This is one of the reason why Western governments do invest in foreign aid.

It's not just charity (though that's certainly an element), but the more stable and prosperous developing nations are the less likely they're going to have to deal with a refugee crisis.

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.

I think there's some nuance needed there.

Pelosi's trading is legal, it's highly problematic from an ethics perspective, but it's completely legal and somewhat common for legislators to do. So she can be criticized for using an unfair advantage, but it's not unprecedented nor a major sin.

Trump's grifts on the other hand do violate laws and precedent, those laws just aren't enforced.

For an extra $100k you get a pardon!

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.

I just saw on TV how that fire in France is moving.
There was a fair sized tree just at the edge of the fire and once it reached it it took only seconds for the whole tree to go up in flames.
Yeah right, manage the forests by cleaning the ground.
On the other hand, when you thin the forest so trees are several hundred feet apart and you lay cement between them your system might work.
But then don't call it a forest.

If you'd be up to date you would know various studies have pointed out this cleaning of a forest does not work.
Additionally, just imagine doing this on millions of acres of wilderness.

So true, but don't tell his supporters :)