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Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2026/03/25/europe-3-energy-shocks-in-4-years-what-to-do-next/

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[โ€“] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm saying this only because Donny keeps calling them windmills and nobody wants to be like him - they're wind turbines, not mills. There is no grain being crushed as there would be in a mill.

[โ€“] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 2 days ago

We call them windmills where I live.

[โ€“] eutampieri@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Donny and the Danes. Yeah, itโ€™s quite amusing but theyโ€™re the natural evolution of a windmill. Vindmรธller are fine for me

[โ€“] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That may be the case in Danish ~~Dutch~~, but it's incorrect to call them mills in English.

[โ€“] Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dutch = the Netherlands

Danish = Denmark.

If you're going to be a Poindexter about windmills, then at least get the language right of the country you are criticizing.

I'm also terribly sorry that we don't call them wind turbines and that it triggers you that we call them windmills because of trump. We called them windmills decades before Trump even knew what they were and we will continue to do so.