Rookie numbers. The Bundes­amt für Bevölkerungs­schutz und Katastrophen­hilfe recommends to have supplies for two weeks on hand.

In totally unrelated news: Two weeks is also the projected timeframe it would take for a civil war like state to emerge if order can’t be established after a country wide emergency.

It’s interesting to see this comment thread getting downvotes considering that apparently in Paris 300,000 Condoms were handed out to athletes.

OK, my time to pick nits: There is a clear and present threat. China, Russia and certainly the US as well have teams of cryptographers looking at software such as Signal and analysing every update and change made in order to spot potential openings. The threat towards Signal however is comparatively small because there are tens if not hundreds of times as many people checking the code as well and reporting back to Signal because of its Open-source nature.

I understand and agree with your point: What better way to prove that you are willing to contribute to society but to defend it with your life?

Yet I can’t shake the frustration that we (collectively speaking as Ukraine’s allies) let it come to this.

If I rob a bank and give it to my kids, it is suddenly OK to keep the money?

FFS, give the Ukrainians enough heavy munitions to blast the Russians back across the border already, so they do not have to rely on criminals!

I assume MEPs are cheap because the European Parliament is not nearly as powerful as many national ones. It’s designed to vote on topics predetermined by the European Council and can not initiate new laws on its own. So unless there is already something interesting in the pipeline, it doesn’t make much sense to pay high sums: The target simply can’t make it happen.

Solving the root cause of issues? Na, it’s easier to blame the migrants. Just keep doing business as usual.

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Sorry for not sending out best. I hope the guys wore socks in sandals at least to properly represent our national outfit.

In my opinion it’s a “team building” effort across party lines.

Back in 2014 I thought we are witnessing the beginning of WW3 and even went so far as to head down to the shops and buy enough food for ~ 2 weeks.

Call me cynical, but in 2022 I felt more like “You guys are surprised about this? Really?”

1. It can be viewed as part of your privacy to not be subject to defamation.
2. If it reaches the threshold of defamation it is punishable. Whether its enforcement is feasible is another matter.

And I guess even if it is the occupants might be deaf by the end of the barrage.

Do not underestimate the effect of 1100 rpm of 35 mm shells vs infantry and lightly armored vehicles. The gun can be lowered to -10 Degrees and AFAIK the Gepards in Ukraine have been used in a ground combat role.

I think given the current state of the Russian military, implementing Red Storm Rising is off the table.

Trump also undermined Denmark’s claim to Greenland, saying it was “very far away and really has nothing to do” with the island.

Well, except, you know … the whole Nordic/Viking settlements thing?

Oh shit, I didn’t notice there was one going on and oh shit² that they are quitting.

I am excited to learn what sort of concessions they forced down his throat by threatening to delay till the new parliament takes over, which would have forced him to deal with Die Linke which is hard left.

It is somewhat bewildering to realize that we have come all this way in technology but somewhere something is always turning water into steam to drive a piston of some sort.