The only neighbouring country with certainly better train travelling imo is Switzerland.

French tgv is fucking expensive and trains are a lot less comfortable.

Dutch has great trains but it’s basically all intercity/regional/local. It’s more like a very large S-Bahn Network, Not comparable to ice experience.

Belgian trains are just shit often and just as much delayed, also no real long distance trains.

Luxembourg is free but the trains are also very unreliable…

Is it really that great in Poland, Czechia, Austria? I don’t know.

It could be better, but DB Long Distance travel is really not that bad. It’s mainly the infrastructure that’s lagging behind

I planted a raspberry bush a few years ago on a strip of unused leftover nothing land in the neighborhood. Neighborhood kids loved the bush and ate the berries. Birds loved it and ate the berries. Some old hag hated it (“looks untidy!!!”) and sneakily had the bush removed (it’s not her land either) although she knew damn well who had planted it and that kids and birds loved it.

On your balcony or on your windowsill, no excuses.

I reuse plastic packaging of things I buy for trash. Plastic bag from toilet paper fits the trash can perfectly

You mean the very thin single use ones? What do you need them for and can’t you buy them? Can’t you use other kind of bags?

There shouldn’t be Peruvian asparagus available in European supermarkets when it is not the Asparagus season in Europe. All the heatwaves in the world won’t make right wing racists vote less right wing racist.

I’m always torn by the turning the lights off every time I leave a room shortly and will be back in a few to 15 minutes and turn it on again. At which point is the faster breaking of the LED lightbulb because of way more on/off cycles worth minding more over the slight use of electricity from leaving it on while gone? How long of a planned “useless light on” is actually still worth it?

All the extra airmiles will slow down climate change!!

Lesson learned: it technically somewhat works.

The best time to plant trees is now. The best time is always now.

At this point in climate change time, it is criminal neglect to 1. clear a forest, 2. build a big steel/concrete box on it and then 3. don’t even put a green roof or solar roof. We need to be heading towards climate trials and people deciding this crap today still in companies with a near infinite capital available deserve life in jail without airco.

Yes it looks very German: the Rolladen, the Balkonsolar and also just the steel construction style of the balcony itself

Apartment with external shutters can still overheat if situated in a strong urban heat island and heatwave endures for long time…

27°C is still too hot to sleep in

Yeah flixtrain is a no go for more than 1 or 2 hours: fucking loud indeed, no airco, not enough working toilets!

I’ve travelled rail in many European countries and overall to me DB ist a pretty good price for what you get.

Perhaps, one day, by 2040 or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Baltica :)

Ich wäre schon zufrieden, wenn nur ein paar Nachbarn ihre nagelneue Schottergarten wieder mit Sträuchern und Bäumen umgestalten würden.

Riding into Frankfurt for example can be quite nice tho. You see the skyscrapers in the distance while riding at 250-300 km/h through gently rolling hills dotted with small villages while drinking your free bahnbonus beer…

True: riding trains is not all alpine landscapes dreamrides, but it’s often through a nice landscape nonetheless, just not as spectacular. Being in a 1h delayed train still beats being in a 1h car traffic jam imo

How is this NSFW? Camera missed the impact and video cuts off, don’t even see a blast or fire

I just really found the flamingo resembles it. I’m no current rocketry expert, so in my brain seeing pictures of a Flamingo referenced to something historical I do know and which I think is very widely known. There’s nothing more to it than that.

How many years does it take to build a refinery from scratch? 3? 8? And perhaps a new refinery elsewhere will be a tad cleaner?

The real outcome however, could be that Russia tries to quickly apply bandaids to their broken infrastructure to get it up and running again fast. And that way their oil refining could become more polluting than ever.

I think on the global scale, Hormuz has a way bigger influence on helping many countries move towards renewables faster.

Where I’m from, they are the measuring stick for “authoritarian state goes total war over ideology and fucks up” in a modern/mechanised way.