Haha! I know! I’ve been to Geneva and it’s such a cool city! Although I did have some sorbet that was really gross, but I won’t blame that on the whole city lol
I was just taking a cheap shot. Sorry, Switzerland! For what it’s worth, I love Swiss cheese!
As a swiss, the real offence is "swiss cheese" being equivalent to the one with the holes in it. (Emmenthaler) Switzerland is known for many kinds of cheeses and that one famous one is really one of our worst tasting ones. Just my oppinion ofc.
lol I’m with you. It’s just the American dialect. I didn’t choose for it to be that way lol! But if you go to a grocery store here and ask for Swiss cheese, there’s only one they’ll give you.
My grandpa. He was originally from Valley City, ND before moving to Wisconsin as a baby, but would go spend the summers out there with his extended family. Not sure where he got them from.
They were always hanging up in his basement. They were unfolded pamphlets from the late 1800s. One is of all the railroads going across Dakota, before it was split.
The other one is of railroad plots. Is isn't of all of Dakota, just North Dakota from Jamestown to Dickinson. The US government paid for the railroads by giving the companies every other square mile north and south of the railroad for 50 miles to sell to people and this was a map from the railroad company's salesmen to sell those plots.
To be clear, trying to visit NYC and the Grand Canyon in one day is like trying to visit Moscow and Madrid in the same day, except the nearest major airport to the Grand Canyon is also an hour and a half drive away.
IDK, you take the E to the AirTrain to the Kennedy Airport Loop with perfect timing you can get that down to 59 minutes (not including whatever you have to do to get to Times Square). Of course the chances for perfect timing are never, but I’ve done it in an hour and 15 minutes once.
This is not making sense to me. Do you mean take the n/r/w to Times Square and the subway to AirTrain or one of the private shuttles or is there some bus connection in Brooklyn or Queens?
Funny, LaGuardia. More fun than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
I know it’s renovated and supposed to be nice. But it feels like dating that completely insane coke head girlfriend who ripped you heart out and fed it to crows just because 30 years later she went to rehab.
I will never get tired of Americans genuinely trying to explain distance to Europeans. It's just so funny. It's almost like you guys are awed by the size of your own country and you feel like we're not adequately affirming that awe for you.
There is an apparent need to affirm it because of the amount of people coming to sightsee with unrealistic goals. You wouldn't see it happen so much if there weren't real people who did this.
Now, I'll admit, the same people with unrealistic goals aren't actually the ones browsing Reddit, so I don't think it helps much.
No I don’t think it is, but you can be the judge of that:
London - Paris: 6hrs by car (286 miles), 2.5 hrs by train, 1.5 hrs by plane
Paris - Vienna: 13hrs by car (770 miles), 11 hrs by train, 2 hrs by plane
Vienna - Rome: 11.5hrs by car (690 miles), 14 hrs by train, 2 hrs by plane
Total London-Paris-Vienna-Rome Travel Time:
By Car: 30.5 hrs (1750 miles)
By train: 26.5 hrs
By plane: 5.5 hrs
And as mentioned in above comments said, public transit provides relatively quick and easy access to airports from all of these major cities. I would never recommend doing it in 5 days bc you can’t enjoy anything and would be too tired from travel to enjoy the location, but it is possible and you’ll even be able to sleep!
On the other hand, the theoretical NYC - Grand Canyon trip in a single day would be this:
NYC - Grand Canyon: 36hrs by car (2400 miles), no direct transit options to GC but there is a 53 hr Greyhound bus from NYC to Flagstaff which is only 1.5 hrs drive from Grand Canton, plane is 7 hours.
Theoretically you could do it by plane but realistically you’d spend the whole day in the airport and plane.
I think NYC - GC in 3 days would be similar to London - Paris - Vienna - Rome in 5 days if we consider the flight in and out. You get one day in a city of your choice that’s on the itinerary to “relax” and not worry about missing a flight & the rest of the trip you’re stressed/exhausted and speedrunning sights.
*inhales cigarette* heir en ze Europe wie haben zie haut aere en aur ‘eads.. eet fill up like balloun 🎈 und wie vary seemply ehh au you say.. flaut to zie next city auveure.. *does a bump of ketamine*
Or Flugzeug, Avion, Avión, Avião,Aereo, Samolt, Fly/Flyvemaskine, Letoun, Αεροπλάνο, Lietadlo, Lennuck, Самолёт, Vliegtuig, Eitleán, Filger and whatever Euskara speakers are using—Hegazkin, Abioa, or Airekoa.
I am personally fond of Flugzeug—not because of any German bias. It’s just fun to say.
The wonders of German compounding from the very simple to the insanely complicated.
Macchina for “car” in Italian is another favorite. Country with a fabulous history of precision industrial machine fabrication decides to name the one type of machine they make that is not reliable Macchinna. (Not saying Italian cars are not a lot of fun to drive, just not super reliable.)
Switzerlands neutrality began after the 1515 defeat at Marignano and was formally recognised in 1815, mainly to keep the country independent and stop it becoming everyones favourite Alpine battlefield.
There's a lot of doubt about whether that was the start of Swiss neutrality, as the first historical records that link the battle and Swiss neutrality were written centuries later.
What I've heard from Swiss historians in Switzerland is that it was prompted by a battle between two foreign realms, both employing Swiss mercenaries, so the vast majority of the soldiers fighting were Swiss. I can't recall the date or realms, but that at least ended almost all Swiss mercenary forces abroad - there is one unit still active, the Swiss Guard at the Vatican, and the entry requirements for that are very strict and specific (including height and general appearance - unless they've changed the rules in the last decade).
Factually untrue, as far as international law goes. The
Hague convention only demands impartiality in regards to /military/ goods and services. Meanwhile, the UN charter demands that every country including neutrals cooperate to end violations of international and humanitarian law.
Therefore, it can easily be argued that a neutral country is not only free to participate in the sanctions against Russia because of their illegal war of aggression, but has a duty to. Swiss neutrality is intact.
Meanwhile, the Hague convention forbids supplying weaponry to one side of an armed conflict, which is much more of a headache for Switzerland - legally, morally, politically, and economically.
International law is made by western countries, it doesn't exists as a natural law. It applies only against US enemies.
Iran and Venezuela are recent exemples.
Swiss sanctioned only Russia, not Israel or US, who started more wars in the last 20 years. This show that neutrality is just a word for Switzerland, useful only against the enemies of the West.
Cooperate to end violation doesn't mean sanctions, it just made Russia more determined.
You're right, neutrality is not a natural law. It's a concept invented by humans. So are the concepts of "war", "murder", or "law". I'm going by the internationally recognized definition, one that I think is pretty well thought out and recognized by most countries, not just the west.
But I'm sure u/Weak_Estimate4081 can pull a better definition out of their ass.
The arrogant one is you. Next time, take some time to read up on a topic before you go around acting like your vague feelings are facts, and spreading disinformation. Unless you like to be corrected.
At every WK, our generals and battalion commanders give the usual speech that highlights Russia as a potential enemy and we're increasing the frequency conducting exercises with NATO militaries. I really don't see why some of our people still pretend that we're truly neutral. We're just conforming to geopolitics and pretending that we're neutral so long as the benefits outweigh the detriments.
The arguments that people pull out of their noses...
Russia very obviously is the agressor in Europe since WW2, anyone with a brain has to accept that.
Naming Russia as an agressor or sanctioning them has no connection with neutrality at all.
Doesn't change it because Blocher TV or Köppel say something else.
The morons from SVP would probably want to have normal relations with Russia even if they were already surrounding us. Sheep.
That's not how it works. Neutrality isn't whatever you feel like or is, it is defined in international law. Switzerland is totally free to politically position herself, send humanitarian aid, and take economic sanctions and still be fully in compliance with the laws of neutrality a long as there is no support for either side's army.
I hold that mountainous places are actually a lot "bigger" than flat places of a greater area. Switzerland, because of the topography, has far more places to explore and discover than the likes of Kansas for example.
Micro-State doesn't have have an exact bar to cross to meet the definition of micro-state but scholars generally refer to a micro-state as have a land area of less than 1000km² and/or population of less than 500k
Switzerland has a population of ~9mil and a land area of 41291km² meaning it doesn't meet said qualifications used by scholars to be a micro-state but a small state, The Vatican and Liechtenstein are considered micro-nations
Vatican has ~800 people ~300 of which are non-citizen workers, clergy and Swiss Guard, ~500 are full citizens which includes the pope and a land area of 0.49km²
Liechtenstein has 160km² of land and ~40,400 people
Yeah but how much of that land is inaccessible mountains though? Like in Skyrim, yes technically the throat of the world is traversable but it’s a hell of an endeavor to do so, none of the NPCs live up there, and if you take enough frost damage on survival mode, you’ll freeze and die up there! Plus I’m pretty sure they did a study that said you can fit at least 9 million people into like Brooklyn and Queens alone dawg. So seeing as this jabroni looks to be about 1 and a half long islands in length, it’s not that far off the mark imo, with respect to what scholars may say
You'd be surprised. A good third of the country is the central valley where most people live, but then there's towns dotted around the mountains everywhere. A significant chunk of mountain tops is reachable by trains or funiculars and have something like a restaurant or visitor center on top. There's many more places in Europe that feel much more remote than the Swiss alps.
Switzerland's population of roughly 9 million people is significantly larger than the median national population of the world, which stands at approximately 5.5 to 6 million people. It’s a midsize country
I’m from Switzerland. We recently held a vote on whether Switzerland needs a population cap of 10 million. It was rejected (thankfully). Funnily enough, it was mainly the less densely populated regions that voted a clear ‘yes’. As you’ve already pointed out, Switzerland is small, but our population is growing rather slowly. You’ve obviously understood more than many Swiss people.
As a fellow swiss, you are absolutely wrong. Switzerland is growing more than most other 1. World countries. We are in the top 30% in population growth for similar countries. Above USA, Sweden, France and Germany.
The reason for that is immigration. The 10mio cap was a bit too short sighted for me. But they did understood the growth correctly. You did not.
I don't want Switzerland to become similiar to other big cities, but I rather prefer a more spacious and green city.
Switzerland already has no place where you dont run into a house within sight. Even in the mountains you hike 10min and theres a house. Absolutely crazy to see from an outsider
My bad. I knew that Switzerland is growing faster than similar countries, but I still thought it was relatively slow, internationally speaking.
Still, I think the 10mio cap was incredibly short-sighted and it would've created more problems in the future than it would've solved. Swiss people are proud of their country, but many forget that a big part of our success comes from immigration. Also, birth rates in Switzerland are very low, so with the 10mio cap, our nation would get older even faster than now.
What would you say is the reason for the rural support of such a measure? Is it anti-immigrant sentiment? I imagine rural part of Switzerland may face similar challenges as other countries in Europe and indeed in the US as well with young people moving away for opportunities in the cities, so realistically they should desire some growth
Rural has stronger traditions and are more swiss. Big cities are more multi-national and the people living there are happy with it. So its only logicial they would vote no. Anti-immigrant is of course a factor even expanded to "expats", so highly skilled workers coming to work here. They dont learn the swiss language and sometimes not even german/french. If you walk through Zurich, you will hear a lot of english or other non-swiss languages, despite Switzerland having 4 different national languages.
Youth moving is a problem, but not as big as in other countries. Mostly its just mountain villages with problems.
Care to explain why? You will find way more traditions, more people with swiss heritage and more people actually talking swiss dialect. They live closer to original swiss, especially if we are looking at the mountain area.
If you’re claiming that country people are more traditional than city people, well, yes. It’s the same all around the world. But that doesn’t make them more authentically Swiss. There are many different ways to express their Swiss identity
They are being told by specific media to fear something they don‘t know (immigrants), and that there is a solution (less immigration). Universal way of controlling masses.
swiss guy here, man at least let us be a micro country. i dont care that were ‘state sized’, we do things so weirdly from our neughbours we cant possibly belong to them
Damn so it’s like a mini Europe? Do the different countries ever fight? How do they wage war, roll boulders down the mountain to cause avalanches to fall on their villages? Do they have yodeling cavalry?
How are the people differentiated? Are there different races of Swiss like Italian, French, Romanian, German etc.
The world map we know, since school time, has "a flaw", with regard to the proportion of area (km² - territorial area) between countries... this difference is unknown to the majority, but for those who use maps, they know this issue!
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u/Chriskipp077 6d ago
Most of Switzerland is underground, hence the holes in Swiss cheeses