I’m in the hottest, sunniest part of Germany and I’m doing fine with the rolling blinds closed. It’s 36C outside and 24C inside. AC not required.

That said, my work absolutely needs AC, because the building sucks.

He doesn’t want a level playing field. A level playing field would mean obeying the same rules and regulations.

Shame the EU thinks it does.

They’re not liberals. Have a close look at its current makeup.

I have a Bosch Optimum. The power button broke pretty quickly. They fixed it, but I’m not sure now long it’s going to last.

Have a look at Braun, they used to last for decades.

We want ‘normies’ to know this shit.

Otto in Germany, although it doesn’t sell books and is beginning to reek of Amazon with its cheap Chinese crap.

For books there is Thalia and the Kulturkaufhaus.

The economic impacts will be disastrous.

My neighbour has one. He barely uses it because it’s doesn’t fit on the average Black Forest road.

Bye, EU economy!

Initially, import tariffs will primarily hit Americans, but even a “low” 15% tax may just give local producers an edge over European producers, resulting in Europe losing economic ground from the Americans in the long run. American companies will then grow more economically while European ones will see a limit to their growth.

This deal further frees the Americans to grow economically in Europe and compete away from our own companies: they will have to pay 0% in tariffs, while other European barriers (such as taxes on tech companies) will also be removed with this deal.

The combination of U.S. tariffs versus an almost completely free market for U.S. companies in Europe will skew trade and production relations between the two economic blocs. While this may not affect certain obscure or hyper-specialised sectors immediately, much of Europe’s agricultural, industrial and tertiary sectors will suffer greatly. Especially if the Americans manage to demolish our brand protections as well, thousands of farmers in the Netherlands and France, among others, may well close their doors, along with the European tech sectors, and perhaps even the German car industry if Trump decides to subsidise the American car sector.

On top of that, details are already coming out about what America will get on top of that: deregulation of the tech sector for US companies, 600 billion to only US arms producers instead of European ones, taking over the cost of arms supplies to Ukraine… if this deal really goes through then we will go off the deep end. It is to be hoped that the few countries with reasonably straight backs (France and Spain, among others) stop this deal.

Thank you for explaining the abbreviation.

I mostly use OSM but the other day my wife had to find something and she only knows how to use Google Maps. She’s a software developer, by the way 🙄

I’ve set my maps to German. It insists on speaking American English instead. You can no longer set Google apps to different languages.

Those boats have a lot of very expensive equipment and they have years of data that is no longer accessible.

Yeah, Merz has already adopted Trump’s tactics. Turning away asylum seekers and strengthening border controls. He’s sucking up to the asshole already.

The problem is that there’s a lot of international collaboration. For example, all the vessels providing data on the state of the oceans and the environment are American and they are no longer allowed to share information with any scientists.

Bit pointless to have a tag that’s only compatible with a US OS.

All products are labelled already, so how is it too complicated?

Try the Fraunhofer in Germany.

Meta can fuck right off.