We have to take the thread seriously and accept our adversary as what he is. That doesn’t mean copying his despicable methods. Our most effective defense is defending Ukraine.

It’s almost as if Putin’s regime was a hyper violent group of thugs, bent on threatening and killing everyone standing in their way of dominance.

Ah, sorry. I read your comment backwards.

Of course confiscating UAE assets would be a gigantic escalation and will never happen. 😔

Do they have anything other than oil?

It’s called inflation.

Please read the article, it’s not that long.

He is using Tesla as a piggy bank. Grifting money, employees and graphics cards.

Either that, or it was a way to build a wide alliance to support Ukraine (with some countries being more eager and some more hesitant to help).

Regardless, it was a half measure and should be abandoned rather sooner than later.

The Kremlin has already been hit by drones last year. No nuclear war. Instead you guys have forgotten about it.

It’s one indicator of economic health out of many. Unlike many other assets, real estate is immovable. So it has a strong association with the location.

Yes, work from home is a good argument, why falling office prices might not be a big deal. The question then becomes, is this trend more pronounced in Germany than in other countries? Maybe, but probably not.

Also unfortunately the article mentions Signa (commercial) and vonovia (residential) real estate. So there’s no clear separation. But overall the trend is true for both.

Property prices are used here as a proxy for the health of the economy.

The author may or may not be concerned about the affordability of homes. But that’s a different issue. This is just about absolute prices. And low prices mean low interest in Germany. As the article says, people are interested more in London or Paris.

This leads to fewer investments in the economy and Germany is at risk of falling behind.

In other words Germany has to leave the “Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs”. Fine by me.

Btw. Canada and Uruguay are already in violation of the treaty. Nobody seems to care. 🤷

Yes, it is a boomer move. But don’t let Cisco off the hook. What kind of specially certified security feature is that, if it can be turned off so easily by accident.

Weren’t people literally arrested for supporting Palestine?

I’m not aware of any peaceful protestors that were arrested for supporting Palestine.

At least in the Soviet Union speech was protected consistent to a particular ideology.

That’s not free speech.

What ideology is it that supports Palestinian genocide other than imperialism?

Not sure where you see this ideology propagated in Germany.

Sounds like the encryption is automatically turned off if someone calls in via phone. So technically e2e encryption is supported, but it’s a shit design just waiting for someone to accidentally misuse it.

Hey Lemmy, can you please stop with the “if I can’t insult and verbally abuse others, then this is literally Soviet Russia” attitude?

I’m pretty sure that’s not enough. But let’s try it out.

@GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip: Send nudes!

I don’t know if hippie is the right word either. But your analogy is way too disconnected.