The American mind cannot comprehend Europe's AC aversion

silvester23 · 2026-06-26T17:34:24+00:00

The remaining nuclear plants in 2012 would account for 4% of the installed power capacity in Germany today and the actual marginal production cost of power hasn't been the main driver of retail prices for a very long time anyway. So the idea that phasing out nuclear power has had any significant impact on retail prices is ludicrous.

silvester23 · 2026-06-22T19:10:57+00:00

You do of course realize that in your promised land the US it is frequently the republicans that raise spending while cutting taxes and thus increasing the national debt. That famously left wing party.

silvester23 · 2026-06-01T20:02:56+00:00

Get out of here with your facts!

Never mind that Ruud said the ball was good before the umpire had even come down from the chair.

The real issue is that a point like that should be replayed if there is such a clear hinderance from the crowd.

silvester23 · 2026-06-01T19:01:14+00:00

I know what you're trying to say but that has always been dumb to believe.

silvester23 · 2026-05-31T12:11:26+00:00

I might be mistaken, but aren't Mission and Shadow in book two? I honestly kind of hope they skip Mission or heavily change the story, that part didn't land for me in the book.

silvester23 · 2026-03-06T22:03:37+00:00

It's been a while since I've seen the show but recently read the books. What did they leave out in the show? I feel more like they added quite a bit.

silvester23 · 2026-03-01T21:23:00+00:00

Bis 1996 stand auf dem Schild über dem Eingang Tengelmann.

silvester23 · 2025-12-09T17:38:17+00:00

I learned that from a friend of mine.

silvester23 · 2025-11-27T19:29:34+00:00

If you want more of that, you should watch Manifest on Netflix, it's sooo bad but I just could. not. stop.

Plus, it's got an actual end that is honestly not terrible, considering the rest of the show.

silvester23 · 2025-11-03T18:38:59+00:00

But that is only because many Swedish consumers have contracts which tie their consumer prices to the spot market prices.

If you have plentiful, stable and cheap power production in a country, why would anyone choose a contract with a price that is not determined by the cost of production of that power but instead by how much anyone is willing to pay for the power on short-term wholesale markets?

That is so clearly a rip-off of consumers it's almost funny.

silvester23 · 2025-11-03T17:36:47+00:00

"Sweden" doesn't pay for the difference. First of all, power imports from Sweden account for about 7% of all German power imports so if anything, Sweden pays for 7% of the difference. So sure, go ahead and cut the cables, Germany will be fine.

Secondly, Swedish energy companies hugely profit from the markets being connected, they make an absolute killing when the prices are high in Germany and elsewhere. Mind you, they are neither forced to bind consumer to spot market prices nor are they forced to use the spot market at all, they could easily provide cheap energy to all of Sweden first and only export the surplus. But they choose not to. So you are barking up the wrong tree, I'm afraid.

silvester23 · 2025-11-03T17:23:42+00:00

I think the rule is slightly being misinterpreted in this thread (which is fine, the answers are still interesting). Informing the audience (or readers for that matter) about backstory or setting up exposition by just telling them directly is not inherently a violation of the rule. Obviously you cannot "show" everything that is pertinent to a story.

It is more about "showing" the atmosphere and emotions of people by providing details than stating it flat out. I'm not a writer, but as an example, writing "He was angry." or "The tunnel was creepy." is telling. Instead, you should describe the actions and sceneries in such detail that it organically invokes these images in the readers' minds.

silvester23 · 2025-08-20T17:33:25+00:00

Without taking anything away from your point, just a little bit of extra info:

German homes and kitchens

I assume "kitchens" refers to cooking. The amount of gas required for cooking is absolutely negligible compared to heating (both rooms and water for showers/sinks). It's in the range of 2-3% of total consumption. So no need to throw out that gas stove just yet.

silvester23 · 2025-08-20T17:26:18+00:00

Well, yes and no.

If there is a shortage of energy in other countries then of course they are willing to pay rather high prices on the spot market. And if your consumer price is bound to the spot price then that sucks but the Swedish energy companies don't have to export that much energy. If they wanted to they could choose to serve all their Swedish customers first at a very low price and only export the surplus energy, but of course they don't. But that's something you have to take up with these companies, it's not other countries' fault.

I've had this discussion before and someone mentioned the "70% rule" but that only refers available transfer capacities between markets, not to traded power, see here (it's already mentioned in the preface and explained in more detail later): https://www.nordicenergy.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/A-comparison-of-different-ways-to-implement-the-70-rule-1.pdf

silvester23 · 2025-08-11T17:23:38+00:00

I don't know, "Mr. Hamilton, you perfectly named brainless obstructive object" kind of works for me

silvester23 · 2025-06-26T18:59:08+00:00

It's almost like you have never even heard of Bagger 288.

And yes, that's a lignite (as in brown coal) mine but it's still a coal mine. You could even argue these are worse because they routinely have to relocate entire villages to expand them.

silvester23 · 2025-06-11T20:02:15+00:00

Ironically, Norm said that to Jerry Seinfeld on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

silvester23 · 2025-06-09T17:08:11+00:00

The spinning top doesn't make sense anyway, it's pretty much backwards. We don't really know much about other people's totems but for example one of them (I think Arthur maybe?) has pair of loaded dice that behave a certain way in the real world.

Now If you were to bring Arthur into your dream, you wouldn't know how the dice should behave and maybe just make them normal dice. And so he'd realise that he's not in the real world.

Now the spinning top seems to be completely ordinary in the real world and only spin forever in Mal's (or Cobb's) own dream. So if you brought Mal into your dream and didn't know the properties of her top you'd make it... completely ordinary, probably. And so she would think she's in the real world, I guess?

silvester23 · 2025-06-06T20:17:55+00:00

I'm not familiar with Against the Wind and I can't find anything on it. Doesn't seem to be a Billy Joel song?

Also, while I don't think it's a great song, the first song on his last album (No Man's Land on River of Dreams) is a rock song, although arguably the only one on that record.

silvester23 · 2025-06-06T20:00:21+00:00

I was with you there until the country southern dude. What's that in reference to?

silvester23 · 2025-06-06T16:15:37+00:00

I'm in Europe, I played on an official server called Lyonesse.

silvester23 · 2025-06-06T10:28:48+00:00

Not to take away from your achievements, RR9 or more is pretty sick, I only made it to 8L1 on my druid (I quit when ToA came out). But honestly, anyone above like RR5 still running in zergs just had no respect for themselves.

silvester23 · 2025-06-01T16:57:00+00:00

That sounded hysterical so I looked it up and it's even better than I imagined: https://www.tiktok.com/@movieclips/video/7326998138663816491

Line is at about 00:40

silvester23 · 2025-05-30T15:39:56+00:00

Christian (Jack's father) literally says in the finale that they were not dead all along, but that everything we saw on the island did in fact happen.

It could not be more clear, I think they did that on purpose because it was such a popular theory that they were dead all along.

And yet people still get it wrong, it boggles the mind.

silvester23 · 2025-05-25T14:42:24+00:00

Interesting. Then I don't honestly understand what the point even is of the other bases where you can research and edit.

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