I bought a car. And still what am I going to do if I need to this week get to an airport far away. I'm not going to drive there and pay some asshole to park a car there for a week and have it vandalised. Why do that when I can get on a train here and just ride the train directly to the airport. It's cheaper AND more chill
@Humpleupagus@houseoftolstoy@rubberducky well. What. Get good? The 100% federal government owned train company here has been profitable for pretty long. Until covid. And then it hasn't recovered from that even still. And its a pretty badly run network too annoyingly. With not being on time. And having a mixed rail network sucks too. Super slow ans super fast trains sharing all tracks sucks
@houseoftolstoy@Humpleupagus@rubberducky theres moves going on here in germany to get pentalties for riding without a valid ticket. because theres several ways to get cheap tickets. if you cant afford it, you are probably not well off at all. and the job of the law is not "punch down". its probably going to work because we barely have any turnstiles and no issues with people not paying fares.
Actually. Posts like this are bs. Germany does not keep race based statistics. What this probably is immigration background. Which is if you are born without or your parents don't have German citizenship. So that includes the many white people that have also come here. Like white biritish guys for example or any other closeby European nation that have moved here.
@ThatCrazyDude Germany has been a hippie community for a lot of its history. Often capitalistic hippies. Make money and work. But we culturally really hate when bad stuff happens to anyone. I said it before. Inventors of the government social system.
But interesting how you interpreted this. I was jut pointing out that the official statistics are flawed, that people use them for bullshit social media posts. And that "race" as a concept is really touchy in Germany still.
@ThatCrazyDude that's literally part of my point though. Because most of them will show up as German in that post. Because it's not a race based statistic. If you are the kid of some worker that came here in the 70s and had German citizenship. Then they are German.
@ThatCrazyDude so the way it is now. They come here. Live in their bubble. And then their kid hits the age of 6. Where you have to start going to school. That's a thing Germany has already. And then you get a bunch of foreigner kids with barely a life and that only know their own language. And teachers that are super underprepared.
Tiny kids can pick up languages a lot easier than 6+. So if they learned German at 2 or 3. Then they could actually learn in school
@ThatCrazyDude that is part of the point though. They aren't allowed to work here. Talking about refugees at least. It's different for regular legal immigration naturally.
But refugees also don't even get language courses paid for in many cases. What do we think is going to happen if you give people shelter and free money.
That's why they are getting a payment card now instead of cash. So they can only buy basic stuff. Not funnel it home
@maid understandable but you are also an idiot. Unix philosophy is not a good design paradigm for 2026. Running ai generated apps or apps that regularly get injected with some malware virus shit, without sandboxing and permissions system is pretty shitty. It also helps with lazy or mediocre devs unable to ship things that work with several versions of dependencies. Everything needs that one specific chrome and one specific nodejs version to run or whatever it is.
@maid yea because you definitely look at the source code of every package you install and determine if it has had any ai assistance or vibecoding done to it. Iโm sure.
Ah I guess thatโs the europoor effect. Tax funded, government supervised healthcare systems, that need to focus on what actually helps people instead of just being rich and trying to max out every effect.