I had it worse. I needed to book a hotel for a business trip, and they offered me two prices: Either take them cheaper, but you cannot cancel or get a refund, or you can spend a bit more, and cancel it up to one day before arrival for a "cancellation fee", which amount was not disclosed at that moment.

I booked the latter one, and in the booking confirmation it said that the cancellation fee is exactly the same as the cost for the room!

Oh, they can't stand the truth, too?

Das Arbeitsverhältnis sei beendet worden, um „potenzielle Interessenskonflikte“ zu vermeiden.

Auf Deutsch: Ups, wir sind aufgefallen!

Der Eintrag im Lobbyregister wurde dementsprechend gelöscht.

Auf Deutsch: Jetzt machen wir weiter wie bisher, aber ohne als "Lobbyist" markiert zu sein.

Und wenn Frau Bossmann nach der nächsten Wahl wieder Arbeitslos ist, ist ihr Stuhl bei Delivery Hero immer noch frei, und ein netter Bonus wird sie für die Zeit dazwischen schon für ihre nun ungelabelte Lobbyarbeit gut entschädigen!

You misunderstood him. With "Whales" he did not mean Cetaceae, he meant fat donors.

Well, a lot of the Leavers wanted to bathe in a perceived Victorian Empires' Greatness. At least in that aspect they have reaches Victorian levels...

Well, lets call it an armed robbery, then.

I'd pick Apollo, the most sciency guy of the bunch.

Isn't it already? Has it provided any sort of protection? Many things in this world are illegal, and nobody cares.

Didn't Trump paint Cohen as a big liar not long ago?

The whole Trump situation, his "press conferences", his rants, his social media blurps - It reminds me more and more of the scene in the movie "Downfall", when Adolf got messages he didn't want to hear...

Schaumzucker (German), literally "foam sugar"

In a restaurant in Brussels. At the next table, two people discussed an upcoming minister-level EU meeting. One person was in charge (or at least had influence on) the meeting agenda, and was urged by the other person to drop a particular item off that list. They argued about possible excuses for not having this item on the meetings agenda, until the bureaucrat agreed, and the lobbyist handed him an envelope.

“This incident demonstrates the evolving challenges of cybersecurity in the face of sophisticated attacks. We continue to work directly with government agencies on this issue, and maintain our commitment to continue sharing information at Microsoft Threat Intelligence blog."

Translation: Fixing bugs cost way to much more money than just leaving them in, so in order to save the profits, we just wait them out. If the shit hits the fan, we can still start looking into the issue and maybe get some PR coverage to distract the public.

But we still happily support government agencies to exploit the barndoor-sized holes in our software for whatever nefarious reasons they have because they pay us for that.