There’s the Ubisoft store too.

Not that I would ever use it. But it is European.

Audio seems to also be part of TP Vision.

https://www.tpvision.com/about-us

blablabla Philips TV and Audio brands.

Ah sorry, a couple errors on my part.

“Venture capitalist” was supposed to be “private equity”.

“Consumer electronics” is apparently only referring to the audiovisual (TV, speakers etc) line of Philips. That was sold to the Chinese but not private equity firm TPV Technology.

Philips Domestic Appliances which contains e.g. vacuums, blenders, and coffee machines was sold to the Chinese private equity firm Hillhouse Capital Group.

And the lightbulbs (Philips Hue etc.) were spun off into the still Dutch Signify.

Still part of Philips seem to be products in the categories:

• Body care and shaving
• Baby care
• Apparently car headlights?
• Healthcare

Philips consumer electronics¹ (as a brand only) was acquired by Chinese venture capitalist² firm.

EDITS:

¹ actually Philips Domestic Appliances (but the consumer electronics division was also sold to a Chinese company)

² private equity

Maybe it’s 5 Muscovites worth of Russians.

I wonder what the exchange rate is.

I mean, it’s certainly not officially an infrastructure canary but if I lived in a Dutch region dependent on dams and pumps working, I’d be quite concerned if this bridge were to flood.

It shouldn’t take too much effort to keep the bridge in working condition (I assume - it wouldn’t have been built if it was prohibitively expensive to maintain) so if it does get flooded there is something going very wrong.

I mean nearly the entire Netherlands is dependent on dams and pumps working. If this bridge were ever to overflow I would not be confident in the rest of the country staying above water for long. The bridge is like an infrastructure canary.

In Germany it’s Jesus-Did-Something-Again-Day (at least here in the South. The North has significantly fewer public holidays because they aren’t aware of all those amazing, holiday-worthy things Jesus did around the year).

To be more precise, it’s Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ - or in German, Christ’s Heaven Trip (Christi Himmelfahrt).

There are none of them as good as Proton.

For example, AirVPN hasn’t had any security audits and doesn’t seem too interested in them either due to monetary concerns. That’s a deal breaker for me.

The Linke is an Eastern German party.

After reunification, the Eastern German ruling party SED evolved into PDS. In 2005, PDS and the left-wing of the SPD formed Die Linke.

Because of this, Die Linke is more popular in the East. They are seen as anti-establishment and have regularly brought attention to issues Eastern Germany faced, so they are more popular there.

Vice versa, they aren’t nearly as established in the West as the other parties.

381² k²m²

Right, über is a word. “uber” is very much not. The points aren’t decoration or a pronunciation guide, they signify a different letter.

It’s like saying that Spanish people call their country Espana.

The reason the Wii U failed wasn’t because of its name. Sure, it didn’t help the slightest but Nintendo’s console iterations have struggled in the past because they hardly bring anything new. The Wii U brought literally just a gamepad (and stronger hardware, though marketing focused on the gamepad). Why pay so much for an incremental upgrade? The same fate nearly occured to the 3DS:

The Nintendo 3DS was released in Japan on February 26, 2011, and worldwide beginning the next month.[10][11] Less than six months after launch, Nintendo announced a significant price reduction from US$249.99 to US$169.99 amid disappointing launch sales.

After all, why pay money just for a 3D effect? Without continued support and selling at a loss, the 3DS would have bombed.

By the way, the Xbox One - despite its similarly stupid name - never faced the same issues as the Wii U because people actually wanted it.

Why isn’t Russia in its entirety marked as blue though?