looks at an image
Wait this isn’t a picture of the AfD?
Guten Tag
You think that’s bad look up lithium and nickel mining. Since you want electric cars so much.
You mean mining reusable lithium and nickel vs this single use coal?
Bagger 288 is there to safeguard all mankind.
Any person who gets in its way is soon to be de-meated
civilisations rise and fall but Bagger 288 is eternal
Bagger 288 can never be defeated. Not even by time or entropy. That is not dead which can eternal lie.
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.
They say Beelzebub himself fears the Bagger 288
Looks like Hambach, which is an absolutely humbling sight: https://maps.app.goo.gl/D5Qhp7CkHCgYebaA8
Holy hell, that hole could fit two Manhattans.
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.
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)
It really is a funny feeling, where it looks genuinely awesome (in the literal sense) but at the same time is also horrifically destructive
Germans don’t hate themselves, their government hates them.
Show me a country where this isn’t true.
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.
Reminds me of this absolute banger: https://youtu.be/azEvfD4C6ow
*bagger
Look like Minecraft to me, perhaps the Germans really like the game
*meinkraft
Minenbau
Minenbastelei
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.
That was actually done during the CxU/FDP (Center right/Liberal) coalition period. Green party was not in power.
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.
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.
