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Inflation “going down” doesn’t mean there is no more inflation. It only means that there is less inflation than before

Keep in mind that "inflation going down" is usually shorthand for the year-on-year inflation rate going down.
If the yoy inflation rate goes down from one month to the next, then prices are still higher than previous year but may very well have fallen since last month.

That’s why the button says “purchase” instead of “buy”

First off, they're synonyms
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purchase#synonyms

Now, I'm certainly no expert on the US legal system. It certainly seems silly if you could circumvent entire laws just by using synonyms but what do I know.
However I have been talking about other countries where that is not the case and where the language is not English.
So It really doesn't matter whether it say "buy" or "purchase" in English when it's "kaufen" in German or "acheter" in French.

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Is Nixon available ?

Mir ging es mehr darum, dass ich mich im ersten Moment gefragt habe, warum die am Flughafen nicht durch den Zollen müssen sollten.

I think they're talking about ovens in the kitchen, not heating with gas.

The AfD is a party full of literal Hitler worshipping neo-Nazis.

Für Leute wie mich, die das nicht sofort verstanden haben:
Es geht hier um die nachgestellte Landung mit dem Fallschirm, nicht um eine Landung nach einer normalen Einreise mit dem Flugzeug.

Ggf populärere Gegenmeinung:
Das SPD-Personal, das HArz4 zu verantworten hat ist immer noch einflussreich in der Partei.
In den 20 Jahren haben die wenig getan um von diesem Fehler wieder abzurücken.
Die erste echte Kehrtwende war das Bürgergeld. Hier knickt die SPD gerade wieder vor dem populistischen Druck ein und arbeitet daran es wieder aktiv zu verschlechtern, was möglicherweise wieder auf eine Schelle vom BVerfG rausläuft.

Gut, dass die Union im Rest der Republik so kompetent ist und 30 der letzten 40 Jahre der Kanzler nicht von einer korrupten Versagerpartei gestellt wurde.

Spitzensteuersatz ab höherem Einkommen

Bin ich dafür.
Am besten nehmen wir den progressiven Grenzsteuersatz der bis 67k gilt und ziehen ihn weiter durch, bis wir bei 80% sind.
Der Spitzensteuersatz ist damit erst bei einem höheren Einkommen erreicht und der letzte "Reichensteuer"-Satz kann auch gleich entfallen und wir haben direkt noch das Steuersystem vereinfacht.

Yes, one can argue that more fossil energy could have been shut down if the nuclear plants had continued operating.

That said, Nuclear was replaced by renewables. Coal was also replaced by renewables.
Maybe more coal could have been replaced but claiming that nuclear was replaced with coal is a rhetoric trick but it is literally not true.

Also these assumptions about replacing coal always seem to come from people who have no idea about the power of the German coal lobby.
Coal is just about the only natural resource Germany has and is a massive industry.
The coal exit movement is decades old as well. But as the graphs show it is also glacially slow due to massive lobbying.

You original comment was that someone "turned on coal/oil…"
That statement is factually and demonstrably incorrect.
Gas was not even part of that original claim but whatever.

Building capacity as a reserve for peak times is not the same as the plants actually running and producing emissions.
As the graphs show, the actual production and therefore emissions from fossil sources have gone down. This is what matters in he climate change debate.
The mere existence of buildings has little to do with the topic at hand.