LOL

TBH I thought US soldiers would earn more. Room and board is included, right?

The wallet is designed so that all personal data is fully protected, and the user stays in control of what information they put in the wallet and choose to share

Show me a version that works on platforms like GrapheneOS or Ubuntu Touch and I might consider believing that. If you use stock Android, everything you do on your phone is already compromised.

It’s very wealthy and AFAIK has low taxes, though. But I’m not sure that Switzerland has a better housing situation.

But also, it’s not particularly surprising that Germans are settling in a German-speaking country (even if the local accent/dialect is quite different).

Surprising, I thought the deal with the Nordics was that you trade some income for better social security, but apparently they didn’t (or alternatively they are just that rich, which definitely checks out for Norway). Though it’s a bit unclear how this is counted, as e.g. Germany’s social security isn’t paid via taxes but a system of heavily regulated insurance. Germany’s ranking looks like the people who made these graphs counted those social security contributions the same as taxes, though.

Not to mention the unwaivering US support for Israel, which usually ends with them kicking down on anybody who speaks out against Israel.

Germany doesn’t need the US to be a yes-man for Israel.

That sounds phony TBH. Which viewpoints does he not share, and why the hell would adoring the US make you support Trump (assuming you aren’t just a dumbass, which seems unlikely)? It’s not like Democrats like Biden and Harris are particularly far left, they even support Netanyahu.

CEO (Döpfner) is a big promoter of the far right. Calls himself a zionist, too.

EU countries aren’t usually in the business of actively shielding MENA countries from (formal) scrutinity in international institutions.

Instead of his far right propaganda, I encourage you to read his wikipedia articles. The German one is more in depth, consider using machine translation to read it if you don’t know German.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Döpfner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Döpfner

It’s kinda normal to exchange money when you’re traveling to a different coutry, it’s no more inconvenient than the fact that most international travel destinations in Europe are going to speak a language you don’t know. i.e. very inconvenient, but stuff like this is kinda part of the experience when you’re travelling for fun IMO. Not good when you’re there on business, though.

German Mark was a very strong currency, to the detriment of Germany’s very export-oriented economy. Many other EU countries did have comparatively weak currencies, even some of the bigger ones like Italy, but it’s a double-edged sword to give up the ability to make your own monetary policy.

Another neat thing about hydro is that it’s a renewable base load

I think it goes even further, you can even use it as a long-term energy store, entirely disconnected from any rivers, possibly entirely underground which also avoids the environmental repercussions of blocking off rivers and creating big artificial lakes. I feel like this is an underresearched/underfunded field, solar power is kinda desperate for energy storage technologies especially in countries closer to the poles.

The issue with hydropower is that you can only build as much hydropower as your geography allows, and it can come with severe environmental repercussions if you go too hard.

And? That doesn’t matter if the store prints them on location. Printing tags isn’t rocket science.

Sales tags are stupidly easy to print, though. You can even do that with handheld devices.

That doesn’t sound like “the right’s own weaponry” to me.

The right could do that because they have most major corporations on their side. How is the left going to do that?

IMO China is an outlier because the language barrier is much thicker than for most other polities. It’s substantially harder to remember a place if the (romanized) name looks like word salad and many or even most of the sounds in it don’t even exist in your language. Contrast Japan - while the romanized names still look very foreign, they can be pronounced with relative ease (even if not quite correctly).

That said, I generally don’t make a point of remembering internal subdivisions of other countries. It’s just not as important as knowing where countries are, and internal regions (e.g. “midwest USA” or “frankophone Switzerland”) that actually do have significance often don’t really follow administrative divisions.

OP asked about continents and countries, US states are neither. IMO, it’s about how relevant the entity is - US states simply aren’t as important as countries.

And I bet most Europeans can name and roughly locate more US states than most USians can name and roughly locate European states, anyway.

Well, I can point out all the continents and most countries on a map (approximately), even subdivisions (states etc.) in many western countries. But anecdotal evidence doesn’t really help that much for this question, IMO. Just go look up some statistics.