The more likely reason being that the traffic already on the Autobahn has the right of way and joining traffic is required to yield.
Same with changing lanes: the one doing the change (in general: the one changing direction) is supposed to yield and responsible for making sure that their change of lane/direction is safe to do.
And if someone changes into another lane and is rear-ended in the process, the default assumption standing over the wreckage is likely going to be "well, looks like it wasn't safe".

I would say it basically limits them to the traffic jam that is Berlin's Stadtautobahn during working hours.

The problem I've had with that approach was that pinterest was (is?) also using a sh*tload of country-specific domains, which you have to exclude one by one since "-pinterest.*" doesn't work

What an ignorant comment.
Those groups already exist, IG Metall or not, and they don't have a problem with electric cars.
They had/have a problem with that "Giga factory" being huge and it being built right in the middle of a forest, i.e. they aren't happy with the deforestation and messed up ecosystems and with Tesla's original estimate of needing close to 900 million gallons of water per year that have to come from somewhere.

There's nothing about desperation for additional gas in that article and several omissions.
Some points for consideration from a German POV:

• Germany already is supplied via pipelines from Russia.
• Those pipelines go through currently not-too-stable, not-too-rich countries like Ukraine which have stopped/diverted that supply in the past when Russia wanted to cut off their supply over payment or political issues; add to that Crimea and the situation in Eastern Ukraine, i.e. Russia and Ukraine being basically at war since then
• So the current supply via pipeline from Russia has been constantly threatened for one reason or another, because it not only depends on Germany and Russia getting along, but also all their neighbors in between.
• The US has actively been sabotaging the project in the Baltic Sea by directly threatening the companies working on it, trying to get it stopped and get Germany to rely on shipments of US-produced gas instead.
• Until recently, the US has been led by a mentally unstable petulant child, cancelling treaties depending on whether its diaper has been changed in time.
  And even the saner people there seem to be all for applying mob tactics to force Germany into making the US their only option.
  So you can't really rely on the US being an ally anymore - or even rely on to act rational when doing business. With Russia, Germany can at least rely on Russia needing western money as much as Germany needing energy. And the evil people who control both the country and the oil having lots of that money flowing directly into their own coffers.

So from Germany's point of view, Russia isn't the only devil it has to deal with.
And which of the two devils is more evil can seemingly change from day to day:
Russia might put pressure on Germany by threatening its energy supply.
The US already is doing so, basically squeezing Germany's right ball, promising to stop if Germany would only add the left ball as well.
So if Germany is "desperate", it's mostly due to the unreliability of their business "partners".
I can't really blame Germany's decision to want more options by at least addressing one source of unreliability,
i.e. wanting to be able to route the gas around the political instability in Eastern Europe, in case troubles pop up there at the same time as the US deciding to do coke or needing a diaper change again.

As a jelly donut:
Where the f*ck did you spend that obscene amount of time in Berlin? Kladow?

Your posts don't really project an image of a centrist person, but rather one of someone who fell directly out of the Dunning-Kruger chapter of a psychology textbook.

"Smell bullshit from all side" - apparently except for your own.

Then again, a center isn't technically a side, so even in your own version of reality that olfactory blindness shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

From personal experience and observation, the masks are probably doing point 1, but they're doing the exact opposite of point 2 because people are constantly fiddling around with them.
The first time I put one on for a shopping trip, it took quite some time to make my cloth mask seal so that my glasses wouldn't fog up and not fall off. When I finally managed it, I was basically deeply inhaling (had to get enough air through the now better sealing mask) whatever I had transferred from the shopping cart handle to my mask.
 
Or simply watch how people handle their masks before and after they're using them.

I doubt that there will be much of a "fair market".
If the price isn't reasonable, a compulsory licensing order would probably be a best case scenario for someone trying to squeeze pretty much the entire world's governments for money.
Given the amount of doses needed world-wide, I wouldn't even be surprised to see some sort of compulsory licensing to competitors even if there's no price gouging - simply to make use of as much production capacity as fast as possible.

Better use 1945.
Works even better for you argument plus the shape of Germany in 1871 doesn't have many fans today because that would make several countries even more tiny and homogeneous...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Germanborders.png

That really is absolutely idiotic.
Takes me maybe 5 minutes to pop in and out of the store on my way home from work.

you live in a dense city, you do not carry 6 bags full of groceries around.Grocery stores are within walking distance. You don't need to stock up for a month at a time.

And should you really need 6 bags, bicycles make excellent mules.
For example, I've fixed a basket to mine that's big and sturdy enough to carry a case of beer.

Food for thought: if everybody is used to buying two days instead of two weeks worth of groceries, those lines might move faster than you're used to.
Case-in-point: while there are still carts, in recent years most chain stores (except maybe Aldi) have added more and more shopping baskets for people to use because the carts are ridiculously oversized for the amount of stuff most people buy.
I guess that's also a sign of the changing city demographics, with fewer families and more single or dink households.

The (non-)viability of that might be a local problem and I suspect might have other reasons than purely economic ones, maybe even regulatory/zoning ones (at least that seems to be how NYC attempts to fix the problem: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/plan...).

As a rather extreme counter-example (from a different county), I've got five supermarkets within walking distance from my flat and according to a sign on the currently being remodeled premises which a giant electronics chain recently vacated, a sixth one is about to open literally next door to an existing one.

*shtick, not "stick"