Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. Actually, we had plenty of time to build nuclear power plants before winter -- we just unfortunately chose not to. It doesn't take a year to physically build a nuclear power plant IF it becomes a matter of national priority. It would also have been extremely simple (and cheap) to reopen the German nuclear power plants that had been closed only months earlier. It is also an extreme no-brainer to NOT close the last few German nuclear power plants. Building a million electric space heaters (or buying them from China or whatever) is also pretty damn easy when you have months to prepare. Heat pumps are slightly more complicated so they likely can't be produces at such scales that quickly -- but Germany could have started the production and started a real Energiewende instead of the current fake one.
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  2. The EU is also a mutual self-defense union. It’s not just NATO that is.
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  3. Germany just recently finished paying off its WW1 Versailles debt — for a war they didn’t even start.
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  4.  @Luis_Domingos  I didn’t know it until my German was good enough for watching Tagesschau.
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  5. Other Inuits. The current ones are descended from Canadian immigrants.
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  6. Several mini Italies might work better.
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  7. "Hate speech" laws always have that problem. Always.
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  8.  @CoNteMpTone  Sparén is a Swedish name. Ola is (mostly) a Norwegian name.
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  9. 1) There was a single mass immigration incident under Merkel but apart from that, nothing had really changed since Schröder. And Schröder mostly continued Kohl’s immigration policies… 2) Russia (and the Soviet Union before it) has deeply infiltrated German politics (and journalism). All the crazy sustainable energy stuff (wind/solar) is really just an expensive way of making the country much more dependent on (foreign) gas. Merkel just continued Schröder’s policies… and Schröder was rewarded with a highly paid sinecure in the Russian gas industry!
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  10. By “invest” you mean “spend”. Investments have expected returns.
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  11. 1) A lot of them can be switched to resistive heating or inductive heating powered by electricity. 2) depends on how you design your nuclear power plant. Some plants are good at it, some are not.
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  12.  @ciarz_  it’s the cleanest one that works at large scales. A tiny amount of wind/solar is cleaner. Large-scale wind/solar is worse (because it will always need to be backed by something else that is nasty). The only non-clean thing about nuclear is the processing of spent fuel rods, which historically created a lot of pollution. I think that has pretty much been fixed decades ago in the West.
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  13.  @Burito-tj5ry RN is actually quite leftist, unfortunately. It’s just that they also have reasonable policies on immigration and crime.
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  14.  @WhichDoctor1 and the police/military/courts (and private citizens!) in Turkey and Lebanon are allowed to use much harsher methods to keep the refugees from becoming too problematic. They also largely have the religion in common and for Lebanon also the language. Those countries don’t have nearly as high taxes and as much redistribution to the refugees. They also have lower-skilled labour markets. But you knew all that, didn’t you?
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  15.  @yyyy-uv3po it would reduce the spillover into Denmark while Sweden maybe, slowly, comes to its senses.
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  16.  @Jakolo121  switch to the much more sensible media in Austria and Switzerland for a year and see if you still feel the same…
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  17.  @irtakus  seen from the outside (I speak German but I am not German), Germany is a crazy place with the most extreme state media I’ve seen outside of the DDR, the Soviet Union, Russia, China (I speak and read some Chinese), and North Korea. Switch to Austrian and Swiss media for a year and you’ll probably be able to see it, too. The courts aren’t exactly normal, neutral, or law abiding, either. I don’t believe any of the judges are directly controlled or bought puppets. I believe most of them are as crazy as your journalists.
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  18. Or a not so “little percentage”.
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  19. Huh? What about the Santer Commission and Edith Cresson?
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  20. So, 1) you are saying the Muslim/African/Arab immigrants are starving and go without shelter and clothes and 2) you are saying they rape and kill out of poverty? Get a grip!
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  21. Mustache looks. Let’s keep it at that.
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  22.  @thetaomega7816  some of them are likely being trained in Belarus — they might become a problem later. The rest are just used as cannon fodder to protect the other soldiers a little.
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  23. Found the Serb.
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  24. Nothing "ish" about. It is legal, always was, no matter what any of the courts may say.
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  25.  「 Deadpoppin 」  communication will not be a problem. We can handle air traffic control in English all over the world, for example, and Iranians and Pakistanis rip off the same English language textbooks on the internet as everybody else. And as the weabo (*the* Weabo?) said, even the French and Germans are getting decent at English these days. No, the problems are with the support of the populations of the member states and with agreeing on who to attack and who to protect us and our allies against.
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  26. Some people would. People did that back in ‘99 to fix the Y2K problem.
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  27.  @mdsfhs  The "Dane" is actually half Swedish.
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  28. That "electoral college" is called the European Parliament. It did exactly that for von der Leyen, Borrell Fontelles, and the entire rest of the Commission. Every country does not have the same number of "electoral votes", nor should they. Do you really want Malta/Cyprus/Luxemburg to have the same number of votes as Germany/France/Italy/Poland/Spain? (Ok, if the votes were weighted by quality I suppose Luxemburg should have 5 times as many votes as Spain and 50 times as many as Greece...)
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  29. Why are you evil?
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  30. Furthermore, we don’t have anything like the FBI. All we have are the European prosecutors, which are prosecutors in many EU countries that are appointed by the EU and which can initiate court cases at the normal courts inside those countries. The idea is to get around corrupt/captured police/prosecutors in member states but they only work if the courts are clean.
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  31. LED light consumes a lot less power than old-skool light bulbs. Often 20x less or more.
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  32. Ukraine is prepared for winter. Russian soldiers are not…
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  33.  @amd.amdamd no, it didn’t work. There are simply too many now for it to ever work.
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  34. Let’s ruin the entire country instead of just a small part?
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  35. Poland should definitely have stayed out of Danzig.
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  36.  @1337Stream  you sound like a Communist apologist to me. Or maybe someone with severe delusions. SD is not fascist in the slightest, Sweden has at least a million Muslims who shouldn’t be there, Sweden also has nasty gang wars between the Muslims. And you complain about the SD? Seriously, what’s wrong with you?
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  37.  @31173  Is it really all that uncommon? I bet you know "syndaflod", right?
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  38.  @RainerSpielberg  and you are definitely politically illiterate :)
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  39.  @mab9614  no, the anti-nuclear movements all over Western Europe were communist and remote controlled from Moscow.
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  40.  @HungaryBased  Yes, a tiny minority. Not the masses of colonizers from the Soviet occupation. Please learn your history.
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  41.  @widmawod  No, you clearly don't know much. They can move to Russia if their life as occupiers and descendants of occupiers doesn't suit them.
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  42. Finland was an unofficial member of the Frugal Four (Five). The PM is a Social Democrat and she is heading a coalition government that includes two radical leftist parties + the Social Democrats, a center party, and the party for the Swedish minority (also center). There is broad agreement in Northern Europe on this matter, across party lines from left to right.
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  43. @Feloogleno, but he was very clearly on the far left.
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  44.  @宋教仁-b4i also seen in many Arab names. Former French colonies use ‘ou’, the rest use ‘u’. The sound is the same.
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  45.  @pnkwds  I think that tells us how much weight we should give his "well informed" opinion...
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  46. Maybe it is already too hard to get fresh loans to feed the French state? A better pension system => (much) more sustainable economy and state finances => lower interest rates for government bonds?
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  47. The farmers get most of their income from direct and indirect subsidies. How would they do without the rest of us?
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  48. Bias*ED*. One can be bias*ed* or one can have bias. One cannot be "bias".
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  49. That would be the best possible outcome for the Flemish and the worst possible outcome for the Waloonies. And of course also deeply unfair for the minority in the South that are sensible. Maybe they can move up North? ;)
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  50. Resistive heating (as in your toaster) works. Heat pumps work even better — it’s better to burn gas at the power plant, boil water to super-heated steam, push it through turbines, turn some dynamos, send electricity through the grid (with resistive losses + losses during transformation to 230V) and then power heat pumps…. Than it is to burn the gas directly at the consumer for heat. If you want to save energy, you want heat pumps and electricity. (But you knew that already, right? As a “green” party support, right? Who knows high school physics, right?)
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