Why I'm embarrassed to be German
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In this video I want to make a personal statement to explain why I'm unhappy about the way that my country has been developing. Germany is not what it used to be.
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#germany #german - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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?
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
When your government think Co2 is the biggest issue you know that you are in trouble.
I visited Germany in August 2023. I bought one month train subscription, a mistake happened and it ended up taking from me the price of 2 months instead of one. I emailed the transport company, 4 times and they took 6 months to answer me!! 6 freaking months! The issue got solved and closed in June 2024! Almost 11 months after my first email!! There is something seriously wrong with whatever is going on there!
I live 300km from next town we don't even have buses. Stop complaining live in my fked up country Australia
Yeah I live here and I can tell you truckloads of stories like this. It is nothing unusual.
It took so long because they already had your money. If you wanted to buy a car and mailed them that there is an error with their online payment system so you can't pay even if you wanted to - it would take only 30mins.
Similar thing happened to me and it was an airplane company. Lufthns..
Took them months (4 to 6 don't remember) to get me back my money.
It did not ruin my vacation exactly but i definitely could not enjoy it thinking if I will get it back and documenting everything for them in my holiday time.
Why bother with your own country if that's not your country anymore.
Germans don't accept the digital world. I'm Dutch. I started working for a German company in the Netherlands. I asked them to e-mail my contract so I could sign it in pdf. Wasn't possible. They asked to fax it. But the Dutch office didn't have a fax. So a German employee drove from Germany to the Netherlands handed me the contract so I could sign it and then he drove back. This was 2018.
is this for real? jeez
lol i love it
That is stupid af 😂
There's not much Germans love more than their paperwork
Oh and a friend of mine moved to Germany. He had internet on his phone. But wanted internet in his new home too. He couldn't get freaking internet from an internet provider through their website. Instead he had to print out the contract and send it with the post.
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
As a Brit on hearing this ..I'm opening a bottle of martini .
I need a drink !!!
As Bond said
I must be dreaming !
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.
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.
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 TH-cam'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%).
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 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.
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.
The "electric highway" sounds like someone wanted to make a electric freight train but of course had to be car centric
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.
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.
If you don' t want to walk alone to home, just don't buy an electric car
As a Dutch person, I kinda felt embarrassed when I visited Japan. I realized we made things normal what should never be normal; for example: you can't withdraw money at night to prevent crime, gas stations has projection glass, we get warnings to be alert for pickpocketing in the train and so on. While in Japan, Trains are on time, people stand in line without overtaking, man as well as woman can just walk alone in night without hiding their watch and so on...
European countries are sadly declining.
Immigration
in eastern Europe, in Poland you can walk at night ... mostly western Europe is declining and lost it's moral values
Have you figured out why. I could tell you but it's more fun if you work it out for yourself.
Lol such a selective memory of Japan. Try to book some shinkansen tickets online and you will see a web interface from the early 2000s (btw this ordering systems is considered modern in Japan), in fact try to do anything that involves modern technology in Japan and you will be shocked to find out it doesn't exist. The best route planner in Japan for public transit is google maps or navitime (add riddled garbage) since the train companies refuse to make proper one themselves. If a train is delayed in Japan (yes this happens and actually quite often outside of Kansai and Kanto) it is nearly impossible to figure out what the new best route is to mitigate your delay while any modern transit app in Europe will show you this.
Not to forget Japanese office culture (fax machine are modern am i right?) and more reasonable thing to notice is that Japan is stuck in the 90s early 2000s.
@@informer3000 If you have immigrated, this might in fact be a problem.
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.
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.
Your mastery/use of the English language, witty and humour is quite atstonishing and most entertaining!
And a reason why the railways are in such poor condition is the dogmatic focus on cars and the German car industry for several years, instead of improving public transport.
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
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.
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.
Sabine, you've identified the problems really well, but I think you got one thing wrong: These aren't only German problems. Nearly whole Europe has the same challenges, maybe not with their railway, but with energy, infrastructure etc. Look at France and the UK: Things aren't better there.
Not only Europe, but the US and Canada as well: the entire western world. Meanwhile, in China and Japan, things are running pretty smoothly. Their infrastructure are pretty new, extensive and top notch. They must be doing something right.
About energy, if think that thing are better than in Germany (not perfect of course). At least, our electricity is very largely carbon-free. It is difficult in France to understand this irrational fear that the Germans seem to have regarding nuclear energy. For now, the Germans, known to be pragmatic, are not at all pragmatic on this subject. What poses a problem for us in France is above all the European energy market which puts us at a great disadvantage.
@@InXLsisDeono interest in investing in war and to push manipulative central bank?
@@Lucas-wj8mg funny how everything is failing apart at the same time immigration is peaking. There certainly can't be any correlation there
@@jeupater1429 Illegal migration is of course a big problem, I'd even say the biggest, but Sabine didn't mention it here
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.
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.
I half-expected to hear about that recent gang-**** controversy, where a woman insulting one of the child ****ists got more time in jail then most of the offenders.
I guess cultural rot is too hard to talk about.
Yes - we progressed so far that we can now talk less freely than before.
Sabine for being a super duper German genius still can't figure out why nothing is working anymore. Her German thoroughness prevents her ironically. 🤣🤣
It is not cultural rot, it is called Marxism. Germany was systemically ashamed and punished for defending the opposite in ww2, and now they climb too much in the Marxist direction, as they are constantly punished for the past. Also, remember, Germany is not sovereign animore, and is ruled by Marxists - who are the last world war victors, and abuse the victim all over.
@@adrianoss.bougas3720 now that is a prime German joke
@@adrianoss.bougas3720 Why do you lie?
The same applies for Holland. Holland isn't also what it used to be, so we are on the same boat.
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.
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
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 TH-cam'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. TH-cam prioritizes removing political content, not the things you find appalling. What bothers me is the insane censorship on this platform.
I worked as an engineer designing infrastructure for storage and handling of hydrogen gas and liquid for 40 years. I agree with Sabine's assessment that hydrogen is a loser. You cannot imagine how expensive it is to build and maintain infrastructure that meets US NFPA requirements. Europe and the rest of the world have similar standards because they are necessary. If you could get a site permit, it is likely that just the insurance cost for a commercial installation would kill any project.
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.
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
I want to be German in this case.Wendsday said:I'm not a slaver of the technologies. I agree with her opinion. My grandson began to speak in no native language, he speaks in English. Doctors found he have intoxication of screens and prescribed no screens, no you tube,no TV,no computers in parents home.i think all mankind is intoxicated by technologies. It is wrong to our health.
Germany isn't Germany anymore. Europe isn't Europe anymore. Savvy?
Yeah go ahead and blame the immigrants for the decades of stagnation, not the decades of anti growth policies before they got there in the first place
Demographics is destiny
@@jeupater1429 Race is identity.
Europe is much better. judging Europe from German point of view is not ok
@@johnschmidt4292 Absolute nonsense, stop being silly.
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.
OMG - the more you rant, the move I love you! And I'm loving all the cute edits and effects.
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.
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?
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.
Thanks for this. This was a very funny and very serious video. I hope your republic takes you seriously, and your viewers appreciate your humour. You rock.
After i tried to pay with a card in Germany and heard “nur bares ist wahres”, I gave up
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! 🤣🤣🤣❤
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.
As a German, when you feel your trains are shit, just come to Romania. C’mon, be serious, if you complain, you really don’t know what shitty really means…
True.. as someone born and raised in brazil, seeing these complaints seems kinda dumb
But makes sense, like a rich kid who has to work to pay rent
Its more about perspective, "back in the good old days" kind of perspective.
I agree
We have that right to complain
I'm an American and so I'm immune to being embarrassed. But if I wasn't immune to it I would be very embarrassed right now about being an American.
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.
Sabine: I'm embarrassed to be German and it's my government's fault
Me, an American: "First time?"
Germans don't embarrass easily.
my faith in some Americans (i.e. you) is slightly restored :)
*Canada enters the chat but is then jumped, bound and gagged by the Government*
Try being British. I literally blush with embarrassment when I wake up every morning.
Ukrainian here. Unwillingly joining the club.
You know, in other countries the internet service is 100% private and there are several providers which compete with each other in order to get more customers, which results in higher speeds and lower prices. The railways, on the other hand, shouldn't be privatized, as most of the delays seem to be the result of necessary upgrades in the infrastructure being carried out.
But it seems that the old German virtues of efficiency, punctuality and discipline are a thing of the past, and some people even celebrate this because "it breaks the stereotypes". That's incomprehensible, given that those stereotypes and that mockery against the Germans were often the product of envy by other countries where nothing works as it is supposed to do.
Hey Sabine,
danke für den Hinweis auf das Planet Wild Projekt. Das finde ich mal eine ausgezeichnete Idee und sowohl Videodokumentation als auch Partizipationsmöglichkeit tragen zum Vertrauen bei, dass hier wirklich etwas nachhaltig bewirkt wird. Das ist ja heutzutage leider, ebenso wie die deutsche Pünktlichkeit und Technologiewettbewerbsfähigkeit, keine Selbstverständlichkeit mehr.
Bleib laut und anspruchsvoll.
Beste Grüße
Arndt
"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 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
What happened to Germany? The WEF happened.
Bingo. That’s what happened to Yugoslavia in the 80s and by the time 90s came around the whole country was economically ruined.
The J.e.w.s.
@@27calgary1 i miss Yugoslavia.... these new country-constructs they created just feel so illegal.
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.
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.
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 live in germany since 13 years. this is a great country, but in my opinion germans have a unique talent in NOT admitting having a problem. I have seen so many times in so many different situation people just ignoring "the elefant in the room" for not disappointing some superior, friend, neighbour, etc. having some german youtuber making some videos will not solve the problem. it is the "soldier" mindset that does not work anymore. i mean, what (not) happened after the nord stream "issue" is a clear example...
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.
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 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!!!!
As always, a wonderful video.
Sabine why the hell have you never been proud to be German?
They are an amazing people and a credit to Europe!
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.
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.
The reason is: Germany isn't German any more, because Germans are moving out from Germany.
I am an engineer working in the international automotive industry and have to travel all over the world.
Made in Germany is over, we are too arrogant, too old, too slow to accept reality, but we are good at building castel in the air.
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"
From the outsider perspective, I think Germany dropping their nuclear power capabilities was a major shitshow.
unless getting Krupp nuclear power might encourage a new Hitler to deal with Israel. EEC says NO. Likely best, from Israeli point of view. This defines the EEC. Nothing at all to do with economy, trains, or fibre optics. Everything to do with Middle East politics. Woke?
Very correct! And then not getting the gas from Russia. Green politics causing major economic upheaval. The Greens need a lot of unhappy voters to vote for them. Reminds me of the Nazis and Communists voting against the building of autobahns to get more unemployed voting for them, but then after the Nazis killed any opposition to claim credit for every major civil infrastructure works.
Merkel wanted to be green. She missed the boat completely.
It was based pure on ideology and Greens gaslighted in raports that life of nuclear powerplants cannot be extended 🙄
Environmentalist have no borders, they rather burn billion of tons of coal rather than have nuclear which of course they had. Now they have to burn coal and still get lots of their power needs via power lines from France which has over 50 nuclear plants & more coming. Save the planet by killing the planet it seems is the environmentalist mantra
A german: "The world just isn't appropriately afraid of us anymore"
Wait what.
I got some genuine laughs from the jokes! = Another German stereotype dropped.
Greetings from somewhere between Berlin and Brunswick. (New Hampshire and Maine, USA, respectively).
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 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
Hi, Sabine - thanks for this video. My mom, who was from Wiesbaden, emigrated to the US in 1959. She had a complicated relationship with her homeland, having grown-up during WW2. Nevertheless, she was quick to point out the ways in which Germany excelled over the US, and for a long time, one had to admit she was right! But, as you point out, the privatization of Lufthansa and DB, and the growing trend towards Anglo-American capitalism and cultural influences really bugged her. My last trip to Germany (after my mom's death) really shocked me. It's a sad decline, and the drift to the far right and Neo-nazism is really upsetting. Isn't this due, to some degree, to the failures of the West (Wessi's) to keep their promises to the East (Ossi's) after reunification? The West's capital grab of former East German companies and institutions seems to have, over time, done little to really integrate the East. So, all the West really had to offer the East were platitudes and empty promises, because the West German leaders of industry were ultimately just in it for a cash / asset grab (this is very much the same thing that happened in Russia post USSR collapse). A bit of a ramble... what's your thought on this?
As a german myself, i understand and feel with you. I'm currently 28 years old and I already have decided to not contribute to the workforce in Germany anymore by moving abroad. I just don't see the reason why i should pay so many taxes for a country that doesn't manage to provide necessities efficiently. I find it overbureaucratic, that's why every decision is too slow. We did away with everything prussian after the war except the bureaucracy and now it's biting us in the ass.
The country is too decentralised to react quickly. Best example for that was the pandemic. And with existing low social mobility, I'm currently spending as much as I'm earning. No way to earn enough for a house, hell, not even a flat. Not enough to have children. Not enough to actually live.
I live close to Luxemburg and the difference between the country is night and day. And everyone living at the border just knows. Sarcasm can only do as much as cope. Until the problems are too many to cope with. I don't know whether the state will be strong enough to hold on after that. As we say: "Der Letzte macht das Licht aus."
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.
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.
Canada here.
@@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.
I'm Canadian and have tried to work in the software industry in Germany. I've given up. Sabine is spot on. The internet and mobile phone connectivity feel crude compared to North America. The bureaucracy is mind-numbing. Pre WW II, I saw how innovative Germany was in electronics and other areas of engineering. I don't think it's ever fully recovered. Although Rhein Capitalism is great for much of their small business, they are not investing correctly in software or related technologies. In fact, I see no investment at all.
wow and we hear in Canada thought Germany was ahead in engineering and getting things done
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.
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.
I wish I knew you personally, your subtle sarcasm and obvious sarcasm is great, alas I will just have to keep watching your videos. You are smart and funny great combination.
if your internet is slow it's not 150mb/s which should be enough for everything. the following question remains - by which technology is the main internet grid covered? It cannot be only copper between buildings and stations. If it is the internet provider can't possibly promise 150mb/s even on paper.
😂😂😂😂😂"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.
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.
I live in a tiny German village, actually it's just five houses, 12 inhabitants, 30 cows, 4 pigs, 20 chickens, several cats and dogs, electrical cars and a 1961 fully functional PORSCHE tractor, solar power on the roofs, off grid water supply and biological sewage, PLUS superfast internet with fibre optic cable. You have to leave the big cities to gain power over your living environment. Btw, Sabine: For some reason the German economy has moved up to be the third biggest economy after the US and China. Why?
Because of japanese recession?
Congratulations 🎉 you're just a couple of slots ahead of India! Enjoy your spot while it lasts, don't get too comfortable! Printing money to subsidize Chinese turbines and EVs isn't the path to success!🤦
I live in HK-SB... maybe a bit bigger, but still with the cows, pigs, tractors etc. Trains that fail more than work, internet that is total crap, almost zero cell coverage in my apartment, paying my tax a week early to ensure I am not late, having all the money refunded, then being fined because I did not pay on the day, paying €800 a month on medical aid then being turned away because I am not Private, the stunningly selective, filtered news that is fed on TV as if I am an idiot.........I am only starting....., the nirvana you describe sure aint my town in Bavaria, nor my experience of 2024 DE. It was 10 years ago when I arrived though....
In the English language the expression is "Paralysis through Analysis"
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.
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"?
Same in Poland. Tons of papers even the computer are sitting on the desk.
You need to go to government office at least 3-4 times to get you problems resolved.
I lived for 35 yrs in USA and I can tell it was the best efficiency and most customer friendly country. I could have done my problems resolved in 25 min.
In Poland I sold my car recently and my car insurance can’t be cancelled because is for one year so the guy who bought my car can use my insurance until expiration date. Crazy so I paid for his insurance for 6 months,
Insurance company just changed names of ins holders. Where is my money?
After car was sold I had to write note and have my bill of sale registered only in the same town it was registered first time. Everything in USA was a piece of cake.
I'm so embarassed about the Failing of TH-cam'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'
you probably haven't been to Asia. Nowadays even China or Southeast Asian countries are way way more efficient and people are still very friendly.
belief me, stuff in poland is 10 times better than in germany. at least they are stuck in around 2000. here in germany is more like 1980.
i am quite often in poland and have quite a lot of business to do there and belief me, burcracy in the usa is a lot worth. ithe main difference is, that no once seams to care about it, until they do. i germany or poland it would be impossible to live there and work there for about 20years without anybody noticing anything. in the usa that is quite common and how a lot of the wealth is generated ....
HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT THE GERMAN MEN LOOK LIKE TODAY? THEY COULD NOT INVADE A 'DUNKIN DONUTS'.
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.
Hi Sabine, I'm a new born German.
I am Italian, I have been living in Germany since...ever. I asked for the German citizenship a year ago and I have just obtained it. Pretty slow, right?
But having been here for a long time and knowing what you're talking about, I can't help but disagree: the problem isn't slowness, it's denial. A problem that has been known for some time ;)
What you described in your video, the backwardness of the infrastructure, has been clear to me since I moved here three decades ago: at that time no one accepted credit cards as payment in shops, only cash; the results of medical tests were given to me on sheets of paper (in Italy they gave me a CD); the ATMs had outdated and buggy software (I worked in that field, yes)...just to mention some issues.
Can you imagine what happened when I pointed out all this backwardness? I was scolded by friends and colleagues.
So I learned that the Germans, the most anxious people in the world, deny the existence of problems as long as they can, but when they are forced to admit them then they react very quickly.
I am thinking of Germany's reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, but I can give other examples.
Basically the problems you described have always been there. What is new is that the profound (identity) crisis that Germany is experiencing now has made all these problems evident.
I am confident that as soon as the direction to solve these problems is established, the reaction will be very fast, but here my personal fear begins: the Germans are amplifiers and implementers of ideas, whether good or bad. My personal embarrassment is that one of the worst ideas was taken from Italy and then amplified and implemented.
The real challenge now is to come up with good ideas.
That's why I have decided to ask for the German citizenship, even though as a European citizen I don't need it. Precisely because the times require it: I want to vote, I want to decide which are good ideas and which are bad, and I want to participate in the building of the future of the country.
As you can see, I'm not at all embarrassed about being German, perhaps because I'm a very young German. ;)
"Deny the existence of problems for as long as they can"
Yes. YES. 100% this ☝ This fellow Italian living in Germany fully agrees with you, sir.
You overall message and your conclusions are spot on!
@fabiosogni3420 "My personal embarrassment is that one of the worst ideas was taken from Italy and then amplified and implemented." could you specify / explain that , please ?
@@tk80mufa5 Really????
@@kevinfalls662 what's your one word comment going to achieve ?
Either explain it or stop spamming.
It's late here , and I couldn't make out from his text , what he might be talking about.
Simple as that.
@@tk80mufa5
I assume you are honest and actually dont know.
They are talking about Fascism. Benito Mussolini, the dictator of italy came up with it.
When you asked "Could you speficy/explain that, please?" it sounds like a Fascist who tries to play dumb, as if Facism isnt one of the worst ideas.
Hope this helps.
Japan is like that too. They have lost their technological advantage. They never took the internet turn. Many of their websites still look like pre CSS. They never took the turn of electric vehicles either. Their banking industry is still stuck with paper for most things
“I’ve never been proud to be German”
Well maybe that’s where these problems begin lol