All the stories I've heard from friends, family members and colleagues that worked with or interacted with him professionally boil down to, "he was a dick to me" or "he was a dick to me but less of a dick than he was to other people and this makes me blind to his dickishness"

Reverting a template is child's play: even easier than vandalizing one. Wikipedia deals with this kind of shit on a daily basis.

Soliciting bribes, more like.

The marks that this scam is aimed at aren't concerned about privacy as such. They'll eagerly hand over their private info to Snarler, GettrByThePussy, mOAN, NewSmax, and even GRU... just so long as King Obummer II and Narc Cuckerberg, can't censor their memes about lynching Killary.

The Øresund sound between Copenhagen and southern Sweden is not very picturesque.There a view of a decommissioned nuclear power plant on the other side. It's arguably the ugliest and most uninteresting stretch of coastline in Denmark.

What a load of crock.
If you want to know what caused this behaviour, google the second Schleswig war. Otto von Bismarck broke us in a way, from which we never really recovered.

On the other hand, we didnâ(TM)t fork over Greenland when tin-pot dictator wannabe Trump wanted it.

I only rode rusty, shitty old bikes during my school and university time. I will avoid that at (almost) all cost, now that I have the dosh for a proper one. Not sure the on-line delivery times are as short (at least not around here) as you seem to believe.

Not to be picky, but: I grew up in Denmark, and I'm pretty sure you can't deduct shit on bike purchases. Might be in NL, though.

I went to a bike shop last week to order a new bike. Stock: none. Delivery date: Unknown. I'll get it in September. Maybe. Maybe the price will have changed as well. People are buying bikes like never before. Also: Luxembourg is giving up to 50%/up to 600 EUR support for *any* bike purchase. Now would be a good time not to have your bike stolen.

I actually liked LG's WebOS TVs. Guess I will hang on to my old ad-free 2016 model for a while longer.

Can confirm. BMWs, Porches and Mercs whoosh by, as you are trying to eke out the last bit of performance in your own shitbox from 195 to 200 kph.

Maersk: Largest container shipping line and vessel operator in the world since 1996.

Yes, I guess there's a pretty good business case in LEO earth observation/SSO orbits for the time being. For anything else, they would have to tug the speculative German launch barge closer to equator or ask France nicely to borrow a launchpad in Kourou, French Guyana (with all the bureaucracy that entails).

Not entirely true. Private launcher companies are starting to surface. This one is backed by OHB group, with an already well established relationship to the EU, delivering Galileo satellites and whatnot. The UK and Germany are working on establishing launch facilities (launching over the Atlantic and the North Sea, respectively) for smaller launchers.

8 million terabytes of memory ought to be enough for everyone (cough).

I hear you. Especially some electrical engineers, and especially when they spout their own armchair physicist theories. Having been taught a little about classical physics apparently entitles them to trash quantum mechanics. I know of one talented EE who is convinced that the Ether exists. They are completely entrenched like a Trump voter, thereâ(TM)s no arguing with them. My own degree? EE (takes one to know one)