Yeah flixtrain is a no go for more than 1 or 2 hours: fucking loud indeed, no airco, not enough working toilets!

I've travelled rail in many European countries and overall to me DB ist a pretty good price for what you get.

Perhaps, one day, by 2040 or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Baltica :)

Ich wäre schon zufrieden, wenn nur ein paar Nachbarn ihre nagelneue Schottergarten wieder mit Sträuchern und Bäumen umgestalten würden.

Riding into Frankfurt for example can be quite nice tho. You see the skyscrapers in the distance while riding at 250-300 km/h through gently rolling hills dotted with small villages while drinking your free bahnbonus beer...

True: riding trains is not all alpine landscapes dreamrides, but it's often through a nice landscape nonetheless, just not as spectacular. Being in a 1h delayed train still beats being in a 1h car traffic jam imo

How is this NSFW? Camera missed the impact and video cuts off, don't even see a blast or fire

I just really found the flamingo resembles it. I'm no current rocketry expert, so in my brain seeing pictures of a Flamingo referenced to something historical I do know and which I think is very widely known. There's nothing more to it than that.

How many years does it take to build a refinery from scratch? 3? 8? And perhaps a new refinery elsewhere will be a tad cleaner?

The real outcome however, could be that Russia tries to quickly apply bandaids to their broken infrastructure to get it up and running again fast. And that way their oil refining could become more polluting than ever.

I think on the global scale, Hormuz has a way bigger influence on helping many countries move towards renewables faster.

Where I'm from, they are the measuring stick for "authoritarian state goes total war over ideology and fucks up" in a modern/mechanised way.

Look at the v1. Then look at the flamingo. It's almost like they pulled an 80 year old drawing out of a drawer for their design! And the Russian tactic of causing panic and terror is exactly what Nazi's did with bombing London! I do it because it makes sense. This special military operation got so out of hand the world wars are almost the only historic wars worth comparing it too. Just hope he gets hanged by a mob like Mussolini or shoots himself in his bunker soon...

They basically reinvented the Nazi V1 with their Flamingo, and although only small % get through, it's devastatingly accurate against refineries.

Meanwhile, Russia uses the old Nazi strategy of launching very expensive rockets at apartments with civilians in cities, doing 0 strategic damage to Ukraine war capabilities, just like the Nazi V1 and later V2 was used and was relatively useless despite its high price.

Oh, and Ukraine can shoot at almost all Russia's refineries and weapons factories, but Russia can't do it back because Ukrainian can always import from refineries and factories in France, Germany, etc, beyond the NATO border...

So they'll promise a new office building or a datacenter to create jobs... Didn't Munich do this once already and that was the result?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux?wprov=sfla1

_In 2013, Microsoft had announced in 2013 its intention to move its German headquarters to Munich in 2016, which according to Reiter though, is unrelated to the criticism they've presented against the LiMux project.[9]

In 2014, Munich deputy mayor, Josef Schmid, and mayor, Dieter Reiter, considered going back to Windows due to alleged productivity problems. However, Stefan Hauf, the spokesman of the Munich city council stated that the majority of issues stem from compatibility issues in OpenOffice, something which could be solved by switching to LibreOffice.[10] Moreover, the head of municipal IT services, Karl-Heinz Schneider, stated that most things were fine, and they had managed saved some 10 million euros (more than 13 million dollars). He emphasized that the number of complaints and malfunctions had not exceeded the usual level for an organization of this size.[citation needed]

In 2016, Microsoft relocated its German headquarters to Munich.[11]

In November 2017 Munich city council decided to revert to Windows by 2020 with all systems being replaced by Windows 10 counterparts. Some of the reasons cited were adoption and users being unhappy with the lack of software available for Linux. A report commissioned by Munich and undertaken by Accenture, found the most important issues were organizational.[citation needed]_

Neither were the heatwaves supposed to be so severe here right now already. Climate predictions were low side estimates, it's happening faster and consequences of major tipping point influences (ice free arctic) are extremely hard to predict.

Sure.