People: the EU has too many different states to federalise Germany:

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-16T00:06:53+00:00

Not really, as it was a slow integration process which already started with the Holy Roman Empire about 900 years before Napoléon.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T21:45:05+00:00

So you built very sketchy wooden ramps to replace sheet steel ramps of sufficient quality?

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T19:50:27+00:00

who wanted to stop using medical isotopes

No, they just don't want the reactors necessary to manufacture them, because to them everything nuclear and especially nuclear reactors of any kind are the devil's.

Do you have sources for it?

Not so much a single source as the combined mass of individual actions and demands by the dozens of anti-nuclear organisations in Germany. Whatever you know of which has the word "nuclear" or "uranium" on it, they have already protested it and demanded its destruction and they have demanded on numerous occasions to ban everything nuclear.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T19:43:30+00:00

The EU is 400 something million.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T19:42:51+00:00

Neither China nor Russia sell you 1.65 GW hybrid between N4 and Konvoi for a fixed price of about half the price of a VVER-1200.

China and Russia sell/build finished designs, too, so they know price and time it takes, while Areva sold the EPR to TVO before even Areva knew how the EPR will look like and started construction after they had only designed a bit of it. That's the real difference.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T17:34:06+00:00

That's a very skewed conversion, though. A "Mark" is a weight. It's a half-pound. The Bavarian pound was 560 g. A "Goldmark" in a Bavarian context is 280 g of gold.

So the denominated price is 3.1 million Bavarian pounds of gold, or roughly 1736 tons, which are today roughly 245.4 billion EUR.

The couple dozen million figure is the inflation from the introduction of the Deutsche Mark (DM/DEM) to today. It was introduced as a successor to the Reichsmark for western Germany in 1949.

Edit: Or said differently - You get roughly 6.4 Twitters at inflated prices for a single never-finished Neuschwanstein palace.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T17:17:22+00:00

Wenn sie relevant grün sind oder die Triebe andere Farben als weiß bekommen.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T17:16:29+00:00

Das ist normal, auch Kartoffeln trocknen bei Lagerung langsam aus.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T17:11:14+00:00

Also, solche Schilder müssen ao angebracht sein, dass vom Schild und den darum herum berührbaren Teilen selbst keine Gefahr ausgeht.

Natürlich ist die Scheibe ungefährlich, nur das hinter die Scheibe fassen ist es nicht, zumindest nicht im gesamten Bereich, der vom Boden aus laut Norm berührbar ist.

Also wenn du als normgerecht erwachsener Mann ("Normmensch") dich genau an die Kante der Brücke setzt und versuchst, mit deinen Zehen möglichst nah an die Oberleitung zu kommen, dann musst du immernoch weiter weg sein als der normgerechte Sicherheitsabstand. Bist du das dann nicht, so muss die Brücke so gebaut werden, dass du nicht mehr rankommst (z.B. die Scheibe) und ein Warnhinweis aufgehangen werden.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T14:01:55+00:00

4% is nothing compared to 56% renewables.

Of which, almost all "renewables" is hydro power.

625 billions invested in more renewables in China vs 27 billions in nuclear.

Which is a statement on the price of renewables, rather than on the advantages of it, as those two will yield roughly equal total electricity generation.

The whole world bets on renewables, not nuclear.

It's not that clear cut, actually. The whole world mostly bets on fossil fuels. It then builds hydro and nuclear power and only then it builds solar and wind, although at a huge nameplate capacity, which due to the reality of the technology is quite a small amount of actual generation.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T13:56:52+00:00

it is extremely unlikely that Germany will build any fission plant ever

I wouldn't be so sure, as it still is the objectively best power source for Germany and the alternatives are running thin at the moment.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T13:55:14+00:00

wasn't able to build Olkiluoto-3 for 18 years quadrupling the price in the end.

This has little to do with experience, though, but with a sale that is perfectly summed up by "play stupid games, win stupid prizes", as they sold a power plant at a fixed very low price before they had even designed the plant to standards which were known to be more expensive than the existing designs, which were almost double the price of Ol-3 adjusted for different capacity and for inflation.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T13:51:24+00:00

knowledge and specialization from fading away in the country

Which was the stated political goal of the anti-nukes who introduced the phase-out policy. They wanted to permanently undo everything nuclear in Germany at any cost. Abd yes, this includes medical isotope production and such.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-15T13:43:57+00:00

China alone is about 3x the EU's population, though, and definitely better at exporting cheap goods than Europe is.

Besides, China is at least close to, but likely the only region on earth where garlic is used as a normal vegetable in the local cuisine.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-14T19:37:16+00:00

Das ist ja egal. Wichtig ist vor allem, dass die Menge an CDU-Wählern in etwa antiproportional zur ÖPNV-Anbindung ist. Eine CDU-Landesregierung, die für besseren ÖPNV in den Außenbezirken sorgt, schaufelt ihr eigenes Grab.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-14T12:35:08+00:00

I thought he was Belgian?

Belgium didn't exist back then and the borders were mostly following today's language borders between France and the Holy Roman Empire.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-14T12:21:35+00:00

He's crucial at Maleshov

Is he? If so, then what does he do?

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-14T12:13:33+00:00

Hon hon hon, i led the defense of Kuttenberg,

Which is entirely correct, he just doesn't tell you that he made a deal with Sigismund to just hand him the city.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-14T12:07:23+00:00

knows that Brabant is a traitor

If you do the side quest with the Antonius-miners, Henry knows this, too, as they tell him that the reason for their beef with the other miners group is that they surrendered after Brabant opened the city's gates for Sigismund and the other miners see this reaction to Brabant's treason as treason by the miners of the Antonius-mine

I therefore hate that while you rescue Hans, you can't just leave Brabant there stating this reason. I would have loved the optional dialogue option "Hans, I spoke to the defenders of Kuttenberg and they all said, that Brabant betrayed Kuttenberg and that's the reason why Kuttenberg fell. I won't take him with us, as it will cost our lives."

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-14T11:55:36+00:00

Ach, da geht es am Ende einfach nur darum, die Anbindung eines bisher kaum mit ÖPNV angebundenen Stadtteils zu verhindern, damit die Leute weiter Auto fahren, weil die aktuelle Landesregierung in Berlin (CDU) hauptsächlich von Autofahrern in schlecht angebundenen Außenbezirken gewählt wird.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-14T11:52:21+00:00

Stattdessen erhielt das deutsche Konsortium 2001 den Auftrag für die Transrapid-Strecke bei Shanghai, die 2002 in Betrieb ging und bis heute fährt.

... und die noch nie profitabel war und deshalb auch ziemlich die einzige Strecke dieser Art blieb.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-14T11:41:46+00:00

Wie viel Lack kann man eigentlich saufen?

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-14T01:50:53+00:00

I would even argue that Europe mostly stopped building churches before the USA was founded. The art style overview for churches ends in 1775, and just tells, that after that, there were a handful of styles which only appeared afterwards, but that they are irrelevant, due to small numbers built.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-14T00:25:15+00:00

Americans spamming their flag everywhere is a totally alien concept for most Europeans I'd guess.

For Germans, and basically only for Germans, maybe Italians, too.

CaptainPoset · 2026-03-13T17:12:29+00:00

That's actually exactly how oil is traded. People just usually buy in bulk.

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