Not just Germany. Also western Austria.

Canada has no capacity to liquify natural gas. There’s a shared Canada-US natural gas pipeline system, so some molecules one gets may be coming from Canadian extraction, but it’ll pass through a US-based liquification plant, so from Germany’s standpoint, that’d be where an export would come from, as that’s where it’d be loaded onto a ship.

EDIT: Warren Buffett spent years trying to build one Canada-based LNG plant and fighting environmentalists opposed to it in Canada. He eventually threw in the towel.

I think what @Renohren@lemmy.world’s referring to is that India and Pakistan have, in the past, conducted nonviolent ceremonies at the border involving soldiers from each side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LixwXJpggME

I believe that the painting that you’re talking about was from an American Civil War battle that was close enough to a city (Washington DC?) that spectators decided to show up to watch. A bunch of people (including, IIRC, spectators) did die. That wasn’t being done with the intent of ceremony.

kagis

The First Battle of Bull Run.

https://www.history.com/articles/worst-picnic-in-history-was-interrupted-by-war

On July 21, 1861, Washingtonians trekked to the countryside near Manassas, Virginia, to watch Union and Confederate forces clash in the first major battle of the American Civil War. Known in the North as the First Battle of Bull Run and in the South as the Battle of First Manassas, the military engagement also earned the nickname the “picnic battle” because spectators showed up with sandwiches and opera glasses. These onlookers, who included a number of U.S. congressmen, expected a victory for the Union and a swift end to the war that had begun three months before.

Instead, the battle that day resulted in a bloody defeat for the Union and sent the picnickers scrambling to safety.

Just to confirm, Tineye finds one match corresponding to your image, called “CivalWar_PicnicAtManassas.jpg”, so I suspect that’s from that battle.

I don’t think that I’d call that very representative of even American Civil War battles, though, much less of all prior battles in history.

The War Zone doesn’t have much up yet as of this writing, but I’d consider them a stronger publication on military matters than Newsweek.

https://www.twz.com/air/the-air-to-air-missiles-that-equip-india-and-pakistans-fighters

Meanwhile, another senior Pakistani security source has described to CNN a large-scale air battle involving 125 jets, fighting for over an hour, in which time the aircraft remained in their respective airspaces and lobbed AAMs at each other from long distances.

As well as crewed fighters, Pakistan has also made extensive claims on the destruction of Indian drones. Earlier today, Pakistan said it had downed 25 Israeli-made Harop loitering munitions. One of these drones was able to “partially” engage a target near the city of Lahore, injuring four army personnel, according to Pakistan Army spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.

So far, India’s government has neither confirmed nor denied any of these losses. The use of Chinese-made AAMs by the Pakistan Air Force has also been capitalized on by Beijing, leading to the Indian embassy in China accusing Chinese state media of “disinformation.”

Overall, a significant degree of confusion is very much typical when dealing with engagements that have been happening in the heat of combat. A flood of official and unofficial claims and counterclaims, some of them outlandish, is also to be expected, especially when dealing with social media. So, we should keep an open mind about the results of these aerial confrontations and consider that accidents, as well as friendly fire incidents, are also very possible. At the same time, Indian and Pakistani ground-based air defense systems have very likely also played a significant role, and any aircraft losses could also be the result of surface-to-air missile engagements.

On the off chance that you’re not joking, what @Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works is pointing out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogfight

A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft that is conducted at close range.

A “dogfight” isn’t just a synonym for an air-to-air engagement, but specifically refers to a close-range one.

“Because of our long time history and allegiance together, it is a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our FIRST announcement. Many other deals, which are in serious stages of negotiation, to follow!”

“Allegiance” and “alliance” aren’t synonyms. Neither of us has held allegiance to the other since we were part of the British Empire in the colonial era. How do you manage to dick this up? Literally all you have to do is have someone write things on paper and open your mouth and say them without improvising.

You have to have a speechwriter on-staff.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Director_of_Speechwriting

Ross Worthington.

kagis

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/14/congress/trump-worthington-00198301

Ross Worthington worked on many of Trump’s policy speeches, but the president-elect often veered off-script.

Trump praised his speechwriters but frequently went off script and had a habit of freelancing large portions of his speeches before returning to the teleprompter.

Yeah, no kidding.

TWZ’s coverage:

https://www.twz.com/news-features/india-strikes-pakistan-responds

If you go really small, there’s the quadricycles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadricycle_(EU_vehicle_classification)

The quadricycle is a European Union vehicle category for four-wheeled microcars, which allows these vehicles to be designed to less stringent requirements when compared to regular cars. Quadricycles are defined by limitations in terms of weight, engine power and speed.

https://enews.hamariweb.com/pakistan/heavy-rain-and-storms-expected-across-pakistan-stay-safe-till-may-5/

The Pakistan Meteorological Department has issued a countrywide weather alert, forecasting widespread rain, hailstorms, and thunderstorms from today through May 5, 2025. In response, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has urged provincial and local authorities to take preemptive measures to deal with potential emergencies such as urban flooding, flash floods, and landslides.

Well, sounds like they’ve got water for a bit.

He’s in Canada. Probably inland, away from water.

I do have to credit Norway with the EVs: while Norway is relatively-well-to-do and can afford EVs more than many countries, it did so despite geography that was pretty unfavorable.

It’s a country that gets pretty cold (albeit not to the degree that many other places at similar northern latitudes are, due to their proximity to water). One of the challenges EVs have is cold weather reducing EV range, and that’s on top of not having a free source of waste heat to run the car heater from an ICE, so all the energy to run a heater has to also be pulled from the battery.

IIRC at least some of the Teslas have laminated glass on windows other than the windshield, which I mostly think of as being interesting in terms of sound insulation, but understand also does provide some thermal insulation. I don’t know if anyone makes an “Arctic package” for Tesla vehicles.

Here’s someone talking about charging issues at very low temperatures:

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/ztp410/extreme_cold_weather_review_tesla_model_3_rwd/

Charging: As I don’t drive that much, I am typically satisfied with Level 1 charging at home. I usually can charge 20% of my battery overnight. At -40c however, the car doesn’t charge at all when I get home. So I heat my garage a bit and get the temperature just a bit above freezing, and I wait 2 or 3 hours for the battery to warm a bit, and the battery starts charging at about -5 degrees at a rate of 1kW, or 6.7km/hr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackout

I don’t know how much more pressure can be applied absent direct conflict between the US and Russia, which I don’t believe the US will do.

Almost all US-Russia trade is gone, so not much to take away in economic terms.

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4621.html

In 2021, the US imported $29.6 billion from Russia and exported $6.4 billion.

In 2024, the US imported $3 billion (90% gone) and exported $0.5 billion to Russia (92% gone).

It might be possible to pressure other countries not to trade with Russia via use of secondary sanctions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_Russia

The top party there is China (who I don’t think that we’re in a position to compel to cut off from Russia).

There’s Belarus, which I doubt is going to be compelled to cut off trade from Russia given the state of affairs.

The other top countries are all EU members. I mean, we could try and put pressure on them, but theoretically they should be doing this themselves.

Like, I can understand criticism as to Trump’s interactions with Zelenskyy, but I don’t think that there’s some magic, easy-to-use lever to compel Russia that the White House has in reserve. Maybe weapon supplies to Ukraine are the most-influential left.

This was pretty much what Michael Kofman predicted was going to happen months ago. As long as Russia feels that they can prevail militarily and is making maximalist demands based on that, and Ukraine is unwilling to accept those terms, there’s not really much room for mutually-acceptable terms.

Even if they got something on paper, that’s not likely to translate to a durable peace.

It was fun, everyone was out on the streets, kids were playing and laughing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_European_power_outage

On 28 April 2025, at 12:33 CEST (11:33 WEST; 10:33 UTC), a major power cut occurred across the Iberian Peninsula affecting mainland Portugal and Peninsular Spain, where electric power was interrupted for about ten hours in most of the Peninsula and longer in some areas.

Ten hours isn’t a huge deal unless you’re maybe in an elevator or train or something where you get trapped.

But if it goes up to multiple days, things like availability of water or ability to receive communications become increasingly-important.

And while it didn’t happen here, sometimes the reason that power is out is because of a larger disaster. Maybe a wildfire or earthquake or whatever. And a lost of power can make responding to problems that that creates a bigger problem.

Also, we’re switching from ICE vehicles to EVs, and while the up side is that that means that a lot of people probably have a much bigger-than-in-an-ICE vehicle battery handy that they can power small devices from for a while, it also means that without grid power, more transportation infrastructure goes down. Someone in this thread mentioned the postal service. I don’t know whether the USPS can generally operate without electricity (lighting in mail rooms? Automated sorting machines? Mail transport via airplanes? Maybe at reduced capacity…), but they’re migrating to battery electric vehicles, and with those, I don’t know what kind of mail service they could provide if the electrical grid is out.

Well, I suppose it depends on what people are out for. Like I said, if it’s death that they’re interested in, then, yeah, it would. But if they’re okay with the crashes without the death, then I’d think that it’d be okay.

In all seriousness, I think that there might be a good argument, in 2025, for converting races, be they car or boat or whatnot, to be remotely-driven.

We’ve got the technology today.

It’d permit for higher speeds and suchlike, and eliminate some requirements.

The audience doesn’t get the drama of the driver maybe being killed in an accident, but by-and-large, blood sport has faded into history.

There are clearly some people who watch racing for the crashes — but it’s possible to have the crashes and have vehicles potentially destroyed without the drivers being killed too.

They’ve had an actual (small) war before over Kashmir, subsequent to them both getting nuclear weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_War

They did not use their nuclear weapons.

It also marks one of only two instances of conventional warfare between nuclear-armed states (alongside the Sino-Soviet border conflict).

There’s some phone that’s made in Germany that I remember. It is not competitive, but it exists.

kagis

Gigaset.

https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/

Smartphones Made in Germany

Gigaset is the only company in the world that produces smartphones in Germany. That is a statement. And only consistent, because we have been manufacturing modern telecommunications solutions at the Bocholt production site for seven decades now.

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Apparently also Hungary:

https://mobilityarena.com/european-cell-phone-brands/

List Of Smartphones That Are Made In Europe

Gigaset, the German phone maker, produces their cordless phones, smartphones, and smart home systems in Germany, making it one of the few cell phone brands that still manufacture on the old continent.

In September 2023, HMD Global began to manufacture the Nokia XR21 in Europe, specifically in Hungary. That is it. I am aware of only two European cell phone brands that do any manufacturing in Europe today in 2023.

I don’t think that we make any phones in the US any more.

https://usamadeproducts.biz/electronics-cell-phones.html

There hasn’t been a truly USA made phone since the mid-2000’s when ever increasing demand and competition resulted in most phone companies shifting production off-shore to Taiwan, and now China, Vietnam and India.

They do list the Liberty Phone, which is an extremely expensive, low-end phone ($2k, 4GB RAM) with some major components manufactured in the US and assembled in the US.

https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-liberty-phone/

I don’t think that the goal is for Germany to fund the entire project, but it helps. Other parties can also chip in.