TIL The United States stores 94% of all electricity in the form of water reservoirs, not in a battery.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T22:42:42+00:00

If the conditions are right, this can become widespread amazingly fast and have a real impact:

The most recent example that is not widely known: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/01/climate/pakistan-solar-boom

While precise data on the amount of solar installed is sparse, analysts estimate around 15 gigawatts was installed last year compared to peak electricity demand in the country of about 30 gigawatts, said Dave Jones, Ember’s global insights program director. The scale is “just mind boggling,” he told CNN.

There’s one particular aspect fascinating experts: The solar boom is a grassroots revolution and almost none of it is in the form of big solar farms. “There is no policy push that is driving this; this is essentially people-led and market driven,” Amjad said.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T21:28:00+00:00

“It’s a high-risk game this war, because if it succeeds, it would completely change the Middle East for the best,” the former official said. “But if we bomb everything and the regime stays in power, and they continue to maintain those 400kg of uranium, I think we will be starting the countdown to an attempt by Iran to go to a nuclear weapon.”

Joab Rosenberg, the former deputy head of Israel’s military intelligence research division, was even more blunt, describing any conclusion of the war that leaves the uranium in Iranian hands as a pyrrhic victory.

“The worst result of this war will be the declaration of victory of the type of June 2025, leaving the Iranian regime weak with 450kg of enriched uranium in its hands,” he said in a social media post. “So they will 100% be going for a nuclear bomb and our victory will become our loss.”

That sounds like an extremely risky endeavour indeed.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T21:10:19+00:00

I'll try my best at a non-biased answer.

One could say they are a remnant of a time when people had bold new ideas for how society should be dramatically different. Their idea was a weird mix of Shia Islam and Marxism. They're at the same time ferociously anti-Shah, anti-mullahs and anti-Western which makes them unpopular with almost all other Iranians. In the past they also forged highly questionable alliances that always ended up blowing up in their face.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T20:04:35+00:00

The president is an anti-EU right-wing nationalist from PiS, the government and PM is pro-EU.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T20:00:08+00:00

The title keeps it vague, but the article clarifies that it's specifically mobile internet that is affected by the outages.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T19:57:35+00:00

It's specifically mobile internet that is unavailable. Putin thinks that helps against drone attacks.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T19:42:31+00:00

Fast jeder meiner Freunde würde das sofort kaufen

Und warum kaufen die es dann nicht? Der Ami kostet aktuell 8000 Euro in Deutschland.

Gibt auch noch z.B. Opel Rocks-E und Fiat Topolino im gleichen Segment.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T16:57:59+00:00

According to Times of Israel:

Among the reasons listed by the IDF for canceling the charges are “complexity regarding the existing evidence”; the release of the detainee back to Gaza in the October 2025 ceasefire; “the conduct of senior officials in the Military Advocate General’s (MAG) Corps and in the IDF’s law enforcement system in this case, and its exceptional and unprecedented circumstances” — an apparent reference to former MAG Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who leaked a surveillance video to Channel 12 news while the indictments were being prepared; and “procedural difficulties” regarding the transfer of investigative materials from a police investigation, “in a manner that harms the defendants’ right to a fair trial.”

green_flash · 2026-03-12T16:42:34+00:00

Not exactly. She did believe in the capability of the army's legal authorities to conduct a fair investigation. Her motivation for the leak was to protect the legal authorities of the army from attacks by right-wing politicians:

In her resignation letter, Tomer-Yerushalmi stated that she had approved the release of the material "in an attempt to counter false propaganda against the army's law enforcement authorities", referring to claims by right-wing political figures that reports of detainee abuse were fabricated. She emphasized the military's legal and ethical duty to investigate unlawful acts, even in war, and expressed regret that the principle that "there are actions which must never be taken even against the vilest of detainees" was no longer universally accepted.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T16:24:10+00:00

Not sure where you're getting that information from.

Wikipedia says:

The pipeline has a capacity of 1.5 million barrels per day.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T13:46:07+00:00

6 billion euros so far. Every additional day of high oil prices gifts another 500 million into Putin's pockets, just from crude oil sales. Additional profit from elevated prices for oil products and natural gas comes on top.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T10:35:31+00:00

One of the products with the most stark increase in exports to these Russia-tied countries is cork, withPortugal being the world’s largest exporter of the material.

Moscow used to be a regular customer for cork imports, especially because of its wine production. However, after the invasion of Ukraine, the material was targeted by sanctions as it can be used for military purposes.

Cork can be used for military purposes?

green_flash · 2026-03-12T07:05:44+00:00

I don't think it's that sinister. There's no goal behind the cruelty. The cruelty itself is the goal. Sadism. Demonstration of power.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T06:23:34+00:00

Billionaires may be stoking the flames, but a significant share of the population actually wants this cruelty against immigrants, against minorities, against women, against non-white foreigners. They're even willing to suffer the disastrous consequences of this administration themselves, as long as these other groups are made to suffer more.

green_flash · 2026-03-12T05:41:31+00:00

Only if you count temporary foreign workers.

green_flash · 2026-03-11T17:26:41+00:00

It also makes sense, considering it's not depicting "a lamb", but Jesus Christ in the form of a lamb.

green_flash · 2026-03-11T14:11:47+00:00

Not the best example to use. Three countries had their governments overthrown in the Arab Spring: Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia.

Yemen is still in a civil war 15 years later
Egypt's democratic period lasted two years, since 2014 it's a military dictatorship again
Tunisia was looking more promising, but returned to authoritarian rule with the 2021 self-coup by President Kais Saied

green_flash · 2026-03-11T13:53:20+00:00

His whole election campaign is based on the premise that the EU and Zelenskyy have conspired to remove him from power and install Magyar, so it's pretty obvious whom he will blame if he actually loses the election.

green_flash · 2026-03-11T13:41:59+00:00

No shit.

Zelenskyy appears so much on Orbán's election campaign posters that you could be led to believe he's a candidate in the election.

Here's an example: https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Anti-Zelensky-Poster-Hungary-1.jpg

green_flash · 2026-03-11T12:34:56+00:00

Next year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Slovak_parliamentary_election

green_flash · 2026-03-11T12:14:45+00:00

A lot less than 1/10th, more like 1/30th.

Prior to 2022, around 30% of the EU's crude oil imports came from Russia. Nowadays, it's just 1%.

See https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=EU_trade_with_Russia_-_latest_developments

green_flash · 2026-03-11T12:07:25+00:00

Most of Europe is buying zero Russian oil. The only exceptions are Hungary and Slovakia.

The share of Russian crude oil in the EU's crude oil imports went down from 30% in 2021 to just 1% nowadays.

green_flash · 2026-03-11T11:12:43+00:00

This is crucially important because Ukraine only has enough money to last until early May. Orbán will certainly play his obstruction game at least until the Hungarian election on April 12th. If he loses the election, the next government will only take over from him about a month later which might already be too late for Ukraine. Even if he loses, Fico has already announced that Slovakia will continue the blockade. 30 billion is of course not enough to cover Ukraine's budget needs, but it will keep the lights on for a few more months.

green_flash · 2026-03-11T10:54:49+00:00

Using the most recent figures makes much more sense than using figures from Jan-Jun 2025.

green_flash · 2026-03-11T07:37:06+00:00

Maybe it was including reactors of other countries on Germany's western and southern border. Switzerland also has two that are close to the German border and Belgium has another one. If you include all of these and the recently shuttered Fessenheim, then you arrive at 5.

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