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Manuel Rapold

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Software-Engineer / Requirements Engineer from Vienna 🇦🇹 Interested in politics, sustainability and everything else related to people getting along with each other :)

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Saw this walking through Vienna…We really need to get young people to care more about OUR politics than US-Politics.
It is getting a bit ridiculous IMO 😵‍💫

05.12.2025 16:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Under Trump's peace plan, these four individuals would of course receive amnesty.

24.11.2025 13:54 👍 206 🔁 40 💬 13 📌 2

Oberst Markus Reisner und unser Bundesheer allgemein liefern seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskrieges erstklassige Analysen.
Es lohnt sich auch sehr diese hier zu lesen.

24.11.2025 11:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If the Ukrainian government were to accept the so-called 28-point plan and relinquish the Donbas, it could risk a serious rupture in civil-military relations.

21.11.2025 16:03 👍 121 🔁 32 💬 5 📌 0

Als Liberaler würde ich sagen wenn mir jemand vermittelt, dass er seine eigenen Gedanken weniger sinnvoll findet als die von einer KI werd ich das akzeptieren…auch wenn ich natürlich anderer Meinung bin 😬

Ich hoff aber ehrlich die Leute lernen bald mit KI richtig umzugehen. Es nervt halt einfach. 😅

20.11.2025 09:05 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ich fühl mich schon eine Zeit lang ähnlich.

Sofern es für dich möglich ist, würd ich empfehlen das nicht nur privat sondern auch im Berufsleben umzusetzen. :)

20.11.2025 08:28 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I would rather advise the Irish to buy NATO equipment and take their tax haven money to invest into their regular industrial capacity as a first step.

AFAIK if you look passed the tax haven bolstered GDP numbers they are not doing as well as it seems.

10.11.2025 18:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Schaut so aus als würde sich die EU mittlerweile auch an österreichischen Lösungen versuchen.

...und dann soll nochmal einer sagen wir hätten keinen Einfluss auf Brüssel :P

Kontext für die Nachbarn im Norden:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96s...

10.11.2025 18:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In Austria there is always a politician claiming you must become the most german German that ever germaned. Drive German cars, eat German food, work for a German company.
His name is usually Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz.

And in Poland, the most polack Polack that ever polacked is Herr Georg Braun.

06.11.2025 18:47 👍 111 🔁 13 💬 14 📌 2
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Reasonable gamble, fellow train traveller. Unfortunately you have chosen poorly. 😔

It seems the operator decided to let *both* delayed ICEs pass and sacrifice the regional train giving it a 35 minute delay.

06.11.2025 18:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Resolution:
Took the first ICE from Plattling and bought a ticket.
Have been travelling for 6 hours already. Just wanna get home.

Secret third gamble: The completely correct (although illegal) one would have been to take the ICE and not buy a ticket since it didn't get checked anyway.

06.11.2025 18:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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B) Take one of the ICEs directly from Plattling to Vienna.

This will cost me an extra 25€ and the shame of rewarding DB with more money for providing unreliable service.

As you can see the stakes are high. What would you choose in this situation?

06.11.2025 18:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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A) Take the regional train to Passau for free with my D-Ticket and hope I catch one of the delayed ICEs to continue onto Vienna for free with my Klimaticket.

For this I have to trust DB that they are not going to let the ICE pass the Regional train: They are currently saying that they wont.

06.11.2025 17:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anyone up for a quick round of #DeutscheBahnGambling?

There is 25€ and 1,5h of travel time on the line if I make the wrong call.

Situation: I am currently stranded in Plattling after an issue in Regensburg.

Now I have two options:

06.11.2025 17:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Eines Tages haben wir in Österreich auch das Klimaticket UND genug Angebot um Reservierungen unnötig zu machen.

…hoffentlich noch bevor ich in Pension gehe 😵‍💫

14.10.2025 13:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whenever I discuss politics with people from other EU Countries my position is practically always the same:

„I don‘t live there so I don't want to tell you how to run your society, but X politician hates the EU and is working against our peaceful coexistence so I definitely have an issue with them“

03.10.2025 13:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🇦🇹 Austria -  Foreign Minister Addresses United Nations General Debate, 80th Session | #UNGA
🇦🇹 Austria - Foreign Minister Addresses United Nations General Debate, 80th Session | #UNGA YouTube video by United Nations

Nachdem ich Trumps Rede vor der UNO gehört habe und jetzt auch die Rede der österreichischen Außenministerin, bin ich sehr froh, in Österreich zu leben, und nicht in den USA. Ein starker Auftritt. Danke, @beate.neos.eu www.youtube.com/watch?v=st7C...

26.09.2025 10:04 👍 316 🔁 43 💬 11 📌 5
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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

25.09.2025 18:02 👍 27972 🔁 8011 💬 828 📌 781

To me it seems to be pretty likely that this is exactly what Russia wants.

So before we do so we have to be absolutely sure that it‘s the right call strategically.

Are you absolutely sure?

25.09.2025 19:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wie sehen Sie die Spekulationen, dass Russland einen Abschuss ihres Kampfjets provozieren will um genügend Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung für eine Mobilmachung zu haben?
(Diese würde sich in dem Fall auch nur auf Kämpfe in der Ukraine beziehen.)

25.09.2025 12:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Russia is testing us. The recent airspace violation in Estonia shows the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine isn’t going as planned.

They want to divert aid from Ukraine and force NATO to look inward.

#RenewEurope makes sure we stay united and protected!

23.09.2025 11:12 👍 33 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 2

Ad ULV=Umfassende Landesverteidigung

21.09.2025 12:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Three Russian Fighters Just Entered Estonian Air Space. What's Putin's Plan?
Three Russian Fighters Just Entered Estonian Air Space. What's Putin's Plan? YouTube video by William Spaniel

Yes sir 🫡

Probably better to name and share his take rather than calling him „some analysts“ :P 😂

So therefore:
@gametheory101.bsky.social

youtu.be/DVzCgNs_BrI?...

21.09.2025 13:05 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

In my view the average Russian knows that the Kremlin is lying to them.
They just underestimate the extent of it 😅

NATO-provocations seem ridiculous, even if you don‘t have access to free media.

My hope: Russians know more than ever that something is seriously wrong with their government.

21.09.2025 12:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some analysts see recent Russian aggression as provoking NATO for a kinetic response, so that he can call for a mobilisation without too much public backlash.

It‘s probably wishful thinking on my part, but maybe ordinary Russians see this as a possibility too 🤔

21.09.2025 12:41 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Das stimmt leider.
Irgendwer sollt amal den Ring verkehrsberuhigen ^^

21.09.2025 10:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bin jetzt nicht so häufig in Prag aber meiner subjektiven Wahrnehmung nach ist Wien die deutlich fußgängerfreundlichere Stadt :P

21.09.2025 10:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Neue Enthüllungen: Jan Marsalek soll im Ukrainekrieg für Russland gekämpft haben Der österreichische Ex-Wirecard-Manager lebt als Spion in Russland. Seine Freundin soll gestohlene Handys aus Österreich nach Moskau transportiert haben

Jan Marsalek soll im Ukrainekrieg gekämpft haben - das und noch mehr enthüllt eine neue Recherche mit @spiegel.de , @christogrozev.bsky.social, ZDF und PBS: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

16.09.2025 13:02 👍 124 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 4
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Ein neues Bahn-Zeitalter für Österreich 🚄✨
Mit der #Koralmbahn wachsen Regionen zusammen:
👉 Graz–Klagenfurt in nur 41 Min.
👉 Wien–Klagenfurt 26x täglich
👉 Halbstundentakt Wien–Graz
#Fahrplan2026 startet am 14.12.2025

16.09.2025 08:37 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
EU Parliament in Strasbourg with the Ukranian flag next to EU flag

EU Parliament in Strasbourg with the Ukranian flag next to EU flag

Visiting the EU Parliament today and happy to see we are not waiting for formalities to be done before putting the Ukranian flag where it belongs :)

15.09.2025 07:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0