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Just to be clear: When you build a nuclear plant you always have a massive environmental and public health liability to deal with. It's just that "if things go sour" the liability is also not producing electricity.

I have never learnt to bike with hands on the handle

my hands at 10 to 10

I'm not sure if you are a terrible driver and bad typer or great driver and good typer...

All answers are correct then.

Germany is Europes biggest country by population and GDP (not counting Russia and Turkey for population). It makes perfect sense for them to be the biggest spenders on defence as well.

Ironically the ultra right wing AfD party is actually against the rearmament, but that is mostly because they are Putin's puppets. (They claim fiscal responsibility concerns but this is a laughably transparent excuse)

This is very much not that!

A government hosted service would have to be in compliance with record keeping requirements. Conversations like this chat group are subject to the presidential records act and would need to be kept in case of future FOIA requests.

Signal does not do that. In fact, Signal can't do that (because they can't see the messages). So using Signal instead of proper government communications channels is a deliberate way to not leave a paper trail. Almost like they think they have something to hide.

I trust the French government more than I trust Google. But the good news is, you don't have to: its fully open source and you can self host. Instructions are available here: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs/tree/main/docs

I don't think you can generalize to the degree you are implying here.

There are significant differences between how we (as in humans) act outside the family and inside the family. Somebody may be toxic, have substance abuse issues, or display sociopathic traits outwardly but be a kind, loving and caring person towards their children. This discrepancy would of course create conflict, but parents not being perfect is also perfectly normal and happens in middle class families too.

I personally know a couple of people from fairly rich families. And while some of them definitely had toxic parents, some did not. Most of them are just people. In a lot of cases its just a case of ignorance. How they react to being confronted with their ignorance is IMHO more relevant for character judgement and that is also a trait instilled by their parents.

For what it's worth, the absolutely worst parents I know are thoroughly middle class.

Yes. It was a Neonazi from Britz doing it. He primarily targeted foreign cars, vehicles of local left politicians (Die Linke and SPD candidates of Neukölln both had their cars burned). He also lit up a few expensive cars, but that might have been because he ran out of "legitimate" targets.

Since we are talking about payment systems that interact with other banking systems, they will not be actually air gapped. By the nature and purpose of the systems in question, they must have access to the physical Internet (even if it is entirely abstracted away under layers of VPNs and encryption).

Assuming them compromised is prudent. Physical access is total access.

I have yet to see credible evidence of tampering with votes or election infrastructure.

Voter suppression happened, but that looks like established praxis for US elections.

So your dear leader was democratically elected. The question is: Does that matter?

For Hitler it took 60 days from legally and lawfully obtaining chancellor ship to the first trains rolling into the first camps.

You guys are at day 16.

Ein politisches Motiv sei nicht auszuschließen, sagte ein Polizeisprecher.

Die polizeibekannten Nazis haben die linke Szenekneipe möglicherweise nicht aus politischen Angriffen. Vielleicht wollten sie ja ganz unpolitisch nur das Trinkgeld und 2 Bierbänke klauen.

What is the use case you are looking for?

Is it for accessibility to read out text on a website? Recording voice lines for YouTube videos?