Indeed, that's why dashcams are in Germany legally regulated.
And for many years Google did not publish their German street View pictures.
In Germany Google has to on request blur any pictures of your house.

Indeed, that's the way some Americans see it.
Sad, in many cases it's a lack of education.

The point is not just that kids can't read but especially that they have trouble grokking what they read.
And for that understanding it makes no difference where they read something but practice is the key word.

An example that I worry about:
Even serious newspapers will these days use their websites no longer for stories to read but instead publish video's that suppose to tell the story.
Personally I hate this as the video's carry less information and take a lot longer than reading the story.
Luckily some news sites will only use the video as an extra on top of the written story but the trend is to more video's.

Now this is what adults are facing but it points to a trend, the (anti) social media shows kids only video's.

A good point.
When one is not able to comprehend a text that person will not be able to build on it (and grow).

Yep, you guys need a president and government that Makes America Great again.
But with your strange voting system that'll be difficult and at least two years away.

You must be an engineer to have figured that out!

Crap to call this greenwashing.
The problem of microplastics already exists around the world, including in the snow on Antarctica and mother's milk.
When this would lead to an affordable way to catch and remove the existing microplastics this would be great news.

The Indian outfit I consult with is a Microsoft shop, everything is tied to Office 365.
I use Kubuntu and using the Brave browser I can easily access their documents.
Two days ago I spoke via Teams with an engineer working in the Quality and Regulatory dept. of a French company and he told me he is also using Linux.
At first he tried to reach me from a Windows computer but the mandated anti virus software did not allow him to use the camera in Teams, switching to Linux solved the problem.

In the mean time these policemen could have gone after real criminals.
This is an epic waste of their forces and the communities money.

And you forgot the ever increasing temperatures due to CO2 emissions.

Uh no.
The bridge was rolled the 500 meters to it's destination on 1044 wheels.
At the end hydraulic jacks were used to lift it the 6 meters (20 feet) to rest on the designated supports.
As such not unusual but here is was in a densely populated city and on roads that during the transport had to be reinforces with heavy steel plates to protect the underlying pipes and cables.

Very well explained.

There was and is a reason for that 1st amendment...
Luckily at the time there was a majority for it.

Oof!
You are right on a few points and miserably off on most.
Germany's strength has been and are it's good engineers, less their politicians.
Engineers have a habit of straight reasoning which might end in black and white thinking.
I am very familiar with Germany and find many of these black and white 'solutions' utterly stupid, like when in traffic and giving the stinky to another driver can and sometimes will be prosecuted as defamation.
In other words, although they understand free speech some consider it dangerous.