It’s fast and McDonalds is one of the only places in my city that is open 24/7

I don’t go there regularly anymore after I stopped working as a service technician who had to travel a lot.

I guess you probably also can’t imagine going somewhere and not driving there with your car.

I wouldn’t mind living in a city with affordable good apartments with good transit connections, in fact I moved to a small city from the surrounding countryside because I couldn’t stand driving to the city all the time.

Now I can and do bike almost everywhere because the distances are all small and the bike paths are of acceptable quality.

Yeah, the number of mexicans or mexican restaurants in Europe is very low, so each one doesn’t have much competition to incentivise improving.

Yeah, we Europeans have to figure out how to work together better, because that’s the only chance we have of being independent from countries like Russia, China (or the US).

I’ve not met anyone in the EU that believes this and I live in the EU.

We are all aware that each country is different, many of us have been in other EU countries.

And other regulations are written by the lobbyists of big companies.

Here in Germany we have so many regulations that don’t help anyone, except big companies who can circumvent or deal with them.

I don’t want to reduce environmental or worker protection, but we need to simplify a lot of regulations so that the time to do the paperwork is reduced, one of the solutions should be good digitalisation.

Except that a lot of medical research is funded by governments.

It is true that pharma companies couldn’t make as much profit if the US had a working healthcare system, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t exist.

Yeah, Russia has already taken a lot of the soldiers from the European borders and sent them to Ukraine.

If Putin really was so stupid to attack the EU, the fight would be over quickly, and not because the EU lost.

And now Sweden and Finland are also in NATO.

I also forgot to mention the newest nuclear reactor that was built in France.

They needed 17 years to build it, 12 years over their initial estimate.

And the final costs (13.2 billion) were four times as much as was initially estimated.

Just imagine how much renewable power generation could have been built with that amount of money and time.

Almost all of the nuclear power stations were already at the end of their lifetime anyway.

And it’s much cheaper and faster to build renewable energy than nuclear, so that’s what we are doing.

If you think nuclear is so great and cheap, look at france, who had to bail out the EDF (company operating all nuclear plants) because it was bankrupt. When the rivers are empty in the summer they have to shut down the plants. And a few years ago they would have had to shut down portions of the country if they hadn’t got electricity from other countries because a lot of their reactors were found to have cracks in their vessels.

Shure, we Germans as a whole are still using too much fossil fuels. But the state I live in (Schleswig-Holstein) already produces more renewable electricity than it consumes each year and I also have a lot of solar on my roof and batteries in my basement.

TLDR: Nuclear is a waste of money when renewables are so much cheaper.

German McDonald’s doesn’t sell beer, but the McDonalds in Spain or Portugal do (can’t remember which one it was).

But yeah, when I (as a German) went to a US McDonalds it was by far the worst one I’ve ever seen.