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  • I went to Berlin by car last week (unfortunately it was necessary) and I wouldn’t do it again. Everything about the road layout is illogical, chaotic, and inconsistent. Bus lanes start and stop every now and then, cycling paths apear out of nowhere and disappear even more suddenly, each block has traffic lights, the few roundabouts that exist are controlled by traffic lights, there are pedestrian crossings in multi-lane 50kph zones (which my driving instructor told me did not exist). The whole city feels very car-centric, even though it shouldn’t.

    Imo Berlin is perfectly suited for Superblocks similar to Barcelona: the streets are wide enough to accomodate buslanes, cycling infrastructure, trams and still leaves a bit of room for cars. The pedestrianised areas could recieve mini parks, more outdoor seating for bars and restaurants, and playing areas for kids. This would also make traffic around the blocks more fluid, because cars wouldn’t need to stop at an intersection for every block.




  • But for me personally […]

    There are a lot of people for whom this is not an option though. Some examples include: people who are stressed and close to burnout, people with young children, people who take care of older family members, people who are old, people with chronic illnesses.

    And I’d argue even “lifestyle part-timer” have a valid reason for not working more, they value their time higher than the money they could earn in that time. That’s capitalism. And if Fotzen-Fritze wants these people to work full time he has to make them an offer, not a threat.


  • He continuously questions the wellfare state of Germany, which most of us are very proud of. Unemployment benefits will get stricter rules. He says 14.5 sick days per worker and year are an unacceptably high number and we should ask ourselves if that is really necessary. He calls immigrants a problem for our cityscapes. Every foreign visit he went on he insulted the host country in some other way. He and his party argue for reactivation of our nuclear power plants for “cheap” energy, but all the former operators of those plants say it would be uneconomical or downright impossible to do and thr kWh would be way more expensive than renewables. They also ask Germany and the german economy to be “open for different technologies” when it comes to the decarbonising the country but the race has been won by BEV and heat pumps, no amount of H2 research will change that. He calls himself upper middle class despite having a private plane and multiple houses, the money for which he earned in his time at BlackRock. Nobody wanted him in any official office he held. He lacks enpathy. He lacks kindness. He lacks leadership. He lacks a vision of the future.