Fair, markdown, git and pandoc could work but, it might be too big of a jump for someone used to Word

Is Word mandatory or is Word compatible good enough ?

Because LibreOffice is pretty good, you could even push it further with pandoc, inputting markdown and outputting word documents.

Otherwise, as others suggested, Wine with an older Office version should do the trick

Sorry we got caught, we’ll just profit off it and make it less obvious next time

That’s another, even more complex, debate indeed.

But a sizable chunk of the internet and government infrastructure in Europe relies heavily on American technology.

All the AWS, Microsoft, Google services are a massive security threat, especially because we know that they’ll bend to the whims of the orange buffoon if required. They can literally paralyse Europe at the push of a button.

Fucking do it, we need to understand how reliant we are on them and how dire the situation actually is. People like the FSF, the EFF and so on have warned us about this for decades at this point.

German cars too, why would your car need to gather data on you in the first place

I should have said “Currently, some of the countries” indeed. I’ll correct it.

The biggest difference between, let’s say Bangladesh and Germany is that in Bangladesh, most of the damage happens to people, in richer countries the damages are heavily material…

Currently, some of the countries most directly affected by climate change are in Europe, like Spain, Switzerland, Germany and France.

Breaking up the Google/Android/Chrome monopoly would be a good start

It’s always the same, big shocking announcement, public outcry, pushing forward with a less shocking version, public acceptance, and then rolling out the rest of the initial plan. Why do we keep falling for it?

Say what you want about tiktok but damn if it isn’t extremely effective at sending information out of reach from governments, I don’t know what it is. You can see they fear it hard.