Good advice, that I would definitely recommend in a place like Germany. But still: First rule of Usenet is to not talk about the Usenet. :D

But, you know, Trump is always right! What does backtrack even mean? /s obviously 😵

Buy the dip 😊

I already used Galaxus here and there (especially for technology products). It seems to be a swiss company originally.

They also have the option to say “I’m fine if my delivery takes a day or two longer”, which I like a lot. Not everything needs to be delivered as fast as possible no matter the cost for employees.

I canceled my Amazon prime some time ago (no, I would not like some ads with my membership fee), but kept ordering stuff once in a while, because it’s convenient. But I guess it’s time to fully drop that behavior and look into some european alternatives.

I will always assume he is not actually going to put any tariffs up until they are actually in effect and so should probably everyone else.

Germany doesn’t have a FPTP system, and therefore is not a two-party system like the US. No party can form a government on their own and needs a coalition with at least one or two other parties.

Besides that the Bundesverfassungsgericht (the supreme court equivalent) is not corrupted like in the US and we just had a change to our constitution that is supposed to make it more resilient against being watered down (based on the authoritarian playbook we were able to observe in other countries in the past years, mainly Poland).

I could go on about differences between Germany and the US, but the bottom line is: We might have a problem in Germany, but it is an order of magnitude smaller than in the US, so saying stuff like “Look at Germany where the Nazis are about to be back in power”, is just not something I can let stand.

To be fair the Nazis are projected to get around 20% of votes in the election (which will happen next Sunday). And as I see it, it still is unlikely (not impossible though) they would be part of a government. Yeah this is bad, but a long shot from an active fascist coup like in the US.

I would be especially interested in speeds larger than c 🙂