Cars aren’t exactly a good example on how to curb enshittification, as the car industry pioneered enshittification and found a way around regulations every time so far.

That’s pneumatic Linux, though.

A person working close to a military would avoid many “military grade” products and so on.

It’s as with anything manufactured for a public institution. It won a bid by being the cheapest (and/or bribing an official). Once you know that, you’ll look at the world with different eyes.

Pretty much anyone who speaks of “tech” tends to have no idea of that they are talking about. Same applies to people using “cyber” as if it was a real word outside of Science Fiction, and a very niche niche branch of engineering that doesn’t necessarily deal with computers.

Tie it to money for the pipeline repair that Hungary wants done so badly.

All those anchors must have dragged themselves. Things like that happen.

while allegedly progressive party did.

I don’t even know anymore what progressive is supposed to mean, it’s thrown around just like every other political bullshit word.

Also, the SPD has been a copy of the CDU in red for decades. From them, I expected that vote. The unexpected really is the CDU.

The SPD turned into a third way economically liberal party around the same time Tony Blair did the same to Labour in England

Actually, the SPD under Schröder did imitate Tony Blair’s “New Labour” strategy.

Remember it was Merkel from the CDU (alongside Swedish social democrats) that was the biggest proponent of humanity and solidarity when a bunch of asylum seekers arrived in 2015 - “wir schaffen das” and all that.

That really was just clever PR. Merkel originally wanted, following the party line, to close the borders, but since she isn’t stupid and a bit of a legalist, had that plan legally evaluated. The evaluation came out negative, because doing so would have been in violation of both German national and international law. Accepting the refugees really was the only legal option. So she did the next best thing she could do after failing to fish for votes in the far right’s disgusting brown cesspit, and sold the thing she was forced to do by having no other legal option as a humanitarian act of hers, to at least score some sympathies with less right leaning and more humanitarian voters.

The leadership of the CDU has taken a turn to the right since Merkel

Basically, they went back to their former self of outright right wing populism, and to brazenly and openly shitting on both national and international law, because they know exactly that nothing substantial will happen to them for it, the worst that will happen, is a court writing a sternly worded letter and invalidating a law that has been in force for as long as the court took to decide (usually many years).

Remember that the founding members of the far right AfD were pretty much all previous members of the CDU’s right wing. These two parties fit together like an arse fits on a bucket.

Highly unlikely, because besides being corrupt to the core, the CDU are a bunch of authoritarian bastards who will happily vote for any dystopian police state bullshit even without being paid for it.

That vile creep is still around? Wasn’t he caught taking bribes or somehting?

If the CDU/CSU does something unexpected, it’s always a good idea to assume someone is paying them for it.

The SPD is social democrat in name only, in reality, since the first Schröder government, they have been a cheap CDU copy.

And when it comes to supporting authoritarian bullshit, they do have a long history. In the early days of Weimar Republic, the Ebert government did collaborate with far-right paramilitary groups in order to quell unrest. (Using machine guns on striking workers and murdering leaders of opposing political movements)

Had enough time and opportunity to practice this, Brexiteer politicians were producing bus loads of horseshit like that “frictionless border” on a daily basis, and I occasionally commented on discussions about it.

It was just a lie specifically crafted to become a pipe dream for the Brexit voters that couldn’t possibly work anyway. Without regulatory alignment, only a moron would allow frictionless trade. (While there are plenty of stupid politicians in the EU, they are not that dumb) Without freedom of movement for people, the EU won’t allow freedom of movement for goods, this has always been a package deal. No amount of technology can negate that.

The UK had frictionless trade with the EU, but chose to abandon it by exiting. Now the lies are falling apart bit by bit, but not before lots of UK taxpayer money has vanished in the deep pockets of some profiteers.

That nobody heard the drill isn’t really much of a surprise, the burglars did use a core drill, those are relatively silent.

I don’t want to be in the shoes of the incident commander of the fire service who dismissed the first fire alarm as a false alarm. You can only dismiss an alarm as false after inspecting the sensor that triggered it, and finding no fire there. If the sensor was in the vault and they didn’t go into the vault because it was locked and nobody who could unlock it was on scene, this can and likely will be seen as a fair bit of negligence.

Cars don’t take after phones, phones took after cars. The car industry pioneered enshittification in the mid 2000s. It started with crazy shit like lights where you had to disassemble half of the car in order to change a burnt out bulb.

Weld on a hex nut and it works with normal tools. Or don’t buy a BMW. They have been well known for building overpriced scrap on wheels for decades by now.

What’s controversial about ensuring short supply chains? How is it not pragmatic, if your supplies keep rolling even when a fart ship is stuck sideways in a canal, or a port is closed due to the plague?

So they are still committing a genocide with tens of thousands of deaths by now, but bulldozing an ages old cemetery that likely wouldn’t even be big enough to hold the bodies of everyone they killed this week is now a problem worth a headline?

crisis-hit

That’s a nice way to describe something that has been a full blown crisis since it has been remodeled in the image of a private enterprise back in the 1990s.