In this case, the engine was not only cheaper but also better.

If I had that much to wash, I'd just wash one load every day, not everything at once. And actually yes, I switch mine on and go away.

16A is standard in Germany. Have just checked, the ones in my flat are all 16A except for the bathroom, the RCCB for it is 25A.
At 230V that would be almost 3.7kW per circuit. I think only the water heater actually uses that much since I don't own a full size electric stove.

Why do you actually care how much time your washing machine uses? Fill it up, switch it on and do something else during the time.You are not a cat, you don't have to stay and watch it spin. European washing machines take so long because the detergents are much milder.

What about cup ramen? In the coffee pot as well?

In the EU 230V outlets are standard (IEC 60038). 240V is UK (as always, they absolutely have to be different from everyone else) and Cyprus (as a former British colony).
Actually, most of the former EU countries used to have the 220V standard, but it was raised to 230V so it would be more compatible to UK.

This was not the first referendum on Crimea, by the way. The first one was in 1991, with a similar outcome. In fact, Crimea has voted for independence several months before Ukraine did, but for some reason, Ukrainian independence was regocnised, but not the Crimean one. Truly, some animals are more equal than others.

Not really. Modern Russia is different to USSR in almost every way imaginable, including the things that were actually good.
The only country closely resembling the USSR of old would be Belarus.

Solzhenitzyn was full of shit for several reasons and 60 million would be half of the population.

Well, in fact it was.
For the majority of the population life in soviet Russia was better than in czarist Russia.
It also ultimately lead to Germany becoming a democracy.

Nokian spiked bike tyres are very good. Even Continental spiked bike tyres are also made in Finland.

Look, I had a HTC Universal which was released two bloody years before the iPhone. It was, of course, thicker, due to it having a pivot screen and a physical full QWERTY keyboard. Just without these the size would be the same. But that HTC phone had a somewhat larger display (and with higher resolution at that) and an interchangeable battery and a SD card slot.

iPhone was a downgrade to what was possible at the time.

AMD has already sold badge engineered RAM some years ago. Just looked up, they actually still do

Sorry, but this is difficult to believe. iPhone specs weren't anything special. In fact, high end WM phones had better hardware.

Suits are the professional dress of, well, suits. If there is such a thing as a professional dress for an engineer, then it would be a lab coat.