If a new law targets “terrorism” in any way, the actual goal of that law to to oppress someone.

Examples:

• loads of laws worldwide that expand snooping powers over normal citizens.
• loads of laws everywhere to curb financing “terrorism” and “crime”.
• loads of laws in many country allowing to detain people without or with greatly reduced due process.

Amazingly, those laws never manage to reduce terrorism in a noticeable way. But although they could be used for these purposes, they somehow also completely fail to engage with corruption, tax evasion and money laundering done by the rich and influential. They still set up anonymous foundations who own their mega-villas and yachts, they still set up companies in tax heavens to avoid paying their dues in their homeland.

Now just imagine how many US dollars are stored away in the vaults of this world just because the US$ is the “default valuta” for many business transactions. Anything dropping off that dollar in a big enough market will make countries to reduce those unproductive heaps of money. This would seriously devalue the dollar if said market is big enough, like oil. That’s why the US was not happy about the Euro, and that was the reason why hardliners insisted on war on Saddam Hussein - not because he had anything to do with 9/11, or being a piece of shit of a dictator, but because he dared to threten the US with offering oil for other currencies.

There are estimates that if the oil business would separate itself from the dollar, the dollar could drop to 10% of its current value. To 10%, not by 10%. That would be even worse than the economic massacre Trump is planning by tarriffs and work force deportation.

Him not signing an ethics pledge is probably the most honest move he did in his lifetime.

Now that is terminally stpid, Inders.

Der ist auch der Meinung: Lasst mal andere den Karrieretod sterben. “Viele von Euch werden nicht mehr lebend zurückkehren. Aber das ist ein Opfer, dass ich bereit bin zu bringen.”

I wanted to keep it readable for the American audience. Actually, I tried both: Crisps and Chips.

Basically correct.

Let him state his opinion in a public place in the UK, and then cut his remains out of the tree a few days later.

S&V was an unknown flavour in my country. So i was rather sceptical when I tried fries in the UK with that kind of seasoning for the first time.

I am a convert now. Anyone who considers this flavour “freaky” can go and drown in American ketchup (you know that kind with 50% HFCS).

Absolute fun multipliers!

Wer einen “Grund” sucht, findet einen…

Eigentlich müsste der Staat gerade diese Datensparsamen Dienste besonders fördern, um Schaden von den Bürgern durch Datenschutzverletzungen durch Hacker und kommerziellen Missbrauch abzuwenden.

A-loch-Parker gibts überall. Letztens parkte einer zuerst direkt quer vor der DHL-Box, so dass man bei den gegenüberliegenden Parkbuchten weder rein noch raus kam, und dann fuhr er rüber auf den Mutter-Kind-Parkplatz direkt vor dem Supermarkteingang. Oder das A-loch, das mit dem SUV quer über zwei Behindertenparkplätze parkte. Ich habe der Frau gesagt, das “BMW fahren” noch nicht als Behinderung anerkannt ist. Mann, war die angepisst.

Such a setup would make me leave the premises faster than a bunch of MAGA-brain uncles could do.

Luckily, it seems to be disabled by default. At the moment.

Ja, aber: Freundin von uns lebt vom Bürgergeld, hat eine Teilzeit-Stelle angeboten bekommen. Theoretisch erreichbar per ÖPNV, abe leider noch nicht um die Uhrzeit, wo sie da sein muss. Also müsste sie mit dem Auto fahren, und dort einen Parkplatz bezahlen. Der würde mehr kosten als die 150€, die sie nach allen Abzügen bekommen würde. Ergo hat sie ohne den Job mehr Geld.

“They’re made of MEAT?”

Now, that was a different story. “Talking meat? You must be joking!”

There is a hypothesis that an alien might actually look like a crab. Because life somehow managed to create crab-like creatures from a number of different evolutionary lines. Which shows a certain advantage that seems to be there with this specific form.

Even our C++ guys won’t touch my C code with all the pointer tricks and unions used for hidden castings. Whimps!

But python has worse problems than lacking pointer. Have you ever copied a piece of code from an external source into a python source? It really can f-ck up everything if one has tabs and the other has spaces.

So he probably “thinks”: “school did not work for me, why waste money on other having a chance?”