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Canonical is basically the closed to corporate Linux you will find on the free distro market... They are pushing stuff you don't want for marketing reasons (for example their own proprietary Snaps when a better working open source solution already exists with Flatpack), love their telemetry (can be mostly disabled for now, but given the defaults and their other behavior we can already see where this is heading) and in general decide more alongside their latest business plan than actually making sense or listening to users.

No matter how often people lie and lie and lie again to tell funny tales about Olaf Scholz blocking Taurus, it will not become true.

Olaf Scholz is an idiot but that doesn't mean that your fairy tales will become reality.

What he actually has said time and time again is that Germany can't send Taurus to Ukraine without direct involvement of the Bundeswehr.

The same was said by the Ministry of Defense, the Bundeswehr, the producers. That statement was also supported by the leaked discussion of Bunderwehr leaders (you all commented and discussed this, so I assume at least someone actually listened to the recording), and then again in even more detail by a press leak from a government commitee (that even resulted in an investigation for betrayal of state secrets...).

Germany just cannot send Taurus to Ukraine because the systems to programm those missiles are rare and very centralized, so it's impossible to just give them away like some laptop... And direct involvement of German military would violate the constitution.

So people can either continue fighting their own made-up straw-man for another year and argue how this time scared Olaf will surely, finally get to his senses... or they can accept reality and stop arguing against their own pretend-argument when the actual real reason is all technical, explained multiple times and will not change.

The main union for its plants there has a seat on the company’s board.

Which is basically mandatory in Germany as a company's works council has co-determination rights by law and usually votes some of their own to join the board (union membership not required but often the default).

Unless we don’t want a 2 state solution.

More importantly Isreal as well as the PA reject the idea of a 2 state solution.

Now I am suddnely afraid what his replacement might look like...

Nothing outrageous about banning a liar and propagandist from spreading lies and propaganda in our country.

Ffs... he even published the speech he was going to give there and it was hard to swallow so much bullshit. On the plus side, he basically answered questions about Hamas atrocities and their threat to Israel with (paraphrasing) "I condemn atrocities in general but here I celebrate the people that attacked Israel" and "What threat? Israel is only afraid because of rampant anti-semitism in Europe and America".

So we know were he stands and if you ask me he can go get fucked with the Hamas buddies he supports.

"Germany is widely seen as the second largest arms exporter to Israel behind the US"

That's the phrasing you use when you know that stating it as a fact would make you liable for spreading lies.

But that's okay as it's rolling release and unlike other distros you only need to do it exactly once...

Why is Germany not delivering Taurus?

Government: Because we can't.

Media: NOOO!!!! That must be a lie! The totally real reason is <insert random fairy tale>!

Bundeswehr: No, we can't. Neither do we have enough of them, nor would we be able to provide Ukraine with the means to actually use them properly.

Media: NOOO! That must be a lie because we already told you the real reason is...

Leaked military discussion about the options to provide Taurus: Confirming exactly what was said before. That they can't provide Taurus without direct involvement of the German army.

Media: Let's ignore that part and focus on the fact that they confirmed UK personal in Ukraine, so we can keep telling our fairy tale.

Press leak (now even triggering an investigation for betrayal of state secrets): Again confirming what was said for more than 9 months now. That Germany cannot provide Taurus, because hardware for programming is only available in limited amounts with the Bundeswehr and can't be given away.

Media: Why is Scholz so afraid of Russia to still block Taurus?

Seriously... how much longer are we supposed to watch that rediculous propaganda stage play? Talking about beating a dead horse isn't even applicable here anymore as that poor cadaver was reduced to mush long ago.

War mir nicht bewußt, dass ich die Volljährigkeit abfragen kann, ohne mein gesamtes Geburtsdatum zu übermitteln, aber umso besser...

Aber wie gesagt, eine simple Alterverifikation ist halt eigentlich gar nicht gewünscht. Man muss immer Platz fürs Datensammeln, am besten noch durch private Anbieter lassen. Wo kämen wir denn sonst hin.