@GeofCox @davidaugust

It's important to know that it's not even state-funded in most of Europe. There are tax-finaced single payer systems like in Britain or Denmark, and there are fully private systems like in Switzerland or the Netherlands. And there are mixed-systems like in Germany, where there is private insurance and public (NOT tax-financed) insurance. All of them have in common that health insurance is mandatory and that the health sector is heavily regulated. Patients are patients, not customers to be ripped off like in the states.

@davidaugust

From Germany, I absolutely agree. And it's interesting to note that healthcare is not tax financed here.

There are so many different implementations of this all over the industrialized world, and all of them work. Single payer tax-financed, multipayer tax-financed or completely private, or a mix like here in Germany.

But hey, dumb maga-american geniuses hear "50% taxes" on Faux Knews and fall for out-of-context misinformation or even outright lies, because they have no idea how a progressive tax system in an advanced country works. An average earner here pays probably lower taxes than in the US, but we have mandatory dues for social security including healthcare. They conflate this with taxes because that's what their tax-evading oligarchs tell them. What they don't tell them is that we don't have to pay for everything out of pocket. No extra premiums, and above all, no absurd copays, no surprise bills, no need to walk to the ER because you can't afford the ambulance. And most definitely no out-of-network nonsense.

Also, no PTO but real sick leave and real vacation days. Fresh mothers who don't have to return to their slave jobs the other day. No people dying because they can't pay for insuline. And we don't have one-person death panels in insurance offices who decide whether you get therapy.

@davidaugust @nazokiyoubinbou

Don't use that term for the RIGHTS Europeans have fought for, and which are only possible because we have democracies where the common good is not an empty phrase. That's the difference between having parliamentary representation of citizens and an oligarchy where people are hoping for "benefits" from their master, err..., employer.

@beatricejess @hanghuhn @cmconseils

Oups, somebody who thinks she's in possession of absolute truth and the right to lecture others can't accept opinions differing from hers. How very surprising. Oh my, indeed.

Maybe, just maybe, after leaving the room, reflect on the possibility that CONTEXT is important and that context is never absolute.

@hanghuhn @beatricejess @cmconseils

Hmm, while they are two very different things, just think about the term itself. It says potato. Not "french fry" (my apologies to all Belgians for using this insensitive term of cultural misappropriation).

The point clearly is that that person has the shape of a potato. Lazy and the opposite of slim. And a Sesselfurzer is similar, but in a (usually) public office, doing business without lifting his (male indeed) large backside from his chair. But I don't want to hurt the feelings of public servants, so I will better use the term "public office worker with limited motivation, blocking the conversion to sustainable energy, traffic, and transport"...

@beatricejess @silvermoon82 @cmconseils

I don't think the one I mentioned was for tourism. It was used by normal people and led along small villages and hamlets. It just connected these small places to the next city which was Lourdes. Also, I only found it by accident because it was not marked very clearly which was the only thing I would criticize. It was not officially part of a network for tourism.

But I will certainly try Grenoble's bike infrastructure next time I'm in the Alps as my favorite spot in the Alps is the Col du Galibier and the area around it, and Grenoble is usually on my way there. Always wanted to see more of it, and that's as good a reason as any other.

@beatricejess @hanghuhn @cmconseils

Oh, the language police has arrived. That wasn't necessary I think.

No, it's not fatshaming. It's the ESSENCE of the term Sesselfurzer (which I used in relation to the comment about German bike lanes). And no, calling them anything other won't change that essence. If people cared more for content than form, and I mean BOTH sides, the culture wars wouldn't escalate as they do. In the end, there seem only snowflakes left who feel insulted by EVERYTHING and who make a big deal out of any miniscule thing that rubs them the wrong way. There are real issues that need to be addressed. This, here, is not one of them.

@beatricejess @silvermoon82 @cmconseils

The best (French) bike path I have encountered was in Lourdes, though. When you come down from the western side of the Col du Tourmalet, the last 10 or 15 km , the bike path runs along a railway, I think, and it leads right into the town center through and along some medieval walls and through a sort of park. Only at the end, you have to cross some streets with cars. Lourdes is miraculous in its ways!

Another Lourdes miracle: You can start in Lourdes to mount the Tourmalet with your bike, and despite crossing a 2000 m mountain pass, you arrive back in the same city. I don't know any other city where you can do that.

@beatricejess @hanghuhn @cmconseils

Yes, the fat Sesselfurzers who think it's acceptable to have a rural bikepath change the side of the road every few hundred meters because they have never in their adult life sat on a bike trying to keep up a good pace.

@cmconseils

Almost like my daily commute.

@vampirdaddy @jensclasen

Bitte ja! Ausserdem ist sie in den meisten Ländern ja wohl mittlerweile als verfassungsfeindliches Symbol einzuordnen. Weg damit!

@jensclasen

Unfassbar. Als dürfte man als Deutscher die Landesflagge von Schleswig-Holstein nicht zeigen, oder meinetwegen die bayerische. Das sind REGULÄRE Flaggen und kein politisches Statement.

Dann erwarte ich verdammt noch mal auch, dass die Amis ihren elenden Scheiẞlappen auch nicht jedem ständig ins Gesicht hauen dürfen. NIEMAND ist so nervig damit wie die Amis, die sonst nicht zu wissen scheinen, was und wer sie sind...

@DieFurie

Die fremdgesteuerten Volksverräter mit ihren Kontakten und Geldströmen in die beiden schlimmsten Oligarchien des Planeten. Marionetten der Milliardäre und KGB-Mafia. Billige und willige Werkzeuge für den gelenkten Angriff auf Demokratie und Rechtstaat. Was müssen die stolz sein in Ihrer völkischen Dummheit...

@jens @DieFurie

Wow, "herrschende Despoten"...

Wenn ich so einen Haufen gequirlter Schlagwortscheiße und dann noch einen unvollständig übersetzen, scheinbar englischen Originaltext vermuten muss, dann stinkt der Bot doch schon zehn Meilen gegen den Wind. Und man weiß nicht mal, ob es ein weit-rechter oder weit-linker Bot ist. Bis auf das mit dem weißen Mann unterscheiden sich deren Schlagworte ja nur wenig, es geht ja nur um Kulturkampf.

Fest steht, Tilly steht in der Öffentlichkeit, und er vertritt Werte, auch gegen Massenmörder à la Putin. Werte, die weder die einen noch die anderen Extremen haben oder gar vertreten.

Die ergehen sich gerne in "Systemkritik", meist nur hohle Phrasen der Unzufriedenheit und Verdrehungen der Realität, so wie der Schwachsinn mit den herrschenden Despoten. Wenn dir die Demokratie nicht gefällt, dann sei doch so ehrlich es zuzugeben und ergeh dich nicht in der gleichen Phraseologie derer, die du angeblich bekämpfst.

Wir leben in einer der wenigen demokratischen Gesellschaften auf diesem Planeten. Sie als Despotie zu verunglimpfen ist moralisch verwerflich und schlicht armselig.

Demokratie ist ein wertvolles Gut. Sie zu verteidigen, anstatt sie durch Beschimpfungen zu beschädigen sollte das Ziel jedes vernünftigen Menschen sein. Aber die Wortwahl entlarvt Euch immer wieder...

@heiseonline

Ich frage mich, wieso es nicht längst eine Standardisierung solcher Apps gibt. Man kann sogar Apple dazu zwingen, einen einheitlichen Ladestecker zu verwenden, aber Handel und Banken kann man nicht dazu bringen einheitliche Schnittstellen zu definieren, die es ermöglichen ohne die Faschistenapp aus den USA online zu zahlen? Wero ist ja auch nur eine weitere proprietäre Lösung, und bisher eigentlich nur eine unbrauchbare Testapp. Man könnte auch fragen, wer sabotiert das eigentlichj?

Und warum gibt es keine rein europäischen Kreditkarten? Das sind alles Bereiche, wo man jahrzehntelang geschlafen hat und den US Oligarchen und ihrem Dollarimperialismus gestattet hat einen großen Teil unserer Souveränitat zu beseitigen.