As I understood all the land borders of Azerbaijan are still closed, since covid, at least until october - so is there still any train running ? Maybe a deliberate policy to keep out enviro-ngos and ‘hippy traveler’ types who might carry infectious democratic ideas (including to the COP)?
Vue du décollage parapente…
Mais quelle concurrence va venir au plupart des lignes belges, et pourquoi est-ce que cela ferait mal ?
J’ai plutôt peur de l’effet de changement du gouvernement en wallonie.
I’ve long dreamed of going from Europe to New Zealand by train and boat, but that route is not currently practical / ethical. ( fwiw, I used to know it well, in more friendly days I organised the ‘climate train to Kyoto’ )
Further south people used the ‘silk road’ route across the Caspian sea - until Azerbaijan closed land borders.
(note: for info about crossing borders in central asia the forum on caravanistan can help).
That leaves only the route via Turkey - Iran - Pakistan - India, which is possible (depending your passport and visas) although it’s dodgy across Balochistan. And then, after India, there is also a war in Myanmar. So, can only hope for better times.
Maybe it’s the expression on the face of the russian provodnitsa ?
Ce serait dommage perdre les pass à dix trajets, qui sont pratiques surtout pour partager entre famille ou groupe, de façon simple et spontané. Ils sont aussi utiles pour traverser le pays entre coins opposés de wallonie et flandre, que les gens font rarement, mais importe pour la cohesion du pays. Mais peut être le sncb manque de l’information, comment ces pass sont utilisés (qui pourrait possiblement dévaloriser certains lignes de long-distance en ardennes).
Modifiant le tarif selon heures de pointe ou creuses, me semblent un pas vers la système britannique.
Si on veux ‘simplifier’ la gamme des reductions, la système suisse Halbtax fonctionne bien (je doute qu’aucune suisse paie le plein tarif, cela c’est pour attraper des touristes de courte-visite - mais la suisse a bcp plus de touristes que la belgique).
I see that says ‘has to be local only, not federated’ (same issue also discussed on github).
‘Local only’ suggests to me front-end, i.e. info stored by browser. In that case people who are often switching devices would have to re-organise on each one, which could be tedious.
So isn’t there something in between local and federated - i.e. saved by the instance as user-settings, but not pushed to other instances?
Maybe there could be some manual copying mechanism, so a user who organises a big set of communities could share with others.
(This reminds me of mastodon ‘lists’ and various ways of organising and transferring them).
Well, I’m developing this interactive model. But only the history is data - which implies past, fixed - it’s a model which calculates the future, in your browser, according to options you choose - the mechanistic dynamic is important for understanding.
As a small kid I learned i = i +1, before any maths teacher told me it couldn’t.
Nearly 200 upthumbs, more ?!
But the discussion explores broader and narrow variants, need to coalesce.
This makes sense for mid-latitudes, but the timing of peak power will depend on how much energy the current youth in India and children in central Africa will aspire to use as they get older. That’s hard to ‘predict’ - it’s their choice of development pathway, but hope they don’t follow China’s route with so much cement, steel, roads, there are other options.
Ukraine is huge and has loads of track and trains that gauge, so do Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova. There’s even a ukrainian-gauge line running west to Katowice, could make sense to extend it, and make another to Gdansk. Otoh a transversal standard-gauge line connecting Romania to Poland via Chernivtsi and Lviv could also make sense.
Western europe should welcome the technical expertise of Ukraine and Belarus railways, they move a lot, efficiently.
Hey, not so long ago, there was even talk of a canal linking the Dnipro to the Wisla, recreating the old ‘viking rus’ trade-route (although have to consider also impact on wetlands… I recall used to sit next to the IPCC rep from Belarus - he was passionate about methane emissions from wetlands - but suffered from politics …)
Hmm, did you consult the next french president about that ?
Sure, she’s right, more people in Belarus voted for her than Lukas* and his pals, they shouldn’t suffer for p’s tricks, although it seems to me the majority are rather too passive (with some great exceptions, of course).
Anyway isn’t there another factor here - are there still long freight trains with chinese containers frequently arriving in Brest? If not, how else are they getting to europe? If so, I’d guess both belarus railways and polish lorry drivers get a lot of money out of that trade, isn’t that a factor of leverage ?
Belarus is good at trains, I hope not so far in the future we’ll see them run again from Odesa to Riga via Minsk, and with people free to move.
Sure, but diplomacy is not logical, and EU has a habit (mistake?) to do things in mega packages (look at 2004). Last I heard, the gossip was ‘by 2030’.
Are you trying to tell us Scots and Irish don’t eat on wednesdays - they just survive on irn-bru and guinness ??
Is this intentionally english speaking, or does this just reflect the population of lemmy ?
I’d prefer a multilingual europe instance, ou chacun parle sa langue, para aumentar la diversidad.
Well such timescale would in any case depend on EU, not on convenience for any british parliament. There are now N. Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, [ Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo ?], Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, [Turkey ?] all in the queue to join EU. On the other hand, it might help from point of view of geographic and economic balance, otherwise the centre of ‘gravity’ will shift even further SE away from Brussels. I think to expand EU has to reform processes, to end all vetos and generalise multi-speed / opt-outs.
Meanwhile a new british government could implement obviously convenient win-win cooperation step by step, until there isn’t so much left to change. And I’d be happy to see Scotland and Northern Ireland take a lead.
But how, practically, do you choose any sample “at random” nowadays ?
Especially if trying to avoid a bias towards (or away from) online people ?
En montagne oui, j’ai appris en Ecosse, et puis en Suisse. En Belgique les collines ont trop des arbres, pas assez d’espace, ça le rend moins paisible… Mais oui je me souviens d’avoir décollé de cet endroit là.