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the second-highest marginal tax rate in the EU at 55.4%.

Tax on what, labor income?
Because that is not what the rich live off. On the contrary it makes building wealth harder for the working class.

Also how do you arrive at 55.4%?
All I could find was a marginal income tax rate of up to 45% + an additional 3-4% for incomes over 250k.
https://fr.icalculator.com/income-tax-rates/2025.html
Are you adding social security as well?

I meant the literal definition of Muslim, not just Islam.

And what is that supposed to be?
The English definition is a follower of Islam 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

If you take the translation from Arabic "someone in submission to the will and law of God” then I don't see how that would not apply to religious Jews as well.

So it would really help your argument if you could provide a source that shows any significant meaning of Muslim outside the context of Islam.

Depends on the game.
100 hours in WOW is nothing, 100 hours in Firewatch is mental

One nice, warm, sunny summer afternoon I fell asleep reading The Trial by Kafka...
Three times. On the same page.

Tat used to be not so uncommon under capitalism as well.
The big, old fashioned manufacturing companies often had livelong employees.

I'd say inheritable professions are more pre industrial revolution than Soviet.

That's not a superpower, that's just witchcraft

OP is including writing "wash me" in the dust on the rear window in "vandalism".

Did they say so in a comment?
I don't see it in the OP post.

Anyway, I don't think of selective cleaning when I hear vandalism.
And I agree with the previous comment, that destroying property is not the moral thing to do.

You can be happy about a decision while still understanding the business rational behind it.

They're not sold as 'hot dogs' but I'm pretty sure there isn't a place in Germany where plain old bratwurst in a plain old bun isn't a thing.

The standard hotdog you can find in Germany consists of a bun and sausage with ketchup, mustard, crispy onions, pickles and sometimes cole slaw.

Where would that be the "standard"?
The most common sausage in a bun combination is just sausage, bun, ketchup/mustard.
Unless you're specifically talking about restaurants that have an item called "Hot Dog" on their menu, which in turn is rather rare.

I'm not entirely sure, what you're advocating for.

There are Turkish supermarkets, restaurants, döner stalls, and barbers all over the place.

I also know a Turkish electrician, but I'll go to him when I need an electrician, not when I need a Turk.

Weirdly enough, many if not most kings in history were not absolute monarchs and had to follow some rules and expectations or risk losing their power (and possibly life).

While it's a commendable attitude for one person, trying to solve systematic issues by appealing to individuals does not work.
That is exactly what governments and legislature are for.

I think what they meant was that all wars need to be supported by the economy.
It's not enough to have soldiers, you also have to supply and feed them.

A youth justice system is for dealing with kids and teens who shoplift, or break noise ordinances, or run away from home, or abuse illicit substances, or any number of “boundary exploring” behaviors.

A youth justice system is not the appropriate venue for dealing with “kids” so lacking in moral fiber as to deliberately and maliciously kill another person.

If you're distinguishing by the type of offense instead of by age, you don't have a youth justice system, you have a minor offense justice system.
Distinguishing by the severity of the offense is already part of the justice system.
Youth justice systems explicitly consider the age and maturity of the offender, not just what they did.
Also I'm not sure why a 15-year-old is a kid in one of your examples and a "kid" in the other.

The tolerance we have for “youthful indiscretion” does not and should not extend to this degree of violence. A youth justice system is not an appropriate venue for those determined to be fundamentally irredeemable.

This is not about tolerating behavior, it's about reforming people to become members of society instead of lifelong burdens for the justice system.
Despite the severity of his action, brandishing kids as "irredeemable" not only throws away their entire future but also burdens everyone else with keeping them contained forever.
That profits nobody.

That is interesting to know but I feel that Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is a bit long and the distinction is not really that meaningful.

Either the research is good or it isn't.
People keep attacking the price simply because it was not sponsored by Nobel himself as if only that direct connection to him transferred some sense of divine truthfulness to the other Nobel prizes that this one lacks.

They prefer EVs over public transport.

Meh, not everyone speaks Arabic and there are probably people who don't know that the Sahara is a desert.

Minor redundancies are a small price to share information with a wider audience.

And this is when the topic was published by a newspaper.
If memory serves, the fist scientific publications were from the 1880s.