I was looking up French and German inequality statistics and found this: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tessi190/default/table?lang=en

Basically all of democratic Europe has Ginis in a fairly narrow range at this point, mid-20s to low 30s. But then Turkey is 44, even worse than the US. What the fuck?

Social capital research is so weird. I try socializing somewhere, either get misgendered (right-leaning version) or see red triangles (left-leaning version), drop out. Media and academics record this as "lack of social capital" and recommend making me go back to socializing with the same people.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/117457200885505783

And it is 100% electrified, unlike in Europe, while maintaining about the same per-passenger-km safety record for on-board passengers as the EU average (if still worse than Japan).

A white man with a bag stood atop the S-Bahn entrance in a manner designed to maximally impede my ability to get in. Halfway down, a black woman and an Asian woman stood with luggage, blocking nearly the entire width of the staircase. Minorities are assimilating to Berlin norms, it's so beautiful.

🚫 "he won't say anything, he's too spineless to stand up to anyone"

✅ "he won't say anything he lacks the exoskeleton to stand up to anyone."

And today we have an *extra* bullshit meter, although this is more like gaslighting than bullshit

Talgo claims its trains for DSB are reliable, while in reality they are the least reliable trains in the company’s entire fleet

https://jonworth.eu/bullshit-meter-dsb-talgo-230-trains-are-reliable/

The word akuma means devil in Japanese and bent (f.; no queer connotation) in Hebrew. What can we do with this?

From the river to the Green Line and in the Gaza Strip, Palestine will be free and hip. From the Green Line to sea, Israel is all you'll see.

The AfD-BSW resolution in Sachsen-Anhalt to end Ukraine aid and Russia sanctions was passed over the nays of all four constitutional parties, including Die Linke. A Linke that keeps acting like this is a fully legitimate party and a natural R2G ally, cc Elif Eralp. https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/ukraine-krieg-sachsen-anhalt-afd-bsw-landtag-100.html

The Greens and SPD just walked away from R2G over Die Linke's refusal to kick out an anti-Semitic wrecker from the caucus (said wrecker doesn't want to participate in parliamentary government anyway). https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/liveticker-bundespolitik-nach-aufnahme-von-emde-in-berliner-linksfraktion-unterbrechen-spd-und-gruene-sondierungen-faz-110093143.html (CW: FAZ)

How many people who are overhearing me think I'm a massive anti-Semite for repeatedly referring to a paragraph in the London report as "Talmudic shit"? (This is a paragraph that states each side's position in a blame game dispute but doesn't have a firm conclusion.)

London rail expansion proposal from 1989, ancestral to the modern Jubilee line extension, Thameslink, Crossrail, Crossrail 2, and the Bakerloo line extension proposal. https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoT_CentralLondonRailStudy1989.pdf

The main reason to support a Palestinian state is to end the Occupation, but another one is that an East Jerusalem metro from Ramallah to Bethlehem via the Old City would be very strong.

I'm hit by my second police PSA on the Elizabeth line today with its cringe "see it, say it, sorted" slogan. I'm being radicalized into ACAB politics. Anarchist gangs like CHAZ may be thugs but at least they don't bother me with these PSAs.

Some rail construction costs in 1960s-70s West Germany, including U- and S-Bahns. Not everything is properly disaggregated by line, but many things are, including the core S-Bahn tunnels. The numbers for Munich are quite close to what one sees in broader media, filling me with confidence the other numbers are right as well. https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/05/038/0503884.pdf

The US is the CDU or UK Conservative Party of the world (derogatory).

Any time up until three years and a day ago, if I'd heard a person on the Elizabeth line talk on the phone in Hebrew about material engineering, I'd complain about loud Israelis.

But now, I just noted that he was living in London judging by what he said and felt safe speaking Hebrew on the train.

No political comment, but this juxtaposition is hilarious:

>Two of the UK’s most contested current public projects, the HS2 rail line and the proposed Holocaust Memorial in Westminster’s Victoria Tower Gardens

https://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/hybrid-bill-procedure-holocaust-memorial-parliament

Whenever I write something about a railway under performing, I get people - usually from Great Britain - whingeing at me that their railway is worse. Not only is it not necessarily true, but it is also tiring. So I wrote about it! https://jonworth.eu/my-train-is-even-worse-than-your-train-and-why-that-is-quite-tiring-especially-from-people-from-great-britain/

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