even if Germany has made some dumb decisions in the last decade wrt to shutting nukes

That decision was taken after the tsunami wrecked Fukushima and that happened in March 2011, something which makes for a very long "decade". I never saw the immediate point, the chances of an earthquake triggering a tsunami which takes out a nuclear power station are not that high in Germany.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Are you saying there was a smoking gun when it came to Huawei? All I ever saw was politicians claiming they could be doing something bad but never any form of proof, or even what they were supposed to be doing which was bad. This was during Donald's first Administration and it was luminaries like Tom Cotton jumping onto the bandwagon but never actually making substantative claims.

Oh comeon, how are employers supposed to make a honest profit if they can't screw the help?

It's a digital bank and somewhere deep in Slashdot's bowels, the two are linked.

I'm not familiar with the support the NYT gave the Nazis, but there's always the Daily Mail.

Given the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, I usually assume incompetence.
Someone put that far more eloquently several years ago, but I forgot their words.

Good thing they don't do anything complicated up there like scheduling trains. Or airplanes.

Good job that the computers they use when scheduling trains or aircraft are using some form of Unix (or IBM big iron).

Youtube is full of 10's of thousands of videos of very confidently wrong cops

Some of which are marked as AI generated, and some which are not marked as such. I've seen some very plausible YouTube videos which then failed simple fact checking.
In this case though, a policeman simply decided that Ms. Crump's car was "the one" and ignored evidence to the contrary, maybe demoting him would be sufficient punishment. I do agree with King_TJ in the comment above though, there's a good chance that the vehicle owner is milking this incident in order to get that vehicle replaced (and serves the police right for supplying her with possible cause).

"They have an elaborate arsenal in place of high-tech surveillance equipment that really seems overpowered for what their day-to-day needs are, and also incredibly expensive."

Someone had to sign off on this, presumably someone accountable. Who? As far as the police are concerned it's "boys and their toys" but they are not the ones footing the bill (unless they use this to stalk their ex-wives, but that's a different matter).

General Franco was Spain's dictator between the late 1930s and the mid 1970s which was when he died. He came out as the victor in the Spanish Civil War with substantial assistance from Adolf Hitler, he was an admirer of Adolf Hitler, not least because of that help (not that Hitler felt the same way about Franco *). It was for this reason that Franco aligned his Timezone with Germany's, something which would be equivalent to permanent DST except that Germany also has DST so Spain now has "Double DST" for 7 months a year.
The Spanish have adapted and overcome, they get up late and go to bed even later.

* During the war, Franco wanted Hitler to help Spain take Gibraltar. No.
  Hitler wanted Spain to join the war rather than remain neutral. No.
  Hitler really disliked Franco's reedy voice.

The said proposal, though yet to be passed as it must survive further parliamentary scrutiny,

Let's hope this lunacy ends there. I occasionally travel to or through France and I don't leave my phone at home.

per gigabyte sent to French users in the country

I don't know about French users, but most of the data I receive is solicited - I trigger the process and have some control over the data quantities. This tax only makes sense if it is on the end users. Does Mozilla have to pay if I update my Firefox or Thunderbird? Does Microsoft have to pay if I update my (non-existent) Windows?
If it was April 1 I'd understand this, Stoopid in concept.

Of course I'm often sitting in some form of public transport and the person next to me is looking at a video on his phone, but why should that be a problem?

That's because creating (or recycling) Agencies is "business as usual" for the federal government, as is sending troops abroad. The "troops abroad" part is supposed to be time-limited but we know how that went.
I know there were some howls of disgust when the gummint helped GM out - presumably from the GOP - but I thought those loans had been repaid. Are there precedents for the gummint buying into companies like that?