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[maireweber]

They speak in such a thick saxon dialect that google translate just gives up LOL

[belldragneel]

The most German part about this is that they don't dare to just walk over the crossing. And I love it.

[myeramimclerie]

Congratulations, you've discovered our progressive and highly modern German digitalization 😃

[Pazie]

Imagine you have an emergency call over there, and they have to wait 20 minutes...

[JHenry-wvxv]

Hey, I live near this rail line!
Known among railroad enthusiasts as one of the most beautiful, the "reale Irrsinn" is actually that the line after the reunification was first for tens of millions renewed, then largely shut down, then after the century flood again repaired for vast sums, to finally be available exclusively for a privat tank farm.

[nonsensicalnonsense]

I love how with all of the extra3 reactions, after the first 10s I already know what the episode is about. I've spent so much time of my life watching every single one of these and every second was worth it.
Thx Germany, great content

[gavinderulo]

All of the people in this episode except for the narrator had a really thick saxon accent/dialect which is why the automatic translation had such a difficult time.

[jensschroder]

This is probably an old barrier system, without a computer.
But that a railway worker has to drive a car behind the train to close and open the barriers is a very laborious system.
There are systems that recognize whether a train is in a section, then the barriers can be closed automatically.

[simi]

it feels like they've got that one employee who they can't really fire due to seniority, but they also don't have a proper position for him anymore, so they just created this nonsense job that could (and should) easily be automatized for him

[Raffael-Tausend]

I think also a nice show in Germany is called "Verstehen Sie Spaß?" Which translates roughly to "Do you understand jokes/ fun?" In this show there are actors fooling people on the street or in specific situations. I think you might find it amusing.

[SilverScroll]

Yeah, we have counties. The German administrative structure is roughly
states -> administrative regions -> counties -> cities and municipalities

though obviously there are exceptions (some states don't have regions, and some cities slot in at the county or even the state level)

[ember]

Das Sächseln 😊😄❤❤❤!! It always sounds so cute

[dfguko]

Just put a wire across the railway tracks and then they can wait until the end of the day's for the green lights 😂😂😂

[MichaEl-rhkv]

The party to sue would be a private railway company which does not want to invest money into modernizing the system but rather pays a guy to drive multiple times a day along the track.

[Tofufiche]

The guy with the brushcutter is basically carving out the "alternative road"

[simsch]

Damn. On that route there sometimes are historical steam trains. Just imagine you are that guy who is closing the crossings and the train has a breakdown. Either you keep them closed until the train is able to move again, which could take hours, or you need to go to that station, open all the crossings drive back to the train and as soon as it is able to continue do it all again.

[rhysodunloe]

I know how much that sucks. A few years ago I lived next to a train track in Hamburg. There were two regional trains and one regional express train going in each direction, every hour. That makes six regular trains per hour. But then there's also irregular cargo trains and sometimes an InterCity train that has to take a detour.
The nearest supermarket was just a few hundred meters around the corner - but behind a railway barrier.
So often I left the supermarket with two heavy shopping bags and heard a most terrifying sound *ding ding ding* and I knew I wouldn't make it across this time. Again... So I would stand there for around 15 to 20 minutes, watching two or three trains go through. Less than ideal with bags full of frozen stuff on a summer day. Even insulated bags only keep your stuff cool for so long.
And after the barrier opened it often closed just a few minutes later. Just enough time for the cars and pedestrians to get across.

But THIS! This is so much worse. At least I had two ways around it. One underpass for bikes with a short 1.2 km (0.75 mi) detour and one road underpass with a 2.5 km (1.5 mi) detour. 😅

[GilbMLRS]

German administrative entities are from bottom to top:
town in a broader sense (Gemeinde), these can form up into joint agglomerations of several towns that form a compound (Gemeindeverband), towns can also be made up of smaller parts that can have an own administration (Ortschaft), mostly former villages or former independent towns that because of their former status have a certain historical local significance but are still incorporated into that town. "Core" city districts inside a town that is not a state and other villages that developed into parts of the city over time might not have such "privilege".

The towns themselves can either only consist of the town itself and some incorporated surrounding smaller entities that are nonetheless part of the town despite having an administrative body (kreisfreie Städte - county-less towns roughly translated) or be themselves head of a county (Landkreis) or part of a county that incorporates larger areas of many smaller towns and villages and make up much of the country. The city of Erfurt for example is such a town without a county attached and is surrounded by other counties, these "free" cities are "dotting" the country if you will like pimples on a smooth skin.

Above that comes the state (Bundesland) that houses all the counties and towns. Certain entities like Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen are both cities and states at the same time. Of course their administrative structure is called differently but for the semantics it mirrors the structures on the "open land" although you won't find many villages inside a city-state but rather districts that have their administrative bodies and are to the city-state what the counties are to the area-states.

Above all is the federal republic which is made of the states which includes both area-states (comprised of towns and counties as administrative entities) and city-states (comprised of districts as administrative entities). City-states can be surrounded by a single area-state like Berlin is fully surrounded by the state of Brandenburg.

The federal republic itself has no "real estate" in that sense but is only represented by its institutions, which are distributed over the entire country with all its bureaus, courts and smaller offices. In Berlin the political leaders (members of banks an the military industrial complex, in the rural areas mainly elected by the functionaries and families of the farmer's association) gather to hear themselves talk a lot and contemplate on how to increase inflation, discontent and deport skilled people to Iran or Afghanistan that have lived here their entire lives and don't even know another language than German and English.

[harryamus]

The german Worth for County is " Landkreis"

[Stufe]

Du machst das großartig! Ich schaue gerne deine Show.