matzab
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 years ago
There are no family ties. These are two completely different companies.
Axel Springer is the company that bought Politico (and produces rags like Bild in Germany).
Springer Nature is majority owned by Holtzbrinck, a competitor to Axel Springer.
Comment · 2 years ago
> then it is only the selfish segment of society that is being protected
But wouldn't that also protect the unselfish?
Comment · 3 years ago
It looks like they didn't scroll past the embedded video, so they didn't even get to the table of contents.
>"HN, you can do better"
- indeed.
Comment · 3 years ago
That's a brilliant excuse: Lie about the effects of emissions, lobby (and pay) Congress to not do anything about it (or change incentives to maybe use less gas rather than more) and then, when you are getting sued, just argue that the lying didn't affect policy, so it was perfectly fine.
Comment · 3 years ago
Well, the launch pad survived this one.
Comment · 3 years ago
And it's not even VW pulling out as a whole since Audi and others have similar programs. This whole thread is weird.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's obviously right next to Klaus-von-Bayerische-Motorenwerke-Straße.
They didn't even try to seem legit, did they?
Comment · 4 years ago
inflation is a hidden tax on savings
That's basically Germany's state motto.
Comment · 5 years ago
Some still do (it's up to the franchisee iirc) but it's not easy to enjoy a beer from one of those McDonald's paper cups.
Comment · 5 years ago
...and Germans.
Comment · 5 years ago
The NYT article they link to in the first paragraph does a good job providing that exact thing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/science/camels-sculptures...
Comment · 5 years ago
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-16/sequoia-...
And it's happening again as we speak.
Comment · 5 years ago
Deutschlandfunk alone is worth it imho
Comment · 5 years ago
According to TFA (a few paragraphs above your quotes, even) we won't stay at 1.5 degrees.
You can (and probably will) quibble with any one of these but of course this is a niche. Thinking it isn't is commonly what people in a certain bubble end up believing, though.