This choice aged like milk for Germany, the AH64, UH-1Y and AH-1Z hit the ground running as counter drone/air defense platforms and are already highly effective at it.

The H145 can be used as a trainer for the AH64 at least, but these choices have likely fenced in Germany from having a truly effective solution here for several more years.

I'm quite interested to see how this improves the farebox for Fernverkehr. D-Ticket is so ridiculously good for last minute travel that I will change my destination based on where I can get to from my home, even with the time penalty being on a slower train (looking at you Teppich RE Berlin - Dresden). This might tempt me back to Fernverkehr for extra trips especially if it can match or even beat Flix prices.

As some of you may know, Germany has one of the shittiest “defamation” code that allows any business owner to simply delete the reviews they don’t like. For a long time this had made Google Maps ranking useless: a rating of 4.9 could mean the store is really good, or it’s deleting all the bad reviews.

Not anymore.

Now if you click through all the way to the Reviews tab, Maps will tell you how many reviews the business owner has deleted in the past year.

So when choosing where to have lunch, don’t forget to check this tab. Also check the places you usually go: restaurants, stores, car mechanics. Chances are if they’re doing this you should look somewhere else.

A new rule requiring men to get permission to travel abroad recently put Defense Minister Boris Pistorius under pressure. He says he has fixed the situation, but the criticism continues.

Is the lesson here about russia's threat really that just RAW numbers of more troops are needed? I think the Ukraine War has proven something very different...

The way you win against fascists is by fighting smarter, not by doubling down on replicating the failures of the enemy.

The defendants and their families are barred from mentioning the case. If they do, prison staff end the meeting immediately.

"We really don't know anything because we're not able to discuss, support or advise our family members," she said.

So far, my ire at the Merz cabinet has primarily been focused on Katherina Reiche. But then I discovered that Wolfram Weimer is truly horrible, too.