That sounds like the right amount to me.

As you pretty much confirmed in your own reply, it’s both an inherently political and legal process. While this isn’t technically a mandatory step, it’s effectively a necessary one.

This is an important step in the long and arduous process to disallow a party, though.

Germany, like most countries, does have issues with law enforcement. But, as you noticed, so far our checks and balances hold - at least when it comes to fatal violence.

I don’t think you can extrapolate any trend from the extremely low annual numbers. 2024 was indeed an unusually violent year (even though official stats haven’t been finalized afaik), but looking at 2025s numbers so far, this does not appear to indicate any trend.

No, it really doesn’t. German shoots and kills, on average, fewer than 10 people per year. The total amount of bullets discharged at people hovers around 50 to 60.

In a country of 83 million.

The US population is four times larger and the number of victims of police shootings is literally 100 times higher. An estimated 1173 in 2024 and the US internationally doesn’t even properly track this number.

Heck, even France’s police kill significantly more people than Germany’s “trigger happy nazi cops”.

I mean, technically one would still be “yeeted into the stratosphere” just extremely briefly.

The same is true for almost any open world game with vehicles. Casually driving a car in GTA while obeying the traffic rules has been a thing from the very beginning.

This still feels different somehow, though.

Mullvad no longer supports port forwarding.

And that sample size is pretty small. I wouldn’t count on the US losing a war.

Programmers who maintain code get laid off, programmers who create new code get promoted.

These kind of lay-offs always result in more bugs and more fucking up shit for no reason.

It sounds too much like those frozen Rocky Mountain oysters on a stick. You know, Testsicles.

🎵 Pop a Poppler in your mouth

When you come to Fishy Joe’s

What they’re made of is a mystery

Where they come from, no one knows

You can pick 'em, you can lick 'em

You can chew 'em, you can stick 'em

And if you promise not to sue us

You can shove one up your nose 🎵

I was going to add stupidity, but they usually go hand in hand.

Of course. But on the other hand: Who else would?

It’s not like Bob from Des Moines is going to find $100 billion behind the sofa cushions to buy it. There aren’t that many companies with much higher valuations.

It’s an old British Idiom far preceding Pink Floyd.

Isn’t that the plan, though? Crash the economy, let the billionaires buy what’s left of America in a fire sale.

The writing was on the wall for this one, development had effectively ended two years ago and had already slowed down significantly before that.

It’s a bit pricey (and likely only going up in price with the upcoming licensing changes), but by far the best there is.

Some parts of the world? Are you saying there are still parts of the world in 2025 where you can buy modern dumb-tvs?