Is this profile usually a verbal communication with you and the landlord then or do they expect to see written proof of those profile details during a viewing appointment?
What would an "reasonable" price be for the mock up listing of the 65 square meter place in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg be then?
Lastly aside from rent I'm guessing the two biggest overheads are power and internet? What could one expect those to be?
> Things like whether you have dogs, kids, are a smoker.
Or have a German ID card (Personalausweiß). Last time I tried to rent there (2017) I had a hard time finding a place as most landlords insisted that I'd be showing them my ID card (mine expired while living abroad). I think without it, it'll be additional hassle with the Einwohnermeldeamt for you and the landlord (not sure about that, but some landlords wont be either).
Traditional plants to manufacture aluminium do not work on-demand though. If they are not shut down orderly, you can rebuild the whole plant essentially.
So there will be some innovation needed to shutdown (and boot up) these plants quickly, I would think?
handing out your login credentials is like giving a blanko check with your signature on it already.
> What bank in the U.S. wont reverse fraudulent ACH debits?
If you admit to handing out signed blank checks, I would hope that most if not all banks would at least have a discussion with you about how you may be not the customer they are looking for.
That is another myth that is floating around the US. CA actually has progressive tax brackets (i.e. the rate changes quite a bit from bracket to bracket) and only few get into the top state brackets, whereas most of the other states that have income tax, >90% of people are in the top bracket as the top bracket is around $10k (looking at https://tax.idaho.gov/i-1110.cfm).
I personally think the whole country should focus more on the greater good for everyone by culling the virus instead of doing this open-nd-close back and forth juggling, as to optimize for the best outcome available (similar to New Zealand). But then again I am not well versed on the Nash equilibrium when it comes to highly infectious diseases.
Not really in the nature of NZ, either. Our cultural heroes often feature a sense of "bugger them" if they're not inventing something.
* Hone Heke, kept cutting down a flagpole to mess with the British
* The Southern Man popularised by a beer company, who prefers the company of his horse.
* The Good Keen Man popularised by Barry Crump, who prefers the company of the hills and his rifle.
* James MacKenzie, a sheep rustler who ended up with a sizable part of the South Island named after him (the MacKenzie Country)
* Edmund Hillary travelling to the South Pole by tractor "accidentally on purpose" when he was supposed to be laying out supplies for a British Lord's expedition.
However, what we have in our culture that the US seems to lack (from my _very_ distant POV) is a slight tendency towards collectivism over individualism.
Maybe it's from our long gone years as a "cradle to the grave" social democracy, maybe it's from the emphasis on mateship.
Maybe it's because we don't really like interpersonal conflict. (How do you know a Kiwi didn't like their meal in your restaurant? We haven't figured that out yet).
I'm from Australia, and I've lived in the US, and now live in Canada.
From experience, the difference is entirely in the way our societies are setup, and therefore how we treat each other.
In NZ/Oz/Canada, we have healthcare for all, affordable tertiary education, and we all pay higher taxes to help strangers. Looking out for each other is built into the makeup of our countries, systems and society.
In the US, it is literally "Me vs. You", "Everyman for himself", "Pay your own way", etc. It is simply not in the makeup of their society to help others. While of course there are extremely kind and generous people who do, it's not the way the systems are setup, so it's not the default way people think about things.
Also because tens of millions of people are within a millimetre of bankruptcy/starvation/living on the street, they literally have no head space or ability to do anything other than meet their own basic needs.
Here in Canada tens of millions of people have been getting $2k every month since March. Same in Australia.
In the US they got $1,200. ONCE. That changes a lot.
As a frequent traveler between AU/NZ/US/CA, I find the residents of Commonwealth countries tend to be compliant with the law in ways Americans simply aren't. I can't speak for Canada on this, but at least for AU/NZ, there's also zero gun culture. I'm still not sure how much of an impact that has on the public's psyche, but lack of gun culture does seem to point to trusting more in social institutions. As an outsider, my perspective is that Aussies/Kiwis understand viscerally at levels unseen in American culture — and possibly Canadian culture — that nature can kill you, and that the authorities really are a good resource to draw upon when your life is on the line, which it was during the Covid pandemic.
They tried something like that in Germany, but they got it wrong in the details:
Once you elect to communicate via this government blessed email, you are basically forced to check that email everyday notwithstanding your ability (e.g. when your computer/internet breaks) as the communication is considered delivered once it hits your (e-)mail box.
For example if you are summoned to court (and it is a felony to not show up), I'd think I'd prefer snail mail for those communications, as I'd trust my "tech stack" of a physical mail box on the receiving side a bit more than some government blessed email provider.
That sounds more like mostly a technical problem. You could simply configure forwarding from your gov. email account to your personal one. You could create filters to only care about certain domains to prevent spam.
It's still a lot easier to check email than walk to a mailbox daily. But the best solution is probably to default to both email & mail such that the email can be send when the letter is sent but neither would be considered a delivered message until the letter itself was delivered.
I think if you limited it to only sanctioned communications you'd limit this problem quickly (think only .gov email addresses can email it, for instance, and/or other sanctioned domains)
If we wanted to, we should provide two emails to the general public. A restricted communications one following the rules I suggest above, and perhaps a more general purpose one for those who want to use that, with the only requirement that you already signed up for the first one).
I know that's convoluted. It's just one idea of course. I think we could deal with this problem.
Also the gov being the gov, they could just mandate Google provide spam filter protections or something.
I think the Danish version of this, "E-boks", have been mandated for some years and it mostly works fine. There are a few issues now and then and it is difficult for the older population but I think that it overall have worked fine. And by far most people agree with it here.
Although this is not true email but a special message system that needs two factor auth to log in.
Most electric vehicles I know recuperate the power instead of braking. There are reports of rusty brake pads, even.
Besides, this is about tires, which may be worn down more by electric vehicles (as they have more wroooom, or rather they don't, but can still accelerate better)
Things like whether you have dogs, kids, are a smoker.
Or other things that you're not supposed to discriminate by according to law (looks "foreign", doesn't speak German or with a strong accent).
And then the non-obvious things like your financials (what is the likelihood of paying rent or lack thereof) or connections.
But I think the article doesn't specify actually what they mean by profile.