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Just recently I had to travel to Germany by train on short notice. The German online ticket portal also wanted my ID and selfie when paying because it was an iNtErNaTiOnAl journey. I just booked it through my local country's international ticketing portal and they didn't even mention it.

Just something the comic made me think of. It's from the German fantasy novel "Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt’n Blaubär" by Walter Moers

From the Encyclopedia of Marvels, Life Forms and Other Phenomena of Zamonia and its Environs by Professor Abdullah Nightingale

Gourmetica Insularis, The.

The Gourmetica Insularis is a heterotrophic carnivorous plant, that is to say, one of the very rare family of plants that feeds on organic rather than inorganic matter, like most flora.

The Gourmetica is among the Zamonian life forms that attract their quarry in an unsportsmanlike manner, being related to the much smaller Venus flytrap and the equally rare Spiderwitch. It is capable of transforming itself into a kind of floating paradise in order to lure and fatten its prey in the most ingenious way. A mature Gourmetica can attain a circumference of several miles but needs only 300 pounds [live weight] of fresh meat, or thereabouts, to feed itself for a year. This must be provided by one or more of the highly developed mammals, however, because fish or birds will not do.

The Gourmetica is firmly anchored to the seabed - a blessing on Nature's part, when one considers what havoc a mobile carnivorous plant of this order could wreak in a heavily populated seaside town.

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I thought one carries flowers upside down so the water in the stems stays with the flowers instead of dripping out. It keeps them from drying out

Regarding the TV show, I quite liked Designated Survivor

Daß Central Büro der Fahrtüchtigkeitsbeweisen (auf Niederländisch abgekürzt CBR) hat ihren Hauptsitz in Rijswijk. Man würde aber eher sagen Punkte 'beim CBR' zu haben als 'in Rijswijk'.

ARD (German national news) reported a software update gone wrong

Temperature depending on how fresh the pee is?

Reminds me of a great story about a toaster

https://www.ganssle.com/articles/toastallessons.htm

I was really looking forward to Transport Fever 3. Until they announced a publishing partnership with Paradox Interactive... I had trust in the developing studio and was prepared to look past some issues on launch but I just don't trust Paradox. So now it really depends on how the launch goes and whether they keep their promises.

There is a game in development that does some of this stuff. It's called Junxtions I think. Looked interesting

From taking the story at face value, yes I personally think this is ok. It's not overly petty or revengeful to warn others about what a person is likely to do based on past experience. Otherwise she will swindle and abuse the next person.