What? So what is the idea that Russians have the right to Russia? Communism?

Exactly, but what I would like to see is a joint procurement program, where all EU members bundle their military investements. That needs to be spread out so that all countries profit a bit and no one gets preferential treatment. Basically what Perun proposed and calculated a year ago.

Some investements are too much for any military in Europe to solely fund effectively. Such as surface warships, missiles or next gen fighters. Some projects would have massive logistical benefits, such as a joint MBT, IFV, assault rifle…

While it is a bit petty, I think it is mostly insulting to the italian defense minister. I mean you find yourself in a hot zone during vacation because your supposed ally couldn’t give less of a shit to inform you that it would start a war. So honestly, quite a reasonable crash out

Frankly this is a result of negligence by the federal government. The lawmakers could have legally specified areas that would be marked as essential and therefore exempt from Article(s) 12 (and 14) of the constitution. But they didn’t which is why the Federal wheather service lost to Weather.com in front of the German Federal Constitutional court and were henceforth ordered to demand money for their app. An app that uses data collected and paid for by the taxpayer and that is also used by private weather websites.

Germany here:

Penal sancrions against a person are a heavy violation of a persons fundamental constitutional rights. Therefore only the state mandated by the people may, on the grounds of a legal basis, imprison someone. That includes the prison itself. The states all have to facilitate their own prisoners. As in the prisoner is usually kept in the same state that they were sentenced in. The funding is decided annually by the parliament of the state. As an action by the state it can be challenged in court and the states need to have a minimum of care given to each prisoner. After all their freedom is taken away for a period of time nothing else.

Prison records are not public, society rarele gets to know if someone had been imprisoned. Exemptions are jobs that require a clear record, leakage of the name before sentencing etc. News outlets may not publish the full name nor a picture of the face of the prisoner. In fact every prisoner has a constitutional right to a chance of a normal life after prison. I have no personal experience if that actually works out.

While I have yet heard of personal experiences of German prisons, I have heard of quite a few eastern europeans that would rather be sentenced in Germany than in their home country. There have been quite a few scandals however and investigations didn’t seem too thorough.

I don’t know the the recidivism rate by heart. It’s however inadvisable to use that as any kind of factor as it’s too dependent on the crime commited, age and sex of the criminal, famiöy background etc.

What has been privatized sporadically is detention facitilies for “guilt-less”-criminals, i.e. people that suffered at the time of the crime and still suffer from mental disorders that affect the cognition of action and guilt. Schizophrenia and the like. States that privatized these facilities had to pass a very detailed law on the handling of those patients. The general well being as well as a chance to be set free has to be looked at annually by external psychiatrists as well as a judge.

Generally speaking I’d say Germany has a decent penal system. But, its theoratical focus on resocialization is not seen in high regard in the general population for some of the more heinous crimes (as well as tied to general racism).

See my edit, someone also reached out to me.

The Epstein files are frankly something I wish EU states would pressure the US with. Say Merz’ publicly contemplates releasing files of the BND, Germany’s intelligence agency. Even if you don’t have any files, you could always bluff and keep up the pressure.

I am not saying this because I just dislike the music or their message.

This band was “Landser” a banned neo-nazi rock band that was dissolved as a criminal organization meant to incite violence. He himself served a couple of years for incitement of violence, holocaust denial and founding and being part of a criminal organisation. Landser had songs that called for the death of Turks, muslims, jews leftists, gay people - you get the gist.

During his sentence he “toned” down the aggression to comply with the law but still plays for neo-nazis mostly for the likes of formerly known neo-nazi party NPD (now Die Heimat). His Band’s albums are now at least indexed since they are barely within the scope of legality.

And my point is honestly more along the lines of quitting Spotify partly due their support of ICE and hosting far right media. If Qobuz does the same, then I will not be using their service any longer.

Has anyone seen an option or a mail adress to report music on qobuz? Just because I was interested and Spotify is notoriously bad at that, I looked up a few German far right bands up on Qobuz. Well, “Die Lunikoff-Verschwörung” is available for stream. The albums you can stream are not the banned ones, but why do they even have it in the first place? That is the most vile neo-Nazi music you could think of.

Edit.: someone reached out and the band has been delisted. I gave them a bit of feedback on how they could add an option for a report and that they should have their social medoa team reach out to feddit.

If the process were to be started in March there’d be a slight chance of that happening before the next federal election. But I’d bet money on the AfD being allowed to partake in the next federal election.

Germany’s president is the head of state but holds next to no actual power, similar to the monarchs in Europe

The problem is however, that there’s no studies on the effect yet that can tell anything about long-term effects.

The better smell and taste, espescially the sweetness and renewed coolness factor has however had quite the impact on early smoking among adolescents. Regarding addiction and effects of energy drinks, yes they are bad. In fact, IFAIC there was a study posted on lemmy recently that showed how bad hightened coffeine intake is for teens. And I’d for one very much support a ban on energy drinks before the age of 16 or even 18 for all I care.

They share no similarities apart from being border patrol agencies, which checks notes literally every country in the world has.