ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝 @ HK65 @sopuli.xyz

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I wish we had a unified ticketing system so I could get a monthly pass to cover both train, and bus.

It's not just the ticketing system.

Anecdotally, I needed to commute around 130 km from the Netherlands to Belgium for like half a year 3-4 days a week. The cheapest option (over buses, train, everything) was to rent a car each week from Avis. Eurostar, NS and SCNB should go to hell, how is me renting a car and fueling it less expensive than a train seat for the literal same route? In the Benelux?

And adding on top of that, the first train of the day has had a non-connection where the connecting train left 3 minutes earlier than the one taking me there, so that also limited how early could I get to where I needed to be.

On the other hand, I've reached the highest tier Booking discount tier in like 2 months so that's nice.

I hope we figure out treatment for this condition at some point.

Russia is in Europe

We are not talking about the inherent danger of driving, but the danger caused by people either physically or psychologically unfit to drive. The problem is not highways with speed limits of 130 kmh, but the people driving 240 on them, or the people driving drunk, running red lights, etc.

And as SUV sales show, most people are not comfortable with higher death rates for themselves, but are okay with endangering others. Ironically though, SUVs are more dangerous for their drivers as well, so apparently people are going for a perception of safety rather than actual safety even for themselves.

That's one way to look at it, but I think it was more of the Reagan-Thatcher generation killing off the left and the rot set in. I wouldn't discount the achievements of leftists as just concessions from capital. They don't give an inch if they don't have to.

In Tyne and Wear, Sunderland, England.

That is indeed their goal, no joke. They want all the Jews in Israel, the "only place where they can be safe".

And then he will repeal it again, then put it back for the beginning of July, take it off for August...

Well, the CNN just keeps sucking Trump off. Who would have thought.

They are systematically destroying Gaza, that's their plan. They want to make it impossible for anyone to return to Gaza, so that Hamas or the idea of Palestinian Gaza can't continue. Aside from starving the people, they are literally going street by street and leaving nothing but empty desert.

There are singular people in Caterpillar D9 dozers who are posting about destroying 2-3 apartment complexes per day. One person. Think about how long it takes to build an apartment complex, and how much of your life is in your apartment, and what would happen if you just lost all of it one day.

Another favoured tactic is to just fill an M113 with explosives to the brim, and blow it up to flatten a whole street all at once. It is not even a secret that the IDF has it as unofficial policy that if they enter a building in Gaza, they blow it up or burn it down.

Whole towns are destroyed now. Not like "in ruins" destroyed, but "nothing but the desert" destroyed, even the rubble is flattened. This is going to end with millions of dead and refugees as it stands now, angry at a world that let Israel completely erase their lives with impunity.

My dude, I grew up in bumfuck Eastern Europe. Our textbooks and history classes that were so shitty that we spent like 4 lessons in total on WWII and the Cold War in total (with a cutoff date of like 1980), had a whole chapter on the incredible cruelty the British Empire had towards the people of India. Pictures of people blown from guns, descriptions of the famines, Gandhi and all that stuff.

There was practically more time spent on it than the Holocaust.

I understand why you're saying what you're saying though, and I'd just like you to know, many people didn't forget.

We could increase the training requirements and oversight.

I wish.

And who's going to tell all those people that they are not going to drive again, ever? In pilot training, even showing signs of bravado or machismo is grounds for getting failed. The problem is that if you do that those people will go and vote you out, especially in this climate.

One of the main campaign promises of the idiot who got the most votes in the last Dutch election was to put the speed limits back to 130 kmh from the reduced 100 kmh on motorways. People like to be dumb.

BTW it would take minimal effort to enforce highway speed limits with cameras checking entry and exit times and distances. In some places with road tolls, it wouldn't even need any more data collection. A single SQL query would return all those people doing 100 kmh over on the motorways. Wonder why outside of a few outliers, nobody does it.

The largest upward transfer of wealth so far...

IDK about trains, but the problem with cars is that we let people operate them with minimal training and practically no oversight. You see shit on roads daily where if the driver was flying a plane, they wouldn't even be let on as a passenger anymore ever.

Yeah I've been in a few places around Europe, and it really seems that in Western Europe, labour movements made big gains in like the 1970s and neolib governments have been squandering that ever since, and we are nearing the point where it all turns fash.

I mean you can get a licence for 20-30k, the maintenance is deadly on a plane though, you could buy a very nice car each year on that money.

History indeed remembers. No coincidence half the world has an "independence from the English" day.

That is as likely as a cartel hit in New York because it's so close to Mexico.

Actually, metros in Eastern Europe tend to be safer for tourists by statistics for some reason.

A lot of the big European metros are outside the 3 countries listed in the meme though.