You don’t want to sacrifice the ownership interests of your trademark for the sake of some short lived added public exposure of that trademark done by a 3rd party without license to do so. It means the trademark owner loses control over the way the mark is used and how it’s used. It also erodes the overall defensibility of the trademark in subsequent infringements by unlicensed parties establishing a precedent for permissive use by failure to defend your trademark.

Because it’s a dilution of their trademark. In trademark law, the law is very clear and states that the owner of a trademark has the legal duty to defend their trademark vigorously. To fail to do so will be interpreted as giving permission. And doing so weakens the ownership rights of the owner. Permissive use without license causes detriment to the trademark owner in subsequent infringement cases. So unless you fight hard on the first case, you may be much more vulnerable to other parties taking your trademark and using it for their own commercial purposes with a stronger defense against the original owner.

In the USA, German EV are quite rare. Even hybrids.

The exchange rate thing is a good point!

I have some doubts about the German economy making rapid growth which would be required for the ETF to show substantial growth.

The German economy relies on exports - and much of that is in cars. And German cars are behind on the EV market. They’ll need to play catch up which they probably could do but there are some dependencies in production that could bottleneck them - supply chain issues relating to microchip availability is one since Germany doesn’t make their own and rely (as the US and Japan do) on imported chips mainly from Taiwan and China.

The other is that Germany’s population is an aging one so there are questions about a contraction of its productivity as the labor supply shrinks accordingly. They are not structured to be as elastic in absorbing foreign labor as the US. We’re very good at attracting skilled and educated immigrants. Germany is more or less mired by refugees along with much of the EU. This doesn’t translate into boosting their high end labor force.

Germany and Japan have a lot in common and Japan hasn’t been a strong growth market. They are great at what they’re doing but it isn’t a growth nation.

Poorer countries have a bigger potential for big jumps in GDP. Take Vietnam for instance. They have a ways to go but are in a good position for growth and they have a growing industrial and manufacturing base. I’d put my investment into that etf before Germany’s.

Another is the UK. They are in terrible shape because they made boneheaded political decisions. They broke their own legs by seceding from the EU and are struggling to reestablish access to global markets that their EU status used to give them. However, if they manage to pull their political system straightened out, their economy should improve - only because of how utterly fucked they are now. So as a first world country, they actually offer decent growth potential from the fact they’re at a bottom and still stumbling around now.

How’s a werewolf gonna kill a being that can fly and shoot a silver bullet

He’s definitely locked up the werewolf votes.

Now that you put it that way, this Hershel Walker might really be onto something here.

I know there’s gold involved but I don’t think you can spend it

Can a leprechaun kill a gnome?

I’m pretty sure a vampire can kill a werewolf

Yes a pool swimmer can easily be caught off guard in a dynamic environment like the ocean, even close to shore. Currents and waves make swimming a different experience in the ocean. And as you said, choking on an unexpected splash of salty water into your mouth and possibly into your windpipe can be a sudden jarring moment that puts you into a distressed state of mind almost immediately. An untrained ocean swimmer can be quickly overwhelmed even if they know how to swim in pool conditions.

The blind lifeguards

One big panic inducing aspect of drowning in an ocean is the wave action - even small ones - splashing water into the victim’s open mouth. They are unable to time the waves and simply aspirate as much air as possible but a small splash of sea water can make them gag and gasp and exacerbate the panic.

And people don’t wave their hands in a broad movement. They’re busy panicking and treading water to keep their face above water and failing at it. They pose a low profile visually with little discernible obvious motion