No long lasting fear. But at the age of 10 I read the second Harry Potter book, and I was so afraid during the second half of the book I read through it in a single session, in bed at night.

At the time it was the longest and most intense reading session ever.

The gulf monarchies don't have any military. All they have is mercenaries. Pretend-troops. Exaggerated of course, but close to the truth.

They don't trust their own people with weapons because they could overthrow them. Their military power relies solely on allies, especially the US.

You say it's unrealistic for them to expect the world to keep their front porch clean, but that's exactly how it worked so far. Or at least the others didn't fuck around. And we currently see the effect when "the world" (really just two countries) doesn't do their part anymore. The US also very much needs their oil. The oil price rises everywhere, including the US.

Das ist Absicht. Steht im Artikel.

I thought billionaires are like über businessmen. How comes he cannot handle some competition?

Legit criticism! But hear me out. Who remembers all those different words anyway?

Instead of NOT using "very", I say we ONLY use "very".

It's a very idea!

Survivorship bias. We only see the "good old programs" because the bad ones didn't make it until now.

She's either lying, or you calculate in British gallone, instead of American gallon. Diesel never passed 3€/L in Germany, not even close.

Der größte positive Aspekt ist die Planbarkeit der Geburt. Weniger von wegen "ich kann mir das Geburtsdatum meines Kindes aussuchen" als vielmehr zu wissen dass du an Tag X ins Krankenhaus gehst und 3 Tage später mit Baby nach Hause kommst. Das Baby kann immernoch früher auf die Welt kommen, aber die Tortur des "Warten und Probieren" entfällt.

Conservative lawmakers are furious about everything. All the time. It's their trademark. If they weren't furious, they would be furious over not being furious.

Our conservatives, with the help of our so called social democrats, stopped almost all investments into infrastructure, housing, education, defense... basically everything, over the last 20 years. So now we have unaffordable housing, crumbling infrastructure, bad and expensive public transport and telecommunication, paired with sky high taxes and an overburdened and under-financed healthcare and retirement system. Income is taxed, wealth isn't. And because of demographics the only thing parties care about is raising retirement payments - adding fuel to the doomed system. The economy is slowing down, and nothing is done against it (tax cuts of course, and watering down the laws against tax evasion). The working class is disappearing because the only thing they ever can imagine is to raise taxes to finance these increasingly inefficient and unfair systems.

While some of their party members wasted literally billions of taxpayer money, they are now blaming some absolute minorities (unwilling unemployed, and foreigners of course), and try to squeeze money out of them.

They (Merz especially) have no plan for the country. . Like, at all. The only plan was to get into power.

Oh, and the Nazis are back, and our conservatives play "wait and see". Fucking happy times, everyone.

The same people couldn't wear a face mask to save the lives of their relatives.

Unfortunately the actual enjoyability of a job more often than not correlates with unfair or outright low pay :(