Somalia. There isn't really a functional government to speak of, so if the people even acknowledged the UN-backed central government exists, that would be something.
It's not continously true for Germans tho. When the green party makes it into the ruling coalition it always feels they care and a few good things happen for the benefit of most.
And then the next government takes those good things, which they have massively decried when they were the opposition, only to reimplement the exact same thing with a slightly modified name.
And Germans vote for those governments. (Technically they vote for the parties in the parliament and the resulting coalition can be a bit hard to predict, but y'know.)
There are definitely parties that you can vote for that hate Germans less than the current government parties.
And iirc it's something like 500m deep... absolutely awesome human achievement apart from the tiny little problems with it (it keeps eating up neighboring villages plus it produces brown coal which is the worst kind, environmentally speaking)
They will fill it up with water once they are done mining. It'll take about 40 years to fill though, between ground water and extracting water from the Rhine river.
More about this here. So yes, they do that. And nobody does that unless they hate their country. Or at least their lungs and climate because lignite is a catastrophe for both.
German Green Party abhors nuclear energy; after Fukushima the government closed all the nukes and coal filled the gap “but renewables will be ready soon”.
ETA the greens weren’t government but their anti nuclear stance was a helpful part.
Fukushima was such bullshit. It was never a good design in a reasonable place and they knew it when they built it. It's like saying we shouldn't wear shoes in snow because your neighbor wore Crocs in 3ft snow drifts while hiking and lost their feet.
It's like saying that wearing designer boots that are on a decade's back order and gradually fall apart as summer progresses is not how to keep your feet cool during endlessly worsening heat caused by the neighbors burning sneakers like the Springfield Tire Fire from The Simpsons.
(Compared to renewable energy, nuclear is more expensive, takes much longer to build, is more wasteful, and is becoming less and less effective and safe as a result of climate change warming the water sources the plants depend on)
True, and it still doesn't include that the boot industry has no interest in building proper snow safety but just to make it as cheap as possible and if the boots fail, the state should pay you for your wet and cold feet.
And "imports" do not happen, because there isn't enough domestic energy to be had, like right-wing fearmongers want you to believe.
They happen because the European grid is working as intended and it just is the economically viable option to import instead of firing up expensive plants.
62 Comments
ajmaxwell@lemmy.world · 93 pts · 248d
Reminds me of this absolute banger: https://youtu.be/azEvfD4C6ow
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 248d
*bagger
rem26_art@fedia.io · 29 pts · 248d
Bagger 288 is the only hope we have
X@piefed.world · 15 pts · 248d
Knew it without even opening. A certified classic.
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 248d
That was beautiful =)
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 248d
I was reminded of this banger https://youtube.com/shorts/sCXxadiR2CQ (mud wizard)
wieson@feddit.org · 5 pts · 248d
"mud wizard" is his English name. In the original sindarin his name is „der Mönch von Lützerath“
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 248d
As a bonus if you watch this you don't also really need to watch that new animals doing drugs special as this covers most of it.
far_university1990@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 248d
They still exist and still play live. But site before 2015 only in wayback machine.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 85 pts · 248d
Germans don't hate themselves, their government hates them.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de · 78 pts · 248d
Show me a country where this isn't true.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 248d
Somalia. There isn't really a functional government to speak of, so if the people even acknowledged the UN-backed central government exists, that would be something.
lurch@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 248d
It's not continously true for Germans tho. When the green party makes it into the ruling coalition it always feels they care and a few good things happen for the benefit of most.
bob_lemon@feddit.org · 5 pts · 248d
And then the next government takes those good things, which they have massively decried when they were the opposition, only to reimplement the exact same thing with a slightly modified name.
ulterno@programming.dev · 2 pts · 248d
And I thought people would know that
greencolour is used for friendlies andredfor enemies 🙂↔️Oh wait.. I chose AMD over Intel and nVidia 🤦
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 2 pts · 248d
Pretty sure Americans hate themselves
TypFaffke@feddit.org · 3 pts · 248d
Oh I hate us alright
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 245d
And Germans vote for those governments. (Technically they vote for the parties in the parliament and the resulting coalition can be a bit hard to predict, but y'know.)
There are definitely parties that you can vote for that hate Germans less than the current government parties.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 45 pts · 248d
Noo, the Bagger 288 is designed to fight against godzillas and doom robots from the future!
Any incidental global destruction is mere completely unintended collateral damage.
lauha@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 248d
They say Beelzebub himself fears the Bagger 288
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 247d
That's German engineering for you.
ZonenRanslite@feddit.org · 28 pts · 248d
Guten Tag
data_science_rocks@scribe.disroot.org · 1 pts · 248d
ZonenRanslite@feddit.org · 1 pts · 248d
Gulag immer Nacht
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 248d
Look like Minecraft to me, perhaps the Germans really like the game
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 248d
*meinkraft
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 248d
Minenbau
bob_lemon@feddit.org · 5 pts · 248d
Minenbastelei
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 245d
Meine Kraft
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · 1 pts · 248d
Rofl
lauha@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 248d
Bagger 288 is there to safeguard all mankind.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org · 7 pts · 248d
Any person who gets in its way is soon to be de-meated
Zyratoxx@fedia.io · 6 pts · 248d
civilisations rise and fall but Bagger 288 is eternal
lauha@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 247d
Bagger 288 can never be defeated. Not even by time or entropy. That is not dead which can eternal lie.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 248d
The logical evolution is Carpet Bagger.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 248d
looks at an image
Wait this isn't a picture of the AfD?
gergolippai@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 248d
Looks like Hambach, which is an absolutely humbling sight: https://maps.app.goo.gl/D5Qhp7CkHCgYebaA8
Capybara_mdp@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 248d
Holy hell, that hole could fit two Manhattans.
gergolippai@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 248d
And iirc it's something like 500m deep... absolutely awesome human achievement apart from the tiny little problems with it (it keeps eating up neighboring villages plus it produces brown coal which is the worst kind, environmentally speaking)
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 247d
It really is a funny feeling, where it looks genuinely awesome (in the literal sense) but at the same time is also horrifically destructive
gergolippai@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 247d
Exactly that!
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 248d
Also destroyed one of germanys oldest forests
bob_lemon@feddit.org · 2 pts · 248d
They will fill it up with water once they are done mining. It'll take about 40 years to fill though, between ground water and extracting water from the Rhine river.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev · 12 pts · 248d
It eats from one side and shits to other (France) side. All is fine.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 248d
Spits out French wine.
plyth@feddit.org · 7 pts · 248d
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 248d
I mean weird way to state it but basically true.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 248d
No, this isn’t true, but it fits the British and US stereotyping (dating back to +/- 1946) quite well.
Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 248d
Die eatingearthswchagenmachine
Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee · 2 pts · 248d
More about this here. So yes, they do that. And nobody does that unless they hate their country. Or at least their lungs and climate because lignite is a catastrophe for both.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 248d
Straight into the air.
Actionschnils@feddit.org · 1 pts · 248d
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 248d
Man i love reclaimers they're so cool to be around
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social · -8 pts · 248d
You think that's bad look up lithium and nickel mining. Since you want electric cars so much.
TBi@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 248d
You mean mining reusable lithium and nickel vs this single use coal?
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · -21 pts · 248d
German Green Party abhors nuclear energy; after Fukushima the government closed all the nukes and coal filled the gap “but renewables will be ready soon”.
ETA the greens weren’t government but their anti nuclear stance was a helpful part.
LazyGit@feddit.org · 35 pts · 248d
That was actually done during the CxU/FDP (Center right/Liberal) coalition period. Green party was not in power.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom-Moratorium
ShotDonkey@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 248d
Totally BS what you talk. Es war Altmeier (CDU) der die Energiewende in die Scheiße gefahren hat. Now shut the fuck up.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 248d
Fukushima was such bullshit. It was never a good design in a reasonable place and they knew it when they built it. It's like saying we shouldn't wear shoes in snow because your neighbor wore Crocs in 3ft snow drifts while hiking and lost their feet.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 4 pts · 248d
No, your example is wrong.
It's like saying nobody should go into the snow because it can't be 100% ensured that all shoes are snowready.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 248d
Closer, but still wrong.
It's like saying that wearing designer boots that are on a decade's back order and gradually fall apart as summer progresses is not how to keep your feet cool during endlessly worsening heat caused by the neighbors burning sneakers like the Springfield Tire Fire from The Simpsons.
(Compared to renewable energy, nuclear is more expensive, takes much longer to build, is more wasteful, and is becoming less and less effective and safe as a result of climate change warming the water sources the plants depend on)
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 3 pts · 248d
True, and it still doesn't include that the boot industry has no interest in building proper snow safety but just to make it as cheap as possible and if the boots fail, the state should pay you for your wet and cold feet.
lurch@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 248d
3rd quarter of 2025 Germany had 64.1 % renewables and rising and imported only 8.2% more than it exported. Source: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2025/12/PD25_436_43312.html
Also, it's building giant battery storage: https://www.heise.de/news/Energiewende-Europas-groesser-Batteriespeicher-soll-in-Alfeld-entstehen-9530856.html
Unfortunately the CDU is currently ruling and they'll try to slow it down.
kossa@feddit.org · 3 pts · 248d
And "imports" do not happen, because there isn't enough domestic energy to be had, like right-wing fearmongers want you to believe.
They happen because the European grid is working as intended and it just is the economically viable option to import instead of firing up expensive plants.