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Note that even before it's been running at down to 10% of capacity due to the draught.

You don’t have to keep feeding the chicken/pigs/etc. if you stop eating chicken/pigs/etc. Most livestock is fed food specifically grown to feed livestock.

Creutzfeldt-Jacob can be tested for using the RT-QuIC test[1] where a positive result guarantees with near certainty that misfolded prions are present. But as the disease is define…

You're right but there has been some progress in that matter. I.e. streaming providers can't stop you from watching Germany exclusive Netflix content when on holidays in Greece usi…

> physics is what you study if you couldn't do engineering Wdym "couldn't do"? Nobody here is studying Physics for the job opportunities but I'd say everybody who makes it past sem…

I record my travels using travelynx and this is how Deutsche Bahn has been faring: - 2022: 15512 km travelled, spent 150:23 in trains, timetable: 148:42 - 2023: 9818 km travelled, …

Google, including Google Flights, does have a cookie banner. It's just likely that you already accepted/denied the prompt at some point.

To be fair: if you're doing a Masters degree the grade you end up getting on your Bachelors degree is pretty unimportant and Masters usually isn't graded that harshly. But yeah, we…

A Fachhochschule (Wikipedia calls them "university of applied sciences") in Germany is very similar to a university but as they're less research oriented and usually (with some not…

Not just Asia. E.g. in Congo it's tradition to see the spouse's siblings as sisters and brothers. There it goes both ways though. (Not sure it's embedded into law.)

At least with the Venus probes they were only publicly announced when they were well on their way to Venus with failures either not getting published or getting assigned alibi miss…

From the Wikipedia page: > The frequency initially chosen for Galileo would have made it impossible for the US to block the Galileo signals without also interfering with its own GP…

In the case of the Minecraft mod Sodium, which replaces much of Minecraft's rendering internals, Nvidia optimisations caused the game to crash. So the mod devs had to implement wor…

Developing a new train platform takes a lot of time but Siemen’s Velaro Novo platform (in development since 2013 and presented 2018) uses PMM motors[1]. Siemens has been trialing P…

Their source is the “The Economist Democracy Index” [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

It’s not like mental health is going super well in European countries either Germany [1]: > The average waiting time from the initial consultation to the start of therapy is 142.4 …

NOYB is a non governmental organisation which initiated many of the investigations against Meta. E.g. they recently filed a complaint against the social media app BeReal for not ta…

Oh, yeah. No non-ASCII in the “machine readable” part. Though I’ve never seen anything use that section. My national id card also has a “machine readable” section – but that doesn’…

I’m confused – my name as written on my passport definitely contains non ASCII characters?

I’m aware of a party in Germany which, at some levels, uses Nextcloud to great success so I could imagine them pushing for it in their fraction. No idea why that wouldn’t work thou…

The main reason the Apollo program wouldn't happen today is safety: The first Apollo test (unfueled) had three astronauts die due to an electrical fire! At the time Apollo 10 launc…

For some high speed routes there’s a limit on how many carriages one attendant can supervise (maybe to ensure timely evacuation?) so a 12 carriage ICE train needs 3 attendants to f…

Having read through the links you provided: You are comparing two different things. DB’s Reisendenpünktlichkeit takes in delays caused by missed connections etc. SBB’s 3 minute del…

Note that trains to Zurich and Basel SBB then end in Basel Bad (or sometimes they let it go to Basel SBB). It’s a separate train station in Basel which is run by Deutsche Bahn so i…

Diesel-Locomotives (and apparently submarines?) use that concept a lot in the form of a diesel-electric power train[1]. Mechanical transmissions like in cars were only in use for a…