Could you explain how this news relates to your point? I'm curious.

Simply the fact that trains can replace planes is laughable. In EU? That’s just hilarious.

There is an increasing amount of policies that decrease quality of life.

How exactly is improving train infrastructure decreasing the quality of life for you?

Maybe he's an aerospace engineer...

The message is literally about "replacing planes with trains". It's not about improving the infrastructure enough to go toe to toe against planes.

Nobody is going to suddenly outlaw planes if a trip by train would be 5 times as slow. Of course the intention is to replace them with high speed trains that are providing a similar level of comfort and efficiency.

In Europe? In EU where most of the countries are blatantly discriminating against each other?

Most of my European dev colleagues prefer train rides because they can hack on the train.

Most of my european dev colleagues prefer cars.

So what do planes or trains have to do with the subset of the euro dev demographic that you're familiar with?

It will replace only for us the peons. Rest assured our leaders will keep on flying.

They don't really defend their point, they just restate it.