I think you might not be considering all the European countries. I was in Spain this last spring and nothing prepared me for drivers just casually rolling through long red lights.

Very brave of you to travel to the US right now. Stay safe!

Unit testing and TDD are awesome; but if you can avoid it: Don’t write things in PHP (unless it’s for work).

… That’s a lot of expletives for anyone who might have a differing opinion about the nature of consciousness or reality.

Perhaps ironically, this is mocking a strawman. Flatpacks can be installed and managed using the terminal! Not only that but Linux-Distros have had graphical package managers for decades.

The primary reason that distros have embraced flatpack / snap / appimage is that they promise to lower the burden of managing software repositories. The primary reason that some users are mad is that these often don’t provide a good experience:

• they are often slower to install/start/run
• they have trouble integrating with the rest of the system (ignoring gtk/qt themes for example)
• they take a lot more space and bandwidth

Theoretically they are also more secure… But reality of that has also been questioned. Fine grained permissions are nice, but bundling libraries makes it hard to know what outdated libraries are running on the systems.

The dirty secret is that Rheinmetal is now the most “valuable” company in Germany. Politicians skew more pro-israeli-gov than the general population (which is saying something!) and I strongly suspect the military industrial complex to be the reason why.

I don’t follow German politics that closely, so I’ve probably missed something, but how was Baerbock involved in suppressing protests as Foreign Minister?

Her comments at the start of the genocide should be enough for her to lose her position in government. It is really sickening and sad. But when it comes to German politicians, I don’t know any that are better.

Sadly she’s probably one of the more moderate Germans from the last government. Germany as a whole, learned the most narrow lesson from the Holocaust and Munich Olympics; which, you would think would be “Genocide bad”, but is actually “Israel good”.

At least Baerbock has acknowledged the suffering and declared that “Palestine belongs to Palestinians”. That’s such a low bar but the majority of Germans don’t clear that. It’s very sad, but what can you do?

For so long anything critical has been labelled antisemitic and sometimes also made illegal. The first news org in Germany to do Israel-gov critical reporting would end up in court and might lose it’s license.