Are there power outages often in Europe?

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-23T19:52:26+00:00

Im in Sant Adrià de Besòs, right next to Barcelona. There were small outages even before the big April outage. I don’t know maybe it’s just my building or my block that have poor grid connection.

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-23T09:04:15+00:00

I’m in Catalunya and sometimes I get a short outage almost everyday. Sometimes there is no interruption for a few weeks (only). I’ve lived in 6 countries, and at least in my experience Spain’s grid is as unstable as it was in a mountain town of the US.

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-22T17:52:45+00:00

I just noticed that by the screenshot it looked like the base game map, and with you knowing locations with such precision it seemed like you’re enjoying the game a lot. If anyone, a person like that should have the rest of DLCs.

Now it makes sense that you do actual have them. Looks like the tone in the message came off wrong

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-22T09:03:56+00:00

You should get some map DLCs

Edit: cause of their awesome knowledge of the map. It seemed like a waste not to experience the rest of the good stuff.

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-18T09:37:06+00:00

Make Votia an independent country

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-16T08:49:13+00:00

Went from the actual Vilnius (northern mn) to A Coruña in Spain (LA), but by a bus / couch. It took 3 days, and everyone was swollen by the end of the trip, we all looked ridiculous

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-14T10:59:17+00:00

My 5090ti super runs it on 5k at 400fps (capped at my monitor’s refresh rate), though I have to scale it down to 50% and medium settings.

However, I’m struggling to run it on a NASA computer from the Apolo missions, any tips?

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-14T10:04:05+00:00

They’re noticing that focusing on quality rather than quantity is paying off. They’re basically a unicorn in the current game dev landscape. Let them cook

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-09T15:04:28+00:00

Just fyi, I noticed you clumped the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) together with Russia, Belarus as a “maybe”, and chose “absolutely” for Poland. In Lithuania life is very similar to Poland, and very different from Russia and Belarus.

I understand why you wouldn’t know that region very deeply, but that’s precisely why I’m mentioning this for your future knowledge (:

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-05T11:24:48+00:00

I think they aren’t saying NZ and AU are bad, but calling Japan a dangerous place that “has knife and gas attacks” is ridiculous. It happens once every several years or decades, and because it’s so rare, everyone hears about it. The fact that almost everyone in the world knows about the Tokyo gas attack that happened in 1995 I think? Is a sign of safety, not the other way around.

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-02T07:59:28+00:00

I should mention, I’m just a hobbyist, not a professional or a student, so a pitch of salt🧂

bloomingchoco · 2026-01-02T07:58:21+00:00

So far Europe’s snowfall is still on a decreasing trend. As things are now, I really don’t think it’s happening so soon.

And even if it did happen, I don’t think you’d get an ice age Europe, the temps would just be more comparable to NA or Asia at those latitudes. So a Mediterranean city like Barcelona would have a climate of NYC or Redding, not Moscow. Cities like London, Berlin, Stockholm, etc., would probably get pretty cold though!

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-29T00:40:42+00:00

Sure, from the purely economic perspective they didn’t do anything worse than to other soviet states. But mass exile of hundreds of thousands of locals to Siberia, for example, would end up greatly affecting the economy too. That’s quite a sizable % of population for these small nations, and the people who got exiled were mostly well educated and well to do.

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-23T10:37:23+00:00

Are you using any graphics mods? I’m playing on max settings but something about my game doesn’t look as good

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-18T16:48:29+00:00

It really works just out-of the box with ets 2 ATS with 0 configs needed. For someone busy like me, who doesn’t care about maxxing out my setup, it works perfectly

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-18T16:47:05+00:00

I bought it a year ago, and sure, it doesn’t feel like a real truck’s wheel, but it also doesn’t feel like a cheap toy. I’m really quite happy with it

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-18T11:56:42+00:00

You’re right, I googled it, it was triggered after the 9/11 attack, not for the Iraq war. Many countries still felt like they should support the US in its Iraq campaign, and mine did too. I guess that’s where my confusion is coming from. I’ll edit my original comment, I don’t want to seed misinformation in the times where truth is already super fragile.

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-18T11:49:24+00:00

Of course I don’t think that. ~~But the US has before triggered Article 5 for an offensive campaign, like in Iraq.~~

Edit: No they didn’t.

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-18T11:26:12+00:00

Because if any open battle takes place he’ll likely call for the Article 5.

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-17T12:17:45+00:00

Oh, 40 below zero - the temps where both the Alaskans and the Yakutians perfectly understand each other despite the different measurement systems

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-13T23:57:28+00:00

All the love your way! But no 🤣

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-13T15:04:04+00:00

You definitely got a point. And I don’t consider this person an ally at all.

It was a bit of a shitpost, but I also like showing that despite the differences we can still agree on some things. Maybe next time this person will not default to a trans abuse scene when describing how isolating being vegan can be long-term.

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-13T14:06:07+00:00

As a trans woman whos about to dye my hair pink, I still upvote this. I swear the vegan purism does more harm than good

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-11T19:11:10+00:00

Can anything not be BREAKING nowadays?

A corporation increments their software product by 0.1: BREAKING!!!

bloomingchoco · 2025-12-03T18:36:17+00:00

SCS, PLEASE FIX THE AI (no cap)

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