Everywhere I worked in North America (USA and Canada) paid bi-weekly.

Everywhere I’ve worked in Europe (Germany and UK) paid monthly.

I would guess that this is just a difference in norms

I’m skeptical that this is at all true, but it’s not about being granted the job, but rather getting past the initial HR filtering and actually getting the chance to talk to a human.

Ah, no in europe where I live is fairly normal for rail service to small villages even.

Unless you are near a train stop when it skyrockets

Small towns built around a train station are absolutely lovely though

Basically just further proof that car traffic doesn’t scale well. It’s just an incredibly space inefficient way to get around.

Und wie Städte (wegen Flugtxis) fürs Leben zu laut sind, also wohnt man lieber außerhalb und pendelt mit dem Flugtaxi

Ist auch in Englisch so. Immer häufiger werden Schauspielerinnen als ‘Actors’ statt ‘Actresses’ bezeichnet. Es macht einfach keinen Sinn zwichen den Geschlechtern zu unterscheiden.

That’s just saying “people who are in a social community are happier and more engaged than those that aren’t” because most social communities are currently religious focused.

Exact same thing happens to me. It’s not necessarily nightmares, but really intense dreams. So intense that I wake up feeling tired.

Or, arguably even more importantly, conservatives argue that this is actually about ‘mental health issues’ but then subsequently refuse to do anything to improve mental health. So they don’t even bother trying their own proposed solution.

You would think at this point that the US would have the most robust mental-healthcare system on the planet!