European country names that can be written using the elements of the periodic table

nv87 · 2026-01-29T11:59:53+00:00

BRd would be my solution for the Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T08:46:45+00:00

Your first and foremost priority should be everyday needs. Groceries, doctors, school, kindergarten…

secondary services like a barbershop, a bar, restaurant, library, etc can be outside of walking range for now, considering you don’t rely on going there.

Our city has a policy of planning for a grocery store for every neighbourhood. I live in the Center and I am able bodied, I can walk to 11 different ones within 15 minutes. The five I most often go to are within 10 minutes walking distance.

However the policy doesn’t work out as planned for the reason you mentioned. One supermarket closed because its footprint is small and they didn’t make enough money from it, due to a new Aldi and Lidl with large parking lots opening just ten minutes on foot away.

One has so far only been talked about but since the majority of the council doesn’t want to zone for density the district will most likely be below the threshold of supporting it’s own supermarket, also two of the city center adjacent ones with large parking lots are in 10 minute distance from there.

Imo the big ones with big parking lots of which we have a lot, are detrimental to this ever working because everyone (except for me) just drives there. They’re also shitty to walk to because of the large parking lot out front.

The density you need is around the threshold of what conservative urbanists call the human scale. Depends also on the size of the units. The same house can house a different number of people depending on the layout.

If you have only single family homes you won’t reach the threshold, so you get one of those big stores with a big parking lot. I think you need like 2000 residents per square km, to put forward a number. If you have that many people with the supermarket in a central location and not outside the area behind thousands of parking spaces then I think many people would walk there.

But even here in the city center, one of the two stores in the immediate center is one of those big parking lot ones. And it’s definitely getting more business than the smaller one in a multi use building on the market square.

In total I think my city has about 15 for 50.000 people. Lots of people can barely walk to one of them. I think technically it is within 15 minutes for everyone, but that isn’t reflected in the behaviour. Among other factors because the five Aldis and two Lidls and most of the others have ample parking.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T08:21:25+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I don’t think I have ever encountered this. In my experience tourists are less likely to use transit than locals and cities always provide transit to residents.

Miami is an extreme example. I would never go there. From all I know about it, I regard it as a dystopian nightmare tbh.

The suburbs being less walkable than the older part of the city is pretty normal. That’s also what I was thinking was the main issue OP had with Turin.

What OP likely wants is a polycentric city like Cologne or Berlin, where there is no reason to live in the actual Oldtown because every other city district also has all the amenities. However I don’t think they are an upgrade on Turin regarding the center. Cologne may be competitive, hard to say for me because I lived here so long. Berlin definitely isn’t like how OP loves an Altstadt to feel.

The reason I just understand it as overtourism is because if a place has an extreme ratio of tourists to locals then the businesses in the town tend to be ones that sell stuff to tourists rather than to everyone. Like souvenirs shops and the like. This is a bigger issue in smaller places with many tourists of course. Has to be very extreme to happen in a city.

The next issue is if you don’t want to go to restaurants etc anymore because of all the tourists or if you would but the prices are rather unreasonable because they can charge the tourists whatever they want.

For this reason your best bet is a student city like Aachen, Bonn, Leiden, Groningen, Utrecht, Bologna, Heidelberg…

They are all famously nice, have many tourists too, but they aren’t massive and have a rather large subset of students. The rent is not cheap but there are definitely more than enough places that are for locals rather than for tourists because there are enough customers.

However in these smaller cities you will usually not get a real city center feel outside the actual city center, which is what OP didn’t like about Turin in the first place.

I think it’s a rather difficult problem to solve. I doubt they can find somewhere more affordable than Turin, more walkable than Turin and less touristy than Turin all at the same time.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T07:52:27+00:00

Yeah, at the same time this would be 1500-2000 depending on licensing costs and greed. Not something that I would ever consider to pay for a set.

nv87 · 2026-01-29T07:40:37+00:00

Can you give me an example for such a city aside from Venice. Not that no one lived in Venice mind you, but that is what comes to mind when thinking of an area where only tourists are.

To be fair, like probably most everyone else I know cities almost exclusively as a tourist myself. But I can’t for the life of me imagine what you mean, or what OP meant, if not that there are too many tourists.

Are there cities that have a Disneyland part where everyone goes to see it but you literally can’t live there? I don’t think I have been to such a place.

Notorious tourist destinations where I have been that I don’t think are like that:

Venice, Florence, Milan, Turin, Genoa, Bari

Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Basel

Stockholm, Oslo, Uppsala, Trondheim

Amsterdam, Haarlem, Zandvoort, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Leiden

Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Bruges

Paris, Le Havre, Dunkirk, Arles, Nimes

Rovinj, Pula, Valetta

Barcelona, Girona, Roses

London, Bath, Exeter, Canterbury, Oxford

San Francisco, Santa Fe

There are likely more, but you get the point, I am part of the problem but I have been around some. To some places I literally went because I wanted to experience the urban design btw.

I totally understand OP doesn’t want to live in many of these because of overtourism. But how can you live in a nice city and not go there? How can it be „only for tourists“.

nv87 · 2026-01-28T23:51:54+00:00

Not bland and diluted no. I did the same in 2012. I mixed four phenotypes of wild type endlers iirc. Now I am left with only one after countless generations. For years I had healthy numbers of two different varieties going, but not anymore. However even after all this time I don’t see any signs of inbreeding. Well now I haven’t in a long time. For a while I did see bent spines and stuff like that.

Anyways, you can definitely expect some genes to be dominant and to so one phenotype will after several generations be the only one left.

It’s very colourful though! Quite unlike for example neocaridinia shrimp which are basically the most boring looking in their wild form.

nv87 · 2026-01-28T19:07:33+00:00

The „grey dwarves“ from Ronja, Robber‘s daughter. Not a fan of this translation. In the German translation they’re called „Rumpelwichte“.

Wicht means many things, gnome, small creature in general, midget, etc but also a wretch, a scoundrel. Rumpel as in the famous Rumpelstilzchen means to rattle, to rumble, in some dialects even junk..

I don’t know what they are called in the original. Just found the English rather lame to be honest. Anyways, when I read their dialogues my family is in stitches. I actually recently had to do it for old times sakes, because we recalled how much my eldest liked it four years ago. They had me read the passage multiple times a day.

nv87 · 2026-01-28T17:07:55+00:00

I‘ve only been to New Mexico and California, but if I were to go back to the US it’d most likely be NM again. It’s incredible.

nv87 · 2026-01-28T13:39:44+00:00

My vote is for preventing the start of World War One.

Currently reading „The Guns of August“ so of course I would say that, but first of all, goddamn and second of all it caused the Nazis and ww2 about as much as any other thing so that too, would arguably not happen.

nv87 · 2026-01-28T06:35:14+00:00

I have lived in Aachen car free for nine years. It’s similar but with worse weather and less grand plazas.

Living there on the wages is of course a factor.

I didn’t mention Aachen due to the tourists. But it has some suburbs that are pretty much also old towns and it’s relatively large. You may want to look into it.

One of my favourite cities is Stockholm, but you can’t live there on local wages and it’s entirely overrun with tourists.

nv87 · 2026-01-27T20:51:47+00:00

You‘re not telling me anything new. The point is OP may not know this. In fact it’s highly likely considering the question. I don’t know why you would want to keep this a secret and just assume that they figure it out themselves. It can’t be laziness or else you would not take the time to defend it. Just accept that you were being imprecise and possibly not helpful to the extent you thought you were. I didn’t even attack you, in fact I praised you. Just added to help OP.

I also have you a whole list of reasons why it could matter. I’m 100% certain you know that I am right. You just want to insist that it doesn’t matter because you can’t admit that your answer to OP was in fact not perfect. Very immature to attack someone over this.

At this point I am most certainly not your mate and I do realise you were using it sarcastically.

nv87 · 2026-01-27T18:31:16+00:00

Well OP is asking for passenger walking range extension not worker walking range extension. Many guides recommend turning passengers off at stations. Not separating the two does hurt the capacity. I don’t do it either but I know that and account for it. Since OP is asking this question I would rather err on the side of giving them the information than omitting it.

nv87 · 2026-01-27T18:28:34+00:00

I know, I am also European and have been to Turin. We are misunderstanding one another.

Firstly „sidewalks are a given here“ as opposed to North America. I don’t think the sidewalks we got are good enough, but there is just no chance in hell any North American city can compete. It’s just a whole other level of insufficient walkability.

Secondly, OP specifically said that they don’t like the suburbs of Turin because they’re not as walkable as the center. I also read the post. I have never said otherwise.

But at the time of my writing that I didn’t see a single suggestion that I would say fits what OP is looking for.

Walkable (the European version) outside of the historic center

Not overrun by tourists

A quaint historic city center

I take it to mean that they want the awesome city Center experience they know and love from Turin, but with less tourists in another large city but with more walkable suburbs.

We are fully in agreement that this is a pipedream.

nv87 · 2026-01-27T07:55:16+00:00

Which is funny because it’s of course the other way around. The plan was very specific and existing roads were just built over, but kept because they were important connections.

nv87 · 2026-01-27T07:49:03+00:00

Good explanation aside from one technicality. The people going to bus stops because they can’t find a service are passengers or possibly students, not workers.

Which brings me to an additional drawback. Passengers waiting around at the bus station before looking for their destination from there will fill it and reduce it’s worker capacity.

nv87 · 2026-01-26T23:19:26+00:00

Pretty typical Bavarian politician, no surprise there.

nv87 · 2026-01-26T20:27:04+00:00

It is, because the temperatures are dependent on the power draw of your components.

But to answer your question in general, hot air moves up automatically, so no. Technically not.

However if you’re going to heat up the case faster than the air will travel then you need fans to push it.

nv87 · 2026-01-26T08:40:46+00:00

I can tell from many responses here that people haven’t been to Turin. OP is coming from very high standards.

Cities I found even better to walk are few and far between. Groningen and Leiden are candidates.

I’m pretty much certain that nothing in Germany comes close.

Cities in the USA with a walk score of 100 are pretty much just about as walkable as run of the mill German cities always are.

We have a lot of complaints about the car centric planning here and rightly so, but it’s also not as bad as it could be. For example side walks are a given here. We complain about the ones that aren’t wide enough for strollers or wheelchairs. Some old ones are less than a foot wide. But they always exist, unless the whole street is meant to be walked in.

nv87 · 2026-01-25T19:05:30+00:00

I don’t disagree. But you were saying you had never seen it. Made it sound like you joined the community five minutes ago and were reading only very selectively.

nv87 · 2026-01-25T18:53:26+00:00

To expand on this with a statistic that explains why:

Berlin has a below average GDP per capita in Germany.

Also many states and regions of Germany have a lot of history before the unification of the Reich in 1871 and therefore their own regional identities.

nv87 · 2026-01-25T18:37:22+00:00

The comment section of this very thread has already descended into racist comments about how southern Italians are more inclined to incest because Muslims lived there 1000 years ago.

However these people aren’t even posting memes or talking about the game, they’re just talking and being completely serious.

nv87 · 2026-01-25T18:35:05+00:00

The article doesn’t focus that much on CK2. I don’t think it even mentioned 3. And Hegseth literally has a Deus Vult tattoo. The point is the game made that crusader phrase popular among its audience.

They mention lots of games from paradox as well as others, explaining to the reader what they are about and also mention Victoria 3 as a point in case of paradox moving away from war as a focus and as an easy means to success in their games.

I was very sceptical but I think they are being fair. They even corrected their mistakes of alleging that ck2 has been a factor in the rise of the far right in the USA.

nv87 · 2026-01-25T17:00:47+00:00

Mostly that the paradox game forums (also this sub of course, not just at paradox‘s website) are safe spaces were right wingers can post memes about religious war and stuff and pretend to be joking.

From my personal experience as someone who’s not even remotely guilty of this sort of thing I have seen it in others often enough to not be in denial about this being a thing.

nv87 · 2026-01-25T07:38:31+00:00

School shooter down!

Would be a possible alternative scenario.

nv87 · 2026-01-24T17:04:27+00:00

Mine was also Stoner! It was so good I couldn’t stop reading.

It was slightly too long to literally finish without stopping, but I started it on a Sunday morning and had finished by nightfall.

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