conventionally superior to the Russian army. Even without the Americans”. He also described Nato’s newly adopted goal of spending 5 per cent of GDP on defence as “irrational”.

“The rational approach should be: you do a threat analysis first.”

We can design things perfectly well when it suits us.

If you can do the taj mahal you can do an intersection

off the bus in the middle is everything.

That’s what some people refer to as a bus stop.

I’m saving this for when the civil war is about to break out and I need a rough estimate of where the front lines will be.

Oslo police on Friday announced charges against Marius Borg Høiby, the eldest son of Norway’s crown princess, on counts including rape, sexual assault and bodily harm after a months-long investigation of a case that involved a “double-digit” number of alleged victims.

Guy watched Game of Thrones and based his whole personality off it.