Then maybe don’t buy from EGHIGXXJKNB?

There is no impact. The technology just isn’t there yet. Mostly because it’s being held back by oil companies.

Okay, I need a citation on that. How does big oil control solar panel technology?

That’s roughly a billion / a, nothing other countries couldn’t compensate if necessary. I’d rather have my country foot the bill than RFK Jr. having any influence on the WHO.

1.5 m Germans using them definitely has an impact. It doesn’t solve the climate crisis on its own obviously but you can say that about any and all measures combating climate change

AfD will not govern on national level in the next four years. I expect that CDU in some eastern state will eventually form a coalition with the AfD, but that has to happen first before they try on a national level. Then it will depend on the fall-out of that state coalition what will happen next.

But Germany doesn’t actually have a problem with illegal immigration. Almost all immigrants in Germany are here legally.

There are roughly 50.000 “Ausreisepflichtige” (Persons required to leave the country) out of a population of 84 Million. That number is roughly constant over the last 10 years. Doesn’t seem to be an issue worth discussing.

They are already in parliament and will gain votes but they will not govern, that’s pretty much guaranteed. We will get a conservative-led government though, a little to the right of Merkel. Most probably a conservative/social democratic coalition (think Mitt Romney Republicans with Biden Democrats) or a less likely less stable conservative/green coalition (think Mitt Romney Republicans with AOC Democrats).

The new government will be pro Ukraine (with the conservatives and greens extremely so, with the social-democrats a little hesitant but mainly, too) but also pro-Israel (with the greens more hesitant). All parties involved are pro European integration.

To be honest, foreign policies will not change much except for the European Chat Control legislation. While the current German government is strongly against it, Social Democrats are somewhere between indifferent and in favor, conservatives are strongly in favor and while Greens are against it, I can see them agreeing to a bad compromise with the conservatives.

I’m still unsure whether they actually believe what they are saying makes any kind of sense and could actually be deemed a rational thought or whether they are just pulling our legs. Either way, engaging in any kind of discussion with them should probably just be avoided

In my defense: there already was a very deep comment chain before this and the whole thing was just infuriatingly stupid

Just went back to that thread. The discussion continued for 4 more hours after I stopped responding, and no, it did not go anywhere. That was definitely worth everyone’s time

Wanna swap?

Me, yesterday

I think you might be reading a little too much into it. It’s just information that services will be closed that day, I see no political statement. They acknowledge it on the website: https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2024+flag-lowering-remembrance-day+news

The other days you’ve mentioned are neither well known nor are they statutory holidays, so it makes sense to actually provide some context

What am I missing? Remembrance day is a statutory holiday, what exactly is wrong here?

The reflection in the mirror makes me think this is surely real. Even the best AIs don’t understand mirrors

Ha, good one!

Getting the UK back is beneficial to all EU member states both as the second biggest economy and biggest military power of the continent. No other potential member state has anywhere near these benefits

I would assume some of the concessions would come back, but definitely not to the same extent as before, e.g. Schengen yes, Euro no.