German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    The black sun got removed in 2015, this is the new one. But, go on, spin random bullshit.

    The Azov Brigade’s official magazine is titled “Black Sun newspaper” which it produces and distributes to several tens of thousands within the Ukrainian military still uses the black sun, because it’s literally the fucking name of the publication.

    Some but not all of them are available here: https://archive.org/details/black_sun/

    Given that this archived collection goes up to 2017, you are full of shit.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah no that’s indefensible and the original editor in chief is nuts (google translate from the Ukrainian wikipedia page):

      This is an old Ukrainian sign, which means a force aimed at destroying all the old and restoring the new. There is another version of its origin: the black sun is the period of the year when water acquires special life-giving qualities. This usually happened at night, when there was no sun, but since the nutritional properties were always associated only with it, our ancestors nicknamed this time the black sun. There is no hint of hostile ideology here, this is our Ukrainian symbol, which has a sacred meaning.

      — Mark Melnyk (“Viry”), editor-in-chief of the publication

      Couldn’t find out when it was discontinued, the azov.press domain certainly is dysfunctional. Azov’s official news feed seems to be here.

      Could neither find out how official the whole thing was, either, and especially not in the crucial post-incorporation times. They might just have continued to operate independently.

      Still, though: Is current-day Azov out there doing Nazi things? Ultimately that’s the only question that matters. Of course from the Russian perspective yes it is according to Russian propaganda everyone opposed to Russia (and that includes being opposed to being invaded) is a Nazi.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Couldn’t find out when it was discontinued

        The magazine is produced by Azov’s political wing, the National Corps as of 2016, which has currently suspended activity during the war. It will spin up its political wing again afterwards. Links and references in the other comment I sent here.

        the azov.press domain certainly is dysfunctional

        This started redirecting to Nackor.org in 2016 when the National Corps was started.