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Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back

The article is badly researched.

This “red-green” coalition banned new reactors, announced a shutdown of existing ones by 2022

The red-green coalition did not announce the 2022 date. They (Greens/SPD) announced a soft phase-out between 2015-2020 in conjunction with building renewables. This planned shift from nuclear to renewables was reverted by Merkel (CDU = conservatives) in 2010. They (CDU) changed their mind one year later in 2011 and announced the 2022 date; but without the emphasis on replacing it with renewables. This back and forth was also quite the expensive mistake by the CDU on multiple levels, because energy corporations were now entitled financial compensation for their old reactors.

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München: "Letzte Generation" besucht die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft und verpfeift sich

Später meldet die Polizei, dass man gegen alle neun Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten ermittle wegen des Verdachts der Sachbeschädigung, falls die Plakate nicht rückstandslos abgehen, Nötigung, weil der Hausmeister die Türen verriegelt habe, und Hausfriedensbruch.

Arbeiten die Mitarbeiter des Postillon jetzt bei der bayrischen Generalstaatsanwaltschaft? Tagsüber an eine Tür gehen und klingeln ist ja wohl kein Hausfriedensbruch. Wenn jemand die Tür verriegelt statt zu öffnen ist das keine Nötigung. Wenn dann keiner aufmacht einen Zettel ankleben, wird hoffentlich kein Gericht der Welt als Sachbeschädigung durchgehen lassen. Was sollen sie denn machen, wenn sogar sich selbst stellen und alle Details zugeben als Straftat ausgelegt wird?

Nach der Logik des oben zitierten, ist mein DHL-Bote ein Serientäter. Alle paar Tage klingelt der und klebt Zettel an meine Tür, wenn ich nicht öffne.

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Musk given 24 hours to address graphic images of Hamas attacks

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Getting rid of misinformation is great.

That is the goal. The OP article and especially the headline here is misleading.

This is what is in the original letter regarding violent images: „repurposed old images of unrelated armed conflicts or military footage that actually originated from video games“.

The issue is not violent images per se. The issue is misinformation through violent images that are unrelated to the current events.

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How to say the number 92

I love this topic, keep the comments going! It gets even wilder/weirder when reading historical German monastary documents from the early modern period that sometimes mixed German numerical grammar with latin letters and abbreviations. For example this was a common way to write prices in the early 17th century in my region of study:

xiv C Lviұ f xxv bb iy d

All of this was in early modern German Kurrent (old cursive), of course, and with not always obvious whitespaces inbetween. The letters v and x looked somewhat similar, too, and you better don't miss the small strikethroughs anywhere in the lower or upper end of a letter which indicated "minus half" (except for the letter capital C which always has it). This is the kind of fun that brings me joy during my day while simultaneously providing the content for nightmares at night.

For some closure:
The short example would read as: (10+(5-1))*100 + 50+((5+3)-0.5) florin, 10+10+5 batzen, and 1+1+1 denari.
And that would translate to a price of 1457 ½ florin (guilders), 25 batzen (silver coin) and 3 denari (pennies).

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Folgen des AfD Programmes für unseren Wohlstand

Hält für Faschos ein Schild hoch auf dem "unser Land zuerst!" steht und fährt im Anschluss nach Hause in die Schweiz zu ihrer singhalesischen Frau. Der andere verbringt deutsche Gedenktage am liebsten in Russland. Schöne Patrioten sind das. Was darf eigentlich Satire? Der Postillon hätte sich kaum einen besseren Spruch ausdenken können.

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Russian soldier admits proudly his comrades were killing POWs

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There is not. It‘s simply a strongly pro-Ukrainian website. Russian official propaganda and our tankies call everything that is critical of Russia‘s aggression „Nazism“ or „Fascism“. It is projection in its finest form, and borderline Orwellian.

The two words have lost all meaning in Russian propaganda and are simply used as a placeholder for „enemy“. They don’t seem to realize how absurd that makes them sound.

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India's government replaces 'India' with ancient name 'Bharat' in dinner invitation to G20 guests

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This is a good opportunity to mention a pet-peeve of mine:

  • The various term variations "Germany" derive from the name Germanic tribes.
  • The various term variations "Alemania" derive from the name Alemanic tribes.
  • The various term variations "Deutsch" or "Teutsch" do not derrive from the name Teutonic tribes.

This last one is an etymological false friend. "Deutsch" derives from thiutisk (þeudisk) and in the Western Franconian and Germanic tongues it meant "our people". It's derived from the Indo-European term thiuda (Þiuda).

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Anton Hofreiter nennt AfD eine »Truppe von Landesverrätern«

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Sie arbeiten aktiv gegen unsere demokratische Grundordnung und lassen sich das aus dem Ausland finanzieren. Pauschal würde ich es nicht verwenden, aber der Begriff passt gut zur AFD als Partei.

Hofreiter pöbelt mit solchen Begriffen natürlich offensichtlich auf unterstem Niveau in der Hoffnung, dass die Angesprochenen es eventuell verstehen mögen. Wer sich selbst in Deutschland als Patriot sieht und gleichzeitig die landesfeindliche AFD unterstützt, der hat einfach zu viel Lack gesogen.

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PHP is dead?

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language

On the server-side PHP is used by 76.8% of all websites (a large chunk of that being WordPress). It is not going anywhere, soon. Looking at this statistics, nothing else seems to be even in the same league from a pure usage point of view.

I have yet to see a reason why it should change. Serious question: What is the disadvantage of using the tried and tested PHP8 compared to the alternatives, if you already know PHP?