Doomscrolling catsalad feed is actually helping. Nature is healing.

Today id need a lil empathy if you have some spare. Board meeting at 5pm:

Us (secies): "See, this is the risk and thats the method we are using. You can mitigate the risk by doing abc or accept it, but then you'd be liable personally for any damage. We can't distance ourselves from this risk, just by outsourcing it. No matter what."

CEO (half-joking): "If you tell me things like that, I'd rather distance myself from you guys."

Dunno why but today I couldn't handle that shit. Didnt say anything but now I can't sleep. Is this what being an "expert" (tm) feels like?

#infosec #InternetOfShite #CEOoftheFuture

If you’re not living in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), you might not fully grasp our political culture—or why these elections are so alarming. Let me explain:

The AfD (a far-right to extremist party with some outright neo-Nazis in their ranks) received only around 20% of the votes, instead of the 30% many of us feared. Good news, right? Well, not really…

Friedrich Merz, the CDU/CSU candidate—widely regarded as a conservative capitalist with a slight rightward tilt— just a few weeks ago, has broken the long-standing consensus not to collaborate with the AfD.

This is the same Friedrich Merz from the same party that once stood for pragmatism and long-term stability (remember Angela Merkel?). Yet, his victory speech sounded almost indistinguishable from the emotionally-charged, AfD’s anti-left-rhetoric.

Both the decision to break a decades-old taboo by opening the door to working with extremists and the shift toward emotionally charged, populist rhetoric mark a profound change in Germany’s political landscape.

So, while the AfD may have "only" secured 20%, the real story is that the conservative mainstream just took a massive step to the right. The political spectrum is shifting—which only means extremists will have to become even more extreme to differentiate themselves.

No, Europe is not fine.
We are not fine.

Thank you for reading.

EDIT: It was in fact not his victory-speech, but one he made a few days ago, pre elaction.

EDIT#2: The collaboration mentioned was about immigration policies. Didn't mean to imply coalition-talks.

#Germany #GermanyElection #AfD #Merz