Switzerland is in the EU’s Single Market and has other important agreements in place with the EU. A key reason for that referendum was the SVP’s ambition to force Switzerland out of the Single market. They can’t get the Swiss to agree to that so they try it in hidden ways, this time with playing the anti-foreigner card, while not mentioning that this is designed in reality to force Switzerland out of the Single Market. So yes, this referndum had a lot to do with the EU. The majority of Swiss voters was not fooled though, again. But also this time, the SVP will not take no for an answer and will try again, with a different construct.

They won’t be missed, destroyer of game franchises, studios and pioneer in anti-consumer stuff and transforming games into gambling, children welcome.

I doubt, any source would you convince you of Russia waging an Imperialist war, given your previous posts. Which leads me back to my initial point. I oppose every imperialism and don’t play “gimme evidence, no that doesn’t count” towards one side.

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If France is facing tariffs, the EU is going to respond. That is playing trade war on “stupid” mode.

Plenty of reports of Russia shipping grain from occupied regions as soon as they got their hands on it. I didn’t know that was considered contested information. Nor that Ukraine being prime agricultural land needing evidence either.

The SVP sold it as anti-foreigner thing but it was really about forcing Switzerland out of the Single Market, a Swiss eqivalent for Brexit. Again. The SVP doesn’t take no for an answer.

Yes (big agricultural resources, much more moderate climate than most of Russia, Russia wasted no time with taking possession of those resources in occupied regions and selling off the produced and sucking up the revenue) but it is also trying to colonise territory and get more Lebensraum for Russians, including ethnic cleansing of people refusing assimilation, filtration camps etc

Stuttgart 21 is terribly late and over budget but it is a reasonable project in my opinion, even if many see that differently. There are some issues with it but overall it will be a considerable upgrade. Very substantial progress has already been made.

That said, Germany is a really negative model for rail development in Europe. It is still on another planet compared to the US though.

I don’t think it is (only) corruption. I blame two things, on one side there is no meaningful and certainly no long term political support for high speed rail infrastructure, neither in politics nor among voters on the other side legislation is seriously anti-rail development. Laws are tough on any infrastructure projects, causing overheads larger than the actual construction costs (possibly even multifold larger) but they are especially hostile against rail projects and even against operating rail.

Geography isn’t even part of that equation, it is an entirely different debate. (California is not so different from Spain, dry, mix of mountains and flats etc)

So you also oppose Russian Imperialism and its current blood soaked war of conquest, like also with other imperialists?

I don’t like imperialism, no matter the side. You seem to disagree with my stance.

You can export your contacts and settings and import them in another browser with a few clicks. I am not sure what energy is needed for that but use whatever you prefer.

Camacho understood there was a problem, he found the most competent person to solve that problem, promoted him and gave him the resources to solve the problem, and managed to solve that existantial problem this way. Sounds nothing like what the Trump administration would ever do.

Isn’t the share of posts on Reddit coming from the US at something like 42%? Most of the content is in English from what I have read but I could not find data on how much exactly, if you know where to find that kind of data, just post a link.

I am not annoyed, why would I be? Your “primary” language example is just failing the point. An English comment written by someone who speaks another primary language is still English. Reddit is an international meeting place. English is a widely spoken lingua franca in major parts of the world, certainly in Europe and to some extend in India. If you have a place where people from different countries meet, the language will be most likely English and that dwarfs the number of US Americans with English as primary language.

As a case in point, do you seriously believe most of the posts on r/Europe for example are from US Americans?

It just needs an employee who ended his employment in a way that was not to his or her liking. This is a huge risk for the company, the fines are substantial and huge companies will have a hard time keeping everything watertight and secret. Alternatively, hackers or other informed people can get to know a lot about the functioning of systems, firmware and software. So even if there is no one ratting the company out, they could still end up with those huge fines, or worse.

That’s why in Austria we have not only Unions but a “Worker’s chamber” (and also an “Enterpreneur’s chamber”). While companies can prevent unions they can’t prevent that chamber. If you are not part of a union you can still call the chamber and it has legal specialists, it can help you and also sue on your behalf if need be, at no cost to you. If the company fires you over your legit concern’s they can also get you damages for that from that company. Of course, unions can offer stronger protection and the two institutions also work together but it is good to have a second layer that companies can’t get rid off.

These things are quite different between different countries in Europe as well though.

Do you think only native English speakers are posting online in English? But you are right, it isn’t “American defaultism”, it is US defaultism.

Selling that data is illegal in the EU, isn’t it? It probably isn’t elsewhere though.

I don’t know how bad the US education is, but this is a fake post, right? Right?