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Es war für mich eine traurige Überraschung, als die BVG heute 5 Euro mehr einnahm und ich in den Nachrichten nachsehen musste warum.

Beim größten Sharing-Anbieter der Hauptstadt gab es am Mittwoch Durchsuchungen. Wurden Daten parkender Fahrzeuge manipuliert, um Gebühren zu umgehen?

Erratic Deutsche Bahn services make our commutes a misery. Luckily, their meaningless announcements are an art form

My favourite excuse is an expression that might one day be emblematic of contemporary Germany. I hear Deutsche Bahn wants staff to stop using it, but it can’t banish it from our minds. Verzögerungen im Betriebsablauf – “operational delays” – is meaningful and meaningless in a way that only the German language allows. One day it might even become one of those golden words co-opted into the English language – like zeitgeist or schadenfreude. (Let’s retire Blitz, a word that is jaded and overused in sport, politics and beyond.)

Verzögerungen im Betriebsablauf is the magic phrase for not getting anywhere fast while also suggesting everything is full steam ahead. It is sinister in a beautiful way. It is a phrase Kafka might use if he were writing today, a perfect description of a situation where no one can do anything but everyone is busy.

3,5 % Zinsen p. a. variabel im Zeitraum 01.08.23 bis 31.01.24 (außer DKB-VISA-Tagesgeld)