I think it was hard because we had to learn all that abstract advanced stuff (Plusquamperfekt Futur II Temporaladverbial Reflexivpronomen, all that shit) that you’ll probably not learn in a language course for non-native speakers and that you don’t need to know to speak the language in normal life.

Important detail that is missing in the article and that some are getting wrong in the comments: This is not about forcing messengers to add backdoors for mass surveillance or weakening the messenger/its encryption in general (although that indeed is the wet dream of some governments/agencies). It’s about infecting the phone/device of a suspect with spyware (either by hacking remotely or with physical access, although in secret of course) and sniffing their communication before it’s encrypted/leaves the devices (or after decryption for incoming messages). Every case must be individually approved by several judges so cops can’t just use this willy-nilly, the crime they’re investigating must be quite serious (punishable by at least 10 years in prison) and it’s limited to 30 cases per year.

A lot of speculation in the comments here but there’s some context/details missing.

• “Germany” didn’t buy the tanks but the German company Rheinmetall
• While the price isn’t known, another company previously bought 25 of those tanks from RUAG for lousy 500€ a piece and then didn’t even bother to come pick them up, so I assume Rheinmetall got a similar deal
• Lots of countries still use them, Greece even wants to enlarge and upgrade their fleet of Leopard 1, they’re still in demand and with a purchase price of 500€ and a bit of repairs there’s probably a ton of money to be made

So my guess is this has nothing to do with Ukraine, just a company seeing a business opportunity.

tl;dr:

• Hüseyin Dogru and others worked at “redfish”, a russian propaganda outlet owned by russian state propaganda media Ruptly/Russia Today
• When “redfish” was sanctioned for being, well, a russian owned propaganda outlet, Hüseyin Dogru was in charge of liquidating the company
• At the same time he registered a new company called “red”
• He and others from “redfish” seamlessly continued working at “red” (including the managing director of “redfish”)
• Their “redfish” telegram channel was simply renamed and is now the telegram channel of “red”
• “red” is funded with “donations from [undisclosed] organizations and individuals”

Make of that what you want, but it’s the same people as redfish and they couldn’t even be fucked to get a new telegram channel or at least think of a company name that’s just a tiny little bit more different from the last one. If they’re not a continuation of “redfish” then for some reason they tried really hard to make it look like they are. Hüseyin Dogru calling Ukrainians “nazis” and the threat from russia “fictitious” also doesn’t really help distinguishing them from russian propaganda.

Yeah but he’s in a coalition with the SPD and if they really want to, which it seems they do, they can block Taurus or break the coalition. https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/internationale-politik/id_100720802/wird-die-taurus-lieferung-zum-streitfall-miersch-spd-gegen-union-.html

Merz didn’t mention the Taurus missiles by name during his interview, but has suggested that unlike former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, he was not against supplying Kyiv with the missile, which can hit Russian targets deep in the rear or could destroy the Kerch bridge connecting Russia to the Crimean peninsula.

Scholz may be out but his party SPD are still in the coalition and his goons already ruled out sending Taurus. And without Taurus, the entire statement is kinda pointless, as Germany hasn’t sent anything else that could reach far inside Russia, and France and UK never opposed using their already delivered Scalp/Storm Shadow to hit targets inside Russia.

Not an expert but it looks like it very much detonated in the end.

Probably too easy to confuse with mm.

Interestingly megaton is rather common unit but not teragram.

BSW is politically 99% aligned with the “confirmed” Nazi party AfD, the only difference is that Wagenknecht hasn’t publicly defended Hitler yet (AFAIK).

Why not double it now to put Ukraine in a better position in negotiations?

Companies tend to outsource jobs to cheaper countries, so unless you got some super special rare skills that can’t be found anywhere in Europe or you want to compete with Indians for a crap hotline job, I’m afraid you’'re out of luck. Also as far as I know (this might be outdated information though) as an US citizen you’re required to pay income tax in the US no matter where in there world you’re working, meaning you’d be paying income tax twice, in the EU and the US.

Alexander Dobrindt

Philipson, it’s right there in the headline.

So by their logic Moscow highrise buildings are legitimate military targets now?

Funny how shit turns out, I remember quite vividly how in 2022 everyone was like “oooh Germany dumping their useless outdated dumb shit on Ukraine just so they sent something too”. Today Germany is biting their own ass for discontinuing that system and the military units using it cause we gotta start from scratch buying new shit and building up new military units using it.

Yeah but would the box have slipped without the penguin in it? We need more penguin box experiments I think.

Cool birds, but how is this related to Europe, other than that European settlers used to shoot them?

Great idea, I’m always looking for stuff to watch.

I just watched Borderline, the ~20th remake of The Bridge, this one’s set in the border region of Ireland/Northern Ireland. It’s not great but not super terrible either.

Then I watched 3 commisaire Dupin movies that are currently available on German public broadcasting streaming sites. Again not exactly blockbusters, I mostly watched them cause I read all the books and I like the nice landscape shots in Bretagne. :)

Basically I’m just watching all the crime series they got on ZDF.de lately.

EDIT: Almost forgot, I was randomly browsing dailymotion.com (French owned YouTube alternative) and found that they apparently aren’t super strict about copyright and such shenanigans, stumbled over classic British comedy Saving Grace there and watched it. :)

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Nice, I just watched a video today about jailbreaking and gave it a try and it’s super easy, took like 10min and is fool proof. Hadn’t had time to check out all the benefits though but KOreader seems really nice and just sending epubs to your Kindle w/o Amazon in the middle is nice too.