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Apparently this is about neither DRM

It's not about the DRM people think about... but the Direct Rendering Manager

From what I heard the European armies match Russias army in power overall

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And that's before accounting for quality of equipment or training of operators.

I guess I'll look for some guys on the street to invite them to trash my place and then sue my landlord for providing an defective door... 🤣

Actually lots of areas in Europe tested fluoride in water locally at some point. But they never found convincing evidence of this being preferably to getting fluoride the "classic way" (personalized in small doses already included in toothpaste).

Are USians not brushing their teeth? Or have they changed the toothpaste formulas to exclude fluoride, too, now?

Damn, are we really that afraid of Russia invading Europe?

No, we are afraid of Germany having an actual army. But telling the biggest economy to just lay back and chill is no option either.

So we need to find a way for them to waste enormous amounts of money on defense without getting anything to show.

Enter: conscription.

Because this way you can then spend massive amounts of money on infrastructure for a lot of people instead of buying actual stuff like equipment or ammunition. And as a bonus for the country that has perfected keeping the population poor and on low wages while the top 1% make all the money (see: Germany's GDP while at the same time having a median wealth more fitting for eastern Europe*), they can get a lot new ~~slaves~~ ~~serfs~~ ~~forced workers~~ cheap labor from those refusing to serve to optimise corporate profits even more.

*reference (because I know people love to deny reality): median/wealth...

Actually the US are lagging behind a few decades regarding military equipment in quite a few categories already and have also failed several modernisation attempts in the last years looking at offers from European producers again now.

While I understand your argument in theory, there's another point: who cares if the quote is real in this specific case?

Merz is a pathological liar. So you can either truthfully quote him or tell the truth.

Of course they will.

People in Germany as well as internationally spend the last 3½ years pushing daily propaganda about the oh-so-useless German government to get the conservatives back in to office.

You know, the same corrupt and fossil-fuel addicted people that manufactured a dependence on Russian oil and gas. The same ones that destroyed the Bundeswehr. The same ones that spend the last years building up connections to US MAGA morons and getting help from them on how to campaign on lies and culture war while operating purely on obstruction. The ones that love to fuck over their citizens and country for money.

So they will of course keep the F-35 order. With their newly found money (from debts that were totally unacceptable as long as they were not in power) they will probably find an excuse to order even more or kill some other German/European projects to buy overpriced US crap instead. Just like they are already talking plans to restart Nordstream to import gas from Russia again, this time with US cooperation, because dependence on two hostile nations is even better than on one.

The morons get exactly what they voted for and will cheer, completely ignoring reality because the lies poured into their damaged brains sound so nice. All while laughing about US voters for doing exactly the same.

I really hope for a big meteor soon, to save this planet.