Why I'm embarrassed to be German

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[@Harakai100]

Using Britain as a reference to a well-functioning nation from a policy/leadership perspective is kind of wild.

[@maddinek]

and very much misleading. she needs to move abroad. then she might get an idea. she talked lots of nonsense.

[@verity4917]

Sabine Hossenfelder, I've been working in UK for a firm for 2 years. I must say that it's ten times worse in England than Germany! Hearing your British accent and the way you're portraying the negativities in Germany, I think you're suffering from GERMANOPHOBIA! Just like the REFEREE Anthony Taylor who stole 1 goal from Germany, not allowing them an obvious penalty! That was broad day ROBBERY! Fazit : Sport is not only sport, it's also political, a billion dollars business!

[@user-jw3vy3kf5f]

Fair point! Britain has some plusses, but overall Germany is better... Not least its better geographical spread of wealth making

[@hannabani7929]

Well, it was a joke, right?

[@monty3854]

​@@verity4917Her British accent? In what world does she sound British?

[@d-mancat537]

The character pointed at a broken elevator sign and said "this is the empire declining". The person he was talking to thought he was exaggerating, but he went on to explain: if low cost but highly visible repairs are being neglected, what do you think happens to the high cost invisible ones? If infrastructure is decaying, the empire is already falling. From Asimov's Foundation.

[@tedmoss]

Asimov, is one of my favorite authors, he did not invent these ideas they have been true forever.

[@Rheinhard]

@@tedmossmy friend spoke to Asimov at a con many years ago. Asimov told him that if you want to create some great SF, take some known history and file the serial numbers off. In Asimov’s case with FOUNDATION, he set the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in space, and mixed in some statistical mechanics (which he certainly knew from chemistry and physics), and applied it to people.

[@teresabenson3385]

I'm afraid much of this true in the U.S. as well-- neglected infrastructure, slow responses, etc. The Democratic party in particular, for 4+ years just hoping that they could keep hiding Biden's dementia and it would somehow magically get better by 2024 instead of planning ahead.

[@JanBruunAndersen]

​@@Rheinhard - very true. Case in point, one of my favourite science fiction writers: David Weber. He takes historical navy battles, adds a splash of Horatio Hornblower, and transforms it into an epic yarn of politics and space battles 2100 years into the future. Edit: I am referring to the Honor Harrington series. Get them at Bean Books.

[@Rheinhard]

Never expected to see a Jonathan Pie clip in one of these videos!

[@kubuspuchatek7974]

I used to work for a German company. They closed 2 factories in Germany and 1 in Poland and opened new factories in India. And they boasted that they "reduced emissions".

[@mouse2542]

r/ malicious compliance?

[@ezg8448]

What's sad is that it isn't a move unique to Germany alone.

[@BudelaikaAnnana]

They did, in Germany.

[@Volkbrecht]

That's what you get when you allow people in positions of power who make laws based on how the world should look like and not how it actually works. Seriously, I despair of our Green party. It's like they don't know what cynicism is.

[@shdwbnndbyyt]

Well if they operate in the USA with a repackaging facility, they can bulk ship items from India on pallets, repackage the items in retail containers and sell them as as "Made in the USA" per the laws and regulations.

[@codyrap95]

As a Romanian, we've always dreamed of being on the same level as Germany. Our railway system is as bad as it was 30yrs ago, so somehow our dreams of being on the same level are coming true but for the wrong reasons 🤣🤣

[@Tegelane5]

Be careful what You wish for 😅

[@lexi0040]

So that means that Ceaușescu wasn't that bad at all he was killed for what ?😅 he made the the roads the railway we produced everything ourselves and in 30 years nothing changed o almost forgot yeah no factory's thousand all shut down thousands off jobs lost everyone started after 1989 to go work outside of Romania because yeah well people lost there jobs 😅 the food now is almost poison thats how bad it is now 😂 nature destroyed Hectares of woods all cut down. the corruption is higer then ever eu funds not going where should go but in pocket of individuals in a high position (power) 😂 infected with LGBTQ drugs and violence 😅 yeah Romania did not win anny good in 30 years we did lost all our value's that we had 30 years ago

[@eisenkopf69]

You walk from Germany to Czech through the woods. How do you recognize that you have reached Czech Territory? Your phone has network.

[@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039]

😅

[@jasonfanclub4267]

🤪

[@dominikschonberg6486]

*Someone offers you meth

[@bittasi1139]

It is an exaggeration, isnt it?

[@McMonkeyful]

@@bittasi1139 That's how comedy works my friend

[@giovannipiacen85]

We thought that us Italians would eventually catch up with Germany. Turns out they are catching up with us.

[@cybernetic-ransomware1485]

joking aside, but German technological debt is our common problem. It doesn't matter whether you live in Poznań or Napoli. Somehow we must overcome their hard-headedness, otherwise our children's future will be dependent on whimsical nationalists ones from Beijing and Delhi.

[@tommapar]

@@cybernetic-ransomware1485 I come from the future (Argentina) the key is not to let the government take all the decisions. Establish GOOD, SOLID channels for the private sector to take the initiative. Here in 1945 we had a great general conman, called Perón, a right winger, but greatly inspired by Mussolini, so in short with the statist interventionist heart of a lefty. To the point of dissapearing anyone resembling a commie, while he was out intervening in markets. He believed in technology advance as a way to gain an edge over our foes. The result? The enemy infiltrated, government spent BILLIONS into Cold Fusion (never got it to work, ofc) and we got a series of coup d'tats. Sad thing about Perón is he actually got the country industrialized. But his populist legacy was a bigger part than he could've ever imagined, spawning a cult of followers that more or less still impede the country from working properly. All because he from his ivory tower threw some books and mattresses to the impoverished masses. Modern peronists (kirchnerists) are full on commies, socialists that attack private property and your freedom to decide over your business, your life, etc. But still with the fascist gene attached to it. So they're willing to create narratives (with crisis actors) and use TERROR from the STATE to MANIPULATE THE POPULATION and SUBJUGATE THEM into NOT voting a right winger. They've created a culture much like Sabine here says, of being SLOW, of being overall INOPERANT when faced with their tasks. Every challenge they tackle, it makes things worse. Each thing they do "for us" ends up as another point where they meddle in the affairs of the people and decide over their lives. While they can BARELY run a country themselves. Impoverishing due to monetary emission and price controls that lead to poor stock replenishment and worse quality control. Them being slow has NOTHING to do with their intelligence though. To steal, they're always one step ahead. Look into who they contract for the Internet / Railroad / Energy improvements, and you'll SEE precisely WHY they chose them. They're all playing for the same team. The socialists that run the country like a capitalist country, but the only ones that TRULY enjoy a FREE market are the politicians and their businessmen friends. The rest of us lowlives can't compete because the government has the monopoly over violence. So if a competitor to their friends makes it big, they can always saddle them with regulation and taxes or even take legal action with penalty fees. The politicians and the caste they formed that surrounds them have a small little crown that elevates them from us, the common folk. They don't have more rights, they have more PRIVILEGES, which are SECURED by their legislation. It's time to ATTACK that system of political clientelism, populism and incresing interventionism and bring it to the ground. Let companies of men and women dedice the course. Don't let those callous with pride and arrogance, who believe themselves to be God to act on behalf of a nation. Taking the reigns of something so complex as market, which is composed by all agents and all goods/services being transferred is tantamount to heresy. To know everything about a market to take such a wild decision, you'd need to know the CURRENT, PAST, and FUTURE state of EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE in it. Including each individual's personal preferences, and plans. You'd need to be omniscient. You'd need to be God. And politicians ARE NOT GOD.

[@quantillaprudentia1345]

😄 I laugh reluctantly in German

[@giovannipiacen85]

@quantillaprudentia1345 There's no laugh in German

[@CutefBoy96]

@@giovannipiacen85 I think you have to be among the dead to be able to speak German, and since you couldn't laugh, you have already become one of the dead.

[@DH-rj2kv]

Calling the UK a “healthy country” was a lesson in the finest sarcasm.

[@username.exenotfound2943]

yeah uk is being held together by the fact nobody in the country can be arsed to do anytghing about it as it hasnt quite gone of the rails... yet

[@sluglife9785]

@@username.exenotfound2943 It has so gone off the rails.

[@immortalsofar5314]

I was abroad when Brexit happened. I think soon I'll be abroad again.

[@davidbrisbane7206]

UK basket case

[@CountScarlioni]

Well things have finally taken a turn for the better in the UK these past couple of days. And we're starting to claw our way back out of our hole without filling up government seats with fascists, so there's that at least.

[@bilbo_skywalker]

I've been living in Germany for 5.5 years, and in last 6 months I've realized that I definitely won't stick forever

[@Ratselmeister]

Thanks for leaving we dont need yet more foraigners here.

[@johnschuh8616]

I livedin Germany for 29 years as a DODDS teacher from 1970 to 1999, The best of times, it seems. It blew my mind when in 2015 Merkel opened the borders to a new bunch of Muslims. I realized they didn’t take their Christianity seriously . What I didn’t realize despite haven’t lived with Turks for nor than 60 years that Muslims generally do, Maybe that is because they got that from Luther, who hated the pope more than the Turkish Sultan who was coming close to overriding all western Europe. But he was despite all his genius a fanatic who thought that the world was about to come to and end and the Sultan God’s agent to help things along.

[@brad5426]

You know Germany has gotten bad when the Germans start joking.

[@tablescissors]

Tell me you know very few Germans w/o telling me.

[@owsie1800]

Do you know a joke tho ​@@tablescissors

[@gotzilla9692]

meh, stupid old clichés like yours are definitely not funny. At least for people with a three digit IQ.

[@bifrostbeberast3246]

@@owsie1800 I only know jew jokes and pedo jokes, does that count? My humor is just a bit darker than most peoples.

[@brad5426]

@@owsie1800 He is German so he doesn't know what jokes are

[@HerbertHeyduck]

I'm afraid Sabine isn't loud enough. Not only Germany, but the whole of EU is reacting far too slowly to global developments.

[@calculuslover2078]

And which countries are reacting fast? USA? Japan? South Korea? Australia? Canada?

[@peter9477]

​@@calculuslover2078 Canada? LOL... (and I'm a Canadian)

[@sepro5135]

Look at the amount of VC money, patents and start ups in the US. A lot of it is bs, but the rest is not. Which companies are the modern digital tech giants? Which economy still grew this and last year? The US definitely does A LOT wrong, but they are the technology leaders

[@Ryan-ff2db]

@@calculuslover2078 China, Scandinavian countries, Iceland(not sure if Iceland is considered Scandinavian), Costa Rica maybe. I don't know, that's all I got.

[@s.patrickmarino7289]

Have you been to the United States? It makes the EU look like the last remaining fortress of sanity.

[@David-x8s]

A Cuban friend explained decay. It happens when people have been successful so long that they forget what made them successful.

[@simdal3088]

The Germans are not victims of success but are dealing with a political class that hates them. Why put in effort when you aren't even on the list of priorities.

[@user-wo6zu2vh8f]

I am from Thailand. I agree.

[@josepha5685]

I'm from Florida and I agree 😊

[@ima6954]

Like what? Genocide?

[@winchharry]

Wise words. 🙂

[@PaintFire_]

The health system is inefficient to the point that people are needlessly dying. I was told I needed "urgent surgery" 15 months ago and am still waiting after getting bounced from doctor to doctor getting the same scans for no reasons while my doctors disagree with each other about me needing more scans.

[@vl4rt637]

Have you tried going abroad? Maybe you would still be covered

[@p529.]

I don't know your situation but that's gotta be cap, I literally never had to wait this long for anything

[@vl4rt637]

@@p529. even with specialists? Laboratory and Hausarzt are still reasonable but the specialists have really long waiting time, at least here

[@PaintFire_]

@@p529. Meeting a surgeon tomorrow at my local hospital. My orthopaedic doctor wanted me to wait but I said no lol and just walked into the hospital

[@PaintFire_]

@@vl4rt637 I wouldn't be covered abroad sadly.

[@AshtonK1816]

As an American, seeing a German referring to the UK as healthy is mind bending.

[@tyler-qr5jn]

Im British in London, the fact she thinks this means germany must be doing REALLY bad or she might have a misunderstanding of the UK. We have same issues with trains, regarding strikes and privatisation. But the infrastructure itself, though dated, its quite good, just expensive.

[@suoyidl2654]

She is extremly illusional.

[@hartmutbeil8508]

That's how bad it is here in Berlin - City and country are becoming increasing unusable

[@MadTracker]

As an American, seeing another American mock a German for making a comparison to the U.K. seems out of pocket considering our own crumbling infrastructure and almost complete lack of public transit, owing to suburban sprawl’s congestive car based planning and the kind of political erosion which underpins a government on the verge of a geriatric smack down between two brain addled narcissists.

[@redlight3932]

@@suoyidl2654 all of them are you cant think logically without being racist

[@rwwalker721]

Escalators do not break down. They simply become stairs.

[@DrDeuteron]

that's just a descope.

[@SabineHossenfelder]

I wish this was true, alas, often times they are closed for repairs...

[@a5cent]

This is way funnier than it should be 😅

[@MikeN-cs8qe]

Mitch Hedberg ftw!!!

[@InconnuGlitterBoy]

Sounds like something Habeck would say.

[@johanlundstrom1561]

There used to be a saying in Sweden: "Germany is Sweden for adults". No-one says that any longer.

[@davefaulkner6302]

Does this imply that Swedes are children? As a person of Swedish decent I find this rather insulting. For me, it is more 'adult' to reach the kind of social compromises that the Swedes are famous for, understanding that life is complex and rigid rules based systems are always inadequate.

[@smythharris2635]

​@@davefaulkner6302the new Swedes beg to differ, you've bought the package, not just the wrapping.

[@baumanj1]

@@davefaulkner6302take it easy. now you can live with consequences of childish decisions. Enjoy!😅

[@sspectre8217]

@@davefaulkner6302sounds to me like you’re romanticizing your Swedish heritage. I used to do the same with my German heritage but I learned that the greatest strength of any culture is also its greatest weakness

[@Vantrakter]

Late and cancelled trains are practically a Swedish trademark and broadband internet access..ah, the glorious "open infrastructure" of fiberoptic networks with one owner and maintainer and a number of actors (ISPs available within each network) that are trying to compete with each other, when the network owner and maintainer sets the rent that the ISPs have to pay and this rent increases every year (where I am, in a major city, the bit about raising prices each year is explicitly stated) and of course the ISPs charge the customers more and since all live under the same network owner there isn't a lot to differentiate the isps in terms of connection speeds or pricing.

[@Ele-q9g]

I am an expat. I speak German (already before I come to Germany). 1. I had to change my first job because of the company's new policy due to German politics. 2. Than I started to work in another company. Because of the house crisis I could not change my flat and started to use S bahn. Because of the strikes and delays I decided to buy a car. 3. I had to convert my license but the social workers first lost my documents then did a wrong registration. I had to change my driving school. Then my new driving school cancelled my lessons and I had to arrange a new exam date. Each exam date registration takes 2 3 months. It has been almost 1 year but I could not convert my license yet. 4. My new company failed and laid us off. I became unemployed. 5. We realized that my first company did not send my working documents, which it was obliged to. I struggled to get them myself, so it took 2 months for me to have my first unemployement money. Summary: Consider other options if you want to move abroad, it is better not Germany.

[@wiki9361]

You are an expat to the country you left, and this is strictly American term, originally denoting US citizens, usually military personnel and their families living in close-knit community around a military base. If you move to another country, you are an immigrant. Immigrants should not be given social benefits, from what you say here, you live in Germany at the expense of hard-working German taxpayers. And you dare to complain. Go back to where you came from which was such a great place compared to Germany and earn your living. Social benefits should only be given to invalids and those that do not wish to work should not eat.

[@juanzulu1318]

German here. My colleagues in Malaysia always laugh about my internet connection

[@ferocious_r]

We're friends with a Ukrainian family who fled to Bavaria when the war began and then returned to Ukraine, citing the abysmal internet speeds as the reason. Not joking here, that did happen.

[@c0ldc0ne]

@@ferocious_r Genuine war refugees eh?

[@calicocat8213]

​@@ferocious_rFled WAR and went back because of bad/erratic internet connection? Either said war or ex-refugees not that serious.

[@dazingamaine4318]

@@c0ldc0ne jup here the family comes and goes. aint a real war like gaza

[@michaelxz1305]

it's easier for developing countries to leapfrog with technology.. no big surprise. less baggage

[@brianfoley3925]

"...buy a dog so you don't have to walk home alone" and who says Germans don't have a sense of humor?

[@goytabr]

A very peculiar one, but they do have it. I remember when some local friends took me to try the typical snack specialty in Frankfurt. And no, it wasn't Frankfurter sausages (which they actually call Wiener). It's called "Handkäse mit Musik" - literally translated as "hand cheese with music". Weird name, isn't it? They explained: it's a kind of semi-hard cured cheese eaten with the hands (hence the name) as thick slices on buttered bread and topped with chopped raw onions and caraway seeds. It's delicious, trust me! Especially with a glass of apple wine, also typical from that area, and in the merry centuries-old taverns of the Sachsenhausen district. But then I asked about the "music" part. They just replied: "oh, that comes later..." 🤣 (It actually didn't, fortunately.)

[@josephkoerner3666]

How many Germans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One. We are efficient, and don't have humor. ;)

[@ichraumauf5532]

You will also need a dog if you happen to come across youth gangs of „guests“.

[@xvdifug]

@@ichraumauf5532 I've heard them referred to as "young scholars".

[@jamessalomon9343]

When I was stationed in Germany (79-82) the German trains were always on time. It was considered a major scandal if a train was 5 minutes late. It bothers me that things have gone to hell

[@stephenkalatucka6213]

"Everything woke turns to sh*t."- Trump

[@oweoweowe]

@@stephenkalatucka6213 I don't see how that fits here

[@werkzeugmann6224]

You lived there when the Marshall plan was very effective. Now the only thing American there is in Frankfurt, the military outpost...

[@igor_ai88]

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[@jamessalomon9343]

@@werkzeugmann6224 I'm not surprised the military shut down most bases in Germany. A lot of the bases were leftovers from the distant past. In Wurzburg, where I was stationed, the facilities were left over from the distant past. One facility still had rings in the walls to tie up horses. The hospital where I worked started life as a Luftwaffe hospital.

[@ialokinnefah]

One Word: Schuldenbremse. Not investing in the future. Not in infrastructure, not in technology, education, or science. Living in Switzerland right at the border it is truly depressing to watch. Having lived in Munich for five years I feel connected to this country and I truly hope Germany will have a vision again of where and what it wants to be in the future.

[@qam2024]

Who cares about the future, let's spend on diversity and cultural enrichment

[@JoeSmith-cy9wj]

It isn't just Germany. The uber wealthy are pulling the plug everywhere. Pocketing the money. I don't know where they're going, but NASA recently announced a new electric propulsion system for use in space, not during launch. I've always wondered why they would destroy the only planet that they and their kids could live on .

[@verypleasantguy]

In the early 1970's I bought a machine for my factory. It was made in Germany. That machine performed flawlessly, until 2018, then it broke down. That was one heck of a machine, I am very *_very_* impressed ! So, I hired engineers from Germany to fix that machine, using all imported German parts. 3 years later, it broke again. This time, the parts that were broken were all the *NEW* parts that were installed just 3 years prior, and those *NEW* parts were all made-in-Germany. What a contradiction ! The first time the machine broke down, it had worked for more than 45 years. Yes, *_more than forty-five long years_*_ !_ The second time the machine broke down, the parts lasted 3 years. Same work. Same work amount. Same everything. Except for, the quality of the *NEW* German parts were so flimsy, if I'm a German, I would be embarrassed. We contacted the company in German, we talked to the German engineers who came to fix the machine for us, and they told us one thing, and one thing only ---- back in the 1970's, all German parts were made as if they were going to last forever. Now, all German parts are being made with *_planned obsolescence_* built in. I thanked the German engineers for telling me the truth. So, Ms. Sabine, you gotta understand, the Germany today is no longer the Germany 40 years ago.

[@46FreddieMercury91]

I have a food mixer, made in DDR , East Germany, in 1980. Still works fine to this day

[@Cordis2Die]

Most of the things, if not everything, is made with planned obsolescence in mind, that's the way of the capitalism. It's not only Germany who is doing that. Just pointing that out. It's sad that planned obsolescence is even a thing. It's sad and stupid.

[@danieldanielson2650]

ms. Sabine is part of the problem i'm afraid. As a scientist you should never ever let activism cloud your scientific methods. But she does that when climate change is the topic on hand. "I'm not an expert, but I believe.....blablabla...it sound ethically blablabla" Everything is going to shit and it's because germany has accepted so many lies by so many liers it doesn't even know what truth is any longer. 200.000 bright minds leave every year and the won't come back. Rightfully so. We're leaving to. Eff that politically correct neo-socialist state

[@WasabiJohn]

I'm avid vintage car collector, but also have a newer MB SLK 350... The quality of some components are not that good, similar to some modern American cars... Beautiful looking car though!

[@somebodysomewhere358]

As a German I can confirm this

[@HansSjodin-ge6sw]

Swedish politicians: Look how we ruined a country in only 4 decades! German politicians: Hold my beer!

[@comicus6769]

Yep, clearly way too late to the table for DEI to fix things.

[@sven471111]

German politicians: look how we ruined a country in 2 decades.

[@saraheart8527]

@@comicus6769 How exactly would DEI help the sciences /quality of life in Deutschland?

[@HalGore]

@@saraheart8527 It's a joke. The EUnuchstan left always does the wrong thing - they are totalitarians while projecting their actions on others.

[@BertisAU]

​@@comicus6769lmao

[@tomforde6696]

Every country has its embarrassments. Here in Ireland we are building a National Children's Hospital that has been ongoing for YEARS, is now the most expensive hospital IN THE WORLD, EVER and is still not built. No one wants to take responsibility. As one commentator said "It's being passed around like a bag of shit that's on fire."

[@tatjana7008]

Well Berlin airport also took 29 years for similar reasons. If judge based on my colleagues (whos pay is above average) their top priorities are feierabend and "not my responsibilty". All our projects delayed for 3 years, and its only by current deadlines. Who knows how long will it take in reality

[@wasdwasdedsf]

thats irelands embarassment? how about the ludicrous censorship bills they just implemented!?

[@leobe2104]

Haha so like the Berlin airport

[@trevormcguire6984]

Honest question, are these projects built by union labor?

[@gomey70]

Ireland is still one of the best countries in the world to live. Maybe if you lived in a really shitty country for a while you'd be more grateful for what we have here in Ireland.

[@1983samwise]

There was me thinking this was going to be about Germany feeling so much guilt about having committed genocide, thst it is ironically now facilitating and enabling another.

[@JoelTehMole]

As a Brit, i knew things were bad as soon as a German said "you're so lucky to have trains that run on time!".

[@VeritasIncrebresco]

You Brits need to make more babies

[@svr5423]

I prefer British trains to German trains. But it depends on the company. Virgin and Cross Country are nice, London Midland is a big no no.

[@thomasharter8161]

@@svr5423 I used British trains in 1993. If I remember correctly there was only one line. From Dover to Edinburgh. It was so archaic. Trains were up to 2 hours late in London. We would have thought we were in the 19th century.

[@LittleKitty22]

I'm in the West Mids. Trains run when they want to. An evening commute of four hours to get from Birmingham to South East Staffordshire is a regular occurrence... Cancelations and delays are a daily occurrence.

[@selohcin]

Here in America, we don't have trains.

[@alechorn1109]

I’m American. When it comes to embarrassment, you are amateurs.

[@gad3]

Well, they still hold the WWII as a joker

[@wb3904]

What's the measure of embarrassment in the imperial (US customary) system? 😅

[@marwin4348]

The american economy is by far the best in the world, not an embarassment at all.

[@rogerkearns8094]

At least you can do something about it. Why not stand for president, while nobody any good is?

[@spearshaker7974]

Feels like a humiliation ritual of some sort and inverted the joker has become king and the king a joker.

[@Daniel-Hawk]

The biggest problem in Germany is all the paperwork. There are so many laws that they send you from one place to another, and you have to pay a lot of money just to find out what permission you need.

[@jurepecar9092]

Paperwork? Eh, try Italy.

[@EngineMisfire]

That happens a lot in the People Socialist Republik of Kalyfornystan (a.k.a the state of California).

[@traumflug]

We had this paperwork 30 years ago as well. More work, better results. While bureaucracy is nevertheless a burden, the decline of Germany has other causes.

[@civissollicitus6767]

@@traumflug That's it. Bureaucracy is just a disguise for the real problems.

[@drx1xym154]

@@EngineMisfire -- I call it Commiefornia ... and the fearless leader Gov Kim Un Newsance is leading the way.

[@thibs0]

French here. We’re all ambarassed by the non-rational decisions taken by our own countries. That’s why we need more rational thinking & science education everywhere and especially in politics that are rarely based on facts but rather on beliefs and dogmas.

[@noahraab2429]

And they’ll always be. Politics isn’t facts because it represents a possible vision of the future, facts be damned. That vision is mostly to retire early comfortably with your thumb in your ass and your generous briber‘s tongue in your ear.

[@yuzan3607]

As an Engineer, I always thought that everyone should study Engineering. Not because I love it, but I genuinely think that Engineering teaches rational thinking and you can then apply it to literally everything. There's a reason why most successful business men were engineers. Even some successful artists come from Engineering backgrounds.

[@lagarttemido]

Wrong. You need religion. You need Jesus Christ and the Church. Only when you have contact with the Truth you can actually do science and benefit others with your work. Without Jesus Christ guiding people, everything turns out to be a way to ensalve others. "If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments."

[@thibs0]

@@lagarttemido how fortunate the only god over the 3000+ prayed by humans on earth, the true one is yours 😆, the christian's one, the one your parents endoctrinated you with. Science is by definition all mecanisms that build knowledge. Science is litterally the way to understand our environment. On the contrary, all religions keep people into ignorance (to control them). Fortunately, science progressed in the last 200 years so fast, that people live now in a better world, with technologies like the one you're using to write your message above 😉, and all religions are regressing while we understand better our environment. Have a good day human and please don't follow too closely those 2000 years old prescriptions written in your holy book by the humans of that era with so poor morality that slavery was fine, women had no rights and were raped, and killing people for having different opinions was encouraged.

[@lilosteracci3149]

@@lagarttemidoCouldn't be more wrong

[@thought-provoker]

German lifehack for speeding up Internet access: Ask a friend in Belgium to download the files for you, store it on a USB stick, then you ride over there with your bike to pick it up.

[@TheRealFallenDemon]

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a bag full of USB sticks on a push bikes

[@majorowe]

except that she says Belgium has less fibre optics coverage....

[@uk922]

Yeahh.... but you have to admit it´s very friendly to the environment......😬 🤣

[@Naxt366]

Austria has good internet too

[@OmateYayami]

Classic high bandwidth - high latency example.

[@pnf197]

When a physicist gets a speeding ticket, twice, in one journey, clearly there is something wrong with the space-time continuum. You weren't speeding Sabine, Germany was just slowing down.

[@n.davidmiller2029]

🎉😂😅 Best comment

[@cobusvanzyl5206]

Yes, you were speeding RELATIVE to Germany.

[@annelbeab8124]

😂😂😂

[@FallNorth]

I once worked with a guy who sped off on a Friday to get to his home (far from the office). He managed to get enough speeding tickets in one journey to get banned outright. They all just add up, they don't say "well you had your quota that day"!.

[@richardalvarez2390]

So climate change is a high priority for the elite? As they guzzle and fly around their private jets around the world, releasing much more carbon than a single person would release. I remember the COP conferences on climate change, 400+ private jets; literally descended in one location to preach climate change lol. Its funny how the elite can pollute at their hearts content and then preach to the common people that climate change is a big threat. Hypocrisy.

[@daelaenor]

I assure you, my 7.5 MB/s are not to be trifled with. (written 1 day ago)

[@kti5682]

@@daelaenor and yet your network provider promises you 50 or a hundred MBit/s.

[@Kaytsey]

@@kti5682 well, that is 60 MBit/s.

[@authenticbaguette6673]

Try being on 2Mbits/s (serious)

[@rontaylor3403]

7.5 MB/s = 60 Mb/s thats plenty enough.

[@kti5682]

@@Kaytsey ok I too find MBytes more convenient why not. My parents only get 10% of what they are promised.

[@fretless05]

As an American of German decent, I have grown up watching Germany from afar and seeing slow plodding precision. As a kid, my brother and I watched Karl-Heinz Rummenigge with awe, watching as the team slowly passed forward and back, from side to side, building up their attack until Kalle had a look at goal. It shaped our view of soccer (football to Europeans) as well as our view of Germany as it seemed to coincide with the precision we saw in German products like cars. As I grew older and ended up in the nuclear field, my views were shaken when I saw Germany abandon it's nuclear power, leading to real power issues; it seemed to be an avoidable mistake that showed a real change in the German intellectualism. It was heartbreaking hearing that people are turning to burning wood for heat! Here in the US, it's become clear that switching from coal to natural gas and nuclear is an efficient way to reduce carbon emissions while developing cleaner power sources. As far as your personal choices, regardless of your other choices, I think educating people online is an honorable choice. We need more science-based information and less propaganda.

[@thefranciswatts]

I talked to a German while in a Sauna in Oslo, and he expressed the same.

[@MHalblaub]

That couldn't be true. A serious German would tell you to be quiet in a saune because Finnish tradition? In case you ask if he ever visited a sauna in Finland he will leave disgusted.

[@idlewise]

No talking in the sauna!

[@migooknamja]

0:18 Answer: mass immigration from the 3rd world. instead rambles on about slow internet and the EV/Green agenda

[@VeritasIncrebresco]

Import the third world, become the third world

[@artlein..]

@@Ceerix hahaha... yes, imagine that! 🤣🤣🤣❤

[@ceopabdoc538]

"The world isn't afraid of us anymore" - Sabine, 2024

[@brianarbenz1329]

Those are actually very reassuring words to every other nation.

[@koroglurustem1722]

But they're bully enough to support genocide in Gaza by the victims of Holocaust

[@qwarts4617]

"The world ... isn't ... afraid of us anymore."

[@entp_adventures]

Expected this to be about the Nazis. Instead it was just... Kinda Nazi like

[@FortexVize]

@@entp_adventures You are not seriously saying this video was nazi like... now that is hella stupid.

[@pablog80]

I am a close follower of the events taking place in Germany. I travel there quite often. In my humble opinion, the source of all the country management mistakes come from decisions being made based on ideology instead of facts, technology and common sense

[@wonderfalg]

100% true.

[@benlovell9416]

isn't that the truth everywhere?

[@michaelj7677]

Lets do a root source investigation. The mentioned topics are: 1. Privatization of the DB (1.1.1994). This was based on economical reasons and regulatory requirements of the EU. 2. Bad digital infrastructure: This is based on decisions made against glass fiber in the mid 90s based on influence of the lobbyist Leo Kirch 3. Nuclear phase-out (2011 after Fukushima, due to pressure of 70-80% of the population) 4. Hydrogen strategy (2020, called "Nationale Wasserstoffstrategy", NWS) These events are well-documented and widely known. Even all of them occured on behalf of the same political party, where is the ideology here? I can see economical reasons, lobbyism or political pressure from the people. Maybe for the NWS - I'm not familiar with this topic because of hydrogen

[@tedthesailor172]

Welcome to the world...

[@pablog80]

@@benlovell9416 mostly yes. But the extent to which a developed and reliable Germany is spoiling what used to be an advantageous and leading position in many fields is way above the average. She explains it well in the video, but the list could go on for much longer. The trend is so worrying

[@sisyphusofephyra7801]

Watching this from Cuba and hearing her complain about 5mb/s. 100, 100kb/s is what I got.

[@alengm]

5 megabit/s not megabyte/s. It's 8 times lower. Not as low as 100 kb/s though

[@sisyphusofephyra7801]

@@alengm ulala

[@aero1000]

Well since Germany's decline the German people for the first time in history have developed a sense of humour.

[@Demo-critus]

Actually, humour in East Germany was a lot better than in the West. It was a good cover to complain about things without being seen as a subversive.

[@gurnblanston5000]

German comedians are the best. So much material.

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

"german cannot into humour" - people who only know four jokes.

[@drmaybe7680]

Quite a stupid and untrue trope that shows you have never lived in Germany.

[@lfarrocodev]

The "forklift driver Klaus" videos from the 80's prove you wrong

[@finhas8865]

Wait, I'm from rural village in Borneo and my internet speed is much faster than Sabine's?

[@shracc]

I switched from "fiber" to wireless and the copper cable for multiple km. Because my "fiber" was unusable due to having multi second lag spikes every minute.

[@bajocontinuo3]

​@@shracc Fiber is great the problem is with your country's shitty infrastructure, ive always had fiber in every place ive lived in Spain and never had any trouble with 800Mb speeds average

[@mdsmatheus]

i'm from a poor neighborhood, from a poor region of brazil and my internet is faster than hers. fiber for $20usd/month 500Mb

[@moladiver6817]

​@@bajocontinuo3That might be true but fiber is about the only thing that could be labeled fast in Spain.

[@oichilli7309]

My parents have 12 Mbit/s in a 1 million metropolitan area

[@cameirusisu1024]

dont worry. I'm british, you learn to live with a constant state of national embarrassment.....

[@shewbell2176]

America: It's bad So bad

[@Ifuckwithtrinkets]

Until you’ve had Trump for President, you have no idea how embarrassed you can be of your country. 🙃

[@InSterquiliniisInvenitur]

After living with the Biden/Harris administration for the few years we've had them, Americans ABSOLUTELY understand national embarrassment.

[@xaviernogueira]

​@@Ifuckwithtrinketsto be fair, the Brits had a knockoff version with Boris

[@Parents_of_Twins]

Thanks to the GOP the United States is getting used to it as well.

[@ichsanharja]

I was in Germany in 2017 for a cycling tour. The sign was already there: dilapidated bus station, internet so slow that it takes forever to upload my photos, never mind videos. I'm from a 'developing country' so that baffles me.

[@stefanoviviani6064]

Welcome, Sabine, to the worldwide "I'm embarrassed of my Country" club, feel free to pick any flag!

[@Krn7777w]

1 billion population in India but divided, disconnected, superstitious. I wish my heart turns into stone and mind freezes. Child labor, female foeticide, caste system, corruption, unemployment, illiteracy. I wish I could meet god, ask questions. Why such disparity, why such pain? Free mind freez!

[@RBzee112]

Same here in the USA. Billionaires rule and we all lose.

[@shrayesraman5192]

@@Krn7777w At the very least India seems on the up and up. Things were so bad there before that it is better in a relative way. In Germany and many western countries the feeling is the opposite where things are going down hill. This perception has grave social consequences historically.

[@RS-ls7mm]

Humans appear to be too stup!d to govern themselves. Maybe our AI overlords will fix that.

[@quantisedspace7047]

Yes, carry a Union Flag in London and you'll be arrested for 'being openly English'

[@aj-jc4cv]

The UK lowered its own carbon emmissions by selling its manufacturing base to other countries that don't care about such things, thus boosting global emmissions.

[@mheermance]

This is the dirty not so secret of the rise of China. Companies sidestep regulation by offshoring. Meanwhile politicians claim victory for declining emissions.

[@seed_drill7135]

And then the stuff gets shipped around in filthy, sludge burning container ships.

[@ethanlamoureux5306]

So did every other Western nation. Now we have low carbon emissions and no more danger of CLIMATE CHANGE!😂 Actually, we all are a bunch of suckers who believed a lie and sold what was really valuable to China, and now just like Sabina, we are noticing the effects of our long decline to poverty, and we still think we’re saving the planet. Putting manufacturing in the hands of the most incompetent countries around the world and expecting a good result is insane.

[@martinliehs2513]

It's been happening everywhere. Try to find a consumer good of any sort that is NOT made in China, regardless of brand or price.

[@CandleWisp]

Source?

[@ossdemura]

I've been working in a German company now for 6 years. The biggest issue is that achieving goals is not the priority, but following a process. And when something is performing poorly, you like better adding more process rather than thinking what is the best way to achieve the goal. At the end you work for the process.

[@diemcarl5546]

🤖🤖🤖

[@Esra208]

That is sooo true 😂 And they love their processes.

[@xenokarasu]

My brother and I like to call it The Checkliste Syndrome!

[@IThinkICare]

Process is how you maintain quality.

[@ossdemura]

@@IThinkICare it depends. Public institutions are full of processes for example, it does not guarantee any success, quality, etc. Many just get comfy behind a process, or use it to hide behind. Processes are great, but not the goal.

[@graelent9]

A science educator and comedien rolled into one! She is pure gold ❤

[@chriflu]

Howdy, Northern neighbours, Swiss-Austrian dual citizen based in Vienna here. It's funny: When I was a child in the 80s and 90s, out of the German-speaking countries Austria was the one that felt the most "backwards" and actually a bit "Eastern-blocky" as my relatives in Switzerland used to joke. The stereotype, confirmed by massive anecdotical evidence, was that, for example, international trains would inevitably start accumulating delays as soon as they had entered Austria. Back then, (West) Germany was somewhat in between - not as well-organized as Switzerland, but pretty solid. Within the last 20 years, Austria and Germany have somehow switched roles. While Austria has modernized a lot, Germany increasingly feels like Austria used to feel 30-40 years ago. What I also find quite funny is the different ways in which the Swiss and the Austrians deal with the fact that, since a lot of our trains come in from Germany, the constant delays of Deutsche Bahn are messing up our own timetables: By now, the Swiss always have a few extra trains ready at the border and, if the German train is delayed, they simply run an extra Swiss train on the Swiss part of the route. The Austrians don't do that, but they make up for it by making their announcements as passive-aggressive as possible ("Unfortunately, train so and so is still 55 minutes delayed because, once again, the hand-over by Deutsche Bahn at the border was delayed by 90 minutes. On behalf of Austrian Railways, we would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused to our passengers by Deutsche Bahn.").

[@seanpalmer6995]

As a Brit I am by turns humbled and delighted by your witty command of English. Bravo Sir, bravo!

[@wolfgangwiesinger9502]

Das Österreichische Netz ist recht einfach, verglichen mit dem Deutschen.

[@acefighterpilot]

Austria's technological prowess is not to be underestimated. They have revolutionized the light aircraft market in the US, with Rotax and Austro engines and Diamond airframes. It used to be that a ~150 ps aircraft engine displaced 7 liters and weighed 140kg. Now a Rotax engine produces 158 ps from 1.4 liters and I can pick it up and carry it around by myself.

[@abuqadr629]

Kann ich bestätigen. Österreich und Ganz besonders Wien ist wunderschön. War zum Urlaub mehrmals dort und habe n Monat dort gearbeitet. Eine der besten Zeiten meines Lebens. Liebe Grüße ans schöne Wien. ❤️

[@chriflu]

@@YogiAI To be fair though - as much as I love myself some good old-fashioned German-bashing as we are so fond of in the small neighouring countries - I think the extremely high cost of German re-unification is often under-estimated. I would not necessarily say that Austrian, Swiss, or Dutch politicians have been so much smarter than their German counterparts in the past few decades, but they could afford to make some mistakes and still have enough money to modernize infrastructure and public administration as well as to create reasonably good conditions for private enterprise.

[@yaldabaoth2]

I saw a newspaper yesterday that had an article titled "Mythos Merkel". Yes, she is now already in the same league as legendary heroes. A shining beacon of standing still for 16 years.

[@Rossobroc]

Well, same as Helmut Kohl. And that were another 16 years. If you bother about missing fibre optics, ask him!

[@hansulrichboning8551]

Absolute awful and overhyped Person.She left us in a giant pile of mess with ruined military, infrastructure and dependend from russian gas.Not to mention her nuts migration and Euro-politics.

[@johnsmithers8913]

It's incredible how these mythical figures seem to disappear before the SHTF. Their timing is certainly mythical.

[@HP-ov7ol]

Frau Merkel was a disaster who helped all the seeds of German destruction sprout and grow worse for years.

[@hendrik4093]

Shining beacon of standing still!!!!

[@stuartfishman1044]

Your saying that in Germany "The Wi-Fi is so slow that by the time the news is streaming it has become an historical documentary" got a good laugh out of me. It kills the notion that Germans don't have a sense of humor. Not that I ever believed it.

[@wonderfalg]

We do have Wi-Fi in Germany? I'm still waiting for my phone line I ordered in 1991. okay, 1st part is a joke, but 2nd part is reality, they never delivered

[@aoeu256]

But... you don't need fast wifi to stream ...

[@kakaocgn]

I think she totally nails german humor is dry and very sarcastic, not for the faint hearted ❤😂🎉but if you can handle it is super fun.

[@SolarCookingGermany]

News here aren't worth listening to anyway.

[@johnarnold893]

Wow, I live in a small town, 7500 people, in south central British Columbia and have had fibre for about 10 years. G/bit service for about 3 years. Biggest mistake Germany made was getting rid of Nuclear in order to burn wood and coal for power.

[@edinson1613]

Hmm. In 1995 after the Jugoslavijan war finished, in which my dad died tragically in Bosnia, Germany took my mother, sister and me in as asylum seekers for three years because we had nowhere to go back to in Bosnia. After our duldung expired in 1998, we moved to Australia where I finished my schooling and uni and stuff. I'm eternally grateful to Germany and the German people for taking us in when we needed help. Hey Germans, don't be ashamed. I love Germany and Germans. Germans have a very kind and generous spirit, and a lot to be proud of in my eyes. ❤❤

[@xxwookey]

Well said, but that was also 30 years ago, when I think Sabine would also say Germany was in a much better place. They did of course also take in a pile more people in serious need only 10 years ago, so that generosity was still alive and well then, but I get the impression it's on a bit of a downer right now.

[@colinosborne3877]

@@xxwookey But Germans were considered to be technically bright people who understood and pracrised science. Get rid of nuclear power generation at a time when they were getting their gas supply cut off. Listening to little girls full of frightening propaganda. Intelligence or what?

[@p__jay]

and when have you been in Germany the last time? Trust me, if you would come today, you will not recognize it anymore and will be sad to see how much it changed…

[@edinson1613]

@@p__jay Last time was 2011. I visited my grundschule, unter den kastanien in Berlin, had a little cry. Maybe it has changed a lot. Weirdly I spoke to a nice German chick since posting this comment who said she is an ECONOMIC MIGRANT TO BOSNIA FROM GERMANY because the cost of living and tax is so high in Germany! What the actual fk? That really bent my mind.

[@p__jay]

@@edinson1613 the cost of living is not really the problem. but the whole migrant and "refugee" situation. Germany is not Germany anymore!

[@lyracian]

As others have said it is not just Germany. I am in the UK and with all the delays it took me 11 hours to travel 100 miles on public transport. At one point the bus driver announced he had to stop for 45 minutes as he had reached the legal limit he was allowed to drive for. This of course resulted in missing the next connection and thus another hours delay waiting for the next bus and so it went on...

[@gitteholmen8156]

Do not blame The driver and his right to ok working conditions. Blame The fact that more and more infrastructure is privatized and all not profitable routes are closed or with very few daily departures. From what I understand we are also heading towards smart-cities with all people Living in these cities and NOT in The countryside. And are supposed to stay at Home due to The 15-minutes city concept - and are not supposed to travelling around. Correct me if I am misinformed and why

[@mnomadvfx]

That's totally inept management at work. I often see 2 bus drivers on Stagecoach buses when one driver is getting shadowed by a more experienced driver for one reason or another. I don't see any reason why the bus company couldn't simply do that and have the extra driver just snooze until there is a shift change to cover the time that a single driver can't legally wprk for.

[@BigJohnson-g3j]

Are you going enjoying the influence of communism?

[@AapVanDieKaap]

​@@BigJohnson-g3jIt's incredible to me that socialism is still tolerated in Europe after what's happened over the last 250 years. It's so obviously a bad idea. This is why I've become convinced universal sufferage democracy isn't sustainable. If people are so ignorant thay they will entertain socialism they shouldn't be involved in decision making. Sad reality...

[@stucevevo8947]

​@@BigJohnson-g3j capitalism is way worse for public transportation since it would push abandoning non profitable roads btw, and on top of that, I'd say it's mostly caused by wanting short term profit by making poor and rushed urban planning letting us with very impractical infrastructure in general

[@arminschmid1141]

Normally, being slow is a good thing when going in the wrong direction. Anyway, our German contribution to solving the world's problems: showing everyone else how not to do it.

[@kylebeatty7643]

The US would like a word. The problems are not evenly distributed. Where I am there is no train service at all to speak of even though I live in an important regional metropolis. I do have access to fiber internet, however.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

If not for the Russia-Ukraine drama, things would be comparatively more stable. Should've worked harder for peace rather than jumping into war because a certain dumdum thought that it was a good way for the local companies of *some country* to benefit.

[@Pastamistic]

Seriously, we have zero quality public transit in the US. The east coast at least should be covered in rail networks for easy and efficient transportation. There's so many cities that would be wonderful with light rail too. Instead we need to own our own expensive machine and take on the mind numbing task of commuting by car everywhere.

[@skytron22]

@@kylebeatty7643 regional trains absolutely need to be built in the US. Amtrak needs high speed rail for distances of 100 to 150 miles. Flying makes more sense for transcontinental travel, no need to invest in a transcontinental high speed rail line (yet). That means shit should be easier to build, but the problem in the US is the red tape, local governments, and individual NIMBYs. Look at how long it’s taken California: 20 years of planning, billions already spent, and it’s only now starting to be built.

[@Deathend]

America: Alright, bet. Green technology is now a political conspiracy and all attempts at progress will be met with armed resistance. Also, about 15-30% of the country wants the country to become a theocracy and we're willing to do anything to make it happen. Ala "Project 2025"

[@stenkarasin2091]

Your description of Germany's present situation is descriptive of the eventual fate of all vassals, and when you acquiesced to the destruction of the pipeline germany became a US vassal.

[@unadomandaperte]

I can agree. We've been waiting for Kraftwerk to come out with another album for the last 30 years.

[@aheendwhz1]

Maybe they've been shut down because they're a nuclear Kraftwerk?

[@Cnsalmoni]

Ha! Forgot about them..

[@quantisedspace7047]

You've not seen 'Ja, das Hokey Kokey'. Man schteckt die linke Arm aus Ein, aus, ein, aus Man schütteln alles rund Man macht das Hokey-Kokey Und man dreht sich herum Das ist die ganze Sache

[@dsracoon]

Blame the klimaklebers /s

[@organfairy]

21 years. They made 'Tour de France Soundtracks' in 2003.

[@jaylewis9876]

For too long the smartest people have avoided politics and left it to the least capable. Thank you for embracing the challenge to reverse this

[@ausforaus7617]

Yes, sensible people like Sabine need to be heard above the bureaucrats and politicians ..... her 1.38 million subscribers is a good start.

[@johannestetzelivonrosador7317]

That issue is persistent across time and nations

[@biopsiesbeanieboos55]

When smart people do become politicians, they get torn to shreds. I honestly believe the best way to influence politics is from the outside. I know that sounds like a cop out, but the political machine is an emulsifier. It destroys individual ideas (and the soul of the idea giver) and blends them into a bland soup. When the emulsion of an idea inevitability fails, the idea giver is made to pay the political price for its failure.

[@kerycktotebag8164]

Smart means very little when willful ignorance is a thing, & people striving to crawl out of ignorance are eventually seen as too much of a threat to reach any auspices of political power except for the bare minimum of controlled opposition

[@Flo-vn9ty]

Unfortunately it's not enough to be smart. People tend to not vote for the smart politicians, at least not if they do smart things.

[@marcusmoonstein242]

Hearing a German saying "The world just isn't appropriately afraid of us anymore" in that nice Germanic accent made my day.

[@Hope_Boat]

As a Greek I can tell you that the state of the German economy is scary the hell out of all other EU countries.

[@zackofpersia5086]

Shows you mindset where even after Nazism they still want to make the world fear them while simultaneously look up to them, I don’t think Germans are aware of how racist they are, they must have been indoctrinated so early to think in this overly superior way.

[@LuluTheCorgi]

​@@Hope_Boatyeah because we've been propping up your economy for decades in exchange for a cheap Europe so we can export around the globe If your people paid taxes you wouldn't have to be scared about how our economy is doing

[@w12p67]

Probably one of the scariest things we can hear, especially if you're Jewish.

[@kacperslaczka6290]

@@LuluTheCorgi As someone from Poland, where our economy has been growing greatly and taxes have been paid we still worry about German economy. Everyone knows that if sh*t was to hit the fan Germany would use it's oversized influence on European Union to help themselves and also make situation worse for everyone else in the process. That has already happened in 2008 and when it comes to gas deals with Russia that significantly destroyed Europe's economy after 2022 so Germany could have cheaper gas earlier. That's why Poland will never buy into joining eurozone. We prefer our own currency thanks to what Germany (and to a lesser extent France) was doing. Eurozone is destroying European Union for the benefit of Germany.

[@tennisfanstefan]

Dear Sabine, As a half Swedish half English man living next door to you in Czech Republic I like your videos even if they are sometimes depressing. You can't scare me with your accent, I lived in Germany as a teen. I agree with the comment under this, comparing unfavourably with current England in just about anything is a bad sign

[@tombh74]

I remember visiting Flensburg a few years ago with my family. My son wanted to go fishing by the sea. I knew we needed a permit as we do in Denmark. Turned out we had to go to a counsil office, wait in line, fill in a long paper form with all kind of details and pay in cash. It took a couple of hours out of our short holiday. In my home country Denmark, we just go to a website and pay the fee.

[@volkerbeyer2766]

The funny thing is - you could get a permit in Schleswig-Holstein - you won't get any in Lower Saxony because you need a german fishing exam. It is crasy...

[@der1222]

Because Denmark is a functional country with people who have a sense of humor and arent insufferable moralists

[@amyself6678]

I wonder if english countries do tech easier, with so much of basics being based in english. So I try to cut East and Central Europe a little slack. Most coding is in pure english, that's sorta not fair but history is not fair.

[@BBQDad463]

Hours to buy a fishing license? Even Pennsylvania (USA) can get it done faster than that: Walk into practically any sporting goods store or hardware store, put down your money, walk out with a hunting license, trapping license, or fishing license in about the time it takes you to write down your name, address, phone number, age, and date of birth.

[@uponeric36]

You can do that in the rural US as well. You just order the license online and print it out.

[@tareklel1127]

One thign that struck me watching the Eurocup this year: Electric car sponsor: Chinese Mobile phone sponsor: Chinese E-commerce and E-pay sponsor: Chinese Electronics sponsor: Chinese Where are all the great German and European manufacturing and tech companies? The continent is being left in the dust economically by more dynamic markets

[@johnm2714]

Part of the problem is the EU Commission. Its focus is on ossifying regulation rather than creative stimulation. It worries me that it may be self-defeating in the end.

[@alexrogers777]

Europe is a consumer economy, I honestly don't even know what they produce these days besides a few luxury cars that no one can afford

[@MrJdsenior]

China is dynamic, all right, and right now their economy is going down the tubes.

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

'more dynamic markets' - er China is paying people a tenth of the wages and paying no environmental costs, thats not a dynamic market, thats a criminal economy.

[@MrGTAmodsgerman]

This could be just your distortion. Maybe no european company does want to sponsor at the Eurocup. There are still european companies. Also german ones.

[@EmanueleOlivetti]

Last December we took a German train from Italy to Germany, paying a premium price for premium service. The train never arrived - it was cenceled. We sent the form to Deutsche Bahn for refund and the answer was: no refund, the train arrived on time, even a little earlier. They just canceled the Italian part without notice! So, money lost. Cherry on the cake: we took the next train and the conductor explained that the previous train was planned to be canceled one month ago - but they sold all tickets anyway! Excellent work Deutsche Bahn 👍👍👍

[@Dylan-oj6pj]

Sue them

[@Call-me-Al]

That sounds super illegal.

[@bernhardbauer5301]

This is the new logic demanded by Ricarda Göring-Eckhart. You still use the old logic? Solution: Become an idiot too.

[@Sensorama2000]

Standard behavior of our decadent elites... The people that recognize a problem and are capable of fixing it are being stopped by higher ups that are only interested in forging the numbers so they keep their jobs...

[@d.b.2215]

​@@Dylan-oj6pjYou'll never win against the DB. Impossible

[@froggyman9588]

As a citizen of Poland im quite glad Germany isn't what it used to be (85 years ago)

[@SjaakSchulteis]

I live in Thailand, about 18 km from the nearest town (Hua Hin). My internet comes through glass fiber cable with over 800 mbps! Every year I have to send a life certificate to receive my pension from the Deutsche Rente for one more year: it has to be done by post. Twice it never arrived. Now I have to send it via registered mail, so I can follow it's tracks. They don't accept it via e-mail. It has to be done on paper! In 2024! Probably because of "privacy and security" reasons, but anyone can open the envelop on the way to Germany. I retired in 2012 and before that time I took the train to Frankfurt airport from a small place called Herzogenrath. I always had to take into consideration that there would be a delay, so I had to take one or two trains before the actual time that I had to be at the airport (I used to work for Lufthansa)... Oh I can go on about it... on the whole, I'm glad that I can live in a "third world" country like Thailand.

[@GazGuitarz]

Thailand is amazingly progressive in many areas. Most Thais use their mobiles to pay for everything. My wife comes from Kalasin (rural Northern Thailand) and even the internet in her village is faster than mine is in Australia.

[@belstar1128]

in the 90s nobody in Thailand owned a computer most of the population didn't even know what it was while Germany was cutting edge now Germany has fallen decades behind Thailand

[@planetdrinker5385]

Can you justify receiving a pension when you don't live in the country that gives it to you? I know you Boomers think you deserve the world.

[@twls153]

I'm from Brazil, and is very ironic seeing native people who lives in villages in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest here having better tech than a first world country.

[@JoseGranny]

Can we stop using the term "third world country"?

[@Michal_Bauer]

There is something in it. I'm a Pole as a kid in 1997 I lived in Germany for one year as my dad had a Humboldt Scholarship. It was another world - modern buses, modern trains (even if they were even more late than polish trains) clean cities. Everything was screaming "west", "modern", "rich" and "better". And Autobahns - it was something different compared to polish road network of 1997. And now when I visit I see dirty cities. Trains, buses and train stations so less modern than in Poland. And Autobahns? They seem narrow and uncomfortable compared to polish express roads.

[@rhettmeyers474]

Poland lacks much of the cultural enrichment that Germany has benefited from over the last couple of decades.

[@pmacc3557]

Poland is a great country

[@FoobsTon]

Who do you think's been financing the new stuff in Poland?

[@Thematic2177]

@@FoobsTon Polish taxpayers

[@FoobsTon]

@@Thematic2177 Sorry. From Statista: Since 2004, Poland has received nearly 246 billion euros from the European Union budget. During this period, membership payments to the EU budget amounted to over 83.8 billion euros.22 Apr 2024

[@MCRuCr]

Bad internet and train infrastructure are by far not the worst problems here

[@daymenpollet4202]

Internet is fine bro.

[@AtlasReburdened]

The bureaucracy and general sense of native malcontention were the worst things I experienced in Germany.

[@Briand-ei1gs]

Too many German citizens are not really german but African and arab.

[@richrd0001]

@@Briand-ei1gs Bravo. Thank you.

[@uncletimo6059]

salam aleikum, fellow geman

[@OneTrueKing23]

Its time to stop voting for communists in Germany, take a lesson from us Czechs.

[@RavenwingAcademy7511]

😂😂😂😂😂"Quantum WiFi that collapses as soon as you connect" is f**king HILARIOUS! One of the funniest science jokes ive heard😭

[@NaveenKumar-os8dv]

Definitely

[@blackshard641]

High brow humor at its finest.

[@SomeoneExchangeable]

Above all, it's true...

[@xx_z.bruh_xx6916]

Top drawer top drawer

[@gibbogle]

I will never again accept that Germans have no sense of humour.

[@christianrottler]

I'm not embarrassed, I'm just shocked and deeply saddened at how dysfunctional we've become.

[@PierreDybman]

Berlin airport...

[@azurebadger]

Our leaders are sabotaging us. That should be clear. Look how hard they fight to edge out political competition even when people vote for them. Or do you take the slander campaigns at face value with no context? Sort yourself out. Those people want you demoralized and disenfranchised for a reason

[@entity_unknown_]

Bro become ??

[@Swamp72]

@@entity_unknown_ pretty sure Germany used to be a global superpower at one point…

[@asklouie]

You've been that way since 1945.

[@thomasvanetten1984]

It’s not just a German issue, it’s a global issue when political considerations override technological solutions. Sabine shouldn’t be embarrassed to be German, rather we should all be embarrassed to live in a civilization that places a higher value on entertainment than on seriously addressing the needs of all humans.

[@gibbogle]

We are living in The Age of Entertainment.

[@thomasmoeller2961]

I am German living in the US. Agree with your input !

[@Flatlander80]

Exactly this!

[@da-voodoo-shuffle]

​@@gibboglemore like the Age of Entitlement

[@johnwilliams3555]

That's what the Romans did. It is a great strategy.

[@jaminhubner6342]

Thought you were going to say "Germany is unconditionally supporting its third genocide" but yeah slow internet is a bummer.

[@HerbertDuckshort]

I lived in the old West Germany in the 80s. Everything worked, trains on time, streets spotlessly clean. I loved it. What's happened?

[@rodrigomohr1277]

Inept politicians are destroying the country. :(

[@mikicerise6250]

Ironically... Maybe lack of competition after the end of communism? 😅

[@RJasonKlein]

Unfettered immigration…

[@John-ir2zf]

👈ism......that's what happened 🤷‍♂️

[@zm1786]

I blame.the zuckerberh trirbe

[@kazomazo6646]

I visited Germany in August 2023. I bought one month train subscription, a mistake happened and it ended up taking from me the price of 2 months instead of one. I emailed the transport company, 4 times and they took 6 months to answer me!! 6 freaking months! The issue got solved and closed in June 2024! Almost 11 months after my first email!! There is something seriously wrong with whatever is going on there!

[@conniem2394]

I live 300km from next town we don't even have buses. Stop complaining live in my fked up country Australia

[@juremustac3063]

Yeah I live here and I can tell you truckloads of stories like this. It is nothing unusual.

[@daniels7624]

It took so long because they already had your money. If you wanted to buy a car and mailed them that there is an error with their online payment system so you can't pay even if you wanted to - it would take only 30mins.

[@wtfyooutube]

Similar thing happened to me and it was an airplane company. Lufthns.. Took them months (4 to 6 don't remember) to get me back my money. It did not ruin my vacation exactly but i definitely could not enjoy it thinking if I will get it back and documenting everything for them in my holiday time.

[@Dr.Pancho.Tortilla]

Why bother with your own country if that's not your country anymore.

[@diamondthree]

Sabine: I'm embarrassed to be German and it's my government's fault Me, an American: "First time?"

[@PeregrinTintenfish]

Germans don't embarrass easily.

[@Derek_Garnham]

my faith in some Americans (i.e. you) is slightly restored :)

[@Withnail1969]

Try being British. I literally blush with embarrassment when I wake up every morning.

[@valde_mar]

Ukrainian here. Unwillingly joining the club.

[@MaurizioDiBerardino]

Italian here: "Hold my beer"

[@donready119]

Always fun and informative, I love you Sabine. Keep speaking your mind.

[@marcoac-sx6lq]

In Italy, we usually refer to Germany as the perfect example of punctuality and efficiency for trains. Having traveled a bit in the last few years, I can say that Spain, Italy (excluding the very south) and France are light years ahead.

[@leobe2104]

That stereotype should be applied to individuals, but definitely not Deutsche Bahn, god I hate them

[@morrisse0_088]

@@leobe2104 the Bahn can only do as well as the politicians running the show. And let’s not act like this has only become a problem under this administration…

[@Soundbrigade]

Didn't the trains be in time in Italy many years ago when a bald "duke" ruled the country?! The situation in Sweden, where I live, is also a misery.

[@domenicodecaro5154]

@@Soundbrigade nope, bald guy would rather invest in the army than the railway. Saying that the trains were on time is the stereotypical thing that the weird single uncle says at Christmas' lunch when someone points out our current problems.

[@FSantoro91]

The only good thing about the German railway system is that it's extremely interconnected, with a lot of branch lines to small villages, whereas in Italy many of those were closed to favor the automobile industry.

[@rickbhattacharya2334]

So talking about trains. I am not a German citizen and came here for masters. Once I was coming from a place and the last train at Frankfurt suddenly got cancelled and the funny thing is there was no substitute service available so basically I have to sit on the station till 7am. When I told this story to my German friends they simply replied. Willkommen in Deutschland.

[@das_f.l.x]

Rule 0: NEVER rely on the last train in Germany. The last train (or bus) only exists as a backup if the earlier train gets cancelled, breaks down or disappears in a black hole. Edit: If you think the "black hole" was just a joke, no, it wasn't. I have already been in the situation where a train hasn't been seen along any station of it's way but somehow moved itself to the end station while being displayed as "perfectly in time" in the app.

[@benji104]

In this situation the Bahn will pay you a hotel room (provided you had a ticket for the cancelled train).

[@javiergilvidal1558]

Moral of the story: GET BACK TO FUCKING BOMBAY! We all know how beautiful Indian trains are!

[@geesehoward700]

DB should do what they do in the UK. Just make the tickets too expensive to realistically go anywhere on the railways.

[@swarupkumar2]

​@@javiergilvidal1558so the declining quality of the public services in Germany doesn't bother you? You are okay if things doesn't get better?

[@huonglarne]

A friend of mine is developing a chatbot for a German company. Their internal software system is so terrobly designed and hard to use and so they wanted to use AI to help users make sense of it. Along the way, the developers realized that in the past, there have been multiple other IT projects to cope with that software beside the chatbot, but none of them really helped. My friend kept wondering why they didnt go with the obvious solution, which is designing an entirely new software to replace the old ones. Instead they kept it and keep slapping new tech like AI like a bandaid over it. But since they're paying my friend, the chatbot project goes on. It's exactly the same story as not upgrading to optic cables but trying to improve copper sables instead.

[@Blink_____]

sunk cost fallacy

[@chrisbent5734]

something something -man empire.

[@athmaid]

And when they finally decide to fix it, they implement a more powerful version that is even worse in terms of user experience lol

[@sortasurvival5482]

American banks would like t[ have a chat. At least one major one still has all their back end run by cobol...

[@rushyscoper1651]

no that a very different problem with tech in general, its goes like this, new less-code solution become trendy promising ease of use and being able to do 80% what more-code solution do, company switch to and start wanting to implement the 20% only to find out that the 80% is the easy part that even an intern can do, their solution grow in complexity slowly and now they are stuck in this model. dev that specialized in these less-code solution over time became so complex and fought over by the very few leftover companies that are stuck, but also in a way those dev are stuck cause if that market fail their job is gone and they so out of shape in coding in general.

[@LiranKo]

You are my favorite KZbinr, truly love your videos, recently migrated to Germany and just starting to understand what you are talking about...

[@tomitiustritus6672]

Last year, the german Bundesnetzagentur started a tender for a government contract for new fax machine provider. The Bundesnetzagentur... is the federal internet department... This is not satire. A few years ago, i was in the german equivalent to the DMV. I had to look through tons of old paperwork to get some specific esoteric personal registration number (Of which each german department loves to issue several at once for different purposes. Don't think you'll get away with a simple ID number. No, no, no.). I had to go twice, because the first time, i handed the employee my government issued ID card and asked if he could just enter my name in the system to look it up. Well... i had to come back next week with the specific number he wanted, because he refused. He said, he couldn't type in the personal information of every person who came to him, because he would never get anything done that way. Which kind of sounds as if he *could have* done it, if he wanted. And then i saw something i will never forget. The guy filled a formular, rolled it up, put it in a plastic can and put it into the pneumatic tube mail behind his desk and told me to go to another office in 3rd floor for the next step. I swear, i thought i was stuck in a Kafka novel.

[@DieBieneFranz]

this is crazy wtf hahahaha

[@blackmesa1855]

Das ist einfach herrlich . Passierschein a38

[@thomaszukal6133]

You're serious? :-) I'm from the Czech Republic and it's really true that Fax is still used in Germany. :-)

[@laars0001]

Those pneumatic tubes make an incredible sucking sound, like that of hope and promise of a future exiting.....

[@maximkretsch7134]

​@@blackmesa1855 Wollte es grade schreiben.

[@seconduser1809]

Last year I traveled around England for 5 weeks and dealt with cancelled trains and strikes and hearing people complain about how everything in the country is falling apart. Same things in my own country, Canada. I think it's happening in many developed countries, including Germany, for a variety of reasons.

[@danielslocum7169]

Socialists will screw everything up. Its happening in the U.S. at an alarming rate.

[@ericjsmoczynski4374]

Yes because all Western European nations are now run by psychopaths who hate themselves and have already transformed them into Third World nations.

[@oneoflokis]

What are those reasons, then?

[@CarlosFernandes-vm6mh]

What's falling apart in Canada?

[@bobchungilo]

@@oneoflokis Governments that do not represent the people, but rather, corporations and the elites.

[@wiadroman]

From the outsider perspective, I think Germany dropping their nuclear power capabilities was a major shitshow.

[@drake_sterling]

unless getting Krupp nuclear power might encourage a new Hitler to deal with Israel. EEC says NO. Likely best, from Israeli point of view. This defines the EEC. Nothing at all to do with economy, trains, or fibre optics. Everything to do with Middle East politics. Woke?

[@dominicwild3189]

Very correct! And then not getting the gas from Russia. Green politics causing major economic upheaval. The Greens need a lot of unhappy voters to vote for them. Reminds me of the Nazis and Communists voting against the building of autobahns to get more unemployed voting for them, but then after the Nazis killed any opposition to claim credit for every major civil infrastructure works.

[@user-jy3io4iz2p]

Merkel wanted to be green. She missed the boat completely.

[@onomatopejaB]

It was based pure on ideology and Greens gaslighted in raports that life of nuclear powerplants cannot be extended 🙄

[@pauldean7690]

Environmentalist have no borders, they rather burn billion of tons of coal rather than have nuclear which of course they had. Now they have to burn coal and still get lots of their power needs via power lines from France which has over 50 nuclear plants & more coming. Save the planet by killing the planet it seems is the environmentalist mantra

[@deanyaschempp]

Younger people in Germany are very self-interested. They stop paying into church-sponsored social service programs to save tax money, and they generally worry more about when their next vacation is than how well their team is working while they are there. There does not seem to be a sense of social responsibility among people under about 40. Does anyone else find that?

[@cato451]

Eliminating nuclear energy was colossally stupid. The problem is the U.S. is more embarrassing.

[@martinpalm5]

Nixon wanted build 1,000 nuclear reactor during the energy crisis, it was the Hippies that stopped him.

[@badxxxmonkey5541]

Yes. Colossally.

[@MyAnimeTL]

Nuclear is more expensive especially when we look at the state they where in Germany so cost wise renewable energy is way cheaper and can be stored also cheaper in different ways

[@jlg3315]

yeah, they put that guy in the white house and they want to do it again. is that the definition of insanity?

[@stanmarcusgtv]

@@MyAnimeTL absolutely wrong and Germany is paying the price for the green energy lies " renewable" energy is intermittent and actually makes the grid more fragile and energy more costly because it cannot be stored economically so power plants must be configured to provide for 100% demand when green energy is not producing

[@JB_inks]

Sounds like Germany is following Britain's lead

[@Anerisian]

Yes, the causes are also largely due to Conservatives. Example, chancellor Schmidt in the 1980s had started a program to upgrade to fibre. In the 1980s! But a lost election later, this was cancelled by the Conservatives/Liberals. How about renewables. Germany was in a leading position in the 2000s, thanks Social Democrats with Greens. But an election or two later, this was choked off by a different energy plan towards Putin, Nordstream etc. because it was cheaper, see how that went. Tragically, this government (Social Democrat/Greens and Liberals) came into power when the Ukraine War started, so cruel irony is they are blamed for a situation we wouldn’t be in if they had their say - except for the Liberals who now brand themselves as a modern digital party).

[@craigsips8677]

Things are great here in Edinburgh. But then, I don’t watch the news.

[@A.R.-mk1lq]

You mean islamization and shitholization?

[@VEVOJavier]

​@@craigsips8677I live in Edinburgh and I can't wait to move out. How is it July and still freezing outside

[@kingbolo4579]

Nonsense. We British have policy failures and incompetence the Germans can only dream about.

[@Sirlix89]

I recently told my Vietnames coworkers that 100 mbits internet is fast in Germany (at least 5 years ago when I still lived there). They were speechless.

[@viviandarkbloom8847]

i live in Vietnam. It's good there's no 5G over there, as the Vietnamese are turning into zombies with their omnipresent electronic devices. The smarter the phone, the dumber the user.

[@emanueley8410]

lol, in Germany 30 mbits is fast. oh. and they actually just passed a law defining what "fast internet" means: 15mbits

[@celdur4635]

@@emanueley8410

[@simpson6700]

i have 50mbits and i honestly don't know what i'd do with more. yes it could be faster, but it's completely sufficient for watching live streams and movies, and game downloads are a one time thing that i can just do in the background without affecting me much. my upload also exceeds the twitch bitrate limit. i guess it could be a problem with multiple people watching streams in the same household.

[@celdur4635]

@@simpson6700 You don't know what you don't know. I have 600mbits, and now i finally feel i have no barriers. 50 is nothing.

[@waffle8364]

I'm embarrassed to be American. I think the world is suffering all around. We have the worst infrastructure with tangled roads and poor public transportation

[@fnorgen]

As Perun said with regards to the sorry state of the Bundeswehr: "Where the Russians do corruption, the Germans do bureaucracy."

[@klaussajons]

...bureaucracy AND corruption...Germany by now has both

[@ronniedale6040]

This comment is underrated. Perun's analysis of the german armed forces also explains much more. The bureaucracy eats everything. Germany and France spend roughly the same on their armed forces. France is a carrier operating nuclear capable nation with the ability to project power globally. Germany is none of those things. Where does the money go?

[@OppenMinerDev]

Lmao didn't expect Perun to be mentioned here but yes, 100%

[@Crazmuss]

@@ronniedale6040 so, you propose Germany to get carriers and nuclear weapons and project power globally? Again?

[@bobseago1513]

And the British do the pld boy network. Mind you we have just had an election

[@cole-nq1ru]

The real embarrassment for me was when Germany completely reversed it's stance on nuclear power. Unreal.

[@borghorsa1902]

Fully payed by Comrade Merkel's Gazprom KGB bosses. I couldn't believe how would you go from MORE DENSE form of energy to a lower density energy such as gas. Historically progress made us go from least dense energy forms to more dense energies: leaves, straw, firewood, coal, oil, gas, nuclear, thermonuclear.

[@NoName-zn1sb]

its stance

[@burtburtist]

this one is the one i hear all the time, even from wehrabus. agree

[@thekyuwa]

Safe and reliable energy? Oh no thanks, we prefer unreliable and inefficient renewables. Pro player move 😂

[@cadenrolland5250]

I'm sure Russian influence had a lot to do with that. Germany actually somehow came to the insane conclusion that it was good to put their nation's security in Russian hands. Germany still sends a lot of money to the growing Russian war machine making war criminals rich and happy. Definitely Russian influence in there to change course so drastically and nonsensically!

[@Airclot]

I'm a mineral physicist, did my PhD in German (dumb idea). Had to do experiments at DESY, at the PETRA III synchrotron. Do you know what they did starting in 2022? They have the beam off for 20% of the time now. Why? To save on energy! Yes, they turn off a particle accelerator that is incredibly competitive for beam time, 20% of the year, because energy is too expensive. There's no surprise that Germany is falling behind. Those are the kind of decisions that are made daily there. Yes, it's still, now, in 2024, 20% of the year turned off. Screwed my research up quite badly!

[@donaldkasper8346]

Wind and solar over coal is five times more expensive.

[@effexon]

wait, havent they heard of company inventory management from accounting side.... if factory buys insanely expensive new machine, they better make sure it is used 99.99% to settle purchase cost in targeted time. I guess universities dont do this and thus they suck. Afterall even 50c electric is insanely cheap compared to billion euros CERN and other fancy science equipment. (I guess newest ones can be 15 billion euros range).

[@viperswhip]

There was a war against nuclear power because people are ignorant now. The only failures of Nuclear were from early version plants (3 mile, Chornobyl) or hit by a tsunami. Meanwhile, it is a great source of power that is safe, green, and wonderful. Oh well.

[@mal2ksc]

I can't imagine that kind of equipment likes being turned on and off frequently, either.

[@TheJerbol]

I think their decision to shut down nuclear reactors and instead re-open coal power plants is one of the most insane decisions of modern societies. Modern day Germany is so extremely reactive to global events. I somehow doubt that any of Germany's nuclear reactors are at risk of tsunami. Frankly Japan's idea to build a low-lying coastal plant was the main cause of the Fukushima disaster. They're literally surrounded by tectonic activity

[@fredrikbergquist5734]

The best most reasonably priced welder I bought was designed in Germany, built in Poland with Chinese components and quality controlled in Germany. The world is changing and only those who adapt will survive.

[@timeodaneosetdona]

I don’t think it was efficiency that saved us from Spray Cheese. It was the thought of Switzerland, France and Italy crossing their arms and looking disappointed……

[@roanbrand7358]

The nuclear thing was the biggest for me, could not believe they wanted to stop

[@franciasii2435]

They = coal and oil lobbies

[@albertcscs]

What better way for Merkel to help her friend Vladímir to help sell more fossil fuels to the West?

[@mousethehuman7179]

tbh the nuclear plants had the same problems like most of our infrastructure: most plants were pretty old by now, hard to upkeep and pricey (heavily financed by the state to keep them somewhat profitable), the waste difficult to deal with, new ones needed decades to be build, and they contributed not even 20% to our energy consumption in their best times. To compare: renewables contribute over 60% at the moment. Nuclear was nice to have for some time, but it was not the answer for everything.

[@johnbrobston1334]

@@franciasii2435 So the "environmentalists" who have been protesting nuclear power and filing lawsuits right and left are backed by "the coal and oil lobbies"?

[@hoppingrabbit9849]

@@mousethehuman7179 state subsidies don’t make anything profitable. Nuclear is one of the most expensive ways to provide power… especially when you take into account the never-ending expenses associated with waste storage.

[@SpectacularSuperSoup]

I used to work for a major global video game developer. We used to test our online gameplay in Germany to see how things go in environments with bad internet! 150 Mbps isn't bad, Sabine. Where I lived in Germany, one of the biggest cities in west Germany, I was lucky to get 15 Mbps!

[@SirBalageG]

Leaving Hungary and arriving to Germany, I thought my phone was broken because even the weather app was NOT loading in human time. Rare occasions when I prefer my homeland, but only in spite of mobile internet

[@tehsimo]

However, in rural Ireland 20 miles from a city, you can get 1.6Gbit

[@hanstubben]

150 Mbps is bad, I do have 600 Mbps here in Brazil and can get a plan for 1 Gbps if I want. This is possible for a big part of the country.

[@TheWolfsnack]

Here in a rural Canadian village I get 50 mbps.....which is better than the 10 a few years back.

[@FossilTunes]

back in the city i was last year in "rural" Hessia (near Darmstadt) i had 10Mbit.... no chance of getting anything better.

[@tealkerberus748]

I have to admit, I expected different reasoning on this one. My gay German friend talking about why he doesn't want to stay in Germany isn't talking about his internet speed or whether the trains run on time.

[@askel6498]

German politics:"Let's not invest in any critical infrastructure or social systems!" Also German politics:"Why the heck is nothing working and everyone miserable?!"

[@philipschiwek6073]

Maybe you should look at the money that goes into social systems. Compared to other countries thats is quite a lot. The problem is that to little investment goes into education and infrastructure but not actually the social system.

[@thomasschlitzer7541]

@@philipschiwek6073 more than half of the money. Instead of fixing the problems they throw money at it. Our money!

[@ichraumauf5532]

Also German politics: let finance infrastructure projects abroad and a war with our natural gas supplier, too.

[@LeoLeFromage]

With Fiat money we can literally just fucking print money. It's not even "tax payers" money. But with our depth ceiling the "Schuldenbremse" we just constitutionally can't invest enough money into essesntialy anything. That's obviously not the only reason but it is a large contributor to the stagnation the German economics has shown. The private sector doenst invest and the government doesn't either. Great!

[@denziljoe]

At work here in Germany I frequently get in trouble for taking initiative and trying to be proactive, I'll foresee a potential problem and try to prevent it only to be told by my bosses to stop. I should rather come to them first and they'll put it in the schedule for next week's meeting by which time the problem has actually arisen and has built up to the point that it affects the efficiency of the whole operation. Instead of allowing me an hour to create a solution that will result in efficiencies the whole way down the line of the project (not to mention increased safety) they wait until it has built up to the point that it takes many more man hours to solve, decreases safety and efficiency of the primary project as well as the solving of the problem, still don't try and mitigate any knock-on effects and then complain that the project is running slow and people aren't working hard enough. This has happened so often that now I usually don't even try, I just catch myself and have a little internal laugh and think "Oh well, it was a nice idea"

[@mwallace2922]

It's the same here in 🇦🇺

[@b.2194]

It is all about power 😮 How embarrassing for your bosses when a “normal worker” discovers an arising problem and even has an easy solution for this, which was created in one hour! If your bosses let this pass, it would mean, their work and all of the meetings and blabla would be unnecessary. This is how companies work, this is how the health system, administrations and government work… all of the (useless) rules are made to justify and secure the existence of all of the people who could easily be replaced by a few people with common sense😕 Das ist auch ein Problem: umständliche Diskussionen, die zu nichts führen, aber Hauptsache: jeder “wichtige” Mitarbeiter hat was dazu gesagt… der gesunde Menschenverstand und die Eigenschaft Probleme zu erkennen, lösungsorientiert zu denken und die Probleme dann auch zu lösen, wird von den Vorgesetzten im Keim erstickt, weil ja dann ihre Existenz überflüssig wäre….

[@Fred-yq3fs]

Same in France. Initiative: 0. It's all overbearing hierarchy. No ability to make the most of the new opportunities and tools.

[@Fred-yq3fs]

@@mwallace2922 Nope. not a fair assessment. In AU you have initiative and things are moving fast. I know, I live in AU, and born French. Ozzies have no idea how "lucky" they are. Yeah renting is bad, but it's the same all over the West. The rest of the country works and move fw. When I arrived I was in awe at no queues to get a driver license. So fast, so efficient, so seamless, and with a smile. Try France and go eat sand.

[@zoetropo1]

@@b.2194Universities globally have been like this for decades. No wonder the world is getting dumber.

[@WhatisReal11]

Europeans should stop being embarrassed. You should be embarrassed that you are embarrassed, and realize what is happening all over Europe. ,

[@billalumni7760]

There is saying, - Germans either get it very, very right or they get it very, very wrong.

[@rcnelson]

The thickest thread in Germany's decline, from jumping off a fossil fuel cliff into a nebulous cloud of green energy to foolish electric highway plans to the collapse of German culture through open borders, is a newly found woke attitude. Germans aren't slow as such, they've become addlepated through a rejection of reality.

[@SnakeEngine]

Or, they don't get it at all.

[@lyhe5252]

And Switzerland gets it very, very right. Always.

[@canchero724]

Nah they're just like the test of us, they don't get it at all

[@goodgoyim9459]

germans never get it wrong.

[@ThomasBomber]

As a German citizen it is frustrating. You see your country falling behind and at some places literally falling apart and the government seem to does not even grasp the situation. I mean high rent and housing prices, outdated retirement system, lack of education, high level of unnecessary bureaucracy, no company friendly politics etc. I feel you Sabine.

[@scratchy996]

"high rent and housing prices, outdated retirement system, lack of education" - you know why, but it's politically incorrect to say it. High level of unnecessary bureaucracy - that's because of corruption . Low lever corruption is not an issue in Germany, but the higher you go, the corruption goes up exponentially. So you need a smokescreen to protect that, that's why you got the famous, impenetrable bureaucracy. If Germany could harvest the energy of bureaucracy, they would conquer the world !

[@kamakita8698]

as long as you didn´t vote for the only opposition party in Germany, stop complaining. you got what you voted for!

[@zackofpersia5086]

Germany, The EU and the west as a whole are failing states, this was a conclusion as soon as you allowed gay marriage and pronouns.

[@smitfraudc3896]

@@kamakita8698 stop talking bull, the so called opposition is bringing germany back to poutains fossile fuels

[@thilobraun3440]

@@ThomasBomber I believe, the Government has perfect understanding of what is happening. What you describe is precisly what they strive for.

[@szilardecsenyi516]

in Germany, anti-nuclear power does not require a scientific exchange of ideas, because it is a religion

[@pikiwiki]

ooh. wonder why?

[@vigierjean4543]

fortunately in France we had already developed the nuclear industry. but a few years ago our politicians explained to us that Germany had made courageous choices regarding the end of nuclear power... but since the Ukrainian war and the price of electricity French population began to show that they no longer really agreed with closing nuclear power plants. but now we will have to train technicians and engineers that we no longer have...

[@christofthedead]

why waste time in science when nuclear doesn't even make it past economic discussions

[@edgepixel8467]

It's a fucking conspiracy. So Europe is not energy-independent.

[@Talashaoriginal]

@@vigierjean4543 I'm excited how long it takes till the french realise that Flammanville was not an exception and that nuclear power is incredible expensive compared to everything else.

[@timb0057]

People don't realize how good their lives are when these are your biggest problems.

[@nlpnt]

In Germany half the trains are delayed. In Britain they're not even considered "delayed" unless they're at least an hour late. In America the last train left in 1952.

[@cladglas]

because in 'america', people drive 800Km for fun.

[@mshepard2264]

I just drove over 1600km to deliver something and was basically in the same part of the USA the whole time

[@deansmith4752]

Late is also only referenced by a 1 Hour delay at the final stop - the middle are a 'free fr all'

[@daniellarson3068]

Trains are coming back to America. It's slow getting started, but happening. Trains will remove cars from freeways.

[@Mythhammer]

@@daniellarson3068 Doubtful. Look at the past history of rail in the US. Now look at its present. The ICE isn't going anywhere any time soon.