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No. Thats why Bernd does not Nostalgia. Childhood was bad, dont want to be membered.

Nope.

Yes. I'm also one of the few people I know that liked going to school.

My childhood was incredibly boring as my dad is fairly spartan and didn't believe in toys or game consoles or anything like that. I got to play games at my Cousin's house though and there were good things about my life as well like living next to a pine forest.

I was never really happy. My childhood didn't have the depths of depression as would come after puberty but there was always something slightly off. I'm also wary of people who look back at the world as being better than it was. Such a classic human being psychology mistake.

>>24102 Yes, but also being lonely, sad or frightened a lot. But it is in the past, I am a different person now.

At least more often than nowadays. I always had this melancholy with me, but when you can be a carefree easily excited child seeing all sorts of things for the first time, life can be enjoyable.

>>24107 sames my dad had this weird ideology when I was a child where TV, games, any form of popular media was at least heavily discouraged. Something that all the retvrn to nature types push for tbh but it's really not as fun as they think it'll be.

>first Literally me and my bud when we found the school janitor's porn mag hidden in a pile of firewood

The mid-90s era was an unusual time for the west. The soviet eastern block was gone, the chinese eastern power not yet developed. The borders were still static, movement of people on the planet was not as easy as compared to the last 15 years. There was no culture capable to compete with the west at that time. It was just an about 10 year lasting anomaly in time. Don't think about it like it was the norm. It wasn't.

>>24124 You did gay shit, admit it.

I have a far better adult life that isn't mired in stifling redundancies catering to retarded parents who do not understand the importance of basic development. So no.

Inflation of the USD from 1998 to 2025 is roughly double. So all prices should be doubled in that video for easier comparison.

>>24141 Now do the wage growth within the same time. Did it double, too?

>>24142 No. But then there is a lot that was quite expensive back then that has become quiet cheap. like Fridges and such. Final fantasy 7 and Metal Gear solid cost 50 USD in 1998. I guess that's roughly in line.

>>24144 Awesome for people who buy a fridge or tv every other day. For everyone elso, that shit sucks.

Mostly yes. Even though my family was poor and I grew up on a small farm away from everything. Playing with sticks and climbing trees was enough to be happy.

In the 90s everybody was the 1%.

Politicians made us poor by eating our money abroad and on refugee niggers and for leftist bullshit and enviro green bullshit like renewables.

>>24160 t. Rosneft employee

>>24161 German industry can not compete, because energy prices are immense. They are six times as high as in other countries. How does your enviro-green leftshit brain think this is ever going to work? Renewable power sources only work when the weather is sunny/windy, and t you need to add immense storage to their cost to get reliable estimates for the cost of renewables, which no one does, LCOE is a lie. Everyone understands this, but you.

>>24164 Your energy isn't expensive because of renewables but because you ran down your nuclear power and relied on Russian fossil fuels which led you to have a massive energy shortage which raised the prices. Other countries with renewable energy have very cheap energy.

>>24164 >because energy prices are immense Yes. But the reason is in first line the most costly of all energy sources, natural gas. The price of energy in Germany is bound to the currently active most expensive source, and that is gas, like the gas we get/got from Russia. That's the greatest joke of all, and why the energy industry progagates gas power plants, because they want to use these power plants to keep the energy prices and the profits high. >Renewable power sources only work when the weather is sunny/windy Renewable energy is more then sun and wind (and there is alwys wind offshore, where the most of our wind power is generated). And you can use surplus energy from sun and wind during summer to make hydrogen for storage. And we have a lot of unused potential in that area. Dis you know that we have more land dedicated to golf courses as we have for wind parks?

>>24171 >Other countries with renewable energy have very cheap energy. THIS!

Idk, everthing seems same to me.

>>24164 >German industry can not compete, because energy prices are immense. They are six times as high as in other countries. Protip: Over at Kohlchan, people might not google your lies. If you want to lie here, then lie about something that's not debunked in seconds.

Older I get recalling happy memories from the past gets harder and harder.

>>24171 > relied on Russian fossil fuels Germany is (was) an industrialized country that can't just switch off when it's cold and dark. Germany needs gas peakers to keep the lights on. Without renewables, the market for gas would be much smaller in Germany. >ran down your nuclear power Clouds cover the sun in minutes. Wind rises and falls in minutes. Nuclear power plants can not follow such load curves. They literally take hours to go from low load to full load. > Other countries Which other countries? Switzerland? Sweden? Austria? They can use hydro. Germany is too flat and too densely populated for that. The opposite is true. The cost of electricity in other countries near Germany reaches spectacular peaks because Germany selfishly uses their grids to stabilize its own grid. Prices reached peaks of 450 öre in Sweden, because of Germans. I hope the Swedes make their threats come true and cut off Germany. Power outages are just what Germans need to make them accept reality. It's highly unfair that foreigners need to pay .4€ per kilowatt hour just because they live next to a country full of deluded idiots. >>24172 The opposite of everything you say is true. The cost usually estimated for renewable energy is far below the true cost in a high-renewable scenario. The cost estimates usually use LCOE, which is levelized cost of energy. But LCOE does not take into account the additional cost accrued by installing peaker plants or grid-level-storage, which would not even be necessary without renewables. In Germany, gas peakers are blamed for high cost. But guess what: if Germany didn't have renewables, there would be no need for so many gas peakers. I think the argument of 'cheap' renewables, while ignoring the cost of of storage/peakers, is mainly made by de-growthers out of sheer dishonesty. They want enough people to go along, and they know that once the economy has been destroyed, it is not coming back and everyone will just be poor a.f forever. They want this, because it's so enviro green and because they think Germans need to be punished for being too white still and too rich still, while there are poor niggers in Africa. They can't make the niggers rich and white, so they need to make Germany colored and poor, to create 'justice'. > hydrogen Another lie. Electrolyzers and fuel cells have terrible efficiency. They are also expensive and would be rubbing at full power only very, very few hours. In fact, they'd be running at all for maybe a few weeks out of the year. High price investment goods with low efficiency that are rarely used are horribly expensive. How come you do not know that? So you know nothing at all about technology or economics?

>>24232 >The cost of electricity in other countries near Germany reaches spectacular peaks don't buy your personal electricity on the spot market, problems werent

>>24279 You still pay the price, because at some stage in the prices, these fluctuations have to factored in and averaged out.

>>24282 actual picture is probably that overall prices are lower because of increased market efficiency what it does wreck is subsidized energy schemes because suddenly your subsidies go abroad