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Why I'm embarrassed to be German
Youtube ^ | 6 july 2024 | Sabine Hossenfelder

Posted on 07/06/2024 9:03:29 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Germany is not the well-functioning, environmentally super-conscious, high-tech nation

it used to be. You go to a train station, half the trains are cancelled, the other half is delayed,

the escalators are broken, the announcements are barely audible, and in the unlikely event

that you can connect to the wifi it’s so slow that by the time the news is streaming it’s become a historical documentary. Or maybe it’s quantum wifi, collapses the moment you touch it

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Science
KEYWORDS: baddecisions; centralplanning; collapse; europe; germany; sabinehossenfelder; trainsontime; youtube
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Sabine, my favorite quantum physicist, is on a roll...

Most of the German downfall already happened in large US cities years ago.

Not as much fun as usual, but worth the watch.

1 posted on 07/06/2024 9:03:29 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT
environmentally super-conscious

What's the big deal?

It's fine if they want to be nuclear but they're not even doing that.

2 posted on 07/06/2024 9:04:38 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Oh...I thought it was because German is out of the Euro cup.


3 posted on 07/06/2024 9:08:16 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What are you saying Sabine, you wish someone would come along to make the trains run on time?


4 posted on 07/06/2024 9:11:50 AM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Germany has no good future. None.


5 posted on 07/06/2024 9:14:55 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Anybody who’s read the first book of Asimov’s Foundation series knows what this means and where it’s headed.


6 posted on 07/06/2024 9:15:36 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The West is dying. People vote for their destruction.


7 posted on 07/06/2024 9:19:28 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Sarcazmo

lol


8 posted on 07/06/2024 9:19:46 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

While I’m sure she’s exaggerating the extent to which internet speeds are dragging (this being the Germany that had the strongest economy of its peers, whether East or West, during the Cold War), it’s noteworthy that the German government approved the use of Huawei gear, the foundations of which are ripped off from Cisco and the carcass of Nortel, whose tech was cloned down to the last detail. You have to wonder what the SPD is thinking, if it’s thinking.


9 posted on 07/06/2024 9:20:58 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Thanks for posting. That was an interesting video. She’s a good speaker.

Anyway, a nation can spend its money on sensible things like maintaining infrastructure. Or it can spend its money on illegal immigrants and on chasing unworkable “green” dreams.

Germany (like most of the West) has made the wrong choice.

It’s worth noting the speaker here still pushes some of that stupid green ideology as she criticizes other parts of it. 🤔


10 posted on 07/06/2024 9:23:29 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: pepsionice

Dang!


11 posted on 07/06/2024 9:24:47 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Sabine is an unquestioning believer in the climate change crisis, so I seldom watch her. If she can’t figure out it’s a fraud, how smart can she be?


12 posted on 07/06/2024 9:26:00 AM PDT by devere
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To: DUMBGRUNT

That’s what you get with a government command-and-control society rather than a society free from gov’t coercion.


13 posted on 07/06/2024 9:28:30 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: devere

Sabine is an unquestioning believer in the climate change crisis, so I seldom watch her. If she can’t figure out it’s a fraud, how smart can she be?


Or too dumb to see how the policies she advocates contribute to the problem.


14 posted on 07/06/2024 9:31:20 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: Sarcazmo

Ohhh… That’s a good’un! 😄


15 posted on 07/06/2024 9:34:34 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: rbg81

Unquestioning belief in the climate crisis lie is the problem.


16 posted on 07/06/2024 9:40:30 AM PDT by devere
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It’s tragic, but nearly every bad idea in government affecting America has come from Germany. Communism, nazism, Prussian bureaucracy, public education as a regimentation process… you name it.

They should stick to roads, sausages and beer.


17 posted on 07/06/2024 9:41:17 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

She puts a lot of the fault on “the government” bad and slow decisions.

Where do private companies come in on this? Or is Germany a centrally planned economy where the government dictates what can and cannot be built.

You hardly ever hear of anything new coming out of Germany.


18 posted on 07/06/2024 9:43:38 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Zhang Fei

—”While I’m sure she’s exaggerating the extent to which internet speeds are dragging”

My sister and brother-in-law lived in Germany for many years, he was a civilian NATO employee.

Their house was one of the few with a landline, the wait time was YEARS for a phone line.

His boss, the base Commander was on the wait list, they enjoyed telling him he could use their phone in an emergency.

Cell phones have become very popular in Germany for some reason.


19 posted on 07/06/2024 9:47:47 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

For a closer look at Germany’s doom I recommend the blog “Eugyppius:a plague chronicle.” great insight into the damage caused by government policy especially regarding unchecked immigration.


20 posted on 07/06/2024 9:51:52 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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