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Specifically: in Bavaria. Which is, of course, in Germany, but also a bit of a "state within a state", ruled by one party (the CSU) since the beginning of time, er, of the Federal Republic of Germany, and where things like this, which would cause much more outrage elsewhere, can and do happen.

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Bavaria has really insane police overreach

EDIT: I'm being downvoted for this? They literally have total police surveillance, all the Germans here in Hamburg talk about it all the time

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Wouldn't it depend on the context though? If someone's being downvoted for something correct but unpopular, is that okay as per site guidelines?

My own practice is to largely ignore instances. They're not hurting my Imaginary Internet Points much at all.

Very occasionally I'll ask if someone could clarify or substantiate concerns with a comment. But that's about as far as any notice should go.

This is the place which famously required wind turbines to be 10H the distance from a settlement for a height H.

That sounds sane to me, honestly.

For other countries, maybe. But Germany doesn't really have any spot devoid of any settlement

So then use nuclear power. Oh wait, you can't because there was an tsunami in Japan.

Germany: "oh well, we'll increase burning clean coal, but create some crazy roadmap that we'll be carbon free in a few decades or so"

Germany needs to get its shit together, energy-wise. You are a disgrace in the union, honestly. With your economical development and technical know-how levels you should be at the forefront.

We had technical know-how. Past tense. Then technology became evil incarnate.

Nowadays we are scared of everything, ignorant of any kind of science. All policy and all public outrage is purely based on ideology and wishful thinking. If one kind of wishful thinking fails, we do not reconsider, we double down or replace by another, even weirder kind of wishful thinking.

Basically, we are back to a pre-renaissance way of thinking. We are back in the dark ages.

And I'm honestly scared of that.

I think its based on the fact, that if you start arguing with moral, logic doesnt matter anymore.

I can tell you that this really tilts me as a german.

Our politics is all wishfull thinking and ideology, but arguing with the laws of thermodynamics isnt really working...

And I'm defenitely neither right wing, old, nor climate sceptic

The Danish Church is allowed to veto buildings of wind turbines if they were within the 28x the height of the turbine. This is quite a long distance if you consider the 160m tall 14MW Siemens (though I think that may be offshore only).

There are more than 2000 churches in Denmark. Only the minister of the interior could override that veto.

Research "gustl mollath" of you wanna know what scary things can happen in bavaria.

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