It's a very simple process to understand. Most powered devices are designed to automatically configure or arrange themselves in a way that prepares them to perform whatever work they're intended to do. They're also often designed to return to a state when turned off that allows them to do the work needed at startup to prepare for use.

That work often requires a sequence of steps or has a number of parallel steps that are intended to occur in an order to achieve the device's purpose. Sometimes things can happen the push those steps out of order or into conflict, and trying to go back and sort out what exactly went wrong, correct it, and then correct all the subsequent steps that may have been impacts is impractical.

When you turn the device off, it returns to that pre-startup state, and turning it back on restarts all those steps it automatically does to prepare for use, and as long as whatever set of circumstances caused the original problem don't happen again, the device can return to normal operation.

I have washed my toaster with water before. Granted, I had torn it apart to clean out all the crumbs and junk and was washing the non-electronic bits, and allowed it to dry for a day before reassembly.

The exceptions of course being sporadic reports of the occasional artillery pot shot across one way or the other between Ukraine and Russia in the north, but yes, mostly just building, reinforcing, and manning defensive lines.

Hell of a testimonial too.

"Our marriage was so bad I tried to murder my husband... 5 times! But thanks to Dr. McFuckingAwesome we've patched things up and have now been married for 57 years!"

"Two-thirds of the extra coal imported by the EU remained unused."

Basically Europe panic bought coal earlier in the year, people looking at EU coal consumption assumed the significant increase in coal bought would lead to a correlated increase in consumption and thus created headlines based on that assumption, but in the end it did not, according to this article.

The last paragraph was included as it clarified that expanded coal generation contributed an increase of less than 1% of to the EU's total coal generation, essentially a non-story. The article states further on that it's likely EU coal imports this year will drop off substantially owing to all the extra coal purchased but unused this winter resulting in abundant stockpiles.

Yes:

>To prepare for winter, the EU imported 51 per cent more thermal coal last year, at 65 million tonnes, up from 43 million tonnes in 2021. Russian coal imports were banned last August, resulting in an even larger pickup in coal imports from other countries such as Indonesia and Australia, which rose from a small base to 6 million tonnes each. The panic buying turned out to be unnecessary. Two-thirds of the extra coal imported by the EU remained unused.
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>During winter, 26 coal units across seven countries (most of which were in Germany) were reactivated to provide a safety cushion, which in the end was not needed. These units added less than 1 per cent to the EU’s coal power generation.