Everyone not agreeing with you is a fascist. It's the new trick to close any discussion. Next step is to kill all fascists by the way, that's what Russia is doing right now as according to them Ukraine is fascist.

7000 sales per year, come on. They are too big and unpractical for Europe.

When you wait for green you start at the same time as cars. Cars seem incapable of staying behind a cyclist and feel the need to overtake them at all costs. It feel much safer as a cyclist to start at red light when there is noone, you then have a head start with cars

Have a look at german Schufa company. I was there pre RGPD, so maybe things have changed.

This is "only" used for loans and renting, the German government is never going to query the score this company has assigned you. Social services are never impacted.

Equifax on the other hand claims:

> Social Services - When government agencies can't verify your information, you may have to wait longer to start receiving benefits.

The German government probably actually knows who all of its citizens are.

There's a small law called GDPR which makes this kind of pulls very illegal. Even for Schufa which doesn't forward your direct data.

I very much hate Schufa for the way they calculate your score (which until very recently was not even disclosed). But hey, at least they don't sell my income data to random private companies. In fact they do not have my income. Just credit related stuff. I demand an overview from them every 3 months that they have to physically mail to me, just to annoy them..

How twisted as it sounds, I do believe that the outcome is beneficial to the US. China and EU are weakened by this mess big time. The US will bear costs in the future.

EU does not expect to be paid back for Ukraine, they are paying with their lives and by being a lab for testing weapons and strategies. I'm just flabbedgasted by pro russian europeans thinking it'll be great to live under Putin. It's not like it hasn't been the case already.

EU aid for Ukraine (yes this is a chatGPT overview):

Ukraine Facility (2024–2027): €33 billion of €50 billion is loans → 66%

MFA+ for 2023: €18 billion, all loans

Exceptional MFA backed by Russian-asset revenues (2024 package): €18.1 billion disbursed so far, loan

New EU package for 2026–2027: €90 billion, loan

Adding those together gives about €159.1 billion in loans out of €176.1 billion, or roughly 90% loans.

Oh, and before you ask, 2 out of 3 are not low-interest loans (only the one where the interest would go to Russia). If you're in France or Germany, your mortgage is cheaper than what Ukraine is paying the EU to defend itself from Russia "with EU help". And, yes, one might even point out that this means that Trump is correct when he says the US has given more to Ukraine than the EU. Given more, loaned (much) less. EU help consists 90% of allowing these loans in the first place.

They are not as common in Germany as in France in my experience. I would rather prefer to visit a german castle than waiting for the Stau to disappear.

In Germany, there's a guideline for a minimum distance between such signs so that they still stand out. Though I have seen a few that were closer than the supposed minimum of 20 or 30 km or so.

"Stau". International word, now.

They are shown on Michelin maps and atlas. We love to travel using the atlas and stopping on interesting sights or roads. Usually in France you can go from A to B the fast and boring way, or the slow and scenic way which is perfect for holiday time

At least it loaded, it did not on my side.

Fiat has been doing great in Brazil for years. They also have some R&D there too

To surprise your ennemy. I've heard recently that they tune military hardware differently in peace than in war, e.g. radar signals frequency.