I didn't say anything about libertarianism or Ukraine but the AfD is spending a surprising amount of time in Moscow for a supposedly nationalist German party and is also surprisingly friendly with the supposedly hard-left BSW which also happens to be on very good terms with Russia.

How this supposedly connects to Ukraine is your problem, not mine.

Oder als Beispiel aus der Verkehrswelt: Fahrradstreifen in Mittellage. Das ist halt "in der Praxis bewährt", im Gegensatz zu so Firlefanz wie geschützten Fahrradübergängen an Kreuzungen, die lediglich durch Nichtigkeiten wie wissenschaftliche Studien und jahrzehntelange Erfahrung in den Niederlanden gestützt werden.

I wouldn't be sure. She might visit Russia before Israel; gotta kiss the boss's ring first.

I had one like that for several years. His approach to interpretation was that there was his interpretation and "D, factually incorrect". And that was for homework or tests; having a differing opinion on a work during class was seen as a personal affront.

Notably, out textbook literally started with an essay written by a major author from our country that stressed how interpretation is inherently subjective and how it doesn't make sense to ask for the one correct interpretation of a text. Of course the teacher never acknowledged that essay in any way.

Step 1: Get elected as POTUS.
Step 2: Move into the White House.
Step 3: Immediately burn the whole place down.
Step 4: Stand atop the ruins waving the Canadian flag. Get gunned down by an angry mob. Go out in a blaze of confusing glory.

I'd expect politicians who want to restrict a basic right like freedom of religion to communicate what they want to do and why instead of throwing out a slogan that requires interpretation. Besides, when they did give a reasoning they kept using the word "burqa". It was pretty clear that they neither knew nor cared about any details.

The whole thing was an exercise in thinly veiled xenophobia (keeping foreign looking people off the street under the guise of helping women) and thankfully didn't get very far.

(Also, "defund the police" was a pretty bad choice for a slogan and allowed the opposition to paint the movement as hardcore anarchists.)

And even you are probably not taking about the garment you're thinking of. A burqa is specifically the one with the grille on front of the eyes and is mostly worn in Afghanistan. The internationally much more common face veil with the eye slit is called a niqab.

I learned this after five minutes of research back when conservative politicians called for a "burqa ban" in my country. That they didn't even know what kind of garment they wanted to ban or that there's more than one type of face veil told me a lot about how much thought they must've given the matter.

Ja klar, bin dabei. Man könnte zum Beispiel die VW AG wieder verstaatlichen und den Unternehmensauftrag von der Erwirtschaftung maximaler Profite auf die Bereitstellung zuverlässiger und bürgerfreundlicher Automobilität ändern. Gewisse Dinge wie millionenschwere Managergehälter müssen dann vielleicht dran glauben, aber das ist ein Opfer, das zu bringen ich bereit bin.

There's also a lot of stuff that's not meant to be taken literally. The text is full of similes and metaphors that are a lot less clear today than they were at time of writing. For example, many numbers in there are just used to convey a vague serve sense of size. Sometimes concrete numbers just mean "many", which was well-understood back then.

On top of that we have later edits for various reasons and assorted other sources of imprecision. The Bible makes a lot more sense as a book that's not meant to be taken literally in it's entirety. Of course figuring out what's really meant isn't very easy all this time later.

Plus what you pointed out. That's also in there, probably especially by means of edits.

You'd think that notifying an app that it's being interrupted due to a phone call would be basic functionality on a phone. The kind of thing an app doesn't need permissions for because it's core OS functionality that exposes no information to the app other than that it's being sent to the background for a moment.

I have no idea how Google thought that this is advanced functionality equivalent to making phone calls.

Have you ever talked to one? They're already digital sycophants, by design.

I don't think capsaicin is that much of an insecticide. AFAIK its primary purpose is to deter consumption by mammals since the seeds are more likely to survive if eaten by birds (who are immune to capsaicin).

Of course that makes it extra amusing that we're specifically after this stuff.