The hope that humanity has learned something from wasting its time clicking away completely useless cookie pop-ups on websites has probably died once and for all.
That's right, Germany sells electricity to other countries during the day and buys electricity in the evening because there is no sun then.
The problem is that other countries also have solar and wind power during the day and don't need this electricity at all. That's why Germany has to “sell” this surplus electricity, even though no one needs it. To ensure that the electricity is still "purchased", Germany has to pay money for it. In the evening, Germany has to pay money to buy back the missing electricity.
Paying money to have something purchased is generally referred to as garbage fees.
WTF about your understanding of the German power grid, I would say.
Germany is not in a position to continuously meet its own electricity needs, but is dependent on daily aid deliveries of electricity from abroad. The electricity needs of industry cannot be met in a market-oriented manner, but taxpayers have to spend additional money so that industry can continue to produce at all.
The absurdly high prices for electricity in Germany prevent any competitiveness. Ignoring all of this can only be described as WTF – what country do you actually live in?
As an Asperger it is very funny to see how people react on that bot behaviour. That behaviour is 100% trained from human behaviour especially that constantly whining and that pathetic self expression of how progressive and inclusive everyone is.
Never thinking about that this actual rude behaviour might come back at some point to yourself - and it was not a question of if but just of when.
"But when you add them all together, you end up with a terribly laggy affair"
I think this is the key.
People fall in love with simple systems which solves a problem. Being totally in honey moon they want to use those systems for additional use cases. So they build stuff around it, atop of it, abstract the original system to allow growth for more complexity.
Then the system becomes too complex, so people might come up with a new idea. So they create a new simple system just to fix a part of the whole stack and allow migration from the old one. The party starts all over again.
But it's like hard drive fragmentation - at some point there are so many layers that it's basically impossible to recombine layers again. Everybody fears complexity already built.
Well, the tech stack is insane: Some virtual machine running a web browser process running a virtual machine for a html renderer which consumes a document declaration language incorporating a scripting language to overcome the document limitations trying to build interactive programs.
Actually much worse as Microsoft once did with their COM model, ActiveX based on MFC foundation classes with C++ templates, etc.
And to build those interactive programs somebody is trained to use React, Vue, etc. using their own eco systems of tools. This is operated by a stack of build tools, a stack of distribution tools, kubernetes for hosting and AWS for managing that whole damn thing.
Oh - and do not talk even about Dependency Management, Monitoring, Microservices, Authorization and so on...
But I really wonder - what would be more complex?
Building interactive programs based on HTML or Logo (if anybody does remember)?
Well ... it speaks for their competence. It's like creating a Teams meeting about classified security issues on Windows 95 systems...