FriendOfDeSoto

Delightfully dumb this is. LOL it made me.

That tends to be the case though. Even in Europe that's true in many cases. I think so far only France has legislation on the books that makes it illegal for airfare to beat trainfare under a certain distance.

The geographical distances also favor air traffic over anything on the ground. If the jet engine hadn't come around, North America would have a great high speed rail network today.

Ignoring recent events in the middle east and their effect on pricing, even in Japan a flight from Tokyo to Osaka will beat the bullet train fare if you book it a month or more ahead of time. And that's not on a budget airline. Japan gets a lot of praise for its bullet train network. But it's really just one cash cow line (Tokyo-Nagoya-Osaka-Kyoto) and the rest is more often than not half empty. They run it because there is pork barrel politicking and because they can sell the flexibility and immediacy of hopping on a train in a downtown location in this network, on a whim (outside the holiday congestion). Japan is also a centrally organized country where the administrative sub sections (prefectures, cities, etc.) have less say in things.

And no local in their right mind would take the shinkansen to go from Kyoto to Osaka. That's a 40min ride or so on the normal trains. The cost to time saving ratio is not good enough.

You can help stop your elected dickheads. Protest, general strike, a constant barrage of your elected officials with dissent. They were bombing schools in your name.

Iran has been under the longest internet blackout in history (if you don't count North Korea). The things that trickle out from there are scarce and that little bandwidth may be better used to collect evidence of atrocities, ironically committed either by the regime or the US/Israel coalition. The current top 40 may be less important at this point in time. So there is a pretty high chance that you won't get a good answer to your question.

If nothing else helps, imagine how you tickle them on the tip of their dumb nose with an imaginary, invisible feather. Imagine the surprised look when they don't know what's happening. It's so annoying and they don't have a clue where it's coming from. They have fucked with the wrong person with an overactive imagination! By now, you've zoned out far enough to ignore any jabs coming your way. You wear the self-satisfied smile that only imaginary feather ticklers know.

Are they possibly romantically interested in you? Just drop a casual "you're just in love with me, aren't you!" when they're annoying and see how flabbergasted they get.

I have never heard of him. In general, I don't find YouTube a reliable source for anything controversial. I think the CIA falls under that umbrella. So I would be very skeptical.

I fear there won't be a solution that doesn't cost money somewhere. Please don't buy 3 burner phone numbers at once. I would feel bad if it didn't work and/or you get suspected of being a criminal.

Check your current phone subscription if you have one. There might be a way to get an additional number for free or very little extra. And it might be a good backup emergency service to have just with your parents maybe even if you go down a different route for the rest.

Thanks for the correction. I'm positively shocked to learn about this.

Anything other than Signal seems unadvisable from a privacy POV. Do you have a way of talking to them live on the phone, at the same time? You can try and register their Signal on a burner phone wherever you are. As they sign up, you sit on the call and give them the phone number and security code when it comes through. Unless having Signal on the phone is itself a reason to get arrested in Russia, which frankly wouldn't surprise me either.

I don't know if this will work. I did it on a different service using the number on a dumbphone to register for use on a tablet once.

A British person with a German passport is also a German citizen. So they can't not help them if they have the means.

~~I don't know about the Brits. The Germans have some tight rules about dual citizenship. It will be an exceedingly low number of people who qualify legally on both sides for dual citizenship of these two countries.~~

As the revolutionary guard troops surround Dubai, this probably would not matter. They would try to get people out and I'm sure both Brits and Germans would evacuate each other's citizens if it meant death if they didn't. ~~But if the situation allowed for more thorough investigation, I probably wouldn't mention my other citizenship to the Germans at least.~~

Many folks of Turkish descent but born in Germany used to take up German citizenship and had to renounce the Turkish one in the process. But they were able to get it back once the German passport was done, which could be grounds for revocation by the Germans if they knew about it. (No longer true) In Japan it's even harder to have two passports; kids of mixed couples often have two passports but they're not supposed to from the Japanese side. So they wouldn't make this known to the Japanese embassy who would care about this if the revolutionary guards were still far enough away to have a closer look.

I would not be surprised if there was a bit of horse trading going on between the embassies. So if a dual citizenship holder was rescued unconscious in a drone attack, it's probably the first delegation on the scene who takes charge of the case. Until the victim regains consciousness and possibly decides something else - if they can without causing more trouble for themselves.

I have no experience with this so my guess is really just that. If two consular outfits arrive on the scene to help our unconscious victim at the same time, they would probably try to figure out: what's the country of residence for the victim? If it's not a third country, residencistan trumps the other one. If it is a third country, then where are the next of kin. If there are none, probably country of birth. If that doesn't help they do a game of paper, rock, scissors.

(Edited, I evidently missed a major revamp of German citizenship law)

Gasoline.

I imagine it's because a lot of the relationship posts are outrageous tales of betrayal, violence, or gas lighting.