15 years ago I thought the Germans were the smartest people in the world because they understood the importance of investing in public services and had a central european style of capitalism that focused on fundamentals over financialization. since then they’ve slowly been adopting more neoliberal policies and making really stupid foreign policy decisions. I’ve lost a lot of respect for them as a world leader.
When you turn the logo of Deutsche Bahn upside down, you’ll see their customer.
Omg, I never noticed. Thanks 😂
“Bad Day”
How do I hide these images?
They are getting pretty annoying.
Fork of one of the Lemmy frontends and add code to specifically hide the embedded images and then deploy it to your choice of hosting providers.
Or sent a PR to the main project that adds a config option instead
The web app Voyager hides them by default, as far as I can tell. You can sign into this with whatever instance account you’re using.
Germans. Come to Melbourne Australia, and as you get off at the airport realise there is no connecting train to the city. Cabs only.
Brought to you by the cab industry/lobby.
Cab industry is the scum of the world.
Cars can do one.
There is a bus, but yeah, it’s a joke.
Yeah but the bus uses the same road as cars so other than being cheaper, you’re getting stuck with traffic
Or the one from Sydney that charges you 20 dollars on top of the normal fare just because. I’m on the outskirts of Sydney and I’ve given up on the train system, they’re either delayed, cancelled or running whenever they feel like it unscheduled now
Yeah the strikes and union action hasn’t helped either. Just give them what they want so we can go back to regular ish trains lol
Infrastructure delivers more economic impact with less grifting when it’s not designed and run to make a profit on its own.
Right? When did we start becoming concerned with a public service being “profitable”? I’ve heard this applied to the US Postal Service a lot recently.
“The postal service is losing money!”
No, the postal service costs money. It’s a service. It doesn’t aim to make a profit. It costs money, and we are in turn rendered a service that is useful.
I swear people are delusional.
Conservatives want to kill the postal service because it competes with for profit services they own and invest in. See: DeJoy
Which of course is stupid, because USPS is actually great and provides a much better and more reliable service than any private competitor even in its current underfunded state.
I first remember it becoming an issue when a failed businessman turned president wanted to run the country like one of his failed businesses.
You want to put pressure on these things to make them more cost effecient. You’re in a capitalist system which does that job very well. But since this is not really a replaceable company, the government has to own these companies until they go public.
Depends how you calculate profit.
Exactly it’s not accumulating debt. It’s a service being provided to citizens.
The myth of Germany efficiency is slowly becoming unwound.
Come to Slovakia, where 30+ minute delays are the norm. Or to Greece, where railways are still operated by humans.
It’s all good though because SNCF is an order of magnitude worse.
In my experience and that of most of my friends both French and German, that is wrong. The French rail system may have its flaws (it does), but the German one is so much worse
In my experiences the SNCF Infra, rolling stock, station experience is…pretty good! Customer service on the other hand
Lol! Come to hungary! Here the 30 min or even more delay is usual. While branchlines are closed due to the state railways dont have enough working diesels, as most of them are 40+ years old (or just soviet quality), and no money for new, as the EU stopped sending support, due to the corruption of the stateparty-government.
Perhaps the Germans could start investing in coal powered trains?
100% German solution.
Edit: For everybody downvoting me, see Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal.
