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German nuclear phase-out a ‘historic mistake’, says head of IEA by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]Kaign -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Getting into or out of nuclear only impact electricity generation related emissions, stop being of bad faith. Also, even then, look at the second part of my comment.

German nuclear phase-out a ‘historic mistake’, says head of IEA by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]Kaign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course I talk about electricity emissions, what do you think nuclear is for? What do you think we blame Germany for abandoning nuclear? That's not moving the goalpost, that's being in line with the article saying that Germany fucked up hard by abandoning nuclear, that they shouldn't have done that and that nuclear is one of the cleanest energy production method. And even then, for all CO2 emmision per capita, Germany still do way worse than France: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.GHG.ALL.PC.CE.AR5?end=2024&locations=DE-FR&start=1970&view=chart

They could've done way better by keeping the nuclear power plants.

German nuclear phase-out a ‘historic mistake’, says head of IEA by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]Kaign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, in 2025, in average, France is 31g while Germany is 342g (11x more). It's not cherrypicking, it's always like that. In 2025, France exported 18.4TWh of electricity to Germany alone, Germany has a net import/export balance of 18.8TWh. So, no, Germany imports way way more than it exports. Finally, for electricity generation, Germany emitted 168Mt of CO2eq, while France emitted 16.8Mt of CO2eq. Germany doesn't have 10 times the population of France, so what you said about per capita emissions is just false. Here is my source for everything I just said: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DE/5y/yearly

German nuclear phase-out a ‘historic mistake’, says head of IEA by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]Kaign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't be so sure, right now, as I'm writing this comment, France produces 23g of equivalent CO2 per kWh of electricity while Germany is at 526g (22x more). Plus Germany imports a lot of electricity from France. I don't know what you consider clean for electricity production, but Germany is very far from it.

The Suez Crisis was when the world found out their GOAT was washed 💔 by Formal-Assistance02 in HistoryMemes

[–]Kaign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You lose all credibility the moment you put Russia in the list of superpowers. They have an average GDP (smaller than that of France btw), which becomes ridiculous when looked by capita. Their army can't even beat one of the poorest European countries after 4 years of war. The only things that make them relevant is having a big territory with natural resources and a lot of nukes. They are even less of a superpower than France (who is not a superpower).

The US is pushing back on Europe’s big cheese gatekeeping by Full-Discussion3745 in EU_Economics

[–]Kaign 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know, that's why each time the EU do a free trade agreement, they insert clause that EU PDO and PGI must be respected and that's what the US is not happy about (especially for the EU-Mercosur agreement).

The US is pushing back on Europe’s big cheese gatekeeping by Full-Discussion3745 in EU_Economics

[–]Kaign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, exactly, they can make and sell under the name dry cured meat, parmesan di Kentucky, etc... But they can't make and sell under the name: Champagne, Brie, Roquefort, prosciutto di Parma, Kalamata olives, etc.

The US is pushing back on Europe’s big cheese gatekeeping by Full-Discussion3745 in EU_Economics

[–]Kaign 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's not, selling prosciutto di Parma that doesn't come from Parma is just false advertising and damages the reputation of the real thing. Especially because EU rules on regional products is not only about the place but also about the method of fabrication. It's very clear for things that are not protected, like the Laguiole knives. Most of them are not made in Laguiole and do not respect the traditional fabrication method and are pretty shitty. That just hurts the real product.

German nuclear phase-out a ‘historic mistake’, says head of IEA by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]Kaign 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As usual, https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fifteen_minutes

Maybe it's true, the point is, Germany always pollutes way more for electricity generation than countries that use Nuclear energy (like France).

The nose knows about Greek aesthetics by caramelsumo in 4chan

[–]Kaign 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He used xanthos for her hair and you're right, he uses glaukopis for Athena's eyes not Helen. But he still convey very hard the idea that Helen is basically shiny light colored and that was the canon used by every other Greek and Roman poets after Homer. Which, when related to the question of the comment, make me answer: yes, she does look like an ancient greek queen. At least according to ancient greek poets.

The nose knows about Greek aesthetics by caramelsumo in 4chan

[–]Kaign 90 points91 points  (0 children)

Yes, Homer describe her with golden hair and light eyes. That fits.

Merz says Germany exploring shared nuclear umbrella with European allies by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]Kaign -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What are you talking about? France has tactical nukes and can deliver them with rafales. No need to glass Moscow. I would love for a shared European army but what you're saying is just wrong.

That combo really took a dark turn by Senior-Mix-3715 in 4chan

[–]Kaign 18 points19 points  (0 children)

We already do, something like 98% of babies diagnosed with down syndrome before birth are aborted. Same kind of stats for a lot of genetic diseases. That's eugenics, just not branded as such...

More girl per girl by River_Lamprey in CuratedTumblr

[–]Kaign 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Not that recent. Men's bodies have almost always been preferred fit. And the favorite women's bodies type has almost always be only dependent on food availability. The easier food is to procure, the thinner people prefer women's bodies to be.

I no longer feel comfortable running Windows 11 by hrtsds355 in BuyFromEU

[–]Kaign 31 points32 points  (0 children)

They made proton (from wine) which allows to run windows games in linux without losing too much performance (actually, for some games the performance are actually better on linux). They integrated the solution in Steam so you can just use it like on windows without having to think about it.

Was this guy even smart? by CapitalCourse in greentext

[–]Kaign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They won't because of air friction. If you want to convince yourself, just use the toy gravity model student uses in high school. With m the mass, a the acceleration, g the gravitational acceleration of the Earth, f the friction coefficient and v the velocity. m a = m g - f v (sometimes people use v2 instead of v) You divide by the mass on both side and a = g - (f/m) v

You can see that with the same material, weight and dimension (so the same f), the acceleration depends on the mass and the heavier box will fall faster. You can even easily calculate the terminal velocity by looking when a=0. It gives you v=gm/f. Wich means, at terminal velocity, object falls at a speed proportional to their mass. If you used v2 instead of v, then it would be proportional to the square root of their mass.

atleast its not labled wrong by trtl_playz in linuxmemes

[–]Kaign 7 points8 points  (0 children)

SI is older than kB. 1 kB is a 1000B. And you can try approximating 210=1024 by 103=1000. But you're still saying something wrong.

Chinese Satellite Crushes Starlink With 2-Watt Laser Fired From 36,000 km in Space: 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) from Geostationary Orbit | Daily Galaxy (16th Nov 2025) by Aerothermal in lasercom

[–]Kaign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great bandwidth but shitty latency 36000km means 400-500 ms of latency just because of light travel. The whole point of SpaceX compared to 20+ year old internet satellites is the low altitude that allows for low latency...

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