what? of course i can be mad about people enjoying their life if it is causing direct harm to other people in the present and the future! why shouldnt I ? this is a zero sum game: somebody is and will be paying the price!!!
also “especially when others still have more” is considering how fucking rich we are a sentence dripping with greed.
idk man, at least for germany i have the opposite impression: it is a integrated system and if you dont live in a large city it would be very usual to combine high speed legs with regional trains. heck i even mostly cross the dutch-german border on regional trains. in germany at least there has been a huge jump in accessibility of regional and interregio trains with the introduction of the “germany-ticket” which grants access to all public transport which is not high-speed across all germany for 50€ p/m (which unfortunately will already rise to 60€ with the start of ´25 which i am so mad about). I dont see high speed rail as a problem in germany.
Where TF do you take your definition of practical from?
I reeeeeaallly hate how almost all people see fast travel at plane speeds as a commodity and a basic need. It just isn’t true, every flight is borrowed from our future, most of the other citizens of this world don’t have access, and still people are like “8 h instead of 4 h for 1000km just isn’t practical” yeah! Because it’s 1000km why does everybody think their entitled to traveling by jet, when this has been a luxury not present in history, not present for most people that live right now and will not be present in the climate crisis that is our current future… 🫠🫠🫠
Nah imma trust my bruv federalreverse here
No as a German myself being very grateful for all the things I was provided with / got access to, in fact i dont follow blindly “Germany bad”. The comment I made was based on track records of handling police brutality in general, the prevailing “corps geist” (roughly translated team-spirit) and cases like Oury Jalloh (and many other) or the statements amnesty int gives on German police from time to time.
Without reading the article I’m gonna guess Germany is one of them!
Every neoliberal shitbag ever
Absolute fucking legend
I can in no way imagine that this is legal in the EU, Schengen and everything. I mean if a Dutch person would go to Germany and drink a beer a 16 the Netherlands cannot prosecute that I think, same with a person from Germany participating in weed consumption in the Netherlands (when Germany still criminalized)
If it is legal it shouldn’t be.
Yes, the point I was trying to make was not that being owned by the state makes it work better: in fact I think it is absurd that it is a “for profit” company which has no incentive to make profit as it’s owner will never hold them accountable by letting them go bankrupt, as that is not an option. We have the worst of both worlds, almost as if public necessities (“Daseinsvorsorge”) and natural monopolies do not make sense to run “privately”…
Ok, but the comment was about how it is funny that the Dutch complain as much as the Germans although their trains are better. So it was about a lack of broader perspective on that issue. So yes the whole point was about the Dutch perspective, but about the fact that their perspective seems to be warped from a european perspective.
So the conclusion i would draw from our interaction is that what a Dutch person experiences as filthy seems to me wildly more clean than what could be considered filthy in a European context. Good on you to be able to have high standards, hope the rest of European rail will strive to get to that high level.
But that’s just like, my opinion bruv. Maybe I should have stated that more clearly
They cooked the books, but not for potential investors. At least not in the last two decades.
First one still gives 5.8 in regards to cleanliness and that is from a Dutch perspective not from a European perspective. Second one is reddit (!) and is mainly talking about the outside of the trains, which I don’t think matters as much for the commuting experience 🙃. I think “filthy” is absolutely an overstatement. I mainly ride around den Hague and Rotterdam, but have taken plenty of trains in other directions. Compared to Germany in which i have traveled plenty by all types of trains and compared to what i saw while interrailing i deem the Dutch trains to be pretty clean (at least on the inside)
Nah bruv, i don’t think so
There are no private investors. Its 100% owned by the state…
Finally
Is Snowden pardoned? No dumbass, so yes he refuses