Europe, yes. Britain, doubtful.

Yes. It installed candycrap automatically and had several other such apps in the start menu.

I want to disagree on German. It isn’t verbose. We’ve got several words where there isn’t an equivalent in pretty much any other languages. Including Schadenfreude und Torschlusspanik (the feeling that you are getting older l, can’t find a partner and will die alone).

The same EU legal text has in German 22.118 words Vs English 24.698.

The making me cry part, that’s fair. Overcomplicated, could be worse.

Garbage collection was at some point part of the spec but was removed in 23.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/gc/declare_reachable

There are companies selling a relabeled GCC with the O flags behind the license check.

The secret lies in patents and Monopoly.

Not an antenna, but a parabol dish focusing the waves on a central point.