Post #1271560
2026-04-04 09:06 UTC
@jonmsterling @albertcardona @elduvelle I kind of enjoy the vibe of public transit where it's like these are migrating beasts and by careful divination and ritual offering you can harness their primal energy to speed you in a particular direction, like a raptor riding thermals. Of course there isn't going to be a migration going precisely from A to B, but with a bit of cleverness you can stitch together something.
It's pretty magical and unprecedented in human history that I can cross so many different countries by land safely and relatively quickly. Sure, OK, it could be faster. But like, thank you migrating beasts you are wonderful creatures.
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@jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-04 09:56
@olynch @albertcardona @elduvelle I think my problem is that 60 years ago, it was 10X better.
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@NatureMC@mastodon.online 2026-04-04 10:07
@olynch Well, every migration bird is better and arrives more in time than e.g. the #DeutscheBahn. We don't need magic: in my youth you had these good connections and trains arriving too late were the exception, not the norm. Now we have even better technics but not the politics ... (BTW, people who have to be mobile professionally, don't have the time for enjoying the chaos.) @jonmsterling @albertcardona @elduvelle