such great change

At the same time, increase and create more and new taxes on everything else

Yeah im sure that changed a lot

Better make electricity far more expensive for households

im sure that will help your average person, i mean after all they got more money after that tax cut do they not?

oh yes...

Now they can spend that money on the new & increased tax on a utility

Here they keep increasing gas taxes, diesle and petrol now suuper expensive

same here

Cars are like milking cash cows

"we care about the environment"

People still overwhelmingly drive

specially the working people

riiight, it is the environment

U know why

because you have to get to work!

Because all these factory sites have terrible public transport connections

if u work a late or early shift

you can forget about using public transport

the only way u can do it is by working nightshifts

take one of the latest buses there, take the earliest back home

and they still havent figured out why ppl continue using their cars even after getting told over and over

I mean id like to see someone go bike for 15Km after they stood on their feet for 8 hours hauling 15KG loads all day

i certainly dont

i wish it was different i really do

i know what you mean

Because busses are inconvenient, they don't come when you need it and if you do overtime, you#re fucked.

like the railroads here

same story

And in some cases you drive for hours to get home when the drive is like 15-30min

ppl dont trust them because theyre always late

i worked at an office about 45km from home. had to pay 5€ a day in "city passage fees"

that is true

9 mins from my place to my former job

with the car

If i take the tram

Busses are just inconvenient....

it takes me 53mins

i had 2 hours with public transport and 35-45min with car...

Which method do u think i will pick

Exactly!

and here tha last bus goes like 5pm to my place from "the city"...

that is exactly the problem here

and they drive like every 2h or so

connections to industrial sites are horrible

so this tax is punishing working ppl

I must admit that i am a politician my self, local level though.
It is seriously really hard to work towards downsizing goverment and it is very unpopular amongst both the people and the goverment it self

who wouldve thought that people are not in favor of putting themselves out of a job

its why it always keeps growin

untill public calls a halt to it

If that is ever going to happen on a large scale enough to give any real results :/

anyhow i need to hit the bed now.
It has been a pleasure to chat with you

allright have a good night

@Stefan Payne where tf do you live where buses drive every 2 hours with the last one being at 5pm?

that's any rural city

on weekends maybe

i used to live in small places like that a lot

getting anywhere without a car was a pain

I mean... i get the 2 hours... but 5pm?

i don't know. i guess that is weird

even in the areas with least buses, the last one would usually be as late as 11 pm

except weekends

Some counties have really bad bus service.

Ah, also, some swap routes, so one route will go morning till 5 and then it's another route that goes a slightly different set of stops.

I think I had a route similar to that in Oregon.

Where i grew up we had buses every 5-10 minutes from 5am to 10pm and then every 20 minutes or so after that. They increased that to every 3 minutes by now.

Where i live now the infrequent buses are hourly until 9pm.

And that‘s semi rural

But not in the US, so... hard to compare.

Maybe I'm trying too hard to play devil's advocate.

It sure does seem unusual.

@I AM ERROR Germany in the Woods, almost Denmark. And I think I was mistaken.
And the last bus at around 17:00h is accurate.

Its more or less only for School, not much else.

That makes sense.

Now that I am back in Europe, I really want to explore this place better.

I want to go and see all the castles here.

That's one thing I didn't really have back in the US.

Maybe a fort here and there, but it's not the same.

Sorry, we only have 2 centuries of history in domestic warfare, mostly against inferior opponents.

Europe has millenia, with many rival kingdoms.

I accept your apology.

Try harder next millennium.

team deathmatch

wait is this for actual completely free political speech?

even for extremists?

I'm pretty sure anything less is a betrayal of Tim's political ideology.

I've already advocated for a return to monarchy and a dissolution of female suffrage, go nuts.

okay thx

well i personally think we humans aren't capable at surviving on earth

its either us or the earth

and if its us

it will be mars in a couple a decades

That's a bold statement, considering I presume you're still alive.

As am I.

no use in just me killing myself right?

and if i were to kill other people i would come over as a lunatic and nobody would bother to look into my arguments

and clearly its impossible for huamns to wipe ourselves out in a systematic manner

look at 1939

and 1940, 1941, 1942 etc

Putting aside the relative ease several plans would have in eradicating human life, why do you believe humans are not capable of surviving on Earth?