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Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by mcphage »

pepperoni_pizza wrote: post #58
ragebol wrote: post #45

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How do renewables create a dependency on fossil fuels? This dependency already existed before renewables in the current sense were a thing. If anything, renewables help existing stock of fossil fuels last longer as you don't burn as much when renewables are generating.

The way they do renewables in some places: * solar with no storage * shutting down existing nuclear * natural gas peaker plants * making everyone to use natural gas for heating by making it much cheaper than electricity * slowing down the EV rollout by keeping to subsidize gas and diesel could definitely be seen as a scheme to make the fossil fuel gravy train last as long as possible. And that's not even talking abou…

> The way they do renewables in some places: > * making everyone to use natural gas for heating by making it much cheaper than electricity

They do renewables in some places by selling cheap fossil fuels? That’s… not doing renewables.

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Post by renewiltord »

pjc50 wrote: post #76
renewiltord wrote: post #64

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The US decision to enter the war was independent of (and I think before?) the extermination camps, purely decided by Germany declaring war on the US. The practice of interning a large number of people in camps without access to legal process .. well, which side of the Atlantic has more of that at the moment?

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Post by duxup »

ragebol wrote: post #2

It's still baffling to see the US lose so much face in so short a time. There is definitely truth that Europe has relied on US defense for too long, but what the US got in return is hard to put into words and economic terms. We bought your tech, culture, defense and so much other stuff. This rift won't close anytime soon

They bought all that stuff, but it was also a choice.

I wish Europe was more organized as a group and assertive. But as it stands I don't think Europe is capable of that for reasons beyond just "we bought a lot of stuff". Politically I'm just not sure they're capable.

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Post by dbg31415 »

dbg31415 wrote: post #5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j20voPS0gI Once all the Germans were warlike and mean, But that couldn't happen again. We taught them a lesson in 1918 And they've hardly bothered us since then.

Downvoted for Tom Lehrer?!

Oh right. Germans don’t understand sarcasm. Ha.

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Post by jahnu »

benterix wrote: post #120
jahnu wrote: post #62

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This is the truth. It would only take half a dozen Republicans to stop the madness now so the obvious question is why don't they? The political system and elite institutions have failed their country. Does the US self correct with the next two election cycles? Hard to believe right now.

> It would only take half a dozen Republicans to stop the madness now Well, the alternative for now is Vance. Hard to say which one is worse.

Definite risk of a monkey paw curling. But I assume he's less chaotic.

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Post by eru »

preisschild wrote: post #27
wolfi1 wrote: post #10

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you certainly don't know how belligerent the Hapsburgs were

Fun Fact, a Habsburg was even blamed for the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic > After his fall, Honecker said of Otto von Habsburg in relation to the summer of 1989, "this Habsburg drove the nail into my coffin." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic

Weirdly enough, Honecker was unrepentant until his death. They didn't put him on trial in the unified Germany, because the law in Germany is intentionally soft towards the terminally ill.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

pjc50 wrote: post #22
vr46 wrote: post #16

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They're laughing all the way to the bank, the US has locked Europe into so many long-term petrochem supply contracts courtesy of two energy crises, and the US have stated point-blank that the supplies (of LNG, in this case) are tied to the US-EU trade treaty plus whatever changes the US wants to make. Same protection racket plus a foot on the brake of the EU's push to renewables.

The renewables rollout just keeps going despite the discourse. It does mean buying things from China, which is now the least threatening option.

I don't mind buying from china, as long as they're not irreplaceable essentials (like oil). Solar panels and -batteries are fine as long as they meet safety standards and don't have backdoors, and for all the fearmongering that Chinese made tech has backdoors in them, nobody seems to have found any evidence of that. And since it's electronics, any chip and any software can be investigated and taken apart by both amateur hackers and government funded (IT) security bureaus. Nothing. Unless I missed it, but I don't think something as big as that would go by quietly.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

strogonoff wrote: post #74
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #67

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Minor nitpick: you meant "lose", not "loose". It's a common mistake that I see around, and I think it might be useful for you to know :)

I dabble in correcting other people’s spelling on occasion (can’t help it). Somewhat frustratingly, the usual reaction is “language evolves” and “everyone uses it this way” and “if it is understood, it does not matter how you wrote it”.

Well only to a point, I don't think there's been any significant or formal "we spell this existing word like this now" in a very long time.

The only way English language really evolves now is by the addition / invention / adoption of a new word or added meaning to existing words, like yeet, influencer, youtuber, incel, looksmaxxer and simp. And a lot of them are meme words not actually used in normal parlance. Others are the wider adoption of subculture specific words and expressions, like AAVE getting adopted by teenagers / young adults.

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