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The state of the rail system the most reliable measure of how civilized a country really is (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

If that is the case then Germany is currently backsliding hard on the civilization scale. The state of the German railways seems to get worse by the day. Feels like every other train is either delayed or cancelled these days. And they don't even announce the cancellation ahead of time, if you go online they have the train as on time and supposedly running according to schedule until 10 min before it was supposed to come and then it's suddenly "never mind, it's not coming after all". And by then it's too late to look for alternative connections, you just gotta wait for the next one and hope that one comes. Makes getting anywhere on time impossible.

Sorry i know this was barely related to the topic of the post, i just needed to get that rant off my chest.

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Germany is absolutely backsliding.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

That is worrying for a lot of reasons lol

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 months ago

A few years ago, the cargo trains stopped running on a few of the tracks that go through one of our bigger cities and down into many smaller ones nearby. It would be really helpful to put a passenger line going down these tracks. There are ridiculous waves of traffic throughout this area and it's quite a dangerous road due to the speed and volume of cars, particularly in the winter. Much of this could be relieved by a passenger train and the tracks are already there!

In the last two years, every city has paved over these railway crossings. I guess all we get is cars.

[–] miz@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 months ago

nice pipeline, it'd be a shame if something happened to it

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'd go with healthcare but either way US gets its ass handed to it. Possibly literally in the case of healthcare.

[–] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Or housing. Or food insecurity and malnutrition. Or education. Or the treatment of its ethnic minorities. The US is honestly just a shit-tier country, it fits in among its imitators, Nazi Germany and Instreal.

[–] Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Yep. It is almost impossible to exist peacefully here unless you make at least twice as much as the average working person and happen to be born white.

[–] Zpiritual@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, it is in the third world so what would one expect?

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Third world" is Cold War framing, pitting the capitalist U.S. and allied countries (first world) against the USSR and allied countries (second world). The Third World referred to nonaligned Global South countries, which tended to be too crushed by the ongoing first world colonialism.

Denigrating the U.S. with implicit denigration to colonized countries based on its own colonialism feels a little off to us.

[–] Zpiritual@lemm.ee -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's a silly joke where from a sino-roman perspective africa was the second continent/world "discovered" and that means the third world would be the next one, which is America.

[–] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 months ago

from a Sino-Roman perspective africa was the second continent/world “discovered”

Is that even the case, though? Certainly not for the Romans (to whom Africa may as well have been next door, whose early rivals were the Carthaginians, and whose writing system ultimately originated from the much more ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs).

And the Chinese trade contacts with Africa, while originally indirect, were such that Africa was not exactly unknown to them (and Zheng He's voyages were more about establishing direct contact/etc). Distant and mysterious, maybe (like how Rome and China saw each other for most of history) but not "undiscovered" by any means, and with continuous and ancient trade routes.

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Could you provide a source for that claim?

SadArtemis already expanded on this well. Certainly Greco-Roman societies were well aware of Africa, even if not the extent of it. You might find Wikipedia's early world maps page a good starting point.

[–] miz@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

death to america
death to capitalism

[–] ahriboy@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 months ago

And down with the NATO shit

[–] sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

I would not be surprised that USA is now struglling since they depleted their reserves of child slaves and human experimental subjects in the Indian Boarding fake schools that secretly continued after 1997. They also depleted their source of inheritance thief in the fake cultural assimilation against abducted Indigenous children in the largest human trafficking in history. Do you seriously think that Pax Americana could still continue its prosperity despite its extremely large investment in foreign anti-terrorist terrorism, hypocritical government intervention against the invisible hand of the market who is smuggling scary red mastermind from the cold war propaganda into key positions of Pax Americana to babysit the lazy Capitalists, wasteful management of resource that creates cost of living, or the corruption from plutocracy with the deunked trickle down theory?

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 2 months ago

The US also has WAAAAAAAYYYY more train wrecks despite drastically fewer trains. lol

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Third vs first playthrough of Satisfactory

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you checked out Soviet Republic: Workers and Resources? Similar to many of these games, and it can go from relatively easy with unlimited resources to ridiculously hard, realistic construction mode where you have to provide all realistic services including heating and waste. You may find it interesting if you like factory/supply line games.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it's on my list for sure! Dyson Sphere Program has a big update coming though, so I'll probably finish Satisfactory only to go to Dyson Sphere before I can try Workers and Resources.

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Very big difference in play styles, but DSP is also a fun game.

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just found this on Twitter and feel it relates:

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

indeed

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s not even just Toronto, either. This is every major city in Canada, it sucks for us commuters 😞

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Indeed, the traffic situation in major cities is only getting worse. They keep building new condos without building the necessary infrastructure along with them. It feels like there's complete and utter lack of city planning.

[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago

What city in China is this?

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Well maybe we can take one of their trains.

They won't notice