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I'm somewhat hopeful, in the last ten years, new and renovated country roads have been getting dedicated bike lanes behind the guardrails. Miles away from the excellent, completely separate infrastructure the dutch have, but its a start.

Living in the boonies, I'm never going to get a bus going by every ten minutes so a solid market for good EVs is still what I root for.

Eh, ID7 and A6 are getting there. BMW i4 ain't bad either.

Uncontrolled growth that blocks healthy cells from just doing their job and hogs all the resources. Hey, that metaphor ain't half bad!

Yep. I archive channels I like locally.

"Kraneberger" - "Château Tap" in German.

If you just want a local network with DHCP and WPA to do whatever, no uplink is necessary.

Yes. You explain it as if what I have described were an intellectual problem. It is not, so the support you tried is not helpful in my case. But this is public, so, maybe for someone else.

I can't cook. That doesn't mean that I am not able to when given time and resources and a receipe, that means that the amount of things I can fight through in a day is limited and I need to use that budget wisely, earning money, caring for my dog and seeing to it that my house and garden don't fall apart.

That means, I can't cook, even when it looks like I'm just sitting there, staring into the blue. "You just have to...", no, you just have to, and the what you have to is "shut up" and "stop using yourself as a reference for everything".

It's just interaction bait.

On some level, water would work the same way. If you were to collect water from somewhere, feed it into a pump and hook that up to your kitchen faucet, as soon as you increased pressure a little above that of the public water pipe, water would flow backwards from your faucet through the pipes in the house into the public water supply and your water meter might run backwards, depending on its construction.

disclaimer: Unlike freshly harvested AC electricity from a solar inverter, home collected water does not meet the hygiene standards for public supply. Absolutely do not do that either.

Huh, the wiring just supports power spontaneously coming from an exit point rather than an entry? Is that commonplace?

Why wouldn't it? Electrical wiring isn't a one way road, electricity (this is an extreme oversimplification, especially when it comes to AC) will always flow from points of high voltage to points of lower voltage. That's how solar inverters feed into the grid. Raise their voltage a tad bit higher than the grid and match the frequency and phase of the grid until the outflow matches their maximum available power.

Is that commonplace?

That is a hard question, because this isn't a feature, it's how things are. Only thing one needs to take care of is that the solar inverter doesn't deliver so much power that the circuit can consume beyond the circuit breakers capacity, otherwise the breaker would be rendered useless. That's why these small plug inverters are limited to 800W in Germany, that puts the entire possible load on a 16A circuit into the general upper limit that is still within the safety margin fro 16A circuits.

EDIT: Now before someone gets the bright idea to connect their diesel generator to the grid this way: Don't. It will not be in sync or phase and that will make something spectacular happen, but it will not supply the grid. Either have an expensive generator that is able to sync to the grid or have a grid disconnect and switchover in front of your generator plugin socket.

EDITEDIT: Also please never connect an island capable solar inverter to a plug. The ones described above are safe that way, because they wait for grid voltage to be available before they do anything, so there will never be high voltage on the open plug. An island capable solar inverter does by definition not do that. There will be high voltage on the plug and it will kill you and it will hurt like a fucker the entire time you're dying.

It detects a voltage connected to the plug and starts feeding with slightly higher voltage, done.

These are really common in Germany, even being sold as sets at supermarkets occasionally.

As long as you have one of the old Ferraris style meters, it just runs backwards, these usually pay for themselves in about three years on a sunny balcony that way.

I didn't think there was a confusion about that until now. Actually I still don't think so. Explain.

The point is replacing a somewhat transparent legal system with an arbitrary mess which makes everyone that isn't exactly on the politically desired line feel uneasy all the time due to uncertainty of state actions.

Never again having trouble figuring out the exact welding wire needed for all the gathered materials in a project seems like an excellent perk by itself.

I mean, you can always hook a trailer to a normal car or something like a Subaru Outback if you're going off-road. That's what people do here. Monday to Friday they commute in their normal, affordable, not extremely huge car and on Saturday the trailer comes out.

Alert fatigue is always a sign that the alerting isn't on point enough. I have no good idea for a replacement here though.

Yes. Exactly.

sincerely,

the car manufacturers of America

VII. The Political Place of the 1936 Games in the History of National Socialism

In 1933, Hitler saw his long-term goal in the "conquest of new living space in the East and its ruthless Germanization" (commander's briefing on February 3, 1933) as endangered primarily by the possibility of a preventive strike by France. In this "risk zone of inferior armament" (Goebbels before propagandists of the Gau Berlin on November 22, 1938), the impression of a peace-loving country was to be created abroad, of course with simultaneous secret rearmament. The Olympic Games were highly suited to document love of peace and willingness to understand. By the time they took place, the decisive blows to "release from the shackles of Versailles" (military service, establishment of the air force, reoccupation of the Rhineland—the latter between Winter and Summer Games) had already been carried out and had brought the foreign policy breakthrough. They formed the high point, but also the conclusion, of Nazi peace propaganda.

In the immediate temporal context of the Olympic Summer Games, the decisive course was set for war: while the memorandum on the Four-Year Plan, read out by Göring in the Council of Ministers just two weeks after the conclusion of the Games, which culminated in the task: "1. The German army must be operational in four years. 2. The German economy must be war-capable in four years," has meanwhile found its way into schoolbooks, no one has yet noticed that the corresponding contribution of the Army Office for the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, which assumed a start of war on October 1, 1939, annual armament costs of nine billion Reichsmarks, and a predicted loss of 2.25 million men per year of war, was presented precisely on August 1, 1936, the day of the solemn opening of the Games. With Mommsen, one must therefore speak of a gigantic camouflage with cynical elements in connection with the XI Olympic Summer Games of 1936. Parallel to the course setting for war, 1936 saw the forced expansion to a police and concentration camp state. The "Gypsy camp" Berlin-Marzahn and the Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen concentration camp are as much products of the Games as the Reichssportfeld and the stadium. In Prussia alone, the police was increased by 1,400 men in the fiscal year 1936.

The short sequence of political highlights of 1936: Winter Games, Rhineland occupation, elections, Summer Games, all combined with the first noticeable economic upswing, strengthened Hitler's self-confidence. These events of 1936 were culmination points of the increasingly strong Hitler cult. The departure of the Third Reich into immoderation—one need only think of the flood of celebrations and receptions—is linked to the XI Olympic Summer Games.

The organizers of the Games, whose Olympic enthusiasm and international reputation made the success of the Games possible in the first place, have always denied these connections only briefly outlined here. They have never admitted to having been co-participants in a gigantic deception maneuver. They have always adhered to the fiction of the apolitical festival. Other participants were more self-critical. In conclusion, therefore, Pastor i.R. Fritz Ullrich should be quoted, who in the run-up to the Games had helped to convince the Americans "that the news about Christian persecution spread about the 3rd Reich was lies." On January 22, 1980, he reported to the chairman of the EKD about the entanglement of the Protestant Young Men's Association at that time and summarized: "And now once again the question: What was the success? The success was that a few days after the return of the athletes and spectators to their home countries, the 'Stürmer display cases' were painted red again and contained the most repulsive anti-Jewish pamphlets, that the 'Black Corps' resumed its fight against the churches with increased intensity, that the disciplining and spying on churches in church services, community events, and youth work were intensified. Hitler had documented his triumph as a peace chancellor before the whole world, and we had helped him to do so. Since then, 44 years ago (!), I, who come from a strongly national, not National Socialist, home, have not been able to come to rest over the fact that we, who had embarked on these preparations and executions with the best of intentions, had fallen for the swindle."

A similar testimony like that of this churchman is not known from the field of sports or the Olympic Movement.