PDFs in question by the way.
(The last one is for another region, and it actually did make a lot more sense!)
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Moovit: we didn't know that there are buses in this region!
Here Maps: we didn't know that there are buses in this region!
Google Maps: there are no bus stops in this region even!
Rome2Rio: sure, here is the plan that doesn't match neither the schedule on the bus company website nor the buses we can actually see from our window, with stops that don't make any sense and are not where bus stop sheds actually are.
Bus stop sheds: just sheds, with no schedules posted.
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Interurban bus company: here, have some very poor PDFs, outdated by years, listing all three buses that go through that region during a day. They take different routes, and our PDF won't tell you which, won't even tell you where the main stops are. No, we don't have a network map. But we do have a journey planner! Enter your origin and your destination and get a message saying that it doesn't actually work and you should plan your journey with moovit, google maps, here maps or rome2rio instead.
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On the only line connecting France to Spain and used by long distance trains, there are currently four trains a day.
Two are French, from Paris, only stopping at Valence, Nimes, Montpellier and a bunch of small stations to the west of Montpellier. It doesn't stop at Lyon swallow passing through it.
Two are Spanish, from Lyon and from Marseille.
Further south, e.g. Barcelona to Valencia, there's are hourly departures, except for six-hour gap during the day, and of course the train from Marseille arrives right during this gap, so in order to get to Valencia you either have to make a 3:30 long stop in Barcelona, or travel via Madrid to get to Valencia earlier.
At least the last train from Valencia departs 40 minutes after than the train from Lyon arrives... according to the schedule. Even though both are operated but Renfe, it won't sell you a through ticket. Are you really willing to risk your connection?
And there is a single long-distance train from Germany that doesn't go to Paris, it stops at both Lyon and Marseille. It also stops at Avignon but not at Valence, despite passing through it. The train from Germany to Marseille travels alongside trains from Paris to Barcelona for almost 300km, and they don't share a single stop there, because France.
Of course, it arrives to both Lyon and Marseille after the Spanish trains to Barcelona departed. So you'll have to spend either 18 hours in Lyon (just to then potentially also spend a night in Barcelona), or 11 hours in Marseille (and then 3.5 hours in Barcelona), in both cases at night.
That's if you want to avoid having an interchange in Paris (and in Madrid) while keeping the number of interchanges and separate tickets to a minimum. You can do this with two interchanges, but you'll have to sirens 11 how's at night in Marseille and 3.5 hours at Barcelona sants, departing Frankfurt at 13:56 (or Berlin at 9:00) and arriving to Valencia at 19:00 the next day, 34 hours later (for just two thousand kilometers on high speed trains).
There is another alternative bypassing Paris: somehow get to Strasbourg or to Mulhouse (with a bunch of interchanges), from there to Lyon, from Lyon to Montpellier (or even Narbonne), from there to Barcelona at a more appropriate time.
There is only one option that takes noticeably less time, 6:56 (Frankfurt) to 23:34 the same day, involving very tight transfers in Strasbourg, Valence and Barcelona, and four separate tickets.
Even with interchanges in Paris, all the other options are similarly long as the one with two interchanges (because the last train from Paris arrives to Barcelona an hour after the last train to Valencia departed, forcing you to spend a night in Barcelona; and the first train from Paris departs Paris and Valence so early in the morning that there is no way to get there in time without spending a night somewhere else, either on a night layover, or on swiss trains, taking 14 hours to get from Frankfurt to Valence, which already implies at least 20 hours from Frankfurt just to Barcelona).
But this fast option from Frankfurt to Valencia sounds intriguing, if you can get to Frankfurt by 6:56 without spending a night in Frankfurt. Not something I'd buy tickets for, but doable on just a single interrail day, with reasonable reservation fees (17โฌ for TGV from Germany to Strasbourg, 10โฌ for TGV in France, 10โฌ for AVE from Valence to Barcelona, 6.50โฌ for euromed/intercity in Spain, just 43.50โฌ total).
Another potentially neat option when going from some parts of Germany is Brussels, which has direct TGVs to Lyon, with either 34 minutes (departing 10:17) or 2.5 hours (departing 8:17) interchange to Spanish train. But getting to Brussels from Germany so early is a separate challenge.
Still, there is technically a route with four very tight interchanges from Berlin to Valencia in just 23 hours, avoiding changing trains in Paris and avoiding Madrid entirely, departing 0:22 from Berlin and arriving 23:34, with changes in Cologne, Brussels, Valence, and Barcelona. Total interrail reservation price: 20โฌ + 10โฌ + 6.50โฌ = 36.50โฌ, and it's not even that expensive when buying tickets (this is going to take four separate tickets though, one from DB, one from SNCF and two from Renfe)
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The view basically from our porch surely is nice
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POV: you're hired by a company that already has someone with your first name.
Normal people: let's start using last names to disambiguate!
Me: what if I would pick up some other first name to be used in work contexts... :blobcatthinking:
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By the way, ended up replacing the plug (forgot that plugs are replaceable when I was making the first posts ๐), total cost: 2โฌ at OBI.
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16 minutes until takeoff, boarding is already closed, and the airline is still selling tickets on this flight on its website.
But hey, they're (relatively) cheap!
Allegedly there are still 9 seats left at this cheap gate. I don't see any actually free seats.
Another weird thing is that in all this time, nobody asked for our IDs, not even for identity check. Could just as easy have bought them in a fake name.
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Ich bin gerade in ICE 571 nach Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf! #NowTrรคwelling https://traewelling.de/status/4284185
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this should better fix me... (@ ICE 275 โ Kassel-Wilhelmshรถhe) #NowTrรคwelling https://traewelling.de/status/4283325
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Linux woes:
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๐โ union busting
๐๐ Christian democratic / social union busting
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"Because of warming temperatures, an estimated 11,000 square miles of Greenlandโs ice sheets and glaciers have melted over the past three decades [...] Greenlandโs retreating ice could open up areas to drill for oil and gas."
Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
How can one even put these two sentences next to each other?
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Five years ago I bought these lightly used shoes at Red Cross thrift store for 5โฌ, they were almost new very brightly pink back then, and in my size.
They became my daily driver for the winter and/or wilderness, basically whenever sandals are not a good idea.
Five years forward, I no longer use them in the city (because of the hole on the toe, should patch it with some jeans fabric probably), but still actively use them for hiking, even used them in mountains multiple times (even though, according to what I found in Google on this model, they are supposed to be gym shoes).
They're very no-frills, with somewhat thin fabric and breathable (because of thinness) yet quite durable, probably because they're soft and don't use any plastic inserts for rigidity.
The cheapest 25โฌ sneakers from Deichmann ( https://www.deichmann.com/de-de/p-m01380574/01850090 ) only last me a year before becoming uncomfortable or faulty. These served me way more.
The cheapest 25โฌ sneakers from Deichmann also weigh 460 gram per shoe; these Puma ones, 180 gram.
The problem is, they're clearly near the end of their life, and Puma doesn't seem to make anything like that anymore. Even their gym shoes all resemble the deichmann sneakers at best, being as thick and as heavy.
I wonder where does one get simple and light universal shoes these days? Because in the last five years I haven't seen any, anywhere.
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They banned Yuri Lesbianism from LinkedIn??? :ohno: it was my favorite mutual there...
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GitLab requires all accounts to have "First Name" and "Last Name"? ( https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/13820 )
Ewww. What the fuck.
(There is also "Reasonings why we started with first_name and last_name", and it links to a 404 page.)
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