If you have a good path and a bad path that may or may not converge sometime later on your journey, you still should walk the good path.

You misunderstand this. Yes, there have been moves by some in the EU to reduce privacy, but they face resistance and have actually been repelled often. The ChatControl debacle you mention is one such instance. And on the other hand, sometimes there is actual progress, like with GDPR.

But more importantly, at least there are privacy laws in the EU that do something. In the US, there are virtually none, so of course you won't hear about their erosion.

I trust the EU ten times more than the US in this regard.

This account is sockpuppeting. They are not participating on this site in good faith.

Yea, reading through the page, these two accounts have been sounding exactly the same. I suppose it is in line with the childish behavior of AT.

You cannot seriously argue that performing a DDOS on a website, and causing other people to participate in it unwittingly, is a-ok.

Where did I ever argue that?

It's obviously not "a-ok". It's just "meh", a silly childish tantrum.

And with the money (or else: the authority) to get the data from private businesses. So they get the full data without any restrictions that they themselves would face.

You're thinking in terms of independent errors. I would think that this assumption is often not the case, so 3 errors right next to each other are comparatively likely to happen (far more than 3 individual errors). This would explain such 'strange' occurrences about ECC memory.

A product can be both, according to the current US administration. DHL is not necessarily at fault here.

You can eat aluminum? I can't myself. Because it can doesn't mean it should...

>A product can be both

LOL... A tent is a single product. What about a car? Do you expect to pay separately for the aluminum in the motor and gearbox, as well as for the entire car?

If you'd kept reading the sentence, you wouldn't be asking the questions you're asking.

> A product can be both, according to the current US administration

The person you're responding to isn't trying to convince you that a tent is two things, they're telling you that the US government wants you to believe a tent is two things.

The free choice of train does take this into account. You just need a (single!) ticket that, overall, will expectedly suffer from a delay long enough.

Nitpick: Unless it changed, you cannot upgrade from regional to interregional vehicles. You can upgrade from IC to ICE, though, and in general, the free choice of vehicle on your route is very useful.