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Hello and welcome to a new edition of the digression where I occasionally feel as good as
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Never stray from the subject. Oh man, what a day. Do you know that? There are days when you have
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Not really a topic you want to talk about, because there are so many other things,
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that just happened, just like you did laundry or you did the dishwasher
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Cleared out, some things like that.
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Yeah, you know exactly what I mean.
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And that's exactly what a day is like today.
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I've been trying to record since Sunday.
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We have Wednesday today.
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And somehow there was always something in between. Stress, anger, anger, disappointment. Somehow so
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all together and then somehow parallel to each other. Yeah, well, that's not the case now
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Great thing, everybody knows that somewhere. For me, this is actually an exception. Yes,
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It started really well this week. Quiet, relaxed, with many beautiful impressions and
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Then, somehow, it came down to knuckle-licking.
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And then you have to worry and think,
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how others are doing.
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There was now the big issue, the power outage in Berlin.
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And I have to say, I'm totally shocked,
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that in a country like Germany, a city of millions like Berlin, such damage is caused by a single attack on the infrastructure,
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There is no electricity in half the city.
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This is my announcement.
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I remember when we were kids, we were playing near the old session grounds.
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There were closed roads and there you could ride nicely with the skateboard.
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There were also some sloping spots.
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We liked to ride with the remote-controlled cars or skateboard.
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And there I was with my sister, we did some rounds there
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And then at some point we heard such a noise, such a loud transformer buzzing and then such a hiss.
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And my sister's like, "You, that sounds weird."
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That must be said, next to it was a substation.
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Thick big sound around it, small building, outside stood three fat transformers
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and power lines that go there, here on a large mast, so 110 kV. This can be done to the
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Count the insulators. And yes, we went home and the electricity was gone. And then there was the
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Electricity away longer and away much longer. Then one day on the radio you heard,
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That's where a transformer went down. And so we have a beautiful,
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Quiet night spent with carrot license. And the next day the electricity wasn't there either,
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In the morning we went to school. Thank goodness it was bright.
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Because it was late autumn. And then one had also heard that strangely enough the district,
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So these few houses that are next to the old session area where the transformer and the
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The house stood, there was electricity. There is no electricity in the rest of the city. Totally funny.
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I think in the course of the morning electricity came back and I only then
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I learned late in the afternoon because I had been in school for so long. Yeah, but that was just one night
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without electricity. Camping equipment not an issue, so you make yourself the food, if you have something warm
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want coffee, tea, with the camping stove and I could do that now. I've also stopped
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Camping stove and a few gas bottles in stock. Not because I'm the one here,
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which would attach importance to the fact that in the event of a case, a catastrophe,
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Could there be something great to do? No, no, no, no. It could be that you sometimes feel like,
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When you're on the road, do something. At least that was the idea of where to put it.
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He bought it. Because I could still do that. Now I have it this way, in case the electricity really fails.
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Or if I'm really so mobile that I could do it again.
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The thumbs are still pressed. We only had one night at the time. I can still
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2010 remember where this huge snow event was in Münsterland and then it snowed so much
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had and was such a wet snow, which was then on the power lines of the high-voltage masts
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immediately frozen, that there are two or three masts bent and then almost the whole Münsterland
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There was no electricity. Over several days in the worst winter in several years. And yes, then they had
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The animals on the farms are also the problem. The cows could not be milked.
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Many other things, but I remember that the cows really had a problem. I mean,
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They then had full milk skins and that must also be extremely unpleasant for the animals. And
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then so apeu-apeu they had then switched the power grid there so far,
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They were then able to supply the entire area again.
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My then-girlfriend couldn't go to her parents, either.
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Because that was the night from the 23rd to the 24th.
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And then there's nothing left, nothing left.
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So really, there is no public transport, even the trains and so on.
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And it was all gone, it was all out.
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That only went back on the 25th and then she stopped, I think so 10 o'clock, she made her way from Dattel to Dortmund to the station, so she could then go home.
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And that was annoying for her now, but that had been so blatant.
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So that's why I remembered it.
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Once because of these amounts of snow, these huge icicles on the houses.
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And on the other hand, because half the Münsterland had no electricity. Yeah, that was crasser. In my
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Of course, I have already experienced many a power outage and most of the time this was a
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A matter of a few hours, sometimes even less than an hour, and I can't imagine
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As it is now in Berlin, where there stops, I believe today, have all received electricity on Wednesday,
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Where I'm taking this. Where you are so many days without electricity. Apart from the fact that a refrigerator
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And a freezer for a while to get it all sorted out. What about aquariums?
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and terrariums. So if you have a freshwater aquarium and you have a battery-powered air pump,
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So that you just get air in, then the animals are fine. But what about the filter? The
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Filter is also a biologically living unit, where bacteria keep the nitrogen-rich
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excretion, conversion into a form of nitrogen that the plants absorb and
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From this, they draw their energy and grow without poisoning the fish.
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Nitrite is a poison that prevents the blood from absorbing oxygen.
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And so the fish in the aquarium suffocate, even though there is enough oxygen.
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and reptiles need a certain warmth and if so the dwellings cool down,
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It is guaranteed that the animals will survive. Yeah, that's a tough tobak. But that's all
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Compared to my problems so much worse and more dramatic. I mean,
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I had seen someone again today who posted a photo where he got an injection in the eye
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It has been said that the worst thing in the world is.
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Sure, the idea of getting an injection in the eye isn't great.
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This is also super unpleasant, but it's not the end of the world.
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I know people who say that a syringe in the foot is the absolute end of the world.
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Yeah, it hurts. I've had this several times.
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Just like syringes in the fingertips.
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Yeah, that really hurts.
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Honestly, my world hasn't gone under.
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I survived.
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Why do you always have to be so theatrical and then
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Make everything look like
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There's nothing worse than that.
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Yes, if I thought that I would sit there day without electricity,
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Well, I mean, the apartment would just be cold. Thank goodness we don't have for what.
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What a minus degree, but something between -2 and -6, 7 degrees.
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Maybe there could be -10 degrees this weekend in some parts of Germany.
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Hey, it's cold. It's really cold, if you ask me. That is also the question,
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how long such an apartment is in a temperature range in which one can exist, without also,
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that the building structure is damaged in some way.
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Because if the walls continue to cool down, somehow water condenses on it,
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If you don't leave the house, you have a problem.
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Yes, these are all things to consider.
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And then there are my problems, which I have in life and in everyday life,
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Again and again as small things.
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Others would also say, hey hat off, that you're doing it all this way, but that's not an issue.
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When I think about how other people are doing and how other people are doing it from the FF.
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So I hope that the animals that people kept at home,
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They did absolutely no harm in the matter.
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And that you somehow managed to do it all with as little effort as possible.
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And that people now have warm apartments again quickly.
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I think especially of the people who need care.
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I mean, I take care of myself.
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And if then such a shared accommodation must, just because you can no longer be adequately cared for at home,
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It's really a shitty thing. I'm glad I'm home and not
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I have to stay in an institution or something else, but that I have to provide adequate care.
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Get home. But you can just see how natural we are these days.
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Take things. The internet is ubiquitous, electricity is ubiquitous and if that happens
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You're gone, then you look out of the laundry. The story I told with the
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Substation in my youth, so childhood, youth, so the transition, then the phones went still. This
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They were analog phones and they were supplied from the electricity, from the telephone network. So at the latest,
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Where that was with the ISDN and you had a telephone system in between, that didn't work anymore.
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There was still the possibility that you just had a prioritized ISDN phone,
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which was supplied with electricity via the connection from the Telekom. But if you don't
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ISDN telephone had and so an adapter that stops from an ISDN line an analog line
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He can't do it without electricity. And today, we don't have analog phone lines
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more. Today, this is all IP telephony. And if the router does not have an emergency power supply,
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which everyone has to buy himself, so such a UPS, yes, then you also have no Internet in the case
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more and no phone and a phone with it. When everything is empty, let's say so.
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a commercial UPS for the home, which then maybe lasts at the router, yes so five, six hours,
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Then it's over, too. Then all that's left is the cell phone. Who has three or
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or 24,000 mAh power banks at home,
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that for several days he almost used his mobile phone,
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You can charge your smartphone for emergency telephony.
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Well, who's got that?
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Who has a small generator at home?
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which can be placed on the balcony,
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so that the neighbors are still on the nerves,
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So that you can charge your devices.
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Well, I don't have one.
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I don't have a lot of powerbanks.
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I know how to do this with a fully charged car battery.
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to draw out energy to charge my devices,
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But then that stops too.
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I'm not even able to carry a shitty car battery two meters away.
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Well, you can just be happy if you just don't have to experience that you just don't have electricity for several days.
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I still know that back then, when it stood at the great crossroads on the road between Satteln and Waldorp and Olfen,
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stood a huge lighting from the fire brigade and THW, so that the intersection is illuminated,
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Because otherwise it would have banged there without end. Well, so much for that. I can be glad that I did this
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I haven't experienced it that way yet. A maximum of one night. In my memory, it was beautiful.
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I think my parents will have thought about it too. Sure, there you go
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Just more thoughts. As an adult, once I've experienced that for a while the
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Electricity was gone, then it was just annoying. And I wouldn't even have these days
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Battery powered radio because I don't have a radio.
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With me, everything runs over the Internet. If I want to listen to the radio,
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I listen to an internet radio stream from the radio stations. It's funny, isn't it?
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Without the internet, I wouldn't have a radio.
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Maybe I should just buy such a small world receiver, which you put aside without batteries.
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With a battery next to it, if that's the case.
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But then you're almost like a prepper.
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They're not exactly normal either.
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There's stuff.
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So you should prepare yourself for any eventualities, that you have a few canned food there and so on.
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I would stick with my partner for a week without any problems, what drinks and food
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As far as I'm concerned.
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Because if you limit yourself to the bare necessities, then this is there, but then it will be
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Difficult as well.
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But there must also be electricity.
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Because otherwise, if the cooling fails, then this is already very mau when it comes to nutrition.
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It's such a thing. What remains of such a memory in this episode?
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Perhaps you should just consider that your own problems that you have so,
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compared to what other people have to deal with on a daily basis
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They aren't even that bad, and they aren't even that serious.
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Focus more on the positive in life. Yeah, I'd say that. This is probably the
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Key message. Just focus on the positive in life and be happy about it
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To be what you actually have, what you can do, what you can experience with someone.
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I know one thing very well, in such situations I can rely on people,
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Those who are dear and important to me, my partner especially, leave.
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That's a nice thought. And now you could also follow the
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Just close it. Thank you for your attention. I know it's time again
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It's an old school episode, like it used to be, in front of all the other shit. And I hope
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you liked it. You know, comments are liked to be read and also liked to be seen
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rate the whole format and I'm looking forward to seeing you next time
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When it says "deviation" again. Goodbye, Sasha.
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Some days feel heavy without being able to tell exactly why. Thoughts pile up, little things become big, and then an event from the outside is enough to put everything in a different light.
In this episode of The digression it concerns power outages, fragile infrastructures and memories of candlelit nights – but above all perspective.
What happens when self-evident things suddenly disappear? When electricity, internet and heat are no longer there? Between personal memories, social observations and quiet digressions, there is a reflection on how small many of your own worries seem when you widen your gaze.
A calm, thoughtful episode about dependencies, gratitude, modern vulnerability – and about the importance of people to rely on.
Arrive
A day without a clear theme. Thoughts gather, everyday life mixes with inner restlessness. The episode starts right there: in the unsorted.
When Normality Turns
A power failure as a trigger for a change of perspective. What happens when self-evident things suddenly disappear?
Memories of Darkness
Childhood memories of substations, nocturnal silence and a city without electricity. Only one night then – hardly imaginable today.
Infrastructure and Vulnerability
How dependent our everyday life is on electricity, the Internet and functioning technology. A single failure with massive consequences.
More than just no light
Cold, standstill, fancy communication. Thoughts on households, animals, people in need of care and people in need of care.
Digital, but not secured
IP telephony, internet radio, empty batteries. What happens when routers, mobile phones and power banks reach their limits?
Comparisons that ground
Your own worries in contrast to real exceptional situations. Why many things suddenly seem smaller when you widen your gaze.
Theatrics vs. reality
Why some things are made bigger than they are – and others receive little attention even though they are existential.
Gratitude and Relation
What really matters is when comfort disappears. Warmth, safety, proximity and reliability.
People you can build on
A personal final thought about trust, partnership and the feeling of not being alone.
Closing
A quiet realization: Not everything is self-evident. And that's what makes things more valuable.
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Playing time: 0:25:35
Date of admission: 07.01.26
This episode is from season 4, there are a total of 4 seasons.
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