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IRC still exists, the closest FOSS IRC client to mIRC is KVIrc.

The closest thing to a modernized IRC is Matrix.

Der, den du meinst, hat aber bei uns in Österreich nie davor eine politische Karriere begonnen gehabt.

Tram-trains are a thing that exists in various places in the world, so it isn’t impossible.

But heavy rail usually has higher platforms, bigger trains, wider wheels than light rail. So there are some challenges, such as:

• Even tram tracks are a tripping hazard e.g. for bicycles; heavy rail tracks an even bigger one, and what you want means you need heavy rail tracks in all roads where the system goes, making them dangerous to cyclists.
• Platform heights might be around five times (or even more) higher on heavy rail than in the streets, so you need a solution to make them compatible, all solutions are either expensive or unusable for wheelchairs.

Andernfalls müssten sich die Deutschen nicht wundern, wenn sich Merz früher oder später ein neues Volk zum Regieren sucht.

Aber bitte ned uns Österreicher

Arbeitest du für die Marketingabteilung der Herstellerfirma oder …?

Germany and Austria are divided into Länder (singular: Land), which literally just means country. (Germany has 16 of them, Austria 9.) This is usually translated as states or provinces in English, but the word in German isn’t Staaten or Provinzen, which is what we call the subdivisions of Australia, Canada, and the US.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands is also divided into 4 countries.

Beim Glas sage ich gerne, das Glas ist weder halb voll noch halb leer, sondern doppelt so groß wie notwendig. :P Aber irgendwie fällt mir gerade keine Formulierung ein, wie man das auf die Pünktlichkeit von Zügen umlegen könnte. ;)

Nothing I wrote is about “denigrating” people wishing for self-determination, or about “supporting the oppressive larger states”. It’s just currently a fact of the world that the independence movements in those places have not yet been successful. They might still be in the future!

Catalonia (the autonomous community or “nation” which Barcelona is the capital of) absolutely does have:

• its own parliament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Catalonia
• its own legal system, in the sense of laws passed by the aforementioned parliament
• its own justice system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_of_Justice_of_Catalonia
• its own education system, nothing special about that, even in Germany each state has its own education system
• I can’t easily find information on taxation, benefits, or housing, but strongly suspects those are regional matters in Catalonia too

Lots of places have subnational entities which they may or may not call something that translates to “country”. Nothing particularly unique about the UK. The only thing that is unique is that in some sports, the UK’s subnational entities have separate teams, you are right about that part.

If everyone who sometimes calls themselves a nation counts, surely Barcelona must too… 😉

“National capital” = capital of an independent sovereign state.

Vatican, not really because it’s surrounded by another national capital.

Vienna and Bratislava are creating an interesting effect too.

That’s why it says “national” capital. The national capital of those places is London.

Me neither. Anyone know what advantages or disadvantages it has compared to Shotcut?

Blöd finde ich den Artikel keineswegs, ich halte das für eine durchaus interessante rechtliche Frage.

The uplifting news is that even someone in the European commission (unexpectedly) prefers the less privacy-invasive version the parliament wants, not the one the council wants.

It seems that you understand what the term “metaverse” was even supposed to mean; care to enlighten the rest of us?

Sind sie das nicht schon? Ich kenne mich mit (besonders deutschem) Steuerrecht nahezu überhaupt nicht aus, aber dachte, Mastodon sei eine deutsche gGmbH und KDE e.V. ein deutscher gemeinnütziger Verein?