There is a huge difference between not being allowed to do something, and deciding not to do something.

I don't have a car (like most people in my town). So not allowing car ownership would be ok?

Maybe 2.1 billion was cheap enough to kill a competitor?

Germany and Italy are filled with monuments regarding their dark past (have never been to France and Spain and only very briefly to Belgium so I can't judge). I really don't know what you are talking about.

Peppermint tea. If you have a garden you can grow it yourself. But you have to keep it from spreading everywhere.

There are other destinations in Europe. Who needs the UK? I used to go there occasionally, in the past, but if they don't want visitors anymore... so be it.

In my (over 1,000 year old) city, blocking several streets with bollards and massively reducing street parking worked just fine so far. As did curbing traffic coming in, with longer "red" phases at traffic lights for cars entering, when sensors detect too many cars in the city.

True. Commercial interests should not have any place, in any university, in any shape and form.

A student was distressed? Oh, poor little creature. Has to be handled with care, wrapped in cotton wool?

Grow up, student!

Enter Europe's precautionary principle when it comes to food safety: you don't have to show that a chemical is harmful to ban it, but you have to prove it safe to be allowed in the food cycle. Guilty until proven innocent.

Over the last 10 or so years I eliminated all plastic fibres from my warderobe almost entirely. Problem almost solved. Industry and politics: too little, too late. Again.

Was hat denn Herr Scholz mit diesen Daten zu schaffen?

Übrigens schreibe ich diesen Post weil ich gestern meinen Nachbarn auf der Straße getroffen habe. Ich kann nämlich genauso logisch.

Manchmal braucht es eben ein "Stocken", damit etwas in Bewegung kommt. Dass DIN-Normen nicht kostenfrei erhältlich sind (ich weiß: man kann zum DIN fahren und sie kostenfrei lesen, und auch manche Bibliotheken haben eine Auswahl zur Einsicht) ist mir schon seit Jahrzehnten ein Dorn im Auge.

Wenn jetzt jemand kommt und sagt "gebt und das gratis oder ihr kriegt kein Glasfaser": Find' ich gut. Vielleicht hilft's ja.