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I know, but I don’t have any half way recent experience with it, so I don’t know whether I can recommend it. When I last checked it out some years ago, it still lacked functionality regular Ubuntu based Mint had.

I am in the same boat as you. I am still running Ubuntu (with snap removed, so I can’t comment on its current performance overhead) on a few of my machines because I couldn’t be bothered to do a reinstall with something less insane, but I’m not recommending Ubuntu to anyone anymore over the same concerns as you have.

If you want to recommend a system that runs decently out of the box and runs a lot of software, recommend Mint instead. Ubuntu used to be Debian with sane default settings that would run out of the box, nowadays Mint is Ubuntu with sane default settings that will run out of the box. Mint also doesn’t subscribe to this snap madness and is continuing to maintain a few packages Ubuntu has migrated to snap as .deb package (for instance Firefox and Chromium).

Bavaria voted CSU, which is Bavaria’s own, even more “conservative” splinter group of the CDU that has run Bavaria as a de facto one party state for the most part of its post WW2 history. One of the reasons why the AfD doesn’t score that high in Bavaria is that the domestic Bavarian parties are so far right that there is virtually no demand for a dedicated Nazi party.

also thanks to the 16 years of the Union not wanting to spend money on anything important.

Actually that’s way too short sighted, Austerity became German state religion much longer ago. Neoliberal sell-out and wholesale neglect of public property and infrastructure started under Helmut Kohl, and was seamlessly continued under Schröder to be equally seamlessly continued under Merkel and Scholz just went on with it, too. There is no large political party in Germany that is innocent of this crime.

Now that they have collectively sold out and run down the country and are doing little to nothing to remedy their past mistakes crimes, they are acting surprised that this is driving people into the arms of Nazi demagogues.

It’s still deplorable to vote for the Nazi scum that is the AfD, but propaganda is a powerful tool and the Nazis are deliberately targeting those who have been shat on by the political establishment for decades by now. That their propaganda is a bunch of lies and they are only going to sell out the country and its people some more doesn’t matter. People are stupid and easy to convince with propaganda. Keep in mind how the education system is a part of the public infrastructure that has been continuously and systematically neglected and sold out for almost half a century by now.

That’s one of the problems of the Greens, they and their voters are largely a relatively wealthy urban bubble who see three trees and think that’s nature. That’s why a lot of their environmental policy is based on greenwashing shit like CO₂ certificate trading and subsidies to new electric cars only rich people can afford in the first place.

the Dax is hitting multiple records in recent months, the economy is growing, inflation is going down and the unions are achieving raises above the inflation level

Stock market figures only benefit the wealthy. It is an entirely meaningless figure for measuring the economic situation of a country’s population.

inflation is going down

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

the unions are achieving raises above the inflation level

Only a minority of the German workforce is even represented by those unions, also, most of them barely managed to get raises covering the recent inflation. Inflation adjusted salaries in Germany have been stagnating and even shrinking for decades now, so whatever has been achieved by the few unions isn’t really that impressive in the long run.

The reality of the majority of people in Germany is vastly different from what you are describing.

Especially because they were kicked out for being too Nazi for the other European Right-Wing extremists.

Infuriated AfD noises

Tearing down that wall was a mistake. Should have made it at least 5m taller instead.

Hauptsache See, egal, ob Ost oder Boden.

You can paint a turd blue, but underneath that thin layer of blue paint, it will stay a stinking pile of brown shit.

Light blue should be brown.

The public broadcasters are trying very hard to imitate the private media and keep quoting even the worst examples of them (the “Bild” tabloid for example) as a source. So the situation of commercial media has very well something to do with the situation of the public broadcasters.

Currently, to my knowledge, there are no real European parties apart from Volt.

The other so-called “European” parties are only loose conglomerates of the individual member states’ local parties.

Beer is cheap in Denmark? You must be from a country even further to the North.

Of course it’s not a good idea. I’d even say it’s fucking stupid. The only ones who would possibly benefit from those morons getting into power are a few very rich old people. The problem is that the entire political system has been very busy in the last few decades to manufacture a social climate in which those Nazi morons can thrive.

That’s what you get for the entire political spectrum shitting on the interests of young people, while also normalising xenophobic bullshit by parroting those xenophobic traitors’ rhetoric to fish for votes.

Or is it possible to attribute a encrypted message using only public key and cyphertext?

I’m not entirely sure, and was more thinking of the standard application of PGP where encryption and signing go hand in hand.

In the minds of the authoritarian right that’s driving this disgusting “debate”, kids don’t have rights, because they are are their parents’ property.

The West did (and still does) spy on people to a similar extent, they just have been less obnoxious about it (wholesale spying, but no wholesale persecution) so nobody gets too upset and makes a revolution or something.