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I live in Frankfurt and have 1 Gigabit/s Internet - but: that is sadly an exception. Reason for that: in 1981 the chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his SPD gouvernment decided to build fibre optics all over the country. If that had happened we would be in a good position these days. The former Federal Postal Minister Kurt Gscheidle (SPD) presented a 30-year plan to the Federal Cabinet. Starting in 1985, the Federal Post Office was to equip one thirtieth of Germany with fiber optics every year. "With an annual investment volume of three billion marks, a period of 30 years is to be estimated for the expansion." But sadly he gets couped. His coalition partner, the FDP, decided to quit the gouvernment and to coalate with the CDU. However, according to Wirtschaftswoche, the next Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU) stopped the project. His minister of post and telecommunication is said to have had someone in his family who earned a lot of money with copper cables, because he had a company producing them. Most of the criticism is not far away, but slightly exaggregated. Compared to other countries we still like to complain on a high level. But if you don't face the problems it will get worse, so it is also the german way to be honest to yourself and your problems otherwise your not able to do it better...

Sadly this isn't a joke in the slightest, but a point on analysis of our current technical status quo. Sabine Hossenfelder is a well known theoretical physicist and her science news are really top notch.

Sadly, it's true what she says.

2:40 Yes. 3:55 One of my bosses visited me in Münster, last year. He drove his Tesla. I live in the inner city (close to the Medieval city walls) and yet he did not find a single appropriate charging station that was near enough to make sense to use. 7:15 No, lol. Bureaucracy, overpreparation, analysis paralysis, caution before all else, that IS the German mindset. It's the stereotype of how we think and on average, it's true! Always has been. Change comes slooooooowly in Germany. Think of it this way: the political system was built specifically to resist change, so it wouldn't become the Weimar Republic 2.0. Try keeping up in a world that keeps changing faster and faster while you're a country engineered for stability and stagnation. And it's not just the system, it's the mentality, too (that started much earlier). We're habitual overthinkers, which is great for getting to the truth of a scientific question but not necessarily when you need new infrastructure yesterday. 8:50 Good in theory, not in practise. It's a bit like blind activism, like people glueing themselves to the streets to fight climate change. Achieves nothing, probably more of the opposite but it feels like you're doing sth. 13:05 I cannot see that happening, sadly. There is some major corruption ("lobbying") keeping coal as dominant as it is. And we can't well increase our production from renewables if we don't expand our infrastructure, which we stopped doing at a large scale in recent years. Germans are also irrationally fearful of nuclear power. People simply cannot rationalise Fukushima and Chernobyl. They see 2 major accidents and ignore the entire rest of nuclear power production. They see how long the byproducts last but don't realise how insignificant the total amount of nuclear waste really is, at a global scale. They might see more and more floods in this country and somehow think of climate change but not really make the immediate connection. A power plant blowing up, on the other hand, doesn't require a lot of mental faculties to register as dangerous. In other words, this is a feelings vs facts thing and the feelings won this fight a long time ago in Germany. Keep in mind that Germans are also *incredibly* superstitious. We almost lead the world in terms of relative use of homoeopathic quackery (Switzerland is leading that chart) and the other idiots are literally our (partially) German speaking neighbours. No idea why but people who speak German are apparently fairly open to snake oils. Oh and it isn't just about production capacity. We need more cables, simply put. 13:25 But she literally just explained to you that we're not. Did you not see the graph on us trailing in energy coming from renewables? You literally just saw it. We're not at the forefront. We may have been for a short time, at least a decade ago but no more. That's the issue. Everyone is sitting atop their high horse thinking we're oh so environmentally concious but we really aren't. We just got a reputation and then were happy to rest on that.

Well its true, since late 90s we only had usless muppets in parlament.

As an American who moved to Germany 7 years ago, I can assure you the internet here is exactly that terrible. I live just outside Berlin, and the fastest internet I can get is 80Mbps. A lot of what she said was a bit hyperbolic... However the root of it all is actual problems. My largest problem is electricity though, they claim to be super green with wind and solar. But the backbone is actually Lignite.. If you do not know what that is look it up. Its the DIRTIEST form of Coal in the world. And it is how they deal with spikes... "multiple times per day"

9:00 what happened to the project? Easy. After the people who built it got paid, it turned out that it didn’t have any practical use… classic example for wasteful spending on „grand ideas“ that looked great on paper.

She's exaggerating but I think that she's basically telling some true facts.

And she didn't even start with school system, health care, and the lack of skilled workforce (while at the same time making integration of immigrants as hard as possible)

She is wrong with the Nuclear power plant. It will take a lot of time (several years) and a lot of money (several billion) to build only one nuclear power plants. We hardly used them before. Also nuclear power is one of the most expensive energy source. It was strongly financially supported by the state. please also note: She is talking about "Energy consumption" not just electricity. That is why Oil is so hight. Eg. for petrol. In the same wikipedia article you can see the share of electricity and there 62% comes from renewable energy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany

Im more scared of people with guns and violence then the Internet but i do approve of telling about your country or saying the problem approved it's better then being ignorant because this isn't the German i know if this information is true because it's German engineering and thinking in all technology like i like the German military because it's the second country the most visited and in there history Germania or Germany they had imagrint not saying it wasn't like that else where but in saying this because Germany is my favorite and also the german military and there technology in the past is advanced but this can't be happening to see Germany failing or in the past but at least doing better then others in the past or future

Has 150mbits and complaints... typical german. PJ i can tell you most germans have really good internet (at home not phone outside). I mean you still upload in 720p quality 😂 and we pay like only €40 monthly for high speed Flatrate. Reallly cheap compare to the US.

Waaaaay.

The problem with our energy supply isn't that we create too little renewable energy, but the 'ancient' network and it's missing capacity to transport the energy. We already create so much renewable energy that we have to cut these from our network as the coal and nuclear plants can't be shut down as easily during energy peaks. With the current trend that you can setup solar cells even outside rented apartements we could provide the necessary energy easily with renewable systems. Due to the missing network capacity we currently only create 45% of the necessary energy with renewables, but e.g. China is already at 80%.

NA ,I wouldn't really take Sabine's comments so seriously . She's just comparing the internet , software , IT system to the big US giants like Microsoft, Apple, Facebook ,Google those corporations have monopolies on those things and don't share any of the advances or profits to the citizens of the US they keep it all to themselves. Germany is vastly superior to other countries including the US in many many aspects. She's just reminiscing of the Germany of the past and it's glories !

This woman has no idea what she’s talking about

Sadly she is right. The German government - and it does not matter which political party used to be in power - made so many mistakes and wrong decisions within the last 25 or 30 years. Believe me - we´ve got about 700 parlamentarians but nearly 3000 lobbyists who exert influence on politics just priorotizing their own interest instead of taking care what is good and optimal for the country. This is why a political party from the right like the AFD is now at about 25 to 30% on votes. The folk is annoyed about the established parties and thinks that everything is getting better by voting for Nazis .... Watching these changes in society and politics with all that consequences makes me really sad and angry!

Will Germany use only renewable energy in 10 years from now?🤔 Hahaha, never. (Please read my other comment on this topic.) Germany will be lucky if it is still the same country in 2 years, and I mean that very seriously.🥶