I'm 100% convinced DOGE will stop this as it is not very efficient use of tax money.
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Might be worth telling your local shops about it, maybe they just don't know this exists. When I told my mother about the app she liked it so much she talked to a bunch of local shops she's a regular at and a couple of them joined afterwards.
Don't know if it's true for all EU countries but it's very common I think, although "local" elections meaning municipal elections, not the "local" federal elections.
TBH while Springer's main outlets like BILD are shit, I found politico quite alright so far. I mean whatever news source you're consuming it's important to know where they're coming from anyway. I like politico cause there's no shit paywall and non-enshittified website and also a proper RSS feed, which is super rare these days.
Kinda funny because just recently Sweden canceled plans to build new wind farms because they'd interfere with their radars. https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/11/11/why-sweden-nixed-new-wind-farms-for-fear-of-missing-russian-missiles/
TBH I'm quite surprised they even considered showing that propaganda shitshow, they must have completely missed the shitstorms the other film festivals encountered last year.
The 70s was before my time, I remember the Canadian flag thing though. But as I understood that's more about not wanting to be associated with other American tourists who can behave quite obnoxiously when traveling in groups and taking full advantage of strong cheap local beers and the lower legal drinking age. There is and always was some degree of anti-americanism from the left, but on a political level and not something you'd have to worry about as an individual tourist. The headline is also a bit misleading in that sense, this "anti-americanism" is directed at Trump's shenanigans, not random tourists.
I gave it a shot but without public transport navigation it's pretty useless for me. Also I don't enjoy being bugged to create an account or pay 19€ for a "premium user badge" just to make that "please give us money" button go away that's permanently covering part of the map.
I'd recommend picking a country first and checking job boards specifically for that country as each has their own preferred job websites and in my experience many/most companies usually don't bother posting job ads on international sites.
I read a more in-depth analysis some time ago and a lot of them are just desperate people with financial or other problems, and becoming a Reichsbürger is more like a form of escapism from reality than something they really believe in. Imagine you have a crippling amount of debt and/or are about to be evicted for example, and then you read on some nutjob website that the state actually doesn't exist so you don't owe them anything and they have no authority to evict you, doesn't that sound great? All your problems solved by just burning your German ID card and printing out a new one of some made-up country. Of course reality gets them eventually but psychologically it's easier to bear for some people to believe that they're the victim of a huge conspiracy rather than face the fact that they fucked up and are screwed.
It's not just for commercial websites, any website that provides any kind of content is subject to Impressumspflicht. AFAIK strictly private/personal websites are exempt in theory, however in Germany it's a fun pastime for asshole lawyers to automatedly search the web for websites w/o impressum and extort some bucks off some poor granny's recipe blog, so it's better to be safe than sorry. And since people generally don't want to put their full private address on the web and most don't have have a postbox or something like that, I totally get why they'd use the company for simplicity.