Es bleibt dabei: Die einzige Alternative zu Stau sind zumutbare Alternativen zum Autofahren.
Wenn man schon den Vergleich zu den Niederlanden zieht, dann würde mich ja der Vergleich innerstädtischer Staus mehr interessieren. Vor allem zu unseren Städten, wo die getrennten Fahrradewege abgerissen werden.
If we mention the new version was edited to match speeds by that channel, then we should probably also mention the old version was, of course, originally in black and white and needed to be upscaled for this 1 to 1 comparison by the channel Denis Shiryaev. The original 1902 film was taken from the museum of modern art (moma watermark)'s channel.
Still, amazing how we're able to have a pretty good guess what a place looked like to people 100 years ago, before our hubris and malice led us to the most destructive wars ever seen.
@gork is that true?
Ok, soll nicht weggeschwemmt werden, soll nicht Kinder gefährden.
V3 ist dann eine Seilbahn, V4 eine Liane zum rüberschwingen.
What exactly is misleading?
You can just say "Germany is doing X" to refer to actions of the government, you do that in German as well btw. If that weren't the case, why do you call this action of the Netanyahu regime "Israels war", when that guy only has a 30% approval rating?
And in any case, the German people are still to blame for voting Merz's CDU into office last year, supporting Israel was a thing he did say he and his party would do. Him now saying that these actions can no longer be justified is unexpected, but I won't hold my breath for anything to come from this.
Mit "Wen interessierts?" ankommen, keine Minute später sich über den Pushback beschweren. 🤔
"Unbewohnbar wegen überfüllten Briefkasten während der Osterferien" kannste dir nicht ausdenken. Gilt auch nur, wenn man Roma abschieben will; füllst du alle Briefkästen im Kiez mit Papiermüll wird das wohl anders bewertet und die Immobilienpreise bleiben gleich.
As long as they use practice safe sex, it really is none of my business.
All these savings aside, you should also know where to save, and for that you need an example of monthly expenses you can compare yourself to. Luckily, government assistance programs do just that when they tell you how to live on their pittance.
Here's the one for Germany, rounded to nice numbers (source), so a fairly wealthy central European country:
550€ total flexible costs (40%)
To compare to your bill, you also need to consider the costs the agencies just take on outside of that source I gave. These are the regular expenses that depend on location even more so, but just to have them here:
850€ total inflexible costs (60%)
Making 1,400€ for one person to live one month in a German city in 2025.
Needless to say, unless you buy multiple AAA games a month, these expenses are dominated by inflexible costs, even more so if you're living in a place with a housing and health insurance crisis. Also note that the value for transportation is clearly too low for car ownership, if you need it for work that monthly expense better be covered by the extra income.
Now you should compare those values to your own expenses and reason why you spend more/less in some areas. And then you should be able to tell where you are living above your means, or if you need a more local comparison. And then you can still figure out how you can save 7% of your expenses by cooking at home.
Keep in mind you pay extra for convenience in many situations. It was said here before, but home cooking is the prime example.
Speaking of which, buy the stuff you use a lot off cheap, buy the expensive stuff only if you use it in small amounts. Example: I'm really into curry, so I use a lot of carrots and potatoes, the cheapest veggies here, but that alone is a bit bland. So i use moderate portions of whatever hearty veggies are in season (sweet potato, zucchini, pumpkin, eggplant). There's also this really good curry paste I like, and I didn't even bother comparing its price since I know I will need to buy a new one in half a year at the earliest.
As a consequence of that rule, skip on meat. Too expensive and too big portions. Even if you still want to celebrate the end of a week/month with it, you really need to learn some veggie recipes for the work week.
I find rice to be the perfect balance between work-intensive potatoes and pricey -in- comparison pasta. So I of course use literal 10s of kilos of it and don't buy the minute rice (again, surcharge for convenience), but from the local Asia mart for cheap.
Car companies are pathetically clinging to the past, who would have known? Unfortunately, that fits with our conservative "we wanna stay car centric" government that people somehow still voted for.
The best way out for them is to delay any switch to EV's. As far as I know, their current plan is to sell "hybrid" motors, which are said to burn both gasoline and hydrogen.
Hydrogen is a fuel with a future - maybe in shipping with the fixed routes and general incompatibility with batteries - but in the context of cars it's not economical (at scale) and they know that. So 99% of the time, those hybrid motors will drive on gasoline, because who would pay 10 times the amount for something only available at a select few stations.
But if they sell those hybrid motors as a 0 emission alternative, they can keep selling something that's basically a combustion engine as long as the gas station network still exists, while blaming the rising emissions on consumer preference and bleeding the government dry with hydrogen subsidies in the wrong sector.