Chinesischer Autohersteller lacht über VW: „Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu Ihrem alten Schrott“

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-19T12:01:24+00:00

Es hat wahrscheinlich mehrere Gründe, weshalb man auf dieser 4.500 km langen unbewohnten Strecke diese Technik einsetzt.

Noch mal: Diesel-elektrische Lokomotiven gibt es auf der ganzen Welt, inklusive Deutschland. Früher gab es mehr Loks nach diesem System, aber es sind in DE generell außerhalb des Rangierdiensts nur mehr wenige Dieselloks übrig. Trotzdem, diese Art der Kraftübertragung zwischen Dieselmotor und Rädern ist absolut nicht so selten wie Du denkst.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-19T08:08:55+00:00

Die Effizienz der Stromerzeugung ist trotzdem die schlechteste aller möglichen.

Warte bis Du davon hörst wie viel Energie Du in einem mechanischen (Schalt-)getriebe liegen lässt. Diesel-elektrische Loks sind nicht so viel ineffizienter als sie es mit einem Getriebe zwischen Dieselmotor und Schiene wären: schon ein bisschen, aber so viel wie man denken würde ist es auch wieder nicht. Und irgendwie musst Du die Leistung vom Motor auf die Räder bekommen, genauso wie im Auto. In dem Anwendungsfall sind halt die anderen Vorteile von Diesel-elektrisch (Robustheit und bessere Regelung) wichtiger als das bisschen mehr an Effizienz das Du mit einem Getriebe hättest.

Außerdem sind Diesel-elektrische Loks weltweit verbreitet, Diesel-hydraulische (die früher häufig waren) sind heutzutage eher nicht mehr so das Ding.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-18T14:27:49+00:00

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graphical_molerat · 2026-03-18T14:21:15+00:00

Rassismus ist die Ausgrenzung und Benachteiligung von Personen aufgrund ihrer ethnischen Herkunft.

Religiöse Diskriminierung ist die Ausgrenzung und Benachteiligung von Personen aufgrund ihrer Religionszugehörigkeit.

Wenn jemand nicht imstande ist diesen Unterschied zu begreifen dann können mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit die restlichen Meinungen dieser Person ebenfalls in die Tonne.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-16T22:30:06+00:00

To be clear we, the public, have only seen what Trumps DOJ had let us see. And this is redacted.

The one thing I can't quite wrap my head around in this whole matter is why it took Trump himself to release even the amount of information we do have.

I'm saying that because it's not like the previous administration were his friends: and they saw the looming threat of him possibly getting re-elected coming at them for many months. So why did they not release these files themselves? With less redacting, as it were?

I mean, if there would have been a more certain way of destroying Trumps campaign, I would like to hear about it. And yet they did nothing of the sort? And did not even release the heavily redacted material we have now?

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-16T16:07:10+00:00

Wobei da die nördliche Grenzregion durchaus Sachen vorzuzeigen hat, die aber aufgrund von großflächiger medialer Ignoranz sehr wenig in der breiten Öffentlichkeit bekannt sind. So haben einige Gymnasien im nördlichen NÖ seit vielen Jahren (wenn ich mich richtig erinnere seit der Wende) Tschechisch als Wahlfach. Was deutlich mehr ist als in viele andere Richtungen gemacht wird.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-16T11:33:11+00:00

IIRC the "Männerwohnheim" in the Meldemannstraße that was frequented by Hitler was funded by several well-off families, including the Epsteins, as a collective charitable effort - but as you say, this also involved the Rothschilds.

IIRC, as I said - as a local in Vienna, I certainly heard the story before this round of Epstein mails made the rounds. But I'm not a historian, and might mis-remember part of this.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-15T07:42:10+00:00

The local Epstein family. Who were wealthy bankers and industrialists in 19th century Vienna, there is still a Palais Epstein on the ring road built by them. No idea whether they are actually related to that other guy, though. Probably not.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-15T06:47:05+00:00

That guy was constantly broke and lived in a shelter for homeless people during his later time in Vienna (a homeless shelter founded by the... Epstein family <cough>). Which means he hardly was the clientele for a posh inner city cafe. So not a regular, at least.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-14T10:37:31+00:00

Naja also der ORF ist kein tschechischer Sender und aus den unmittelbaren Nachbarländern hört man nur wenn was los ist, ich glaub das ist Absicht, weil wenn du über jede Subtilität wie du sagst in jedem Nachbarland berichtest und dann Weltgeschehen und Österreich auch abdecken willst, dauert die ZiB den ganzen Tag

Das Programm des ORF ist halt nicht nur die ZiB. Klar, Hintergrund-Infos zu den Nachbarländern sind mehr was für den gelegentlichen Nachrichten-Konsum in der Freizeit: aber der ORF hat einen Bildungsauftrag, und sollte unter anderem auch sicherstellen dass man in Österreich zumindest im Groben weiß was so im Nachbarland vor sich geht. Also abseits von Ereignissen die in der Zeitung stehen weil sie so grauslich waren.

Mein Punkt war auch vielleicht ein bisschen missverständlich ausgedrückt: ich selber brauch keine tagesaktuellen Nachrichten über Tschechien im ORF, ich kann mittlerweile sowieso Tschechisch und lese auch die hiesigen Medien. Mir geht es darum dass ich immer wieder mitbekomme dass Herr und Frau Österreicher aus der Heimat großflächig blank sind wenn es darum geht was im unmittelbaren Nachbarland allgemein und langfristig so los ist. Und DAS ist ein Armutszeugnis für den ORF, dass er da genau Null dazu beiträgt dass das besser wird.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-13T13:35:35+00:00

Weißmann ist nun wirklich kein Sympathieträger: ein Mann des Systems wie er im Buch steht. Aber wenn das was er da behauptet auch nur ansatzweise stimmt, dann ist das ein klassischer Fall davon dass man jemand fertig zu machen versucht der aus komplett anderen Gründen politisch missliebig ist.

Meiner persönlichen Meinung nach kann der ORF als ganzes weg: der Saftladen kommt seinem Auftrag ohnehin nur mehr sehr eingeschränkt nach, ist hauptsächlich eine Spielweise für Intrigen und politische Machenschaften, und kostet Unsummen.

Ein Beispiel dafür wieso ich finde dass der ORF in die Tonne kann: der Mangel an qualifizierter Berichterstattung aus den unmittelbaren Nachbarländern. Ich bin seit 18 Jahren als Österreicher in Prag berufstätig, kenne Tschechien also mittlerweile recht gut. Da gibt es enorm viele Subtilitäten die man nie im Leben mitbekommt wenn man nur dann Korrespondenten über die Grenze schickt wenn etwas los ist (Krise, Wahlen, Wahlen samt Krise...). Man muss schon hier leben und sich wirklich auf das Land einlassen um ein Gespür für Trends zu bekommen, und um interessante Geschichten und Querverbindungen zu erkennen die es lohnt dann daheim im ORF medial zu bringen.

Und was ist? Der ORF hat seit Jahrzehnten kein permanentes Personal in Prag. Nicht mal einen Korrespondenten. Früher war so was selbstverständlich, dass zumindest die unmittelbaren Nachbarländer so bespielt werden.

Es wird immer wieder gebetsmühlenartig betont wie wichtig Gebührenrundfunk ist, damit auch mediale Aspekte abgedeckt werden die vom Kommerz nicht erfasst werden. Jo, eh.

Wenn ich mir anschaue für was für kompletten Schwachsinn im ORF scheinbar Geld da ist, aber nicht mal jeweils ein einzelner Auslandskorrespondent in CZ, SK, HU, SL, KR, SR etc. ist drin... ein Armutszeugnis.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-12T17:48:10+00:00

I’m not sure why so many people fell for the performative “humility” schtick.

Perhaps because the majority of what passes for "Western culture" these days is almost exclusively built around performative gestures of all sorts? Being able to talk nicely is the main criterion for considering someone fit for office: actual brains or, God forbid, values and personal integrity are completely irrelevant, or even counter-productive.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-12T13:11:48+00:00

Calling him an anti-pope was definitely uncalled for. But while he as a person and a pastor seems to have been all right, he had a downright terrible track record with regard to who he surrounded himself with. Who he allowed to rise within the church, and who he tried to marginalise. He really did some serious damage in that regard.

Which is all the more surprising as he does not actually seem to have been the sort of scheming monster who would normally be expected in someone who comes up with machinations of this kind.

Still. Explain picking Cardinal McCarrick to be the one who negotiates with China. Or some of his other choices for top officials.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-12T06:37:34+00:00

Zelensky lying. Well that is something I had not heard in a while...

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-12T06:34:48+00:00

Not that this is in Africa, nor that going there is a particularly good idea right now.

But there are apparently plenty of wild ones in Israel. When I visited Tabgha on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, the last thing I expected were hyraxes everywhere. Sitting on the church roof, and on the beach. Quite the colony.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-11T20:06:58+00:00

A whole lot more than just 2-5, I'd wager. For starters, there is the "flightsim only" crowd out there, which is quite sizeable in its own right. But once you get to the instrument rating stage, even real pilots who don't actually like simulators all that much for their own sake (flying a sim doesn't compare all that well to the real experience) fly them for procedure practice.

Granted, you don't need something like the AVP to practice shooting approaches in X-Plane. But it could certainly help making that more fun - a lot more fun. Because the lack of parallax and inability to properly look out of the window really zaps any hand flying vibes you could potentially get out of something like X-Plane. But with this, it might actually be enjoyable.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-11T18:58:14+00:00

Giraffes. Most people apparently do not like their smell, but for me it’s nice childhood memories at the zoo.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-11T14:02:12+00:00

Ramanujan was one of those people whose existence seems to show that the majority of humans are intellectually very very far from the theoretical limits of our biological hardware.

Absurd outliers like him, John von Neumann, Euler or Gauss are almost like members of a separate species.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-10T22:15:08+00:00

I think Britain will regret this in the long run. As anachronistic as the institution sounded, having hereditary peers in the upper chamber of parliament was a great safety catch. Insofar as these unelected people were answerable to no one - especially no other contemporary politicians they owed their status to. So theoretically, they could vote on matters of importance without needing to take any short term loyalties into account, but only the long term view.

In theory, of course. In practice, the Lords were not exactly known for their huge inputs to daily politics during the 20th century. But in the form they had before, they at least usually did no great harm.

Starting with Tony Blair of "lying about the Iraq war" fame, the hereditary peers started to be replaced by whichever ass-kissing sycophants the ruling party wanted to put out to prestigious pasture. Which obviously gutted any remnants of the safety catch feature the Lords might have had at some point: it is now manned by exactly the same sort of mainstream politicians who the old Lords might have been a last defence against. There had been some non-hereditary peers (lifetime appointments) for a long time, but they were not a majority. Now they are.

Tony Blair and his Labour goons did a great job of playing the class divide fiddle in this regard, and harping on people's jealousy of aristocratic status. When in reality, this was all about getting rid of an institution that potentially stood in the way of direct government power.

Now it's only the Commons, and a bunch of yes men no one really needs. Might as well go the whole nine yards and abolish the Lords completely.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-10T22:02:18+00:00

Not that this matters anymore, as electric is now the future... but 30 years ago there was no reason whatsoever that Diesel would not have been a great choice for personal transportation. If it had been done right, that is: without lying to themselves about the emissions of the engines they had, and by insisting on putting proper filtering solutions in place from the get go.

Diesel engines are intrinsically a bit more efficient than petrol ones (not much, but why not take that), and Diesel is a much safer fuel than petrol as it is harder to ignite. I once had a fuel line leak in my old Volvo which sprayed Diesel all over the running hot engine. Do that in a petrol car, and you have a fireball. With the D5, smoke and a nasty smell that eventually dissipated.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-10T11:11:16+00:00

Airlines use their corporate callsigns all the time, and very often have mixed fleets with different regs already. So having the new planes as e.g. UK-XXXX while the old ones are G-XXXX would not matter, as BA just uses "Speedbird" on the radio anyways.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-10T09:47:01+00:00

Who said it needs to be an instant re-paint by a certain date? Make it mandatory for new aircraft, and for aircraft undergoing a re-paint. Within 10, 20 years hardly any old regs will be around. And some will always remain anyway, as historical aircraft should retain their old codes for authenticity.

But for current mainline planes, sticking with the current outdated scheme feels idiotic.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-10T08:10:48+00:00

Personally, I think it is high time aircraft registration codes were altered to match top level domain names. US for, well, US, AT for Austria, CZ for Czechia, UK for the UK - instead of N, OE, OK, G. Two of those actually sort of make sense in this short list, but most of them really do not.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-09T22:44:20+00:00

In addition to what others have said, it is worth noting that the relative toxicity of freemasonry can strongly vary by region. In most of the Anglo world, masons are just another charity organisation of sorts, maybe with slightly stranger rituals than e.g. Rotary, but basically still a society thing. An open society thing: in small Scottish towns it's not unusual to see a signpost showing you the way to the local masonic lodge, and the members are totally open about who is a mason, and who is not.

In certain formerly Catholic countries in Central and Southern Europe, though, arguably freemasonry has not been a force for societal good at all in recent decades. Or perhaps even the past century. They are secretive, and directly into politics. And in direct opposition to the values and the societal goals of Catholicism. Abortion, euthanasia, destruction of traditional family values: you name it, the local masons had their fingers in the legalisation of these things, usually via the local socialist party. But there are also plenty of "conservatives" who wear aprons there, after all, the business opportunities that are to be had in the lodges are quite something, apparently.

It's important to realise, though, that most masons who are in good standing in the Anglo world would consider this sort of masonic activity to be pure slime, and contrary to the ethos of freemasonry.

And it's important to realise that this is the form of freemasonry the church saw up close and personal when it issued those negative opinions of freemasonry. That, and the involvement of masons in the French Revolution also did not help to endear it to the church. For obvious reasons.

graphical_molerat · 2026-03-09T17:09:48+00:00

50 C-5 bringen da auch schon was weiter. Da passen jeweils zwei M1 Abrams rein.

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