I was surprised when I read about it too, but it's true, they quite literally just plug them right into the normal plugs.
It works because there's a certain tolerance on the German breakers that allow for power to reverse. The balcony panels take advantage of this. However this also limits the possible output to whatever the tolerance is, otherwise it would overload and shut off or worse.
Do you think they'll accept a loss at the next election, or are they going to start a bloody conflict anyway?
I think the proper way to handle the Chinese/Russian shadow fleet would be to sink them as soon as possible.
If they don't register on AIS and don't respond when called on radio first time, just send a torpedo without any further warning.
See who responds afterwards, and if they don't, just wait and see how many more they want sunken.
There's little point in arresting them just to listen to their lies. If they had any legitimate reason to sail around there, they'd have answered the call the first time.
It's certainly possible to drive from Finland to Portugal. It takes a little more than two days of constant driving. About the same as Seattle to Miami.
I'm not sure I follow the importance of this, unless you're into long road trips. I would choose a flight in both cases, or a least spread the drive over several weeks for the adventure.
Most people only ever know their local area. And even that can be more than enough. People who live in New York or London don't have a chance of knowing every street in their cities. They only know the routes that make sense in their lives. They only get to experience wherever they happen to be throughout their lives. Does it then matter which city is bigger, when you can only ever experience a fraction of it in a lifetime?
Neither EU or USA has any city in the top 20 of largest cities world wide anyway. All the really big cities are in Asia.
My point is that I don't think it makes any sense to claim any value in being from some place that has the largest land or population or cities. They're just facts that have nothing to do with the individual person.
It matters a lot more to me how people behave, what they are capable of or what they know. I'm not impressed with anyone who simply bases their self worth or identity on being from some place that has something that is bigger than some other place. Maybe patriotism is the real explanation.
And that's the thing that annoys me about Americans, because quite a few of them seem to have a superiority complex over it. It's perfectly fine to be proud of what your fellow countrymen have achieved, but it doesn't automatically reflect back on the individual.
Or put differently: "Oh wow, the Grand Canyon is really impressively grand. Now, which part of it did you make?"
It seems to have worked well enough for them, since they're the ones running the government now.
I also don't think they're going to leave peacefully ever. If you want them out, you might as well toss them out sooner than later.
The size bragging.
No, Texas isn't that big. Texas is about the same size as France.
USA also isn't that big. Europe is larger than USA.
Sure it's big and all, but the main difference is really just that there are fewer people in USA than in Europe. It has a lower population density, making everything seem further apart.
The reason I find it annoying is that the most obnoxious types have a tendency to use it to validate their own opinions on every fucking topic. Obviously we tiny Europeans just can't comprehend the scale of their American way of doing things in the most backwards and old fashioned manner.
I've met plenty of American immigrants. Most of them are really nice and humble and appreciate learning how stuff works here. However some will eventually encounter something that doesn't make sense to them, but rather than learn, they'll cave in on trying to explain in the role of the world conquering strongman why it just won't work in the scale that they're used to in America, as if that would make any sense to do in that situation.
It's delusional.
Bicycle tires were invented by Dunlop and improved by Michelin.
You know these names, because it actually wasn't a dumb idea.
We can't just walk to fucking DC and remove a democratically elected prez you idiots
It's Jan 6th. tomorrow, just saying.
I don't know why Greenland is pink in that picture. The liberals (right of center) won the latest election.
Jeg kan forestille mig at der også er en del pensionister som køber deres sidste bil, og ikke kører nok til at besparelsen på strøm giver mening i forhold til et lille benzin forbrug,
Det kan være en stor investering for dem og de har måske et indtryk af at benzin er mere driftssikker alene fordi de kender det i forvejen og ikke har erfaring med strøm endnu.
Jeg kender også pensionister som kører på strøm, men det sker først når de andre i deres omgangskreds gør det og det er altid med en god portion brokkeri. De er ikke ligefrem first movers.
Actually, they don't.
When Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to USA in 1916-1917, part of that deal was to ratify that USA accepted the full Danish ownership of Greenland.
At the time, this was done to keep Norway from making claims to Greenland.
But anyway, we quite literally have a document written by USA and signed by USA stating that Denmark alone owns Greenland.
Edit: Took some time to find, but here it is signed by U.S Secretary of State Robert Lansing who made the deal under President Woodrow Wilson.