One of the anti-everything groups in our city actually put out a public statement about how people advocating for public transit “just wanted to be able to go out partying and then ride transit home!! REEEEEEE!!!”
Many people went “yeah, duh?” <confused looks> Isn’t that a phenomenal reason to have great public transit? It literally saves lives and promotes enjoying life.
Calvinism is such a blight upon humanity.
Oulu, Finland is a massive biking center. The weather is winter most of the year. Their infrastructure for bikes is amazing so people use it, even when it’s cold.
The bigger the cross you wave, the smaller the heart is behind it.
Warum muss einer Magnetschwebebahn sein? Berlin hat viele Hochbahnen.
Die Vororte brauchen zwar mehr Verkehrsanbindungen, aber es muss etwas sein, das auch in 50 oder 100 Jahren noch funktioniert, und keine Gadgetbahn, die nach wenigen Jahre Betrieb stillgelegt wird und dann zum Gespött wird.
Warum kann die Stadtverwaltung nicht mehr langfristig planen? Verlängern Sie die U5 über Moabit bis Jungfernheide und dann weiter, und bauen Sie eine S-Bahn von Spandau nach Tegel. Langweilig, aber effektiv.
I guess they’ve got spare time now that everyone in the Epstein-Trump files have been brought to justice for the child rape and Dow is over 50,000.
Ist this the same kind of shit the government pulled in the 1950’s with Elvis’ early performances? These evil people really do want to bring back the 1950’s.
This kind of stupid: http://www.elvis-history-blog.com/elvis-sex.html
Switzerland doesn’t play when it comes to trains:
If there’s nothing else, Germany can complain about Deutsche Bahn! I have a long commute to work (my employer ist sehr schlect in some ways), so I’ve spent many months playing “will it, won’t it” on RE train delays. I even had one vanish on the app after it claimed to pass through my station. Geistbahn!
The dumb part is that I started visiting Germany back in 1995. The trains ran much better. Nich so viel Störungen oder unregelmaßig dingen. Good memories only cover over so many cracks, though.
It’ll only take about 20 years of big investment to rebuild the train network after so many decades of underinvestment by conservative governments. No worries, any day now.
I kept seeing discussions about the way things generally work in Europe, the rights people have, and the cultural appreciation for people’s health and I finally said “fuck it! Let’s move to Europe”. I’d been visiting for decades off and on, so we made it permanent.
It only took three years of applying for jobs, saving, and finally getting all of our family needs in order, but we did it. If you can, give it a look.
Mülltrennung ist seht wichtig! Wir wissen das, aber die Gelbetonne ist komisch.
Unsere Wohnung hat kein nachbar jetzt. Es ist ein neues bau, und die Vermieter ist Meiter suchen. Ruhezeit ist sind die besten teil von Deutschland!
I had my first real sickness for time off since I moved to Germany. I had a call with a doctor, they pushed a sick note into the digital health system, and my company noted it as paid time off.
Modern civilization in a developed nation rocks.
Now if we could just get the paperwork to die down a bit… Oh, and find a way to get the trains on time!
Undeveloped societies can be like that. It’s often places that don’t have many rights for the citizens and are worse off in wealth then the pre French Revolution France. Basically peasants with smart phones given this day and age.
This was a reasonably solid week. I didn’t do enough speaking practice, but I did manage to navigate a couple of government paperwork sessions without much trouble. I’m still having difficulty with filler words, but the key words are getting better when I listen.
We’ve discovered the lexile level of the TV show WaPo Berlin (Water Police - Berlin) is very good for us at the pre-B1 level. The vocabulary is a stretch (perfect), and the speed of most interactions is pretty reasonable. We’ll be watching more of that.
I did re-read through Dragonball manga collection (3 normal books in one) books. I’m up through book 5 and I re-read them off and on to refresh the vocab. I spent time reading a few kids books, translating some 1-3 grade books, and did a couple of days taking on Der Tagesspiegel news.
I am re-reading a German learning book (A1-A2) that I finished a few months back. I’m able to read it about 60% speed with almost no word look ups. That’s huge. Having my reading speed get closer to reasonable is a huge deal.
Oh, and the Berlin Fenster news/entertainment screens on the trains are getting easier to read. I can usually get about 50% of it before it changes screens on me. If they could slow that down just a bit, I’d be very thankful.
I did manage to get partway through a call with a doctor (I was sick most of last week) in German before we switched to English. That was great!
Too bad Germany is currently not entering new people into Integration Courses for immigrants. I was hoping to find one near the almost B1 level to finish up early and get my certificate ASAP. Residency can be had in about 460 days! Lasst uns das Ziel im Auge behalten!
It’s the old adage about Conservatives: They don’t care what you do unless it’s a boy or a dead girl.
Basically: conservatives keep trying to steal all the wealth for the wealthy and the public noticed that they’d be screwed (again/still).
The Conservatives: we’d love to help all of those staving kids and homeless people, but we’d have to tax a couple of billionaires. Sorry, can’t do it.
And then when the wheels come off you just need to sit through a bunch of boring congressional hearings before they cut you a really big cheque.
Henceforth, a minimum of an individual personal transport pod must be used at all times when leaving the comfort spaces! No facilities are made for unprotected movement around the surrounding area.
That explains so much about why the various stations on the Berlin Ubahn lines either do or don’t have shopping inside of them!
These are awesome. It’s good practice to learn how to build these, meet neighbors, and find out who is on the side of the community.
Shake some hands, learn some names, hear their stories. Some of these people might be holding the line next to you if things go further South and they’ll have your back if you’re a neighbor now.
They also have very strick guidelines about how quickly the bike roads are plowed after/during snowfalls. They keep the routes open and useful so people can trust the transit modality all year round.
The US just plows the snow onto the bike lanes and then complains about how bad biking is.