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The "Südtirol Pass" lets you "tap" the card in an app and a clock starts running at the scheduled departure time. If your bus/train is delayed and it's past the scheduled arrival time, your ticket disappears. Afterwards you can't prove to the ticket checker anymore you're riding legitimately.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The "Südtirol Pass" lets you "tap" the card in an app and a clock starts running at the scheduled departure time. If your bus/train is delayed and it's past the scheduled arrival time, your ticket disappears. Afterwards you can't prove to the ticket checker anymore you're riding legitimately.
Maybe I read too much into what you wanted to say. Yes, existing "customers" are prioritised in a system of scarcity. True for airplane tickets, and sadly also for healthcare access. You are right.
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Maybe I read too much into what you wanted to say. Yes, existing "customers" are prioritised in a system of scarcity. True for airplane tickets, and sadly also for healthcare access. You are right.
You wrote: "incumbents are shielded from it because the rationing strategy is to deny care to migrants". I find that claim strange. The endless waiting times have the effect (possibly by design) that people go to private practitioners. Cost saving not for the patient, but for the public system...
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
You wrote: "incumbents are shielded from it because the rationing strategy is to deny care to migrants". I find that claim strange. The endless waiting times have the effect (possibly by design) that people go to private practitioners. Cost saving not for the patient, but for the public system...
It's okay, if you don' want to share your case, but - without details - I fail to see the qualitative difference between "you are not an emergency, we put you on the comically long waiting list" (Belgium) and "you are not an emergency, we can't give you a hospital bed right now" (Germany).
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It's okay, if you don' want to share your case, but - without details - I fail to see the qualitative difference between "you are not an emergency, we put you on the comically long waiting list" (Belgium) and "you are not an emergency, we can't give you a hospital bed right now" (Germany).
...countries I'm aware of, but that's rather a function of an aging society and public finance constraints. Easy to laugh off AI prophets and their wide-ranging claims, but I really do think that medicine will soon be a testing ground, mostly because there is so much financial pressure.
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
...countries I'm aware of, but that's rather a function of an aging society and public finance constraints. Easy to laugh off AI prophets and their wide-ranging claims, but I really do think that medicine will soon be a testing ground, mostly because there is so much financial pressure.
...annually 1000 doctors leave Italy for Germany alone (while only 9,000 people graduate in medicine annually). So, if you want to look for countries with a rather dramatic development, taking Germany as an example is dead from the start. Germany surely has problems, like all universal healthcare...
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
...annually 1000 doctors leave Italy for Germany alone (while only 9,000 people graduate in medicine annually). So, if you want to look for countries with a rather dramatic development, taking Germany as an example is dead from the start. Germany surely has problems, like all universal healthcare...
...GPs can easily find work outside public healthcare, and the countries of the single market are in competition with each other, with high-wage countries depleting the human resources of lower-wage countries. Between 2000 and 2022 ~180k doctors and nurses left Italy... There are estimates that...
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
...GPs can easily find work outside public healthcare, and the countries of the single market are in competition with each other, with high-wage countries depleting the human resources of lower-wage countries. Between 2000 and 2022 ~180k doctors and nurses left Italy... There are estimates that...
...for themselves. Now, there is a good discussion to be had, if these refusal rights or legal caps should exist at all. What I can tell you is that most jurisdictions in Europe are rather careful not to piss off their GPs. The years of the Ärzteschwemme (google it) are long gone,...
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
...for themselves. Now, there is a good discussion to be had, if these refusal rights or legal caps should exist at all. What I can tell you is that most jurisdictions in Europe are rather careful not to piss off their GPs. The years of the Ärzteschwemme (google it) are long gone,...
Any source for your claim? GPs can refuse patients - depending on jurisdiction - either because they have the right to do so (=shielding themselves from more work) or because there is a legal cap (=quality concerns). There isn't a plausible case it comes down to locals wanting their doctors all...
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Any source for your claim? GPs can refuse patients - depending on jurisdiction - either because they have the right to do so (=shielding themselves from more work) or because there is a legal cap (=quality concerns). There isn't a plausible case it comes down to locals wanting their doctors all...
And I don't think it has anything to do with migrants, most 'native' Euros can tell you similar stories (funnily enough, it's a major talking point among 'common people' that healthcare access is so difficult these days because 'migrants' are treated 'equally' and take up so much capacity).
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
And I don't think it has anything to do with migrants, most 'native' Euros can tell you similar stories (funnily enough, it's a major talking point among 'common people' that healthcare access is so difficult these days because 'migrants' are treated 'equally' and take up so much capacity).
Difficult to discuss without details, but I think what you're describing is the general European experience with a universal healthcare system in an aging society. Germany surely has more capacity than most of Europe, so it's certainly not a localised problem.
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Difficult to discuss without details, but I think what you're describing is the general European experience with a universal healthcare system in an aging society. Germany surely has more capacity than most of Europe, so it's certainly not a localised problem.
Unemployment numbers don't tell the whole truth here. Even the current system has produced a really low work participation rate of 62.5% in the US (compared to 75.3% in the EU). Combine that with crazy numbers of undocumented migrant workers, that keep entire segments of the economy alive...
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Unemployment numbers don't tell the whole truth here. Even the current system has produced a really low work participation rate of 62.5% in the US (compared to 75.3% in the EU). Combine that with crazy numbers of undocumented migrant workers, that keep entire segments of the economy alive...
My favourite: Greenland is north, south, west and east of Iceland.
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My favourite: Greenland is north, south, west and east of Iceland.
Speaking in defense, a lot of the debate depends on what you mean by "caste identity". There is indeed strong evidence that at least the varna categorization of individual jatis was open for debate and subject of historical change (or in many cases absent/obscure). One could call that "fluid".
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Speaking in defense, a lot of the debate depends on what you mean by "caste identity". There is indeed strong evidence that at least the varna categorization of individual jatis was open for debate and subject of historical change (or in many cases absent/obscure). One could call that "fluid".
Genetic bottlenecks. David Reich has written a lot about it. Here is a write-up
caravanmagazine.in/science-tech...
caravanmagazine.in/science-tech...
What genetics reveals about Indian origins, and caste
Everyone in mainland India today is a mix, albeit in different proportions, of ancestry related to West Eurasians, and ancestry more closely related to diverse East Asian and South Asian populations. ...
caravanmagazine.in
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Genetic bottlenecks. David Reich has written a lot about it. Here is a write-up
caravanmagazine.in/science-tech...
caravanmagazine.in/science-tech...
Since you typed ECTS for the 3rd time within a day, I'm gonna say it 🙂
* ECTS - the university credit thing
* ETCS - European Train Control System
* ECTS - the university credit thing
* ETCS - European Train Control System
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Since you typed ECTS for the 3rd time within a day, I'm gonna say it 🙂
* ECTS - the university credit thing
* ETCS - European Train Control System
* ECTS - the university credit thing
* ETCS - European Train Control System
Na, glaub ich nicht, Papier läuft definitiv 2026 aus. Bei der angedachten Regelung geht es wohl um CIE-Besitzer über 70.
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Na, glaub ich nicht, Papier läuft definitiv 2026 aus. Bei der angedachten Regelung geht es wohl um CIE-Besitzer über 70.
Ich rate mal... vor Ablaufdatum kriegen die einfach nen neuen Ausweis zugeschickt, ohne ihn beantragen zu müssen? Wie halt beim Gesundheitskartl...
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ich rate mal... vor Ablaufdatum kriegen die einfach nen neuen Ausweis zugeschickt, ohne ihn beantragen zu müssen? Wie halt beim Gesundheitskartl...
Nach kurzer Recherche: Suzhou-Suzhou und Taizhou-Taizhou sind nach kombinierter Bevölkerungszahl nicht ganz weit weg.
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Nach kurzer Recherche: Suzhou-Suzhou und Taizhou-Taizhou sind nach kombinierter Bevölkerungszahl nicht ganz weit weg.
Kannte ich gar nicht. Das größte gleichnamige Städtepaar dürfte aber immer noch Hyderabad (Indien)-Hyderabad (Pakistan) sein, seit 1947 immerhin nicht mehr im selben Staat, also Bahnhofsverwechslung eher ausgeschlossen.
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Kannte ich gar nicht. Das größte gleichnamige Städtepaar dürfte aber immer noch Hyderabad (Indien)-Hyderabad (Pakistan) sein, seit 1947 immerhin nicht mehr im selben Staat, also Bahnhofsverwechslung eher ausgeschlossen.
Actually just complaining that too little money is allocated to rail compared to roads. He says the spending increase the government is boasting about is mostly an accounting trick and the few remaining billions are just enough to keep up with inflation.
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Actually just complaining that too little money is allocated to rail compared to roads. He says the spending increase the government is boasting about is mostly an accounting trick and the few remaining billions are just enough to keep up with inflation.
You mean costs or language? In Germany, you pay something between 200 and 800€ per year for university. At the University of Leeds, it's 35,000£ per year in tuition fees for international students of medicine...
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
You mean costs or language? In Germany, you pay something between 200 and 800€ per year for university. At the University of Leeds, it's 35,000£ per year in tuition fees for international students of medicine...
Still happening across continental Europe (know somebody from UP studying medicine in Germany... in German). Rather astonishing to me how few Indians have found out that higher education there is basically for free/extremely subsidised compared to the Anglosphere.
November 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Still happening across continental Europe (know somebody from UP studying medicine in Germany... in German). Rather astonishing to me how few Indians have found out that higher education there is basically for free/extremely subsidised compared to the Anglosphere.
Quite the opposite. Plenty of research shows millionaires are LESS mobile than the average population (internationally and domestically). The reasons are easy to guess. Rich people tend to gain their capital from deep business and family ties in one particular city, and that's difficult to replace.
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Quite the opposite. Plenty of research shows millionaires are LESS mobile than the average population (internationally and domestically). The reasons are easy to guess. Rich people tend to gain their capital from deep business and family ties in one particular city, and that's difficult to replace.