If I were to buy a car I wouldn’t buy Chinese. BUT, if the European ones want to play like this I’d start considering changing that stance

And there aren’t even any downsides. The charging and the range? Truckers have mandatory rest breaks anyway and the range and charge speed coincide quite well.

No diesel power? Have you seen a 40-ton truck speed up a hill that a diesel one would be crawling up with 20kmh - the electric one does it at the legal speed limit while being virtually silent.

You barely actually use your brakes, meaning the only significant maintenance is the tires.

And all that while going net-zero for co2 within the first quarter of a year. Add-on: a bunch of commodities derived from the fact that you have a bunch of electricity you can use for whatever you like.

Helldivers 2 is made by Arrowhead a swedish developer

Because you can’t make money. The moment you buy the in-game currency you spent money with not way of getting it back. The gacha has no remuneration, it’s just to have a better experience in the game.

And to be fair all mobile games that use this hunt for so-called whales. Those do 90% of the spending.

As a male name no, as a female not common but not too unusual

Thanks, I was looking at the jeans in particular. Actual Denim is hard to get nowadays or so it seems and while these are not made in Europe, they are made in Japan, which is reasonable I guess. The price makes more than the cheaply made but expensive stuff some other companys sell

The Hansen trousers look great. At the moment I am buying used Carhartt or Levis as they are affordable. But especially Carhartt Jeans have been getting worse.

Did you buy one of their Jeans and can you tell me something about the fit? 300+ Euros is quite the asking price

Yeah no that won’t be happening. Switzerland is profiting well enough from the EU without having any detrimental return.

But it’d be funny if that were to happen

I am not sure the EU still allows membership without switching to the Euro

So having asked the German state attorney I know, he has confirmed my hunch. If Trump were to say this in Germany, that would constitute “Volksverhetzung” literally incitement of the people according to § 130 StGB (German penal code) which is punishible from a fine to 3 years in prison. And to add, it’s pretty clear cut.

Since he’s a foreign dignitary (fuck it feels wrong to call him that), he has diplomatic immunity though

I am gonna ask the German state attorney I know what his take is on that next time I speak to him. But from my view, yeah that could already be a crime

I think your assumption is partly true, the other part being that they do not care if the economy goes to shit as that would just leave them with more to blame on the other parties.

Way too credible

That worked for a few years, the AfD wants Germany to return to the Deutsche Mark. That would basically be the end of the German economy, but yeah patriots and all that

Weirdly though while that is still very much an authotarian system, it will always be a hard break on any too unhinged ideas of populism. It simply is not in the interest of the Elite.

That isn’t meant to be an excuse, but it will mostly prevent the hateful or ignorant to grasp the majority of power and change the state beyond the point of no return. The point we fear might be passed soon in the USA, as well as Italy, Germany, Austria and all other countries where the far-right populists are on the rise, without being kept in check

Just curious, how did you come up with that nickname?

Sounds like beer I’d try, though I was a bit surprised to see a beergarden. Mecklenburg, as in the former duchy and now part of the state of Mecklenburg-Western-Pommerania is distinctly northern German with influences from Eastern German and the culture of the former GDR. None of those being Biergarten-Kultur which is distinctly Bavarian- also a 10h drive from Mecklenburg.

But hey keep the coops coming, everyone can only improve

Yeah no doubt German beer tends to be similar in taste. What is refreshing though is to be able to taste a remarkably distinct beer that still follows the rules. And there are a few breweries that are able to do that

Had a short conversation on reddit with a guy from Chile (South America at least) that regularly had a German brewery ship him a crate of beer. Maybe you could do that for special occasions, pretty sure quite a few breweries would accommodate you with such a request. If you care, I’ll list some of my all-time favourites:

Störtebeker (basically all of their offers, not much of a Porter/Schwarzbier (stout) fan myself though, so I don’t drink those)

Lammsbräu (especially the Urtyp)

Tannenzäpfle Rothaus

Andechser Klosterbräu (especially the Helles)

Tegernseer Helles

Are you south-tirolian or why do you have a German nickname?