He actually can be insightful, but then chose to become a clown account. He's mostly busy with engagement farming and rage-baiting, and also spends an astonishing amount of time "fighting" with obvious trolls (if not bots...). In other words, your average X account.
#Berlin makes losses in the millions on its ... residential parking permits. Because the price of about €10 per year is lower than the costs to the administration (which is about €42). www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/koste...
Precisely the problem. The only agency collecting taxes (with marginal exceptions) is the centrally controlled Agenzia delle Entrate. The idea of allowing local entities to raise or even collect new taxes is inconceivable for the upper realm of Roman politics (particularly for CdM civil servants).
Bidets are no longer required in at least one bathroom in Portugal (since 2024) and it's been a popular home renovation to remove them when modernizing bathrooms for a couple of decades so I would say the trend is roughly similar to Spain, unfortunately
I can just recommend a little experiment I tried a few months ago. Create a new account on X, set it up as neutral as you can with a semantically empty user name and some random avatar - and then just have a look what kind of content shows up in your timeline... Spoiler: It's scary.
As for the last point, Italians claim to shower the most among Europeans 😉 On a more serious note, I'd be extremely careful about putting too much trust into self-reported hygiene/cleaning practises. What counts is relevant medical data, and I haven't seen anything that sets Italians apart.
Look, I'm just fending off the idea (you seemingly implied?) that bidet-less bathrooms are something foreigners brought upon these shores. It's much more plausible that Italians themselves happily imported them. Cultural habits can be deep, but also change rather dramatically over a short time span.
...In the age of 50/60/70 sqm apartments, this experience could surely get some Italians to ask tough questions, if they really want to allocate precious space for bidets, no?
...I just happen to be aware of by chance. But we can also turn around your question and ask, if this (marginal?) phenomenon is a function of globalization? Millions of Italians have - at some point of their lives - spent time abroad and found out that you don't really need bidets for hygiene...
The inherent problem here is that bidets are famously a legal requirement in Italy, so there won't be any kind of dataset coming from builders, plumbers or homeowners about their legal non-compliance. The examples I know are mostly "Italians", but sure, it could be a local/regional group effect...
As it happens, I live in Italy, and I know multiple flats/houses of friends & acquaitances who chose to make do without bidets 🙂 Is it a majority? No, surely not. Is it a trend? In the sub-category of restructured bathrooms of small/mid-sized apartments, I'd think so.
It's actually not that unusual in Italy that people get rid of bidets, when they restructure their bathrooms (space constraints in modern appartments...). Also a good indicator that a significant part of the alleged high usage numbers come down to 'prestige answers' ("Yes, of course, I use it!").
I know from anecdotal evidence that some (many?) people who restructure their bathrooms in Italy also get rid of their bidets. Technically illegal, but in the absence of a dedicated bathroom police unit...
Have to agree that the body mechanics for using a bidet are stupid, but this is a solved problem. Below you see the best system on Earth and I can't wait for my fellow Europeans to get finally civilized by South Asians.
Neustes Detail: Im Jahre 11 der Elektrifizierungsbemühungen taucht ein "neues" Problem auf: Unter einer Brücke bei Kortsch hat die Oberleitung gar nicht Platz. Beiläufig erwähnt in einem Interview hier: www.vinschgerwind.it/index.php/vi...
...die Entwicklung von H2-Pkw aufgegeben. Die einzigen, die sich noch playen lassen, sind regionale Transportagenturen (nicht nur in Südtirol). Immerhin ist uns der Vinschger Wasserstoffzug (statt Elektrifizierung) erspart geblieben. Über den Noggler Sepp hatten sie's damals ja mal probiert.
...verlangen, erstmal bis ins letzte Bergdorf wieder ausgraben, dann abbauen und entsorgen. Da wär's doch für die Industrie schön, wenn's sonst noch nen Rohstoff gäbe, den man mit geringen Adaptionen durch die Gasleitungen kriegt... Jedenfalls hat sogar inzwischen schon die Automobilindustrie...
Die Realität der Dinge ist wohl einfach, dass es enormes Lobbying der Erdgasindustrie Richtung H2 gibt. Wenn das Gas irgendwann mal fertig ist, müssten die ja ihr billionenteures Pipeline-/Leitungsnetz, für das sie von Verbrauchern hohe Nutzungsgebühren ("Transport" auf deiner Gasrechnung)...
For clarity's sake: I'm talking about entering non-EU countries with visa waivers/visa on arrival schemes. No idea by what extent my personal experiences can be generalized, but I'd recommend to stick to your older passport, unless there is a really compelling reason to travel under new flag.
...allowed to enter given your 'strong' EU citizenship, it's just that all these automatized border-check systems with passports scans and face recognition will flag you as somebody requiring human intervention. And some bored border agents might be inclined to go onto power trips :-)
Nope, I have 2 EU passports. I had been using them at random for travel purposes for years, until I started encountering these inconveniences above, when trying to enter third countries I'd already been to with my 'other' passport (all fine on the visa front). I mean you'll eventually always be...
