Germany has the same problems. After the reunification they merged the east and west state railway companies into a private enterprise, the Deutsche Bahn AG. Since then, the service progressively became worse and the prices unaffordable.

They engaged in a downward spiral of cutting infrastructure investments and reducing coverage/offer and having less private travellers. Now the infrastructure is such a bad state, that the bad quality of the service is a running gag in Germany. Voyagers now expect their train being late and hope that it will not be cancelled last minute.

In the last couple of years, there has been a push to invested in the infrastructure, but it’s too little too late and it’s going to take decades to make the train an attractive option again.

One of the reason why they are still getting by financially, is because the have very good marketing.

Here’s a good video about it. It’s in German, but you can get the English auto-translation.

The problem with being a long time renter, is that there is no guarantee that the real estate will always be available to you.

What if your landlord sells your house/appartment and the new owner wants to move in? What if the rent hikes eventually make it unaffordable for you.

Unless you own the property, you cannot plan with certainty for the long term.

Andererseits ist das genau der Grund, warum die keine Priorität für die Gesundheitsämter sind.

Console vendors, particularly Nintendo absolutely hate it when someone tries to thinker with their products. There was a Darknet Diaries podcast from August 1 named ‘Team Xecuter’ that gives some insight into this. Funnily enough, not every country is encouraging this behavior from Nintendo like the U.S. is. France is pretty lenient on console modders, for example.

I moved from Québec to Germany a number of years ago, and there is a cemetery like the one in the article in a forest close to where I live. It started its activity back in 2005. It’s hard to believe that a country with so much green space like Canada - let alone the whole of North America - only now has a single one.

The summary bot didn’t pick this part up: ''Gaba also told Kahlon that the program of study was changed with Sharma’s consent and provided him with a student enrollment contract signed by Sharma and her father on Aug. 19, 2022. 

But Sharma says she had never seen this document before the college shared it with Kahlon.

And her father, whose signature appears to be on the document, died in 2015…‘’

If this is true either somebody in Granville’s administration forged two signatures to get out of paying back 10k or the Student Shivani Sharma forged her father’s signature. Is it more likely that a shady private college did a shady thing or that an international student betting her life savings and her family’s future on getting a Canadian visa used her dead father’s signature knowingly.