At least in Germany, the communal tax related to the house (Grundsteuer) is payed indirectly from the tenants via the landlord.

Essentially, almost nobody ever used it, not even all offices and authorities.

I think every government should be providing email service the same way they provide physical mail service. With all the rights currently given to physical mail.

We’ve tried that in Germany. The De-Mail was already dead when it was born.

Indeed, the regulation authority, e.g. the Bundesnetzagentur in Germany, will knock on your door and inspect your radio and wifi devices. That way, some years ago they’ve found a malefunctioning radio alarm clock in my area.

Some parts of the spectrum in between 2.4 and 5 GHz are used by the mobile communication standards LTE and 5G (also higher frequencies). GSM, DVB-T, and FM radio operate at lower frequencies.

In case you’d like to see more:
Tagesschau – Düsseldorfer Rosenmontag 2025: Jacques Tillys Mottowagen

They already are:

https://bsky.app/profile/rustfoundation.org

When Firefox announced they were on Bluesky, the comments here were the opposite: Why another corpo walled garden and not the real Fediverse?

Why are you taking zinc? I was under the impression that intaking zinc is a terrible idea and should be avoided at all cost.

Zinc is necessary for our body to make use of vitamine C. That’s why both are often combined in tablets.

I’ve always heard this in a metallurgy context: that you should be careful heating up brass/welding galvanized steel etc because the zinc will turn into a fairly toxic gas.

The point is that fumes, zinc oxide nano particles, which are produced when welding brass or zinc coated metals are inhaled causing lung damage and zinc fever.

https://arbeitsschutz-schweissen.de/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_fume_fever

We already have nuclear participation with the US. In case NATO decides for mutual nuclear defense, the US nuclear bombs stored in Germany exclusively for German use would be attached to airplanes of the German Air Force to be deployed onto their targets.