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It was the biggest ship of its time, but we have much bigger ones now (both on tonnage and passenger capacity).

I'm afraid I have to ask here for a citation for your very confident but to my knowledge wrong statement that Russia (I suppose you mean the USSR) financed the green movement in Germany. Russia is equally a builder and supplier for nuclear energy, so makes significant profit on that angle and has no reason to fight nuclear.

Also the initial green movement was not against nuclear power per se but rather a peace movement against nuclear weapons, the concept just expanded over time to cover also civilian nuclear power, notably after Tchernobyl.

In contrast Russia is indeed known to finance both the far left (which has a lot of 'Ostalgia') and far right (whereby nationalism works against Western unity and strength) movements.

Public utilities and services are the default and work well in the majority of developed countries. This is true for everything from local transport to water distribution. As the joke says "universal healthcare is so difficult to get right that only all developed countries except the US have managed to put it in place".

Much more, Amazon also loves to remove all reviews that mention that the product is counterfeit. Several times I did receive clear counterfeit goods via Amazon, but there is no way to warn others as these reviews are blocked.

There were many laws on surveillance proposed in the EU context as there are many parties that make proposals. But there's no actual such law in place. And the EU is bound by GDPR and EDPR and actually does a huge circus to respect them, so I'd trust them more than any other party, be it my provider or the mega corps collecting data for ads.

Copyright has nothing to do with free expression but was intended to protect the interests of publishers. When the printing press arrived basically any popular book or booklet was quickly copied by others. This meant the original publisher (and sometimes the author, but usually they were paid one-off) saw nothing of the profit.

> Early this month, my wife and I spent 3-weeks in Japan with our 3-year-old son. Our second son is only 10 months old and didn't join the trip. We felt it would be hard to keep up with his feeding and sleeping schedule with the intensity of the trip, so he stayed home with his grandparents.

Wow, I cannot imagine being these parents. Who leaves their 10 month old son three weeks with the grandparents to go on vacation? I cannot judge someone else from the distance and I don't know their life and context but from just this article I get the impression these are parents that have their children mainly for esthetic reasons.

The government doesn't make tanks, it just shells out gigantic amounts to companies to make them.

That said, there are plenty of successful government actions across the world, where Europe or Japan probably have a good advantage with solid public services. Think streets, healthcare, energy infrastructure, water infrastructure, rail, ...

The official migration guide for Migadu invites you to use thunderbird and basically move all emails and folders from one account to another. No blame to them, but it's stunning that that's the best solution we have for migrating email

No one is starving in the netherlands. There's a difference between offering a canteen but charging for it with some able and some not able to pay, and a general expectation that all bring food from home. Many Dutch, German, etc companies will also not have canteens but rather people bring a sandwich or last night's leftovers from home. The standard warm meal is the evening meal.

Great to see this feature, and it looks smooth and easy to use. I'm left wondering whether it will sync across devices and notably also to FF on Android?

Thanks John! Looks like a smooth product and I've signed up for the waiting list. Quick points of feedback already:

* I couldn't find on the site for which OS I can use it. Only here the clarification of electron made it obvious - but might be helpful for others if you clarify it. * I use Migadu and basically create myself infinite emails to handle different contacts. I don't see any clarification if sending is by default only on the 'main email' ([email protected]) or I can also use custom emails for each response (ideally the same as the one on which the email was received ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc). I'm not expecting custom filtering for this as a standard of course, just hoping for the ability to send. * Any calendar integration? Can I create/manage events e.g. using my Google calendar? If not, how do you envisage this being done? * Sweet and simple presentation overall - good luck!

Very nice initiative, the language space is overcrowded with commercial offers that have an incentive to keep you locked in. Apart from LanguageTransfer there seem to be few other good offers.

That said, looking at the current offer it seems to lack the one thing Duolingo offers: Duolingo (for all its many faults and pedagogical uselessness) takes the burden of decision making away - I don't need to really think what to do next. Here I don't have this guidance - do I start with basics? Or introduction? Or something else?

Crucial in my view would be to provide a path or at least a tree to guide the user where to go. This will make it easy to jump in and get carried along.

Sorry to rub salt in the wound, but a power cut every month seems very high for a rich area in a rich country. Having lived decades across different cities across western Europe I've experienced power cuts maybe two or three times - and otherwise only on vacation in developing countries.

Our services here all have more or less publicly owned infrastructure with private providers handing the contracts and energy supply. I guess that must be a happy middle ground, and having a private corporation handling infrastructure seems a bad idea all around.