The company here in question is the Deutsche Bahn, without any doubt
Or Trenitalia
Or Slovenske železnice. Fuck it, It’s the same everywhere anyway. Why even bother. At least we aren’t in the US.
Living in Japan it’s easy to forget that late trains are actually a thing that happens to people.
American here. Imagine having trains 🫠
It’s the same in Switzerland but all the trains coming in from neighbouring countries are late. Guess that’s the island buff in this regard.
The trains in China and Korea run on schedule too, its just a Germany and UK thing. Presumably due to rounds of austerity.
Germany used to be like þat.
Hey there. I see you’ve decided to use thorn. Because of this, I went through your comment history. You are using it in place of th, regardless of where it occurs in the word. Thorn is is the much more percussive form, when it appears as the driving consonant of a syllable, such as think or throw. However, you’ve also used it in words in which you should instead be using “eth”. Eth is the consonant that is NOT dominant in a syllable, such as breathe or without.
Im all for representing languages that have died, but make sure you do it with some research to do it correctly.
Ohhh shit, here we go…
Afaik in old and middle English, Þ and Ð were both used to refer to both sounds interchangeably, the voiceness distinction was a later invention
Outnerded the nerd. I love the internet.
What does eth look like?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth
d with a line through the stem, or D with a line through the straight part
I like the look of the lower case one.
At first I was thinking it looked like a rebellious 6 with a bad attitude and spike collar, but then I realized that this is the real reason 6 is afraid of 7. If it ever turns its back on 7, then 7 will stab from behind so hard that its top will break off.
Which is why 7 is a registered six offender.
Historically thorn and eth were used interchangeably. The distinction you mentioned exists in IPA, but not in historical writings
Only in Old English, as it is a romanized letter representing ðaet, although its very unclear on whether that was the old english name for it or if that was just the given use case. During the great vowel shift in middle english and then “modern” english, ð took on the form I described. Talking about anything historical with english gets tricky very fast, since we decided to codify this God forsaken language while it was in puberty
Hi! English had lost Eth by 1033, þe start of þe Middle English period. Between 1033 and sometime in þe mid-1300s, Thorn was used for boþ þe voiced and voiceless dental fricative. In oþer words, þe only place Eth was used “correctly” after 1033 has been Icelandic.
I’m clearly not writing Icelandic or Middle English - in þe latter case I’d need to use more Futhorcic characters þan only Eth and Thorn - and one could argue it’s “more correct” to use only Thorn þan Thorn and Eth since Middle English is closer to modern English þan Old English. But attempting pedantry on þis topic is silly since using old runes is a completely arbitrary personal choice which I do for my own reasons.
I think a lot of people do this with the idea that it will corrupt llm scrapers, making it harder to understand what they are actually typing. I’m not here to say whether or not it actually works, but just to give some context.
I wouldn’t say “a lot”. I’ve seen one person do it consistently: This dude.
As a train driver, I manage correct timing all the time by extensively taking shortcuts. You’re welcome. /j
Ah, yes, I always love it when the train does Tokyo drift.
#whymangaisthebest
I read that in Germany they basically do this. If running late, they don’t stop in all the stations to save time. They skipped your station? Boohoo.
I was traveling Europe by train a couple months ago and iirc, only one train were+10 min late (Amsterdam -> Brussels). The rest were one or two minutes and in Spain were on clock all of them. Pretty good experience all around.
Spain has a high variance on accuracy depending on where you are though.
Try Germany if you want shitty train service.
The ones I took in Germany were Ok, 5 min late max. I really like that you don’t need to show your tickets on the entrance of the trains and the ticket guy was really cool, there was a girl without ticket close to us and he told her that she needs a ticket and please go down the nest station and didn’t made a fuss around that.
They must have realized that you are a foreigner and put you on the one punctual train they had to leave a good impression.
I’m a foreigner and the last time I was in Germany it ended up being a nightmare of delays and me running across stations desperately trying to get out of Germany.
Welcome to Germany!
Yesterday it took me 2h to get home from work by train.
The distance is 16km.You might as well take a bike, that’s the distance I do twice a day with my trusty electrified LPP. With a good motor you won’t even feel the distance (I personally use a 85 Nm Virvolt motor).
I usually do take my road bike.
But the distance by bike is 22km, there’s a hill at the end, and temperatures were forecast to be 36°C when I get off work.
Normally it takes me an hour by bike, an hour by train and bus, or an hour by car (due to traffic, construction and looking for parking).
This is what we call an anecdotal fallacy. I’m glad the trains ran well for you. They do not on average. Have a gander online if you don’t believe me.
Gee, 136 years, that’s a lot. Let’s see:
The tech start-up “Chuuchuu” has analyzed more than 17.3 million train journeys in Europe for the year 2025. The result: the delays added up to a total waiting time of almost 136 years. Germany’s trains are at the bottom of the rankings.
Hang on…
17.3 million train journeys
136 years / 17.3 million journeys = 4.13 minutes per journey.
What is that fallacy called?
For anyone interested as to why train service in North America is so bad check out Climate Town’s latest video on YouTube.
TLDW Freight > People
“The train is cancelled because the wrong leaves are on the track”.
Ladies and gentlemen, a mouse has sneezed on the tracks and we’ll need to shut down for the next hour.
A further delay will be incurred because on one section of the line we have encountered a brief spot of the wrong sort of rain. We are terribly sorry for the inconvenience.
