It’s a insane and unbelievable to hear now from the German foreign minister that Ukraine 🇺🇦 desperately needs heavy long range weapons 🤦🏻♀️
Germany is sitting on a stockpile of heavy long range accurate Taurus missiles but 🤷🏻♀️ Germany is already more than 2 years refusing to provide #Ukraine 🇺🇦 with those Taurus missiles
When will the German Government stop this incompetent behavior and start to provide Ukraine with enough Taurus missiles?
A #German court has ruled that the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or #AfD, can officially be classified as a suspected #extremist group. This means Germany’s domestic intelligence service retains the right to have the party under surveillance.
If you are into languages, you are probably familiar with those conversations with your multilingual friends: you take arbitrary elements from the languages you both speak, and randomly squeeze them together into sentences.
That is any regular Monday for the Swiss. Schwyzdüütsch, a.k.a. #Swiss German is a colorful amalgamation of German, French and Italian.
Some in the #German parliament say they should deploy #NATO air defense on the borders of countries which border #ukraine to cover Ukraine's western areas. This follows a number of #Western countries intercepting missiles bound for Israel earlier in the year.
I just found out one actually useful use case for #LLM (a.k.a. “AI”).
There is thousands of tonnes of documents from #german#nazi#regime detailing basically everything what happened, who was involved and who participated what and said what.
Feed ALL of that to an LLM and ask it “how can we avoid this happening ever again”. I have a pretty good guess my self but some people aren’t that convinced. Perhaps this is The Key. #history#sciense#neverAgain
A Green party politician in Dresden has been #attacked just days after another candidate was assaulted and hospitalized by a group of youths. It comes as the interior minister hosted an #emergency summit to discuss how to prevent political #violence amid rising threats against politicians.
Why the f*** would #Putin try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel #Kant?
It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on #Germany / #German pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that #Russia thinks supports recent #Russian behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).
Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: #philosophy war.
One of the fun things about German is how confusing it is. To make a word plural, you add -n/-en, umlaut + -er, umlaut or do nothing. So a lot of beginners will take der Vogel ( a bird ) and add an n but also an umlaut. Vögeln. This is however incorrect. It has the same meaning as ficken or bumsen. It means to fuck.
The true plural is die Vögel. Birds and the bees I guess.
So as of today Mastodon now has a US 501(c)3 non-profit entity to go along with their German corporate entity that appears to be losing its non-profit status for reasons the don't know yet. #mastodon#fediverse#newsblog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/…
From my experience with #German#incorporation, it's extremely rulebound. I don't sense any malice by the govt of #Germany, just overbearing bureaucracy
I like the fact #Europe has more rules in general than the #USA for #corporations. but there is a limit, and capricious bullsh** like taking away #Mastodon's #nonprofit status over, what I assume, is some tiny clerical error or minor rule discrepancy, is just embarrassing for Germany.
#Mastodon forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:
It should be noted that the designation "non-profit" is nothing other than a #US / #German#TaxShelter play
It has absolutely nothing to do with a double-entry, debits-and-credits-based fiscal analysis or audit of #Gargron's books by a legitimate accounting firm
Short title: The rich get richer, while the poor stay poor
No surprise there: that's what #Mastodon has been all about, all along...
We totally randomly met two #bicycle riders this morning near our home, apparently they're traveling around #Greece & #Albania with bicycles. They are a #German & #Italian couple. We invited them at my mom's home and we all had lunch together. Apparently they are #PhD candidates in #Austria, one in #chemistry and the other one in #biology. Very interesting young people. It was a good day today.
if it is the defense support for #ukraine or the question if #russia#china spying is a "bad thing", the electorate of the #german#green party reliably takes the lead, while #farright#afd puts its tail between its legs (to stay with the image)
🇩🇪🤔 "Olaf Scholz must decide whether he wants Ukraine to win the war or not", - Ben Wallace
🚀 Instead of ruling out Taurus deliveries, Scholz should cite conditions that could justify Taurus deliveries, citing Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure as an example. Better than saying 'no, I'm not going to deliver them' is to say 'we're constantly monitoring the situation, and if Russia continues, we'll look into it', he said.