You know that the worst thing that could possibly happen to you is being "deported" back to Germany? And even that is quite unlikely...

No, it's on a regular one-way street without bikeway.

You still have quite a few international organizations with French as the official working or treaty language. Either because the organization is so peripheral that nobody really cares, or because it's become astonishingly difficult to change that now, e.g. the EU court system.

International Driving Permit - Wikipedia

When I got an International Driving Permit in Italy in 2019 it was all French, with translations into additional languages in the footnotes :-) The 2025 edition, though, is in English.

Ah ich glaub mich zu erinnern. Eine slowenische Adresse war das Problem, also irgendwas mit ž oder ŕ oder so. Wahrscheinlich liegst du richtig und es gehen deutsche Sonderzeichen.

Ja genau, anders schwer erklärbar...

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Kann mich nicht an den konkreten Fall erinnern, aber mir hat's sicher schon mal ne Rechnung wegen ungültigem Zeichen zurückgeschmissen. Dunkle Erinnerung findet im Reddit-Thread Bestätigung: www.reddit.com/r/commercial...

Really? I know quite a few of these in South Tyrol.

Hab mal ein bisschen gegooglet, ein Thema scheint Abwärtskompatibilität zu älteren Datenbanken zu sein (warum auch immer). Da fällt mir ein, dass dieses Exchange-Portal für elektronische Rechnungen der Agenzia delle Entrate auch keine "Sonderzeichen" kann.

Largely the view of Tolkienite academia and of Tolkien himself.

Ja, aber ò, à und ù schon?

Wie ist das eigentlich möglich? Haben die eine Positivliste zulässiger Zeichen definiert (inklusive à und ù usw.), aber niemandem ist der Gedanke gekommen, dass im Jahre des Herrn 2025 es auch italienische Staatsbürger mit "ausländischem" Zeicheninventar geben könnte? @christophmoar.bsky.social

I didn't disagree with you, just pointed out that at least the political class seems to be recruited from a particular small pool of people (unlike Italy). It's above my paygrade to judge, if "university control" (or rather "Oxford control") is substantially different from "class control".

That might be very true, but the graph below is a good indicator that "political" social mobility is indeed somewhat below continental European levels. It's simply baffling every time I look at it.

I add Milan-Rome (480km, slightly >3hrs), "only" 120$ for tickets for tomorrow, 15 February. 1 week later it's 25% less. 2 weeks later >40% less.

Unbeaten: Liberal Party, or simply the word "liberal". It's a testament to American hegemony that "liberal" is increasingly understood as progressive/left-leaning, despite the fact that the American usage of the word is a global outlier.

The "Austrian" towns in question are Cortina (had rail until the 60s), Val di Fiemme (had rail until the 60s) and Antholz (existing railway line at the valley's entrance with half-hourly service).

...There is no such thing like a ski town at 600m on the southern side of the Alps. And ski towns at 1500m are as likely (or rather unlikely) to have rail in Austria, France, or Italy.

...were rather likely to be shut down by the 60s. Still, it could be the case that ski towns outside of Italy are more likely to have rail connections, but that's more a question of altitude and climate. Innsbruck is located in the central Alps at an altitude of less than 600m and is a ski town...

Not particularly convinced that your main observation is true. Across the Alps, railways were built predominantly along the main valleys. True "mountain railways" crossing steep passes and reaching high altitudes are a rarity in all countries (except Switzerland), and where they existed they...

Well, in that case, arriving to the tune of "463 ships with 40,000 men on board, including 9,500 sailors, 11,000 foot soldiers, 4,000 cavalry and 5,000 English and Huguenot volunteer" certainly make for a remarkable non-invasion.

This. 15 mins before boarding starts is ~1hr before scheduled departure. The typical recommendation for domestic flights is reaching 1.5hrs before departure, so this weird flex seems to be about a 0.5hrs time saving...

Ah okay, yes, that for sure.

This is from 1980. Looks similar - or am I missing something?

Today, the same single-track line sees 32 trains per day/direction, with a clean half-hourly takt.

Many rail enthusiasts tend to think of the past as the good old times. But nobody should ever forget, how astonishingly bad things really were. Pictured: a mid-80s timetable of a branch line in Italy. Few trains, no consistent timings, an endless list of exceptions.

The 400,000 Chinese expatriates’ community in the UAE: What makes them build lives in the UAE It all started with trade, today it is about a way of life that fosters a sense of safety

This article breaks it down 🙂 The increased "diversification" is, by the way, also true for nearly all ethnic groups. You'll also find Western ice cream sellers in Dubai...

Afaik they conceived of it first and foremost as a freight line, connecting the various seaports and industrial areas with each other, building it on a completely new alignment. Passenger transport is just the secondary use case. The planned HSR line will have a different alignment (if ever built).

...real estate prices are a big part of that thought process). Anyway, Marco is right in his observation that Dubai lacks a defined centre. The Deira area ("old Dubai") has probably the highest density, but is simply many km away from what Americans would call the CBD, which itself is super sprawly.

Yes, Dubai seems quite eager (and capable) to develop public transport options, and the existing ones already have good ridership numbers. There are, of course, issues like the political unwillingness to extend the metro across the border to Sharjah (from what transpires, considerations about...