Why I'm embarrassed to be German
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Using Britain as a reference to a well-functioning nation from a policy/leadership perspective is kind of wild.
and very much misleading. she needs to move abroad. then she might get an idea. she talked lots of nonsense.
Sabine Hossenfelder, I've been working in UK for a firm for 2 years. I must say that it's ten times worse in England than Germany! Hearing your British accent and the way you're portraying the negativities in Germany, I think you're suffering from GERMANOPHOBIA! Just like the REFEREE Anthony Taylor who stole 1 goal from Germany, not allowing them an obvious penalty! That was broad day ROBBERY! Fazit : Sport is not only sport, it's also political, a billion dollars business!
Fair point!
Britain has some plusses, but overall Germany is better...
Not least its better geographical spread of wealth making
Well, it was a joke, right?
@@verity4917Her British accent? In what world does she sound British?
The character pointed at a broken elevator sign and said "this is the empire declining". The person he was talking to thought he was exaggerating, but he went on to explain: if low cost but highly visible repairs are being neglected, what do you think happens to the high cost invisible ones? If infrastructure is decaying, the empire is already falling. From Asimov's Foundation.
Asimov, is one of my favorite authors, he did not invent these ideas they have been true forever.
@@tedmossmy friend spoke to Asimov at a con many years ago. Asimov told him that if you want to create some great SF, take some known history and file the serial numbers off. In Asimov’s case with FOUNDATION, he set the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in space, and mixed in some statistical mechanics (which he certainly knew from chemistry and physics), and applied it to people.
I'm afraid much of this true in the U.S. as well-- neglected infrastructure, slow responses, etc. The Democratic party in particular, for 4+ years just hoping that they could keep hiding Biden's dementia and it would somehow magically get better by 2024 instead of planning ahead.
@@Rheinhard - very true. Case in point, one of my favourite science fiction writers: David Weber. He takes historical navy battles, adds a splash of Horatio Hornblower, and transforms it into an epic yarn of politics and space battles 2100 years into the future.
Edit: I am referring to the Honor Harrington series. Get them at Bean Books.
Never expected to see a Jonathan Pie clip in one of these videos!
I've been working in a German company now for 6 years. The biggest issue is that achieving goals is not the priority, but following a process. And when something is performing poorly, you like better adding more process rather than thinking what is the best way to achieve the goal. At the end you work for the process.
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That is sooo true 😂 And they love their processes.
My brother and I like to call it The Checkliste Syndrome!
Process is how you maintain quality.
@@IThinkICare it depends. Public institutions are full of processes for example, it does not guarantee any success, quality, etc.
Many just get comfy behind a process, or use it to hide behind. Processes are great, but not the goal.
As others have said it is not just Germany. I am in the UK and with all the delays it took me 11 hours to travel 100 miles on public transport. At one point the bus driver announced he had to stop for 45 minutes as he had reached the legal limit he was allowed to drive for. This of course resulted in missing the next connection and thus another hours delay waiting for the next bus and so it went on...
Do not blame The driver and his right to ok working conditions. Blame The fact that more and more infrastructure is privatized and all not profitable routes are closed or with very few daily departures. From what I understand we are also heading towards smart-cities with all people Living in these cities and NOT in The countryside. And are supposed to stay at Home due to The 15-minutes city concept - and are not supposed to travelling around. Correct me if I am misinformed and why
I used to work for a German company. They closed 2 factories in Germany and 1 in Poland and opened new factories in India. And they boasted that they "reduced emissions".
r/ malicious compliance?
What's sad is that it isn't a move unique to Germany alone.
They did, in Germany.
That's what you get when you allow people in positions of power who make laws based on how the world should look like and not how it actually works. Seriously, I despair of our Green party. It's like they don't know what cynicism is.
Well if they operate in the USA with a repackaging facility, they can bulk ship items from India on pallets, repackage the items in retail containers and sell them as as "Made in the USA" per the laws and regulations.
You know Germany has gotten bad when the Germans start joking.
Tell me you know very few Germans w/o telling me.
Do you know a joke tho @@tablescissors
meh, stupid old clichés like yours are definitely not funny. At least for people with a three digit IQ.
@@owsie1800 I only know jew jokes and pedo jokes, does that count? My humor is just a bit darker than most peoples.
@@owsie1800 He is German so he doesn't know what jokes are
"...buy a dog so you don't have to walk home alone" and who says Germans don't have a sense of humor?
I've lived and worked 6 years in Germany as a construction engineer. I had to flee for a thousand reason
yes it is hell
Why?
@@jumblyman you dont want to pay half or more of your money for others you dont know. And many Germans are jealous and traitors and at work they kick those below them and lick the saliva of their superiors. And it works. Unfortunately.
If you have to ask, you don't understand the subtext.
@@jumblyman I will try to summarize some common issues.
Developers have a "we always do it like that" mindset.
Planning processes are to weak in the early stages, and many specialties are called in too late, leading to design flaws that are rarely reversed but rather dragged along. Outdated CAD-software and BIM is not yet standard, and the implementation of BIM is often painfully complicated. Engineers do not operate outside their comfort zone, they rather apply standards instead of actually calculating when ever possible. Architects are bad at identifying priorities and plan from the outside in, cramming spaces into some boxes and rely on expensive material to create what they call "high quality spaces". By such approach the architect is immediately turned into an enemy that eats up the budged and talks subjective stuff nobody cares. This leads to mediocre floorplans being executed poorly. Construction management also works with a "we always do it like that" mentality. Outdated processes and software makes coordination painful and chaotic. As problems are rarely reversed, there is a lot of building around issues leading to more costs than fixing the issues right away.
The worst part is that it all happens in slow motion, and it is an endless loop. After one loop you may have noticed all this and much more, you tell everyone, they might even agree, but still, nothing changes, and the loop goes on over and over and over. That it is why I say it is like hell, because it feels like an infinite slow motion death loop.
We thought that us Italians would eventually catch up with Germany. Turns out they are catching up with us.
joking aside, but German technological debt is our common problem. It doesn't matter whether you live in Poznań or Napoli. Somehow we must overcome their hard-headedness, otherwise our children's future will be dependent on whimsical nationalists ones from Beijing and Delhi.
@@cybernetic-ransomware1485 I come from the future (Argentina) the key is not to let the government take all the decisions. Establish GOOD, SOLID channels for the private sector to take the initiative.
Here in 1945 we had a great general conman, called Perón, a right winger, but greatly inspired by Mussolini, so in short with the statist interventionist heart of a lefty. To the point of dissapearing anyone resembling a commie, while he was out intervening in markets.
He believed in technology advance as a way to gain an edge over our foes. The result? The enemy infiltrated, government spent BILLIONS into Cold Fusion (never got it to work, ofc) and we got a series of coup d'tats.
Sad thing about Perón is he actually got the country industrialized. But his populist legacy was a bigger part than he could've ever imagined, spawning a cult of followers that more or less still impede the country from working properly. All because he from his ivory tower threw some books and mattresses to the impoverished masses.
Modern peronists (kirchnerists) are full on commies, socialists that attack private property and your freedom to decide over your business, your life, etc. But still with the fascist gene attached to it. So they're willing to create narratives (with crisis actors) and use TERROR from the STATE to MANIPULATE THE POPULATION and SUBJUGATE THEM into NOT voting a right winger.
They've created a culture much like Sabine here says, of being SLOW, of being overall INOPERANT when faced with their tasks. Every challenge they tackle, it makes things worse. Each thing they do "for us" ends up as another point where they meddle in the affairs of the people and decide over their lives. While they can BARELY run a country themselves. Impoverishing due to monetary emission and price controls that lead to poor stock replenishment and worse quality control.
Them being slow has NOTHING to do with their intelligence though. To steal, they're always one step ahead. Look into who they contract for the Internet / Railroad / Energy improvements, and you'll SEE precisely WHY they chose them. They're all playing for the same team. The socialists that run the country like a capitalist country, but the only ones that TRULY enjoy a FREE market are the politicians and their businessmen friends. The rest of us lowlives can't compete because the government has the monopoly over violence.
So if a competitor to their friends makes it big, they can always saddle them with regulation and taxes or even take legal action with penalty fees. The politicians and the caste they formed that surrounds them have a small little crown that elevates them from us, the common folk. They don't have more rights, they have more PRIVILEGES, which are SECURED by their legislation. It's time to ATTACK that system of political clientelism, populism and incresing interventionism and bring it to the ground.
Let companies of men and women dedice the course. Don't let those callous with pride and arrogance, who believe themselves to be God to act on behalf of a nation.
Taking the reigns of something so complex as market, which is composed by all agents and all goods/services being transferred is tantamount to heresy. To know everything about a market to take such a wild decision, you'd need to know the CURRENT, PAST, and FUTURE state of EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE in it. Including each individual's personal preferences, and plans. You'd need to be omniscient. You'd need to be God. And politicians ARE NOT GOD.
😄 I laugh reluctantly in German
@quantillaprudentia1345 There's no laugh in German
@@giovannipiacen85 I think you have to be among the dead to be able to speak German, and since you couldn't laugh, you have already become one of the dead.
You walk from Germany to Czech through the woods. How do you recognize that you have reached Czech Territory? Your phone has network.
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*Someone offers you meth
It is an exaggeration, isnt it?
@@bittasi1139 That's how comedy works my friend
The "electric highway" sounds like someone wanted to make a electric freight train but of course had to be car centric
As a german: THX for calling out the idiotic idea to shut down nuclear energy in a situation, where we DONT have enough substitute energy...
Its like destroying the own home and then realize "oh, we didnt build the conplete new home yet. Just the basement and half a wall..."
As a German, do you clearly understand, that your country is kinda colony of the US? Looks like your politicians (the majority of them) aren't "your"...
Sorry, man, same situation as Taiwan....
@@Lresaereasey sorry to hear that, didnt knew Taiwan had similar situations :(
Dont get me wrong: im totally happy with new clean energy (like waterpower etc)... But its so idiotic to shut existing (kinda also "green") nuclear power down when theres not enough solar, wind and water etc :(
Dumb politic at its finest.
And who suffers: the normal person or the rich politic person? We both know the answer :(
@@Wal-Hai I dont know our situation is same or not ,but in Taiwan the politic do the same as Germany, and more worse is not only our environment not well for clean energy (compared with Germany), but we have many people fear of nuclear power since Fukushima nuclear disaster, and thanks for TSMC development these years, now we have more electricity demend.
And Our media & politic over the past few years keep "commend" Germany develop clean energy and give up nuclear( with Germany everything is good than Taiwan), and now I see these video and meesage and feel that it's ironic.
PS:I learned early DB's behavior past 10 (or more) years, so I'm trust our media all since I'm very young 🙂
We are not in a shortage of energy production capacity whatsoever.
That is nonsense.
Calling the UK a “healthy country” was a lesson in the finest sarcasm.
yeah uk is being held together by the fact nobody in the country can be arsed to do anytghing about it as it hasnt quite gone of the rails... yet
@@username.exenotfound2943 It has so gone off the rails.
I was abroad when Brexit happened. I think soon I'll be abroad again.
UK basket case
Well things have finally taken a turn for the better in the UK these past couple of days.
And we're starting to claw our way back out of our hole without filling up government seats with fascists, so there's that at least.
German here. My colleagues in Malaysia always laugh about my internet connection
We're friends with a Ukrainian family who fled to Bavaria when the war began and then returned to Ukraine, citing the abysmal internet speeds as the reason. Not joking here, that did happen.
@@ferocious_r Genuine war refugees eh?
@@ferocious_rFled WAR and went back because of bad/erratic internet connection? Either said war or ex-refugees not that serious.
@@c0ldc0ne jup here the family comes and goes. aint a real war like gaza
it's easier for developing countries to leapfrog with technology.. no big surprise. less baggage
Of course, this is your opinion. My opinion is that I am a Brit who came to Germany 50 years ago and I'm still here. I am shocked when I visit my working-class family because of the stress they live under and the lack of many of the comforts I have in Germany. My brother commented on the fact that all the walls in buildings in Germany are solid and not just wood and plaster. So it is really just a question of where you look and whose company you keep.
I'm so embarassed about the Failing of RUclips's report-system.
Not sure that's unique to any Country but i have a habit of reporting Entertainment
that entertains with teen-tits-rub's or any of the sort; animated or not; and it basically never works.
If any Country at least had strict guidelines blatantly demanding 'No Fanservice shall use Minors in any Capacity'
than maybe we wouldnt have trillions of results if you just search-up 'Anime Teen-Tits get fondled, hehe'
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Thank you. Dieses ständige Rumgemeckere in Deutschland geht mir gehörig auf die Nerven, denn es sind Wasser auf die Mühlen der Rechtsextremen.
My English teacher once told us that while the British won World War Two they didn't had a Marshall plan and no Wirtschaftswunder and had to live on rations long after the war and never could rebuilt their ruined cities with the most modern technology or had to keep the not ruined but old infrastructure and thus altogether ended up in having abysmal plumbing or single glass windows, no insulation, etc. Germany on the other side was totally destroyed, but in no time rebuilt up new and fancy. It is amazing that this is partly true to this day.
@@scepticalchymist The largest recipient of Marshall Plan money was the United Kingdom (receiving about 26% of the total). The next highest contributions went to France (18%) and West Germany (11%).
what do those walls get you? Seems a very autistically german thing to be proud of
I'm still moving to Mecklenburg/Vorpommern. Freaking mesmerized by that country. Dysfunction is universal.
Tell us about it. Besides trains and mobile connections of course.
Where are you from even?
The bank apps are so toofffte
I'm afraid Sabine isn't loud enough. Not only Germany, but the whole of EU is reacting far too slowly to global developments.
And which countries are reacting fast? USA? Japan? South Korea? Australia? Canada?
@@calculuslover2078 Canada? LOL... (and I'm a Canadian)
Look at the amount of VC money, patents and start ups in the US. A lot of it is bs, but the rest is not. Which companies are the modern digital tech giants? Which economy still grew this and last year? The US definitely does A LOT wrong, but they are the technology leaders
@@calculuslover2078 China, Scandinavian countries, Iceland(not sure if Iceland is considered Scandinavian), Costa Rica maybe. I don't know, that's all I got.
Have you been to the United States? It makes the EU look like the last remaining fortress of sanity.
Escalators do not break down. They simply become stairs.
that's just a descope.
I wish this was true, alas, often times they are closed for repairs...
This is way funnier than it should be 😅
Mitch Hedberg ftw!!!
Sounds like something Habeck would say.
Everything is relative, my Swedish and German friends complain so much about how their countries are falling apart and some of them even look fondly at England. But they forget that many people in England can't afford to heat their homes and while stuff might have stopped working in Germany recently, they not been working in England for the longest time.
As a Brit, I have lived and worked in Germany most of my life after leaving the military. There are many of us who have done the same. When I discharged from the military in the 1980's, Thatchers government had 3 and-a-half million unemployed in Great Britain. I had a job lined up locally and have never had the real urge to go back. Having said all of that Blighty is still my real home, I am an Englishman and have on more than one occasion refused to swap nationalities. Germany has looked after me for the most part - the medical service here is first class. However, my biggest criticism is that they have never escaped their beaurocratic idiosyncrasies - "your papers are not in order". The Germans themselves call their own country "Das Land der Paragraphen" "The land of Paragraphs". It means that there are rules for just about everything and they value bits of paper qualifications and authority above all else. In which case someone who has been active in a job for 20 years but has gained experience through "learning by doing" simply because in the early days 20 years ago, there was no formal qualification, will lose out in a re-application for the same post to someone with a formal qualification ( because now you have to qualify) despite the "qualified" person having zero practical experience. That's where we are folks. It doesn't matter what you can do, it only matters how much you have read. The world turned upside down!!
As an American, seeing a German referring to the UK as healthy is mind bending.
Im British in London, the fact she thinks this means germany must be doing REALLY bad or she might have a misunderstanding of the UK. We have same issues with trains, regarding strikes and privatisation. But the infrastructure itself, though dated, its quite good, just expensive.
She is extremly illusional.
That's how bad it is here in Berlin - City and country are becoming increasing unusable
As an American, seeing another American mock a German for making a comparison to the U.K. seems out of pocket considering our own crumbling infrastructure and almost complete lack of public transit, owing to suburban sprawl’s congestive car based planning and the kind of political erosion which underpins a government on the verge of a geriatric smack down between two brain addled narcissists.
@@suoyidl2654 all of them are you cant think logically without being racist
As a Brit, i knew things were bad as soon as a German said "you're so lucky to have trains that run on time!".
You Brits need to make more babies
I prefer British trains to German trains. But it depends on the company.
Virgin and Cross Country are nice, London Midland is a big no no.
@@svr5423 I used British trains in 1993. If I remember correctly there was only one line. From Dover to Edinburgh. It was so archaic. Trains were up to 2 hours late in London. We would have thought we were in the 19th century.
I'm in the West Mids. Trains run when they want to. An evening commute of four hours to get from Birmingham to South East Staffordshire is a regular occurrence... Cancelations and delays are a daily occurrence.
Here in America, we don't have trains.
Dear Sabine, in UK the railway system is privatized but now is famously underperforming.
Usually the investors are looking for an imediate profit and tend to overlook essential long-term investments - like the railway enbankment for example.
The same situation in London's transport: the metro (let's compare it to Madrid, where is a state company and is a real pleasure to benefit from it) or the buses. Not to mention the cleaning of the public places.
Regards.
The problem in Germany is over bureaucracy, lack of speed in taking decisions and acting
Bureaucracy is the German national pastime 😂
In other words... "Socialism".
@@billcravens3478 not really
@@Zeylo89 Well... thats what Socialists do. They berate and condemn the private sector, and then offer themselves as the alternative, here to save us.
But their ranks, unlike Capitalists, are not filled with those who gain ascendancy by producing and 'doing'. They are filled with abstract thoreticians from political science, sociology, and the humanities. People who think problems must 'be easy to solve' because they're never had to actually solve any of them.
This, I fear, is the fate of the EU and, eventually, the USA as well. We turn to bureaucrats to solve all of our problems, but they are not "problem solving people". They "have grand ideas"... and they "talk alot".
When a physicist gets a speeding ticket, twice, in one journey, clearly there is something wrong with the space-time continuum. You weren't speeding Sabine, Germany was just slowing down.
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Yes, you were speeding RELATIVE to Germany.
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I once worked with a guy who sped off on a Friday to get to his home (far from the office).
He managed to get enough speeding tickets in one journey to get banned outright. They all just add up, they don't say "well you had your quota that day"!.
So climate change is a high priority for the elite? As they guzzle and fly around their private jets around the world, releasing much more carbon than a single person would release.
I remember the COP conferences on climate change, 400+ private jets; literally descended in one location to preach climate change lol.
Its funny how the elite can pollute at their hearts content and then preach to the common people that climate change is a big threat. Hypocrisy.
There used to be a saying in Sweden: "Germany is Sweden for adults".
No-one says that any longer.
Does this imply that Swedes are children? As a person of Swedish decent I find this rather insulting. For me, it is more 'adult' to reach the kind of social compromises that the Swedes are famous for, understanding that life is complex and rigid rules based systems are always inadequate.
@@davefaulkner6302the new Swedes beg to differ, you've bought the package, not just the wrapping.
@@davefaulkner6302take it easy. now you can live with consequences of childish decisions. Enjoy!😅
@@davefaulkner6302sounds to me like you’re romanticizing your Swedish heritage. I used to do the same with my German heritage but I learned that the greatest strength of any culture is also its greatest weakness
Late and cancelled trains are practically a Swedish trademark and broadband internet access..ah, the glorious "open infrastructure" of fiberoptic networks with one owner and maintainer and a number of actors (ISPs available within each network) that are trying to compete with each other, when the network owner and maintainer sets the rent that the ISPs have to pay and this rent increases every year (where I am, in a major city, the bit about raising prices each year is explicitly stated) and of course the ISPs charge the customers more and since all live under the same network owner there isn't a lot to differentiate the isps in terms of connection speeds or pricing.
My first hint that something was rotten in the state south of Denmark was when Volkswagen was caught fiddling with their emissions testing. Still waiting for them to be held accountable for that one.
Well, at least you feel embarrassed which can propel challenge and change. We in the Philippines don't even bother feeling embarrassed any more. We even defend things that are wrong to make it right.
I’m American. When it comes to embarrassment, you are amateurs.
Well, they still hold the WWII as a joker
What's the measure of embarrassment in the imperial (US customary) system? 😅
The american economy is by far the best in the world, not an embarassment at all.
At least you can do something about it. Why not stand for president, while nobody any good is?
Feels like a humiliation ritual of some sort and inverted the joker has become king and the king a joker.
Wait, I'm from rural village in Borneo and my internet speed is much faster than Sabine's?
I switched from "fiber" to wireless and the copper cable for multiple km.
Because my "fiber" was unusable due to having multi second lag spikes every minute.
@@shracc Fiber is great the problem is with your country's shitty infrastructure, ive always had fiber in every place ive lived in Spain and never had any trouble with 800Mb speeds average
i'm from a poor neighborhood, from a poor region of brazil and my internet is faster than hers. fiber for $20usd/month 500Mb
@@bajocontinuo3That might be true but fiber is about the only thing that could be labeled fast in Spain.
My parents have 12 Mbit/s in a 1 million metropolitan area
Airports became horrible too. I`m sorry to say that but last time I flew through Frankfurt, my pre-booked seat was given away to someone else despite I have paid 150 Euro for the pre-booking . Then I was told it was my problem. Finally after I got home Lufthansa offered me partial refund, but it was little bit to late. Place was dirty, overcrowded no proper restaurant... Rude to customers a Nightmare
Darling, it’s an embarrassment to be human. Look at the world.
Absolutely correct. Well observed young lady!
Bruh this has been like this always since our species first emerged. It's nothing new.
how spoilt
best reflection ever... things are going wrong or fucking wrong around this planet.
I concur.
I assure you, my 7.5 MB/s are not to be trifled with. (written 1 day ago)
@@daelaenor and yet your network provider promises you 50 or a hundred MBit/s.
@@kti5682 well, that is 60 MBit/s.
Try being on 2Mbits/s (serious)
7.5 MB/s = 60 Mb/s thats plenty enough.
@@Kaytsey ok I too find MBytes more convenient why not. My parents only get 10% of what they are promised.
German lifehack for speeding up Internet access:
Ask a friend in Belgium to download the files for you, store it on a USB stick, then you ride over there with your bike to pick it up.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a bag full of USB sticks on a push bikes
except that she says Belgium has less fibre optics coverage....
Yeahh.... but you have to admit it´s very friendly to the environment......😬 🤣
Austria has good internet too
Classic high bandwidth - high latency example.
I am a german living in Austria. In order to obtain a new passport, the geman consulate asked me to provide a "Meldezettel", a kind of registration certificate. So I went with a certificate to the german consulate that was generated by an electronical process carrying a signing number on it. I showed it to the clerk, and it was rejected.... They wanted me to provide a registration certificate with stamp and signature - without words.... When I showed up in the municipal administration and asked for it, they laughed at me.
I'm so embarassed about the Failiure of RUclips's report-system.
Not sure that's unique to any Country but i have a habit of reporting Entertainment
that entertains with teen-tits-rub's or any of the sort; animated or not; and it basically never works.
If any Country at least had strict guidelines blatantly demanding 'No Fanservice shall use Minors in any Capacity'
than maybe we wouldnt have trillions of results if you just search-up 'Anime Teen-Tits get fondled, hehe'
My comment ends in a fourth-wall-beak though when it blames this just as much as you: i mean, the report-button DOES exist and so do
youtubers completly specialilzed on NSFW-Content. Where are you in all this?
@@slevinchannel7589 The report button is so misused for political and personal reasons that it is a joke. RUclips prioritizes removing political content, not the things you find appalling. What bothers me is the insane censorship on this platform.
A Cuban friend explained decay. It happens when people have been successful so long that they forget what made them successful.
The Germans are not victims of success but are dealing with a political class that hates them. Why put in effort when you aren't even on the list of priorities.
Swedish politicians: Look how we ruined a country in only 4 decades!
German politicians: Hold my beer!
Yep, clearly way too late to the table for DEI to fix things.
German politicians: look how we ruined a country in 2 decades.
@@comicus6769 How exactly would DEI help the sciences /quality of life in Deutschland?
@@saraheart8527 It's a joke. The EUnuchstan left always does the wrong thing - they are totalitarians while projecting their actions on others.
@@comicus6769lmao
Every country has its embarrassments. Here in Ireland we are building a National Children's Hospital that has been ongoing for YEARS, is now the most expensive hospital IN THE WORLD, EVER and is still not built. No one wants to take responsibility. As one commentator said "It's being passed around like a bag of shit that's on fire."
Well Berlin airport also took 29 years for similar reasons.
If judge based on my colleagues (whos pay is above average) their top priorities are feierabend and "not my responsibilty". All our projects delayed for 3 years, and its only by current deadlines. Who knows how long will it take in reality
thats irelands embarassment? how about the ludicrous censorship bills they just implemented!?
Haha so like the Berlin airport
Honest question, are these projects built by union labor?
Ireland is still one of the best countries in the world to live. Maybe if you lived in a really shitty country for a while you'd be more grateful for what we have here in Ireland.
Even in Pakistan we have fibre optic 100 mbps connection.
There is a good British saying about this:
Penny wise, Pound foolish
The UK lowered its own carbon emmissions by selling its manufacturing base to other countries that don't care about such things, thus boosting global emmissions.
This is the dirty not so secret of the rise of China. Companies sidestep regulation by offshoring. Meanwhile politicians claim victory for declining emissions.
And then the stuff gets shipped around in filthy, sludge burning container ships.
So did every other Western nation. Now we have low carbon emissions and no more danger of CLIMATE CHANGE!😂
Actually, we all are a bunch of suckers who believed a lie and sold what was really valuable to China, and now just like Sabina, we are noticing the effects of our long decline to poverty, and we still think we’re saving the planet. Putting manufacturing in the hands of the most incompetent countries around the world and expecting a good result is insane.
It's been happening everywhere. Try to find a consumer good of any sort that is NOT made in China, regardless of brand or price.
Source?
When I was stationed in Germany (79-82) the German trains were always on time. It was considered a major scandal if a train was 5 minutes late. It bothers me that things have gone to hell
"Everything woke turns to sh*t."- Trump
@@stephenkalatucka6213 I don't see how that fits here
You lived there when the Marshall plan was very effective. Now the only thing American there is in Frankfurt, the military outpost...
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@@werkzeugmann6224 I'm not surprised the military shut down most bases in Germany. A lot of the bases were leftovers from the distant past. In Wurzburg, where I was stationed, the facilities were left over from the distant past. One facility still had rings in the walls to tie up horses. The hospital where I worked started life as a Luftwaffe hospital.
Sabine, great delivery of your message, many countries are operating the same, we all feel the frustration and we all know why, hopefully, the frustrations and future issues will drive people in all countries to push harder for change prior to the complete loss of cultural values.
1:20 omg please stop, my ancestors knew very well how it is to be afraid about Germans
I am a close follower of the events taking place in Germany. I travel there quite often. In my humble opinion, the source of all the country management mistakes come from decisions being made based on ideology instead of facts, technology and common sense
100% true.
isn't that the truth everywhere?
Lets do a root source investigation. The mentioned topics are:
1. Privatization of the DB (1.1.1994). This was based on economical reasons and regulatory requirements of the EU.
2. Bad digital infrastructure: This is based on decisions made against glass fiber in the mid 90s based on influence of the lobbyist Leo Kirch
3. Nuclear phase-out (2011 after Fukushima, due to pressure of 70-80% of the population)
4. Hydrogen strategy (2020, called "Nationale Wasserstoffstrategy", NWS)
These events are well-documented and widely known. Even all of them occured on behalf of the same political party, where is the ideology here? I can see economical reasons, lobbyism or political pressure from the people. Maybe for the NWS - I'm not familiar with this topic because of hydrogen
Welcome to the world...
@@benlovell9416 mostly yes. But the extent to which a developed and reliable Germany is spoiling what used to be an advantageous and leading position in many fields is way above the average. She explains it well in the video, but the list could go on for much longer. The trend is so worrying
The biggest problem in Germany is all the paperwork. There are so many laws that they send you from one place to another, and you have to pay a lot of money just to find out what permission you need.
Paperwork? Eh, try Italy.
That happens a lot in the People Socialist Republik of Kalyfornystan (a.k.a the state of California).
We had this paperwork 30 years ago as well. More work, better results. While bureaucracy is nevertheless a burden, the decline of Germany has other causes.
@@traumflug That's it. Bureaucracy is just a disguise for the real problems.
@@EngineMisfire -- I call it Commiefornia ... and the fearless leader Gov Kim Un Newsance is leading the way.
I don’t think it was efficiency that saved us from Spray Cheese. It was the thought of Switzerland, France and Italy crossing their arms and looking disappointed……
OMG - the more you rant, the move I love you! And I'm loving all the cute edits and effects.
I talked to a German while in a Sauna in Oslo, and he expressed the same.
That couldn't be true. A serious German would tell you to be quiet in a saune because Finnish tradition?
In case you ask if he ever visited a sauna in Finland he will leave disgusted.
No talking in the sauna!
0:18 Answer: mass immigration from the 3rd world. instead rambles on about slow internet and the EV/Green agenda
Import the third world, become the third world
@@Ceerix hahaha... yes, imagine that! 🤣🤣🤣❤
I can agree. We've been waiting for Kraftwerk to come out with another album for the last 30 years.
Maybe they've been shut down because they're a nuclear Kraftwerk?
Ha! Forgot about them..
You've not seen 'Ja, das Hokey Kokey'.
Man schteckt die linke Arm aus
Ein, aus, ein, aus
Man schütteln alles rund
Man macht das Hokey-Kokey
Und man dreht sich herum
Das ist die ganze Sache
Blame the klimaklebers /s
21 years. They made 'Tour de France Soundtracks' in 2003.
But the main problem worldwide is, that we are all taking part in a Monopoly match, which has been won long time ago. But the winners of this game are stretching the time, to not start a new game.
Politicians make their decision based on their own interests, let it be being paid, or that someone does not tell their darkest secrets.
Scientific publications need to be in sync with the mainstream ideas, or they are not published.
The media is controlled to deliver, what we need to think, over and over again.
Judges, police, military... everything is controlled by the politics.
Germany has some of the biggest issues here, trusting in bureaucracy, processes, government, mainstream media they are controlled easily.
You just tell them, that our internet is fast enugh, the trains are early enough, there is no surveillance, your money is safe, no blackouts will cause harm, war against russia is necessary... and they will still trust in that.
"The world just isn't appropriately afraid of us anymore" So, what you want is Germany to be superior to other countries? Do you have any idea of what is happening in the rest of the world? Honestly, I think that what it's happening in underdeveloped countries and colonies is far more important and urgent that germans complaining about not having optic fibre
In the early 1970's I bought a machine for my factory. It was made in Germany. That machine performed flawlessly, until 2018, then it broke down. That was one heck of a machine, I am very *_very_* impressed !
So, I hired engineers from Germany to fix that machine, using all imported German parts.
3 years later, it broke again.
This time, the parts that were broken were all the *NEW* parts that were installed just 3 years prior, and those *NEW* parts were all made-in-Germany.
What a contradiction !
The first time the machine broke down, it had worked for more than 45 years. Yes, *_more than forty-five long years_*_ !_
The second time the machine broke down, the parts lasted 3 years.
Same work. Same work amount. Same everything. Except for, the quality of the *NEW* German parts were so flimsy, if I'm a German, I would be embarrassed.
We contacted the company in German, we talked to the German engineers who came to fix the machine for us, and they told us one thing, and one thing only ---- back in the 1970's, all German parts were made as if they were going to last forever. Now, all German parts are being made with *_planned obsolescence_* built in.
I thanked the German engineers for telling me the truth.
So, Ms. Sabine, you gotta understand, the Germany today is no longer the Germany 40 years ago.
I have a food mixer, made in DDR , East Germany, in 1980. Still works fine to this day
Most of the things, if not everything, is made with planned obsolescence in mind, that's the way of the capitalism. It's not only Germany who is doing that. Just pointing that out.
It's sad that planned obsolescence is even a thing. It's sad and stupid.
ms. Sabine is part of the problem i'm afraid. As a scientist you should never ever let activism cloud your scientific methods. But she does that when climate change is the topic on hand.
"I'm not an expert, but I believe.....blablabla...it sound ethically blablabla"
Everything is going to shit and it's because germany has accepted so many lies by so many liers it doesn't even know what truth is any longer.
200.000 bright minds leave every year and the won't come back. Rightfully so.
We're leaving to. Eff that politically correct neo-socialist state
I'm avid vintage car collector, but also have a newer MB SLK 350... The quality of some components are not that good, similar to some modern American cars... Beautiful looking car though!
As a German I can confirm this
I lived in the old West Germany in the 80s. Everything worked, trains on time, streets spotlessly clean. I loved it. What's happened?
Inept politicians are destroying the country. :(
Ironically... Maybe lack of competition after the end of communism? 😅
Unfettered immigration…
👈ism......that's what happened 🤷♂️
I blame.the zuckerberh trirbe
I enjoyed your broadcast as it truly applies worldwide... across every nation. Thank you.
Back in the 80's, buying yourself a new mercedes or BMW was a treat, and many people were jealous. Now they think you're mentally unstable, or at the very least, masochistic.
In Italy, we usually refer to Germany as the perfect example of punctuality and efficiency for trains. Having traveled a bit in the last few years, I can say that Spain, Italy (excluding the very south) and France are light years ahead.
That stereotype should be applied to individuals, but definitely not Deutsche Bahn, god I hate them
@@leobe2104 the Bahn can only do as well as the politicians running the show. And let’s not act like this has only become a problem under this administration…
Didn't the trains be in time in Italy many years ago when a bald "duke" ruled the country?! The situation in Sweden, where I live, is also a misery.
@@Soundbrigade nope, bald guy would rather invest in the army than the railway. Saying that the trains were on time is the stereotypical thing that the weird single uncle says at Christmas' lunch when someone points out our current problems.
The only good thing about the German railway system is that it's extremely interconnected, with a lot of branch lines to small villages, whereas in Italy many of those were closed to favor the automobile industry.
Your saying that in Germany "The Wi-Fi is so slow that by the time the news is streaming it has become an historical documentary" got a good laugh out of me. It kills the notion that Germans don't have a sense of humor. Not that I ever believed it.
We do have Wi-Fi in Germany? I'm still waiting for my phone line I ordered in 1991.
okay, 1st part is a joke, but 2nd part is reality, they never delivered
But... you don't need fast wifi to stream ...
I think she totally nails german humor is dry and very sarcastic, not for the faint hearted ❤😂🎉but if you can handle it is super fun.
News here aren't worth listening to anyway.
Last christmas I tried taking the train from Hamburg to central NRW to visit my family. The train I booked got cancelled, the replacement made me miss my transfer (had over 15 minutes layover time), and instead of waiting for almost an hour I got into another train that would allow me to get a better connection through a different stop. That train crawled to a halt between stops multiple times, accumulating a full hour of delay, which caused me to seriously consider taking the next connection back to Hamburg.
It is intriguing , seems to have only recently realized these problems, as if they just began. However, the issues with DBahn were already disastrous back in 2012, and by 2014-ten years ago-it had become unlivable. Eternal construction and reconstruction on the highways have always been a theme, and public transportation has consistently been just average (since 2010 at least) . In the past decade, public transportation has never been dependable, and private transportation remains challenging. Regarding the internet, Germany has never been up to date. As early as 1999, sending an email of 3MB could lock the inbox of a friend (we were young) who was most likely connecting through a dial-up modem, even as for the time everyone was already switching to DSL.
Bad internet and train infrastructure are by far not the worst problems here
Internet is fine bro.
The bureaucracy and general sense of native malcontention were the worst things I experienced in Germany.
Too many German citizens are not really german but African and arab.
@@Briand-ei1gs Doesn't matter. Their government keeps making the people think they deserve immigrants because of historical events from 80 years ago.
@@Briand-ei1gs Bravo. Thank you.
Normally, being slow is a good thing when going in the wrong direction. Anyway, our German contribution to solving the world's problems: showing everyone else how not to do it.
The US would like a word. The problems are not evenly distributed. Where I am there is no train service at all to speak of even though I live in an important regional metropolis. I do have access to fiber internet, however.
If not for the Russia-Ukraine drama, things would be comparatively more stable.
Should've worked harder for peace rather than jumping into war because a certain dumdum thought that it was a good way for the local companies of *some country* to benefit.
Seriously, we have zero quality public transit in the US. The east coast at least should be covered in rail networks for easy and efficient transportation. There's so many cities that would be wonderful with light rail too. Instead we need to own our own expensive machine and take on the mind numbing task of commuting by car everywhere.
@@kylebeatty7643 regional trains absolutely need to be built in the US. Amtrak needs high speed rail for distances of 100 to 150 miles. Flying makes more sense for transcontinental travel, no need to invest in a transcontinental high speed rail line (yet). That means shit should be easier to build, but the problem in the US is the red tape, local governments, and individual NIMBYs. Look at how long it’s taken California: 20 years of planning, billions already spent, and it’s only now starting to be built.
America: Alright, bet. Green technology is now a political conspiracy and all attempts at progress will be met with armed resistance. Also, about 15-30% of the country wants the country to become a theocracy and we're willing to do anything to make it happen. Ala "Project 2025"
Im from Poland and I was 2 years in Germany. Same problems in both countries.
As a Brit, I think you are looking at our country with rose-tinted glasses. Sure, Germany is pretty infamous for it's poor internet but UK trains are pretty atrocious (hugely expensive, privatised, constant strikes), people have pretty universally given up on politicians, our health service is in an abysmal state and secondary school kids frequently miss out on their education due to lack of teachers (probably about one class per day on average).
Yea, it's no rose-garden over here either
She should ask americans how up to date their privatised railways are
I saw a newspaper yesterday that had an article titled "Mythos Merkel". Yes, she is now already in the same league as legendary heroes. A shining beacon of standing still for 16 years.
Well, same as Helmut Kohl. And that were another 16 years. If you bother about missing fibre optics, ask him!
Absolute awful and overhyped Person.She left us in a giant pile of mess with ruined military, infrastructure and dependend from russian gas.Not to mention her nuts migration and Euro-politics.
It's incredible how these mythical figures seem to disappear before the SHTF.
Their timing is certainly mythical.
Frau Merkel was a disaster who helped all the seeds of German destruction sprout and grow worse for years.
Shining beacon of standing still!!!!
"The world isn't afraid of us anymore"
- Sabine, 2024
Those are actually very reassuring words to every other nation.
But they're bully enough to support genocide in Gaza by the victims of Holocaust
"The world ... isn't ... afraid of us anymore."
Expected this to be about the Nazis. Instead it was just... Kinda Nazi like
@@entp_adventures You are not seriously saying this video was nazi like... now that is hella stupid.
I grew up during the Cold War period, and was fascinated with Germany from a very young age. I have studied everything about Germany from as many angles as I can, and I conclude 100% that your occupiers will never admit to you being under occupation, but you are. We all are in Europe, and shaming is one of their favourite weapons.
I am living in Germany and I confirm the internet is the worst. I wanted to watch this video 3 days ago but it finished loading today. 😂
I am 29 old in Hungary and I've once seen a FAX machine when I was a child. Recently I've learned that a nearby company uses them regularly to communicate with the german customers, because lot of them don't have email at all! I barely could believe it is true. We have 600 mbit/s internet in my town with 4000k inhabitants.
This is a result of being BEHIND for so long. Not technical superiority. Mainland China has cell service almost everywhere. And zero land lines. Because they skipped the entire century that the civilized and free world installed and invested in land line cables and technology. Nobody in china would know what switch-board operator was. But this was a normal job in the USA in the 1960s.
There is enormous costs to develop and install any new technology. The leading people, companies, places that adopt new technology invariably end up sinking larger amounts of wealth into what becomes inferior technology in the future. This has been shown in studies, that to develop and invent something new costs an order of magnitude more than simply copying another's invention or development. This is the reason for patents and other intellectual property. Something much of the word has zero interest in upholding or acknowledging.
@@TheJustinJ China also needs a good Internet connection for their millions of CCTV cameras... I am honestly glad the German communication networks are not so good, yet. We are heading for totalitarianism and technocracy, mass surveillance and absence of any civil rights or privacy. Thanks to EU and their love for communism like Klaus Schwab from the WEF.
WOW how much is 600mb internet ?
Come on, really?! No german private company does use FAX anymore. I am over 50 and FAX was a thing back in the early 90s. DSL was introduced in the year 2000. I have not worked with FAX since then.
Hard to believe they don't have email/internet at all. It's just that to this day, in Germany, FAX is the only electronical transmission that's legally binding, in contrast to Email etc.
I remember visiting Flensburg a few years ago with my family. My son wanted to go fishing by the sea. I knew we needed a permit as we do in Denmark. Turned out we had to go to a counsil office, wait in line, fill in a long paper form with all kind of details and pay in cash. It took a couple of hours out of our short holiday. In my home country Denmark, we just go to a website and pay the fee.
The funny thing is - you could get a permit in Schleswig-Holstein - you won't get any in Lower Saxony because you need a german fishing exam. It is crasy...
Because Denmark is a functional country with people who have a sense of humor and arent insufferable moralists
I wonder if english countries do tech easier, with so much of basics being based in english. So I try to cut East and Central Europe a little slack. Most coding is in pure english, that's sorta not fair but history is not fair.
Hours to buy a fishing license? Even Pennsylvania (USA) can get it done faster than that: Walk into practically any sporting goods store or hardware store, put down your money, walk out with a hunting license, trapping license, or fishing license in about the time it takes you to write down your name, address, phone number, age, and date of birth.
You can do that in the rural US as well. You just order the license online and print it out.
As always, a wonderful video.
"The world isn't appropriately afraid of us any more" made me smile... But also slightly scared...
😂😂😂😂😂"Quantum WiFi that collapses as soon as you connect" is f**king HILARIOUS! One of the funniest science jokes ive heard😭
Definitely
High brow humor at its finest.
Above all, it's true...
Top drawer top drawer
I will never again accept that Germans have no sense of humour.
Well since Germany's decline the German people for the first time in history have developed a sense of humour.
Actually, humour in East Germany was a lot better than in the West. It was a good cover to complain about things without being seen as a subversive.
German comedians are the best. So much material.
"german cannot into humour" - people who only know four jokes.
Quite a stupid and untrue trope that shows you have never lived in Germany.
The "forklift driver Klaus" videos from the 80's prove you wrong
I was introduced to German bureaucracy moving at a glacial pace when I applied for a certificate of German citizenship by descent. It took the BVA six months to acknowledge receipt of my application, and they said it can take 2-3 years to process it. We'll see how long it really takes if I get approved.
Your integrity is refreshing. Thank you for your work and attention to detail
Howdy, Northern neighbours, Swiss-Austrian dual citizen based in Vienna here. It's funny: When I was a child in the 80s and 90s, out of the German-speaking countries Austria was the one that felt the most "backwards" and actually a bit "Eastern-blocky" as my relatives in Switzerland used to joke. The stereotype, confirmed by massive anecdotical evidence, was that, for example, international trains would inevitably start accumulating delays as soon as they had entered Austria. Back then, (West) Germany was somewhat in between - not as well-organized as Switzerland, but pretty solid. Within the last 20 years, Austria and Germany have somehow switched roles. While Austria has modernized a lot, Germany increasingly feels like Austria used to feel 30-40 years ago.
What I also find quite funny is the different ways in which the Swiss and the Austrians deal with the fact that, since a lot of our trains come in from Germany, the constant delays of Deutsche Bahn are messing up our own timetables: By now, the Swiss always have a few extra trains ready at the border and, if the German train is delayed, they simply run an extra Swiss train on the Swiss part of the route. The Austrians don't do that, but they make up for it by making their announcements as passive-aggressive as possible ("Unfortunately, train so and so is still 55 minutes delayed because, once again, the hand-over by Deutsche Bahn at the border was delayed by 90 minutes. On behalf of Austrian Railways, we would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused to our passengers by Deutsche Bahn.").
As a Brit I am by turns humbled and delighted by your witty command of English. Bravo Sir, bravo!
Das Österreichische Netz ist recht einfach, verglichen mit dem Deutschen.
Austria's technological prowess is not to be underestimated. They have revolutionized the light aircraft market in the US, with Rotax and Austro engines and Diamond airframes. It used to be that a ~150 ps aircraft engine displaced 7 liters and weighed 140kg. Now a Rotax engine produces 158 ps from 1.4 liters and I can pick it up and carry it around by myself.
Kann ich bestätigen. Österreich und Ganz besonders Wien ist wunderschön. War zum Urlaub mehrmals dort und habe n Monat dort gearbeitet. Eine der besten Zeiten meines Lebens. Liebe Grüße ans schöne Wien. ❤️
@@YogiAI To be fair though - as much as I love myself some good old-fashioned German-bashing as we are so fond of in the small neighouring countries - I think the extremely high cost of German re-unification is often under-estimated. I would not necessarily say that Austrian, Swiss, or Dutch politicians have been so much smarter than their German counterparts in the past few decades, but they could afford to make some mistakes and still have enough money to modernize infrastructure and public administration as well as to create reasonably good conditions for private enterprise.
My nearly 80 year old dad is a BIG fan of Germany. This is because he made his career working for Volkswagen and often visited Wolfsburg etc. This guy from a small country of Finland was naturally very impressed by the scale and organization of VW. He refuses to accept this decline, but I'm not going to argue an old man because I love him.
He would not recognize the country if he returned here.
German is not the language you hear anymore when you walk around the cities
You should check the size of Tesla's Giga Texas plant.
You literally have to remove the engine to work on a VW--what a piece of junk
In other countries their VW is made in China.
@@DonBelial yeah that’s not one of our big problems, but nice try making a connection to immigration that doesn’t exist.
here in America were saying "hold my beer'
A brief history lesson about Germany and fiber optics: In 1981, a German government under the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) had plans for a nationwide expansion of fiber optics. One year later, Chancellor Helmut Kohl of the Christian Democratic Union stopped those plans because he wanted to promote private television. The public service broadcasting was considered too left-leaning in the eyes of the Christian Democratic Party. By the way, public service broadcasting was introduced after World War II by the Allies to prevent the rise of fascism.
Ind Deutschland the public service broadcasting IS the fascism.
Thank you for mentioning this.
@@dontetlenszagu You've never experienced it, else you wouldn't say such nonsense. If there would be anything like that the whole world would go on red alert. We are still VERY closely watched for this by US, France, Italy, Russia, Brit etc...
@@JouMxyzptlkI live in Germany as a Hungarian. I saw really close how operate a diktatorship and i say you, Germany IS a diktatorship.
@@JouMxyzptlk if you think mass migration, lgbtq terror, racism against whites is Demokratie so you have right. I call that faschism.
I live in Thailand, about 18 km from the nearest town (Hua Hin). My internet comes through glass fiber cable with over 800 mbps!
Every year I have to send a life certificate to receive my pension from the Deutsche Rente for one more year: it has to be done by post. Twice it never arrived. Now I have to send it via registered mail, so I can follow it's tracks. They don't accept it via e-mail. It has to be done on paper! In 2024! Probably because of "privacy and security" reasons, but anyone can open the envelop on the way to Germany.
I retired in 2012 and before that time I took the train to Frankfurt airport from a small place called Herzogenrath. I always had to take into consideration that there would be a delay, so I had to take one or two trains before the actual time that I had to be at the airport (I used to work for Lufthansa)... Oh I can go on about it... on the whole, I'm glad that I can live in a "third world" country like Thailand.
Thailand is amazingly progressive in many areas. Most Thais use their mobiles to pay for everything. My wife comes from Kalasin (rural Northern Thailand) and even the internet in her village is faster than mine is in Australia.
in the 90s nobody in Thailand owned a computer most of the population didn't even know what it was while Germany was cutting edge now Germany has fallen decades behind Thailand
Can you justify receiving a pension when you don't live in the country that gives it to you? I know you Boomers think you deserve the world.
I'm from Brazil, and is very ironic seeing native people who lives in villages in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest here having better tech than a first world country.
Can we stop using the term "third world country"?
Hearing a German saying "The world just isn't appropriately afraid of us anymore" in that nice Germanic accent made my day.
As a Greek I can tell you that the state of the German economy is scary the hell out of all other EU countries.
Shows you mindset where even after Nazism they still want to make the world fear them while simultaneously look up to them, I don’t think Germans are aware of how racist they are, they must have been indoctrinated so early to think in this overly superior way.
@@Hope_Boatyeah because we've been propping up your economy for decades in exchange for a cheap Europe so we can export around the globe
If your people paid taxes you wouldn't have to be scared about how our economy is doing
Probably one of the scariest things we can hear, especially if you're Jewish.
@@LuluTheCorgi As someone from Poland, where our economy has been growing greatly and taxes have been paid we still worry about German economy. Everyone knows that if sh*t was to hit the fan Germany would use it's oversized influence on European Union to help themselves and also make situation worse for everyone else in the process. That has already happened in 2008 and when it comes to gas deals with Russia that significantly destroyed Europe's economy after 2022 so Germany could have cheaper gas earlier.
That's why Poland will never buy into joining eurozone. We prefer our own currency thanks to what Germany (and to a lesser extent France) was doing. Eurozone is destroying European Union for the benefit of Germany.
I rode all over Germany in 1993 and was amazed at how smooth the ride was and how everything ran on time. Compared to the UK it was eyeopening.
Hear, hear Sabine! A very well summary.
I recently told my Vietnames coworkers that 100 mbits internet is fast in Germany (at least 5 years ago when I still lived there). They were speechless.
i live in Vietnam. It's good there's no 5G over there, as the Vietnamese are turning into zombies with their omnipresent electronic devices. The smarter the phone, the dumber the user.
lol, in Germany 30 mbits is fast. oh. and they actually just passed a law defining what "fast internet" means: 15mbits
@@emanueley8410
i have 50mbits and i honestly don't know what i'd do with more. yes it could be faster, but it's completely sufficient for watching live streams and movies, and game downloads are a one time thing that i can just do in the background without affecting me much. my upload also exceeds the twitch bitrate limit. i guess it could be a problem with multiple people watching streams in the same household.
@@simpson6700 You don't know what you don't know. I have 600mbits, and now i finally feel i have no barriers.
50 is nothing.
One thign that struck me watching the Eurocup this year:
Electric car sponsor: Chinese
Mobile phone sponsor: Chinese
E-commerce and E-pay sponsor: Chinese
Electronics sponsor: Chinese
Where are all the great German and European manufacturing and tech companies? The continent is being left in the dust economically by more dynamic markets
Part of the problem is the EU Commission. Its focus is on ossifying regulation rather than creative stimulation. It worries me that it may be self-defeating in the end.
Europe is a consumer economy, I honestly don't even know what they produce these days besides a few luxury cars that no one can afford
China is dynamic, all right, and right now their economy is going down the tubes.
'more dynamic markets' - er China is paying people a tenth of the wages and paying no environmental costs, thats not a dynamic market, thats a criminal economy.
This could be just your distortion. Maybe no european company does want to sponsor at the Eurocup. There are still european companies. Also german ones.
Thanks for this video. Governments and laws in general have a hard time keeping up with changes in the technological world.
Last December we took a German train from Italy to Germany, paying a premium price for premium service. The train never arrived - it was cenceled. We sent the form to Deutsche Bahn for refund and the answer was: no refund, the train arrived on time, even a little earlier. They just canceled the Italian part without notice! So, money lost. Cherry on the cake: we took the next train and the conductor explained that the previous train was planned to be canceled one month ago - but they sold all tickets anyway! Excellent work Deutsche Bahn 👍👍👍
Sue them
That sounds super illegal.
This is the new logic demanded by Ricarda Göring-Eckhart.
You still use the old logic?
Solution:
Become an idiot too.
Standard behavior of our decadent elites...
The people that recognize a problem and are capable of fixing it are being stopped by higher ups that are only interested in forging the numbers so they keep their jobs...
@@Dylan-oj6pjYou'll never win against the DB. Impossible
So talking about trains.
I am not a German citizen and came here for masters. Once I was coming from a place and the last train at Frankfurt suddenly got cancelled and the funny thing is there was no substitute service available so basically I have to sit on the station till 7am.
When I told this story to my German friends they simply replied. Willkommen in Deutschland.
Rule 0:
NEVER rely on the last train in Germany. The last train (or bus) only exists as a backup if the earlier train gets cancelled, breaks down or disappears in a black hole.
Edit: If you think the "black hole" was just a joke, no, it wasn't. I have already been in the situation where a train hasn't been seen along any station of it's way but somehow moved itself to the end station while being displayed as "perfectly in time" in the app.
In this situation the Bahn will pay you a hotel room (provided you had a ticket for the cancelled train).
Moral of the story: GET BACK TO FUCKING BOMBAY! We all know how beautiful Indian trains are!
DB should do what they do in the UK. Just make the tickets too expensive to realistically go anywhere on the railways.
@@javiergilvidal1558so the declining quality of the public services in Germany doesn't bother you? You are okay if things doesn't get better?
Being from England myself I know how it feels when everything is just shit although we’ve got used to it for decades so welcome to the party pals!🤣
America: Wait, we have trains?
😂
A friend of mine is developing a chatbot for a German company. Their internal software system is so terrobly designed and hard to use and so they wanted to use AI to help users make sense of it. Along the way, the developers realized that in the past, there have been multiple other IT projects to cope with that software beside the chatbot, but none of them really helped.
My friend kept wondering why they didnt go with the obvious solution, which is designing an entirely new software to replace the old ones. Instead they kept it and keep slapping new tech like AI like a bandaid over it.
But since they're paying my friend, the chatbot project goes on.
It's exactly the same story as not upgrading to optic cables but trying to improve copper sables instead.
sunk cost fallacy
something something -man empire.
And when they finally decide to fix it, they implement a more powerful version that is even worse in terms of user experience lol
American banks would like t[ have a chat. At least one major one still has all their back end run by cobol...
no that a very different problem with tech in general, its goes like this, new less-code solution become trendy promising ease of use and being able to do 80% what more-code solution do, company switch to and start wanting to implement the 20% only to find out that the 80% is the easy part that even an intern can do, their solution grow in complexity slowly and now they are stuck in this model.
dev that specialized in these less-code solution over time became so complex and fought over by the very few leftover companies that are stuck, but also in a way those dev are stuck cause if that market fail their job is gone and they so out of shape in coding in general.
Welcome, Sabine, to the worldwide "I'm embarrassed of my Country" club, feel free to pick any flag!
Ditto here.
1 billion population in India but divided, disconnected, superstitious. I wish my heart turns into stone and mind freezes. Child labor, female foeticide, caste system, corruption, unemployment, illiteracy. I wish I could meet god, ask questions. Why such disparity, why such pain? Free mind freez!
Same here in the USA. Billionaires rule and we all lose.
@@Krn7777w illiteracy pretty much explains it all. Also it's not specific just for India. Also the south Asia race among each of those countries to have more people to outnumber other ones, and this spills to the world.
On another level, each country literally has it's own problems and they cant be fixed with one solution fits all, at least I don't think so.
Sorry, just being honest here.
@@Krn7777w At the very least India seems on the up and up. Things were so bad there before that it is better in a relative way. In Germany and many western countries the feeling is the opposite where things are going down hill. This perception has grave social consequences historically.
I was extremely confident on thinking that you were british
Würde Sabine eine Partei in Deutschland gründen: Meine Stimme hat sie! Wir brauchen dringend Menschen mit Bildung in der Regierung!
I was stationed in West Germany in 81 and 82. The railroads and other public transportation was top notch. If a train was one minute late, it was a national news story.
I'm not embarrassed, I'm just shocked and deeply saddened at how dysfunctional we've become.
Berlin airport...
Our leaders are sabotaging us. That should be clear. Look how hard they fight to edge out political competition even when people vote for them. Or do you take the slander campaigns at face value with no context? Sort yourself out. Those people want you demoralized and disenfranchised for a reason
Bro become ??
@@entity_unknown_ pretty sure Germany used to be a global superpower at one point…
You've been that way since 1945.
One major issue are access rights, since most cables must to be installed underground in some way.
I have a house in the swedish woods at a gravel road and guess what kind of cable we have here that delivers 1 Gbit per sec… ;-)
Last year, the german Bundesnetzagentur started a tender for a government contract for new fax machine provider. The Bundesnetzagentur... is the federal internet department...
This is not satire.
A few years ago, i was in the german equivalent to the DMV. I had to look through tons of old paperwork to get some specific esoteric personal registration number (Of which each german department loves to issue several at once for different purposes. Don't think you'll get away with a simple ID number. No, no, no.). I had to go twice, because the first time, i handed the employee my government issued ID card and asked if he could just enter my name in the system to look it up. Well... i had to come back next week with the specific number he wanted, because he refused. He said, he couldn't type in the personal information of every person who came to him, because he would never get anything done that way. Which kind of sounds as if he *could have* done it, if he wanted. And then i saw something i will never forget. The guy filled a formular, rolled it up, put it in a plastic can and put it into the pneumatic tube mail behind his desk and told me to go to another office in 3rd floor for the next step.
I swear, i thought i was stuck in a Kafka novel.
this is crazy wtf hahahaha
Das ist einfach herrlich . Passierschein a38
You're serious? :-) I'm from the Czech Republic and it's really true that Fax is still used in Germany. :-)
Those pneumatic tubes make an incredible sucking sound, like that of hope and promise of a future exiting.....
@@blackmesa1855 Wollte es grade schreiben.