Counterpoint: At times people had to directly pay firefighters or they’d let the building burn.

Yes, nowadays we pay indirectly for police and firefighters but no one is going to ask for your credit card or let alone how much tax you paid last year.

So I guess Dobrindt is also taking care of the remaining Afghan people who helped support the Bundeswehr during their mission and were promised place in Germany, right? RIGHT?

Anarchism

would be stored there for 30 years while new methods were developed

Hmh, where have I heard this before? *cough* Atomic waste *cough*

• gets rejected at the border because officer doesn’t believe person doesn’t have social media accounts
• ???
• no profit

According to the Federal Bureau of Statistics the median income in 2024 in Germany was € 52,159 . 60% of this value is € 31,295.4. A worker with a 40 hour work week and the mandates 28 days of paid vacation days worked 1784 hours in 2024. Therefore by dividing 60% of the median income per year with hours worked per year we get the targeted hourly pay: € 17.55/h.

I am not sure why this seems to be an impossible task for you.

I advocate for Rococo

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The answer depends heavily on your location. Where are you (roughly) located?

This entirely depends on your point of view.

We also passively vote on the law by electing the people in charge of passing it. Why not also vote on the people interpreting it?

How else do you want to fill the position for a judge? By a panel of experts? Who decides who is part of this panel? Who decides what the selection process is?

Effectively there is a popular voting process somewhere. The debate is only where exactly in the chain.

What’s the movie/short story called again?

Waht the fuck France?

No fuck, oui?

“insufficient voltage control capacity” on the system that day, due in part to a programming flaw

Human error not “faulty renewables”

steam snipes

Not relevant to the question itself but this phenomenon is called stReam sniping because it took off when live streams of videogames became popular.

I’d rather prefer both sides losing.

And then a proper democratic revolution on both sides again.

I am afraid I got bad news for you.

This song captures your comment perfectly IMHO: Upbeat on the outside, dark as hell on the inside.,

Interesting. I didn’t click anything because I viewed it via archive.

Reality appears to have a strong bias to the left. /s

I think I missed it somewhere: What’s TACO?