Posted by pmags 6 days ago
Accretive policy is strong there and in their Anglo-Saxon descendants.
Seems to be a truth: inventiveness moving to moribund navel-gazing.
That's the curse in Europe. Every European country has it's own ministry of digital innovation who's role is the grift of allocating taxpayer money to the right politically connected pockets while pretending to do innovation. Case in point, German fiber optic infrastructure is still lightyears behind Romania despite much higher costs. Means, somebody in Germany is making good money form that, even if there's nothing to show for.
Meanwhile the actuality innovative companies in Europe get real VC money from the US, then get incorporated in the US and become American companies, then EU has the audacity to complain about lacking tech sovereignty.
Apartment I stayed in while in Germany had annual Kabelgebühr of 100 EUR. It was not related with the ISP internet subscription of course. Any negotiations or questions were responded with "IT'S KABELGEBÜHR YOU HAVE TO PAY IT".
Funny that outsiders like US and Russia and probably others behave as it is one country :) It is kind of some "body" but not a well functioning one: fusion ? Unser! Spy satelites ? Notre!
So I guess Germany is one of those countries which reorganize their government on a brainstorming board by just throwing up concepts. And then it takes years for all the bureaucracy to move around and get back to work.
> Germany needs a new alignment of defense policy and research policy, but “we do not yet know how to do this,”
I learned in middle school that you were once really good at it. There is also a consensus it got quickly out of control and destroyed Europe.
All of this sound more like an Onion or Babylon Bee piece...
This will never happen. At some point they will notice that fusion is something with "nuclear" and "atoms" and they will immediately jump to "scary", "dangerous" and "verboten".
All gone now.
but also god forbid you arrive to Germany with <C1 German. ABH office is waiting with guns fully loaded