Remind me again, it slipped my mind: How many of those holes are globally completed and in operation legally, explicitly rated for high-level radioactive waste and NOT explicitly labeled as an intermediate solution?

The German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherina_Reiche) worked as a manager and lobbyist for the gas industry for several years, up until right before she was chosen as minister. Her track record as a minister so far has been to sabotage Germany’s transition to clean energy at every opportunity while maintaining a bare minimum of plausible deniability.

Chances that this actually works as a tool to help the climate are very slim.

Chances that this actually works as yet another way to shovel public money into her old buddy’s pockets for little to no real return are high.

Unrelated side note:

She actively fought against equal legal rights for homosexuals and in 2012 claimed same-sex marriage was a bigger threat to Germany than the Eurozone crisis

Fair point, but I think it could be managed with the right model. It does not have to be a flat “replace the proven material damages” fine. There could be fixed (large) fines for any kind of significant misbehavior on top the the material damages, multiplication factors can be applied to material damages and adjusted until an effect kicks in, fines can be increased with repeat offenses, …

At some point clubs will just go bankrupt if they don’t take action against this.

Alternatively, instead of fines give them “yellow cards” or “red cards” depending on severity and ban them from the next game(s) accordingly, counted as an automatic loss in the league or tournament. Clubs will care about that a lot, same as most parents who might not care about paying a fine will care a lot about losing their daycare spot, if only for a short time.

I suspect they are not actually in a state of extreme emotional turmoil when these things happen, but they rather just enjoy destruction for its own sake and don’t care about the consequences for others. The sports event is just an excuse.

Similar things unfortunately exist in other contexts, too. Recently I heard of similar behavior in the camping area of large music festivals being an increasing problem.

Make the clubs pay for this kind of thing and watch the problem disappear in record time.

Are you familiar with the term racism?

The AfD will certainly try to exploit this by pretending there is a causal chain that leads directly from immigration of any kind to tragedies like this. No need to do it for them already before they even started.

PS:

Police announced the attacker was a German citizen, born and raised in the country.

Sure this is bad, but is it really “becoming even worse” after he already publicly declared support for Trump?

Every single person in this story above you in the org chart catastrophically failed at their job; but I would say your direct manager deserves most of the blame.

The main priority of everyone directly managing individual contributors should be to make sure they can all do their respective job with as little interference as possible. Asking you to waste time by drafting an e-mail for them (aka doing their job for them) is bad enough. But the real failure is not shielding you from all those other nosy idiots afterwards.

Really hope they pay you well enough to make dealing with this shameless display of incompetence across all levels worth it for you.

What about “there’s billions of women, claiming they all share the same preferences is utterly ridiculous independent of the specifics”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

So you are saying they are combining nationalist and socialist ideas? Do they classify themselves as a workers party?

Might have heard something like that before somewhere, just can’t put my finger on it.

in Germany in October observe Oktoberfest

As a German I could write a lot more about this, but I’ll keep it short:

Please don’t!

Handouts to people are demonized.

Handouts to companies are perfectly fine.

Tips get a pass because everyone (at least instinctively) understands it is benefiting the company more than the people officially receiving it.

What the current government is doing on immigration has been judged (officially, by a proper court) as unlawful. They keep doing it anyway, escalating further up the court levels. This is already very close to a constitutional crisis due to the executive blatantly disregarding the judiciary.

What else would you want them to do beyond that? Just give up on the rule of law in general and while we are at it rip up all applicable European contracts?

Gender swapped, but still appropriate for the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa-4IAR_9Yw

Maybe we could at least nudge the LLMs in the direction of suggesting appropriate tools and giving hints how to actually do that when applicable instead of blindly brute forcing every task. Of course that does not solve the issue of stupid corporate incentives, but I feel like by now most companies have realized that burning as much money as possible is not a good goal.

something like 80 60% of TikTok is AI crap

more than 90 % of TikTok is crap, doesn’t matter if its AI crap or human crap

Probably a silly question, but have you asked your doctor if you could combine or cycle medications that push your appetite up and down so they balance out?

The electrification of Germany is happening in spite of the shit gov, not because of.

The progress we made so far was because of the previous government and the current one is working hard on sabotaging that as much as possible.