geissi

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[–] geissi@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You know that you can own apartments or rent houses?

[–] geissi@feddit.org 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Weird, car makers currently have problems getting all their cars sold despite combustion engines being available.
Seems like the demand just isn't there.

“a catastrophic mistake” if the automotive market shrank further as a result of forcing the industry to sell only EVs

Sounds odd. Will there suddenly be less demand for cars if they don't burn fossil fuels? Will this cause people who commute several hours to work to suddenly switch to bikes, or to move closer to work?
Surely the demand for cars is more influenced by the housing market and public transportation infrastructure than by what motor the car uses.

[–] geissi@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

if it has seeds (in nature) then it was a fruit, otherwise it was a vegetable

Many vegetables have seeds.
Pumpkins are already in the example, but think peppers, legumes

[–] geissi@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

early retirement

Not with this government. When the current pensioners are gone they'll pull up the ladder behind them.
Retirement age has already been raised to 67 and now they're discussing 70 or 73.

[–] geissi@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

The official translation is

Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.

This article is basically the foundation of the entire German constitution but that has never stopped the CxU.

[–] geissi@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

what is the last one?

Wiener Klassik

[–] geissi@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

The point is that a digital Euro is less anonymous than the physical Euro.

Again, anonymous payments are technically possible and the ECB at least claims that it wants to implement them:

An offline digital euro: cash-like privacy levels

The details of your offline digital euro payments would only be known to you and the recipient. This offline functionality would combine the convenience of digital payments with cash-like privacy levels without the need for an internet connection.

There no final technical specifications yet, so claiming that it will not be implemented is pure speculation at this point.

Also, implementing the digital Euro does not mean abolishing the physical Euro.
You can still pay with cash.
Claims that the Eu wants to take away out cash are also not backed up by any evidence.

[–] geissi@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Afaik there is an idea that would allow anonymous person-to-person offline payments.
Whether that will actually get implemented is anyone's guess. The plans aren't specific enough yet to really know any of it will get implemented.

But bank transfers, credit cards or paypal are not anonymous either so it's not like the digital euro would be worse than the status quo.

[–] geissi@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

The article keeps mentioning past pushes to abolish unanimity.

But I think It's worth mentioning that the treaty of Lisbon already changed voting rules in many fields from unanimity to qualified majority in 2014:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_the_European_Union#Policy_areas

It's not like there has never been any progress in that direction.

[–] geissi@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Germany, as per the article is one of the countries that wants more qualified majority decisions

Other countries, such as Germany and France, are pushing for qualified majority voting in the areas of foreign affairs and security.

Also, what debt are you talking about?
Individual national budgets are not subject to EU vetos. And the Maastricht criteria that are supposed to regulate national debt ratios are three decades old by now.

[–] geissi@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Ok, this article has several claims that I find questionable but don't know enough to pipe in on but

Money in a bank account does not sit idle waiting for the client. Most of it is lent out in the form of mortgages and other loans, with only a small fraction held in reserve.

This is blatantly untrue.
When banks give out loans, not a single cent is taken out of anyone's bank account.

The money comes from the central bank. When a loan is granted the person receiving the loan gets money in their account that didn't exist before and an obligation to pay back the bank.
The bank in turn has a receivable on one side of their balance sheet and an obligation to pay back the central bank on the other side.

This is how money creation works.

[–] geissi@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The digital Euro is an alternative to other digital payment methods, nobody but conspiracy theorists is talking about abolishing physical cash.

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