Well, guess what, Germany is a federation. Some states even had capital punishment in their constitutions until a few years ago, yet the federal constitution still made it illegal. Will most likely be the case with this too. The state surveillance attempts have been far worse 20 years ago, but ultimately went nowhere for the most part.

18% of Black 12th graders read at a "Proficient" level. It’s about the same for mathematics.
That’s shocking. What’s going on USA?

It's not just Germany. Most of Western Europe has been trending this way since the end of the Cold War, and the roots of such thinking were there long before Hitler was even an itch in his daddy's pants. A lot of Americans seem surprised by this. But Europe isn't America, and European governments have always had a more paternalistic view of their role than American political philosophy allows for. Further, most Europeans are fine with that. Americans gasp when they see such things, but this is just the latest line of code in the old European We'll keep you all safe, comfy, and warm under the blanket of *insert European capitol here* script. European thinking sees the welfare of their people in totality. So it's not just social welfare you get from such systems... "free" healthcare, subsidized housing, schools, etc... but you also get the rest of the "protection" philosophy... that you have to protect people from themselves. Speech codes, bans on anything the government deems "extreme", they're all part of the paternalistic view that you're protecting and providing for your people. Father's job is to feed, house, and keep the kids safe. Part of that is disciplining and setting rules that they have to follow, for their own good. With a few exceptions, this is No Bueno is most of North America, but again, Europe isn't America. It has a considerably different mindset.

This is merely Berlin. That city always had weird politics.

Did you even RTFA?

"Our analysis takes advantage of administrative data from a large, urban, public college system "

The analysts are from Columbia, a private Ivy League school. Not the students. Since they're NYC based, the students they were studying were almost certainly from the public City University of New York system. Not at all hard to get into, and no need for "nepo baby" admissions.

There was a movie called Kill the Irishman, starring the late great Ray Stevenson, that had a similar plot point: Danny Greene borrows money from the Mob to start a restaurant. The courier tasked with delivering the cash decides to take it and buy heroin with it, re-sell it at a profit, and keep the difference for himself. Except the sellers are Feds in a honeypot scheme. The money is gone, the Mob demands Greene pay them back, he refuses, so the order goes out to "kill the Irishman".

You had to go anonymous to post this? Pathetique...

Check the 3 year PMI at Trading Economics. Not obvious that manufacturing activity in the US has done anything but increase over the last 12+ months.

You have different statistics? Of course, we know what statistics are, don't we? Even that site has conflicting data, because there is no single measure that tells us much. Bitterness is not an acceptable economic policy.

Circuit design. Grok cannot even read relatively simple circuit diagrams correctly.

Head of state or not, diplomatic immunity is not automatic and must be officially granted by the host state before the visit. This applies to foreign diplomats as well - the government of the country which these diplomats represent asks for them to be recognised as diplomats and the receiving country can either acknowledge this and grant them a diplomatic status or refuse to do so and in that case they won't have immunity.

When Cheney took the executive power. It never truly stopped since then.

My educated guess would be that rampant xenophobia is simply more important for GP than any other matter, including this.

Yes, the reputation is the reason.

For electronics ChatGPT has so far been superior to every other LLM out there.