luciferofastora

You have a point. It was a joke to redirect the bull metaphor to a different animal, force of habit.

On the other hand, the term "pig" for Cops has become rather detached from the animal, just like Motherfucker doesn't actually imply incestuous sexual relations.

But you have a point all the same.

Well, the German government has. It's just that some people think "It won't happen to me" until it does.

Also, it's not bulls. It's pigs, but the RPG kind of murder-pig with metal plating and steel-tipped tusks.

Gut, aus Österreich ist die nur de jure. Der Großteil des Konzerns besteht aus der ursprünglichen deutschen Straßenbau AG und anderen deutschen Unternehmen, die nach und nach aufgekauft wurden. Ansonsten hat die aber auch weltweit mittlerweile einiges. Da weiß ich nicht, ob bei einem derartigen internationalen Konzern der formelle Hauptsitz wirklich eine Rolle spiele sollte.

Lächerlich ist das natürlich schon. Klar wollen die an Geld, aber wenn das ein europäischer Streit ist sollte der auch in Europa geregelt werden.

I'd use it as toilet paper, but it wouldn't actually make my butt cleaner.

the country's last factory able to make steel from scratch

Daft cunts. If you neither have any redundancy, nor the bloody sense to guard your single point of failure, you deserve the pain.

The people probably don't though. That's always the tragedy with these things.

That's probably the point: "Nobody forces us to recognise them, so we don't"

https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-definition-of-fascism/

"Schule... Krankenhaus... Wohngebiet... Jup, passt, Feuer frei"

Eurydike I was a boss removed. Not only was she unusually prominent in politics for a queen, she also engaged in foreign policy on her own, successfully negotiationg with a foreign general to have him protect her late husband's throne against a pretender, apparently without any participation from her son-in-law, who served as regent at the time.

The youngest of her sons, Phillip II, would go on to reform the military and secure hegemony over Greece, laying the groundwork for the invasion of Persia that he never got to carry out. After his assassination, that invasion was instead performed by his son, Alexander III, later dubbed "The Great" for this feat.

It should be noted that, with Alexander being on campaign for basically all of his reign and generally not too interested in domestic rulership, his mother Olympias of Epirus was the de facto ruler of Macedonia. Behind the successful general are two powerful women that first protected his father's throne, then took care of the actual ruling so that he would be free to hunt glory.

Das war eher als Korrelation gemeint. Wer Amerika verlässt hat eine gewisse Vernunft, was meiner Meinung nach eher gegen Dummheit spricht. Trifft natürlich auch nicht auf alle zu.

Unfortunately, the German bureaucratic clusterfuck does tend to hamstring good intention with stupid regulations carried out to the pedantic letter. It's a bit of a lottery at times whether you'll find yourself dealing with a human or with a relentless rule fetishist, and the more complex a process is, the more people it involves and the greater the chance someone will obstruct.

I'd hope things have improved and I hope they'll improve further. Shame that it's too late for you.