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Cake day: January 28th, 2025

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  • This won’t work. A new car easily takes 5 years to develop. A new charging pole might only take 2-3 years to build (don’t forget all the necessary tape) but large scale electric infrastructure can’t be upgraded that fast. You might need another power plant, new power poles all over the country, new substations*, … Then there are the legal challenges and the NIMBY crowds. The to-do-list is long and some entries are mindbogglingly expensive, complicated or both.

    • The big transformer stations are incredibly expensive and sometimes take a whole year to build. You can’t crank them out by the thousands.

    Don’t get me wrong I want to switch to all electric transportation as early as possible too. But you have to accept that some steps just take time.




  • At least for Germany that’s not the whole picture.

    They banned the sale of cars that have a combustion engine running on fossil fuel starting from 2035. Semis running on Diesel are fine*. Special equipment for agriculture (harvesters, …) can still run on anything*. If your engine runs on alcohol it’s fine too**.

    * might change in the future.
    ** Just give me a sip from your fuel tank.




  • I can see the ‘Core EU’ uniting into a single state like a United States of Europe or a European Federation but not the whole of the EU or Europe.
    The ‘Core EU’ are the member states that push for further integration like France, BeNeLux and Germany. But there are member states that don’t want to give Brussels more power like Hungary.

    This can cripple the EU. A merger state would dominate all votes with their larger population and number of representatives. There could be no decision without the approval of them. For example a qualified vote requires states with at least 65% of the EU population. FR+GER+BE+NE+LUX together represent ~41% of the total EU population and can therefore block every vote. They could create some kind of duopoly of the merger state and EU remnants to balance power somehow.

    The EU always was neither fish nor fowl, why not make it weirder? 🤪


  • UA wants security guarantees. Deploying Western troops on their territory to secure the borders is a security guarantee.
    That is what can prevent another attack by Russia. RUS would have to attack these troops to advance which would trigger not just a war against UA (again) but also against whom those troops belong to.

    And yeah, UA needs more weapons.


  • Oh we remember our history very clearly. We are currently in the most peaceful period of our continent since its colonization. And we clearly need that peace because the last wars on this continent were more bloodier and deathly than the ones before.

    If Europe decides to return to ye old days there won’t just be a litte squabble at the edges - WW3 will happen! Don’t you realize that?


  • I’ll make you recall this comment when a Russian bomb tore your place apart just because the EU started to be credible.

    There are 450m EU citizens at risk. Those are the ones the EU member countries have to care about. Yeah, we hate what Putin did to UA but our priority is EU first and there’s nothing wrong about that.

    Deploying EU troops on UA territory and let them fight Russian soldiers directly will be seen as an act of war. That’s not yet another red line that Russia set up and people ignored. Putin will warm up whatever nukes he has left - not as a threat but as a weapon to use.

    And then what? Would you risk everything just to prove what a mean boy you are?