They legally have to give you that refund since its bought online, but that doesn’t mean that getting said refund is easy. It could be, but finding that out requires you to buy it first.

This isn’t meant as an attack against this software specifically, but more as a broad statement.

Maybe Germans should vote more left wing, if they want to be able to negotiating with employers on an equal footing.

You say that as if this entire thread wasn’t about that exact issue. And the former left leaning SPD is also the reason we even had the 8 hour work day.

The current government, which has a self proclaimed left and a self proclaimed central party, are doing their best to dismantle all progress made for the common populace in the last 80 years.

Aren’t Google and apple fighting against age verification cause they can’t exploit children as much once the excise of “we didn’t know” doesn’t work anymore?

Nah, not even the basic “its capitalism” excuse works anymore for that idiocracy. Capitalism may force companies to increase earnings, which is already stupid enough in itself, but the timeframe that’s measured in got reduced so much in the last few years that even short term goals are impossible without cutting costs.

Ten years ago monthly earnings were at most an indicator, what mattered most were fiscal years. It slowly evolved to quarterly earnings and now we are at a point were a single “bad” (as in, not as much profit as last month) can plunge your stock prices by 10+%.

Yes capitalism always fucked over the working class, bit it wasn’t made to force big, profitable companies to self destruct for 0.5% higher monthly profits.

Netzbetreiber dürfen weder Strom produzieren noch Strom verkaufen, ist so gesetzlich geregelt. Die Netzleitstellen interessiert es kein bisschen wo der Strom herkommt, wenn das Netz ausgelastet ist, werden in der entsprechenden Region immer kleine Einspeißer abgeregelt.

no nuclear, where will energy come from during windless nights/cloudy days

Nuclear can’t be used for that either way. Nuclear power plants are notoriously expensive, so they need to run at a constant 100% output to be remotely economically viable. That means you can’t just dial them up to fill a gap in renewables since they already are at max output.

Even if we ignore economic concerns, the old reactors we had weren’t build to operate in load following mode, meaning you couldn’t just ramp their output up/down if you wanted to. New reactors are often build with that capability in mind, but that would’ve required pretty much a full rebuild of the reactor chamber and the control system. With the already required maintenance it would’ve been easier to just build a new reactor at that point.

If the two options are a new nuclear reactor or investment in renewables, than the latter option is faster, more reliable and cheaper. The gaps in renewables could easily be solved with more water reservoirs and battery stations as power storage. The main problem is that germany, like always, introduced so many diplomatic hurdles in the process that no one wants to do it. You can thank our totally not corrupt politicians for that.

One candidate was waivering between 13 and 17…

Pleas tell me that’s a joke. Or were they trying to switch fields and were a baker or something before? I just can’t accept that someone that would struggle with that question, even in a stressfull situation, ever took a single comp science class.

That doesn’t mean you get accepted in a country just cause you can speak it.

I could have made some insane cash selling this but no amount of money will stand between me and my determination against Microsoft.

There is no better motivator than pure anger and spite.

Diese eigenen Moralvorstellungen müssen aber im Einklang mit dem Grundgesetz stehen.

Ich muss mich an die vorhandenen Gesetze halten, wenn ich friedlich in einem Land leben möchte. Das heist aber noch lange nicht, dass ich den besagten Gesetzen zustimmen muss. Gegen das Deutsche GG fällt mir jetzt auf die schnelle nichts problematisches ein, aber es gibt so einige andere Gesetze mit denen ich eher weniger im Einklang bin.

From an outside perspective its pretty clear that there is no coming back for the US without a violent intervention.

With how fucked up your electoral college is, there is now option for a third party to slowly grow in support like its possible in most democracies. That means your only options are both far right corporate puppets that have no real interest in fixing the underlying problems of the country, which in turn radicalises even more people.

Sure the Democrats are oders of magnitude better than the current nutjobs, but they historically did only the bare minimum to be seen as “the good guys” and “progressive”. Anywhere else in the world they would still be right wing conservatives. Looking at how Mamdani policies get criticized by members of his own party should be all the proof you need.

Pretty much the only way out of this downward circle would be for 100 Million Americans to simultaneously decide to vote for the same 3rd party.