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  • Macinka is an idiot.

    That being said he plays important role to form the government and at least part of ANO voters expects some reaction that Babiš probably can’t deliver because of that.

    It is just lose lose situation right now, do nothing against it - people will protest (and it will have bad outcome), try to confront him and he doesn’t form a government (and will go to prison).

    I didn’t expect that the shitshow, everyone saw from far away after the elections, will get that bad that fast.





  • But I get the appeal of the ebus it just sounds cheaper. One city I won’t name started to build trolley bus network again after they got rid of it in 70’s (because of metro construction and expansion of trams), but they just doing it bit idiotically by wanting to have like 30% of it on wires and rest run on batteries.

    Why? Because the infrastructure is just more expensive upfront.

    Will it work? Nobody knows, people that are building it lobby to get it up to at least 50/50 then it is maybe just feasible.

    I think that roads and buses have place in the transportation but you just need more options not just that.


  • I am for electrification but I just can’t get behind electric buses.

    My city made some study last year and the best way forward in terms of public transport is expansion of trolley bus network. With batteries and constant use it just doesn’t make much economic sense. If you can build the wiring it is much better in long run. You don’t have to have 100% coverage, 70+% is enough for partial battery powered trolley bus, then it starts to be economically feasible in the operating cost sense.

    Also they will need to build some kind of metro system - probably as an extension of commuter trains.



  • I think that if you don’t do the same job at some point in time or have really deep insight in the industry/job, you newer know what he’s doing.

    From my work experience I can say that most work tasks I had wasn’t that simple (if I don’t count the “human robot” type summer jobs).

    Even some simple sounding job titles hide lot of different tasks most people don’t talk about or even don’t think about.

    For example I was brew master in small brewery (3 people including myself) - you would think I was there to only make beer, my boss deals with paperwork, and my colleague is there for maintenance and cleaning. In reality I was more of Jack of all trades - maintanance, planning, cleaning, sanitation, kegging, helped with tasks you wouldn’t think about.

    And I think business man covers lots of different tasks that are quite boring so I wouldn’t mind not knowing about them.


  • That our country will be a shitshow for some time and is heading towards early elections probably next year.

    Just sum it up he is convicted of embezzlement of EU funds. So he needed to stay in politics so he doesn’t end up in jail. That is true for other party SPD which is bunch of naci nutheads.

    So he needs support from 2 other parties to get majority and because both of them know how desperate he is they want something (ministry seat…). Unfortunately they are completely incompatible with each other so it will be fun.

    The president said that he won’t accept any minister that wants to exit NATO or EU.

    The way we are heading is the Slovakia or Hungary route unfortunately. But these elections have silver lining - we got rid of Communist party (hopefully) and the pro democratic block is still quite strong (they lost mandates but not votes because of how is it counter and distributed).

    So it’s not black and white or complete disaster for EU and our country (which has still strong democracy for now).









  • So the wargaming style games takes the longest time.

    It is honestly such a hard task to make complex, easy to follow mechanics and still somehow explain it to players in short amount of time. Another takeaway from this is that when player led decisions/interactions aren’t easy to account for in the time estimates.

    I think that another thing that is common in some games is some stalemate situations where some equilibrium with no winners is achieved and it just drags on.


  • Had to look at wiki about the modernization of 810.

    And I wasn’t entirely correct the true modernization was performed 2005-2012 basically rebuild to be the yellow RegiNova train.

    Last “modernization” 2020-2024 was pretty much stopgap before they can get some new trains. Fitted new motor so AC can be fitted and new interior.


  • I don’t know the name of the trains that are meant to replace those 70’s trains. But there are options, truth is that it is just aging and is increasingly hard to maintain them in decent condition (most recent modernization was ~2015). At least here it will be replaced eventually for more modern ones, I know it is blast from past but it just doesn’t matter for regular commuter.

    Yes too small, too slow and on electrified tracks irrelevant. They are meant for small regional lines, not for suburban transport. It is like running trams as EC trains.


  • I like them but fortunately didn’t see them in a while. I say fortunately because they get slowly replaced not like the insane plan in Hungary to “modernize” them.

    Also they aren’t suited for the place where I live so few lines are still served with the old DB carriages other have the new RegioPanther trains.