• lmuel@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    I was gonna make fun of you for calling Germany a modern, civilised and developed country… but you saved yourself in the 2nd half :D

    Sent while waiting for a delayed S-Bahn

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      2 months ago

      In comparison to that dystopian shit hole USA? Yes we are. Totally.

      In comparison with an ideal nation? No, not even close.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, us being hardstuck in the 1980s is apparently still being better than other countries returning to the 1930s…

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      2 months ago

      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.