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Donald Trump announced at the Republican Party convention in Dallas that he would promise his voters $5,000 per person in the event of a victory in the midterms in November, which is considered unrealistic given the enormous debt burden and financial challenges facing the USA. (translated)

“When “Reasonable Doubt” Becomes Unreasonable There is a fundamental problem with the way “reasonable doubt” can be applied: it can turn the absence of certainty into a weapon against the evidence. We will never possess the complete picture of a past event. No courtroom has a time machine. Evidence is necessarily incomplete, witnesses are imperfect, and some facts will remain unknown. That is precisely why the answer cannot be to give hypothetical possibilities the same weight as documented facts. “What if?” is not evidence. You can invent an alternative explanation for almost anything. But if every conceivable alternative is allowed to undermine a conclusion supported by substantial evidence, then the evidentiary process becomes an exercise in imagination rather than reason. This is where Occam’s Razor matters. Occam’s Razor does not claim that the simplest explanation is automatically true. It says that we should not multiply assumptions unnecessarily. If one explanation accounts for the evidence and another requires a chain of unsupported assumptions, the latter should not suddenly acquire equal status merely because it cannot be logically ruled out. The same principle should apply to reasonable doubt. The relevant question should not be: “Can I imagine another possibility?” It should be: “What evidence makes that possibility reasonable?” Otherwise, we commit a basic logical error: allowing the merely possible to defeat the demonstrable. A person should never be convicted because guilt is merely possible. But neither should a coherent, overwhelmingly supported evidentiary picture be dismissed because absolute certainty is impossible. The law cannot establish metaphysical truth. It can only evaluate evidence. And when evidence is incomplete, the rational response is not to pretend every imaginable scenario deserves equal weight. We should follow the evidence, prefer explanations that require fewer unsupported assumptions, and demand evidence for doubt just as we demand evidence for belief. Otherwise, “reasonable doubt” risks becoming nothing more than a veto granted to imagination over evidence” - ChatGPT

Manchmal wache ich mitten in der Nacht unruhig und verwirrt von einem furchtbaren Alptraum auf, in dem all die Politikerdarsteller, Staatskünstler, Medienanschaffenden und B-Prominente, die versprachen, bei einer AfD-Regierung das Land zu verlassen, da geblieben sind. 😣 😫 #Alptraum #Politik #Gesellschaft

Annalena Baerbock has initiated reforms during her one-year term as President of the UN General Assembly to improve the bureaucratic structures of the United Nations and to demand greater transparency in the selection process of the Secretary-General, but faced resistance from the USA and Russia. (translated)

Romania voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolution promoting a more accurate representation of the world on maps. Good maps shape how we see the world. Changing the map changes how we perceive and understand the world. Correcting historical distortions in how we #Romania #Maps #UNResolution #RO

Can we finally stop pretending nuclear is "unreliable" because of droughts and heatwaves? New study: across 500+ reactor-years in Europe, heat & drought reduced output by just 0.6% (max 1.3% in any country). That's peanuts. Solar and wind are FAR more weather-dependent and thus https://t.co/PaFoyj3rqb #NuclearEnergy #CleanEnergy #Renewables #EU