Honestly, it depends a lot on where you’re coming from and what you look like

Look European. Don’t be Asian and especially don’t be African. Got it.

How annoying

You don’t need to mention people when replying to them.

You can also use your camera to scan the qr when seeing the person in person.

Military training maybe

Either

Where are the green things?

Anti-freedom

Profit-maximising

Literally killed the 3.5mm to increase profits

Acts holier than thou

Nobody calls them French fries but one underdeveloped country at the brink of fascism. Frittes or chips.

To France? Who have invented them?

There are three tunnels into Switzerland, two into France and one into Austria. I think that’s quite good no?

For example, Rome to Bern is less than 7 hours. It would take ~12 hours by car.

Oh man, 30 km/h in Albania. Could probably bicycle and be just as fast.

Is it privatised?

You can get to Constantinople from Vienna, but I think it’s more than 24 hours because the tracks in the Balkans aren’t very good. There’s even a portion that runs on diesel. Hopefully when they join the EU it will improve

Finland? Portugal?

Also, in Iberia it’s just the slow trains on their gauge, the fast ones are on standard gauge.

Also who goes to the former Soviet Union anyways - the only country worth visiting is being invaded.

So yeah not a problem in practice

happy Swiss noises

A flying horn that’s never flown?

So you’re saying the train company needs to be nationalised and the capitalist pigs running it into the ground while extracting profits for themselves tried & jailed?

Because that’s what I am saying.

Pretty much all train companies are vast old overcomolicated state-run monoliths that are very used to everyone working around them in their own country. Such organisations suddenly having to work together with others as equals requires a culture shift. Not to mention the technical challenges, the IT systems - if they even have any, or any from this century - are typically vastly different. They’d have to invest massively in modernisation and standardisation before they can even think of integration. This requires a multi-year effort and a lot of investment, which many states are not ready to make.

Sauce: the Swiss state-run train company SBB/CFF/FFS is and has been working hard to integrate the systems of just our neighbours, and it has been … interesting.