In Germany, it’s currently 696€ a year to use all local and regional public transport (metro, bus, regional train, etc.) nationally, 4899€ a year to also use all long distance public transport (IC, ICE).

Unless you travel around the country a lot, the first plus a long distance discount card is usually enough to get around.

Still, there has been too little investment into public transport for decades, and the 696€ Ticket is partially funded by the federal government, so let’s see whether that lasts past the next election. All in all, could be better, but could also be a lot worse.

Uh, the X is probably in reference to Musk-Twitter.

Those are blackbird, sparrow, cuckoo, eagle owl, owl. The one in the meme is a Gelbkopf-Schwarzstärling (“yellowhead blackstärling”)

So, not that different, I’d say.