Neon

terrible, but how is that news-worthy?

A chain , cable, or wire comes loose on a car and goodbye panels and like all of them …

where are you from and when have you last seen a train?

If the tracks are used as the wires

They're not. Swiss rails are extra made so that you can walk over them. All electricity goes overhead for security reasons. If anything, they would probably tap into this overhead-grid.

cleaning & maintenance

possibly. But I can very easily imagine specialized trains cleaning them once every day

vandalism

not really a problem here in switzerland

modifying the track to limit the conductive paths (assuming they’re used for this).

They're most likely not used for this. All electricity is overhead for security reasons, routing solar energy through the rails would destroy that. Doing that (beyond the 100m test-track) would mean a prolongued political discussion.

their governments suck.

I know a lot of Iranians that strongly disagree with what their government does. Same with Israel, where there are open protests. (just because Iran doesn't have protests doesn't mean they agree with it, they just live in a dictatorship and don't want to go to prison).

but yeah, I 100% agree with you

And I am confused who would disagree with you (seeing that one downvote lol)

P.S:

The hurricane?

I hope you and your surroundings are safe. I wish you the best, from Switzerland.

very interesting, thank you.

huh, that's really interesting. It seems to be a too large increase to just be statistical error, but I'm not a statistician.

The difference between 11% nationwide and 50% in the state really implies it is related to something texas-specific with abortion-bans coming to mind first.

It would be interesting to see a spreadsheet between banned and allowed states with their corresponding mortality rates. But that seems a tad bit too much effort, given that I'm not even from the US lol

Also, it’s not a productive comment

Yes it is. I saw people confused, thinking that all suicide was illegal. My comment created context explaining that suicide is allowed in certain ways.

I didn’t downvote you

I meant that more in general, not to you specifically. If you felt like I was attacking you specifically, I am sorry.

The flag of Israel probably isn’t helping in that regard on Lemmy

possible. But imo that makes it even worse. Comments with information and context being screamed out of the discourse because of a unrelated matter, that's really pathetic.

I’m not concerned with what the fascist want.

As someone from Switzerland, whose continent has suffered under fascism:

I will pray for you and your country. I will pray that fascism may not ravage and rape your country and society like it did with ours

why so serious?

This is absolutely hilarious, given that my Comment was a joke lol

you made me smirk, thank you sir. have a nice day lol.

1. you're getting your political information/opinion from a social media thread??

2. no, they're really that bad. They wanted to sink ships with immigrants, they demanded a "180° turn in our rememberance-culture about the third Reich"

so...

you believe a random internet comment more than your "friend"?

you're ridiculing him for not being able to explain his position in his non-native language and you're accusing him of "just wants to be right"

I honestly think it's better if you don't talk to him again.

Anyways, there's a rise in antisemitic crimes, there's a lot of antisemitic rethoric during these protests and they're covertly used to spread anti-semitic, pro-iranian talking-points. Your friend is right.

I recommend these two: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/117974-000-A/das-system-hamas/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84gsvAKzxbg&pp=ygULc3RyZyBmIGlyYW4%3D

provided you're actually interested in the topic and dont "just wants to be right"