

Not only the reliability is an issue, all too often, traveling a longer distance by high speed train costs a small fortune compared to a flight of the same distance.
Not only the reliability is an issue, all too often, traveling a longer distance by high speed train costs a small fortune compared to a flight of the same distance.
If they really cared, they’d protect children from this form of parental neglect by making the relevant vaccines mandatory.
If only a government of a country had other means of preventing disease and death of children through parental neglect than “battling misinformation”.
Make these vaccinations mandatory and be done with it.
A good part of the left is delusional. The left worldwide largely forgot about its core issue, wealth and income distribution, in favour of ridiculous and highly divisive identity politics, throwing the working class, its former core clientele, to the fascists.
Unless the left finally realise that it’s a class war, not a culture war, they’ll only ever be able to appeal to a small privileged elite dwelling in the social sciences faculties of institutes of higher education that contents itself in cosplaying as the proletariat in their spare time.
On top of that, the German Left also is full of Putin bootlickers and hopelessly naive “pacifists” who confuse pacifism with passive submission to force.
Ancient geezers struggling with dementia can’t be manipulated by populists, right?
At least they don’t get to live in the shitshow they vote into office for too long.
That’s UI design, a dark art mere mortals like you and me won’t ever understand.
Anyone who is surprised by this should have their head examined.
For other motor vehicles, license and insurance is required if they exceed 6km/h.
Electronic limits are a bunch of bullshit, because they can be easily turned off.
Constructively limited top speeds would make a whole lot more sense.
I don’t understand how anyone in their clear mind could think that treating electric mopeds like bicycles was a good idea in the first place.
Everyone phalanx till they hit TRIPLEX ACIES
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May I introduce you to the concept of Gleichschaltung
Basically, the Nazis went through great lengths to install loyal followers in all aspects of life, including the publishing sector.
They did also change the organisational structure of pretty much everything they could lay their hands on according to the Führerprinzip
It’s a timeless classic.
The thing is that people who want to will drink regardless. If it’s entirely illegal, they’ll do it in secret. If it’s legal, there is at least some chance of supervision. Just look how Americans behave the moment they turn 21. And what they will do to get alcohol when younger. (forged identity documents for example, having a fake ID document is considered pretty normal among US teenagers) That’s what you get for infantilising your youths and young adults and banning them from drinking entirely.
Look where the 1968 APO ended up. They got corrupted by the time they were able to occupy powerful positions.
They start out non corrupt due to lack of opportunity. As soon as they gain power, they will become increasingly corrupted. The nature of politics strongly favours ruthless careerists, and in the end that leads to the large and powerful parties mostly consisting of people who would sell their own grandmother for personal profit.
The current system has some fatal flaws: It is reliably and repeatedly failing at holding politicians accountable for their actions and forcing them to actually do what they promised before the election. It also strongly favours parties and politicians backed by people and corporations with deep pockets.
Unless there is accountability, the system will ultimately fail. Unfortunately, those who could introduce such accountability, are exactly the same people who greatly profit from there being none.
I don’t buy that they are “willing” anymore. I’ve been lied to and betrayed by far too many politicians on every governmental level, and from all kinds of different parties, and as long as they face exactly zero consequences for essentially defrauding their voters, this won’t change.
How would people not lose faith in a perverted form of democracy, where pretty much all you can vote for are different collections of lying self serving bastards employed by the ultra rich in order to fuck over ordinary people for their profits?
Remember the days when railways were exclusively government run enterprises?
Thanks to the neoliberal thieves selling off public property for short term profits, now we all can enjoy paying the ever raising prices for ever diminishing service.