This sounds very much like the operation described in the book Number Go Up, which is ostensibly about FTX, but is really about a number of crypto operations which may or may not be illegal

Disk Utility used to have a Repair Permissions tool, at least back in the 00s. Not sure when it was removed

You will no doubt have noticed that with the proliferation of mobile Epos, tipping is increasingly being crowbarred into daily life over here too. For godssakes Just Say No

Yes. However there are downsides to Japan’s intensely high trust (and high shame) culture as well. Death by overwork is the one that’s most known in the west, although there are plenty of others that outsiders would never usually learn about

It’s possible the last train simply parks there for the night. This would mean that you ride the same train back after this misadventure

That would mean the train driver spends the night in the middle of nowhere, I doubt they would agree to that.

Otsuki might still be an booking-on/-off point for train drivers, with a number of drivers based there and regularly starting and ending their turns at that station and presumably living nearby. Or alternatively the train company finds it more convenient ferrying the driver with a taxi or company car to from the regular booking-on/-off point.

I’ve never ended up in this situation myself, but I have many times lived on similar commuter lines. Hearing the names of those end of lines stations becomes a big part of your every day routine. In most cases I never even visited them, which looking back feels like a pity, and even disrespectful of their incidental importance

This is entirely a problem of putting all of eggs in one basket. Or rather, only having one basket in which you’re allowed to put your eggs. The German pension system is already insolvent, and I suspect it’s not the only one. European welfare states are great n’all, but it would seem they were set up when the going was good and populations were growing. Now with stagnation, they don’t look much like staying solvent and populations don’t have anywhere else to turn

The German pension system is completely insane. There is no fund backing it, and disbursements already exceed contributions to the tune of 127B EUR per year (which is subsidized from the general budget) and the gap is only growing.

Probably explains a good chunk of Germany's and the EUs anemic growth. Simply put, that's 127B EUR that can't be spent investing in the future and growing the economy.

Very very true. I self host synapse, and generally speaking the ability to bridge my ~3 most used messengers into one app (ElementX) adds value. However, the lacking features and bizarre feature disjoints between Element (supposedly EOL) and ElementX (suppose next gen) are jarring

That’s not surprising at all. I don’t about the scientific apps you’re talking about, but I assume that their user base would be accessing them through academic site licenses. Music apps, however, would be predominantly used by hobbyists, a few of which would later make it big. The problem was/is that the price tags assumed studio budgets. But if you wanted those studio sounds at home, well the price is a big challenge until you start making solid money. Which is even fewer

kittysplit.com has had this feature set for a decade. I try to promote it whenever I can