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Flixbus website becomes access restricted; trainline site has the same problem. (tor blocked) (fedia.io)
submitted 16 hours ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/Belgium
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Flixbus recently started blocking tor for some operations like seeing prices. The only alternative site for Flixbus price info is Trainline, as far as I know.

Are there others?

Then trainline started blocking tor. And (today?) Flixbus started blocking tor from the whole site (not just pricing info). Same problem for blablacar (blocks tor).

Anyone have a source for openly reachable Flixbus pricing?

EDIT: found wanderu.com

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Price controls on drugs in Belgium affect non-prescription drugs (fedia.io)
submitted 1 day ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/Belgium
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Riopan is an over-the-counter (OTC) drug that anyone can buy for stomach pain relief. Docs prescribe it, but the prescription is almost meaningless because it is not reimbursable. So the prescription only serves as a doc→pharmacist communication so the patient gets the right stuff.

20 sacs (10ml ea.) of Riopan is €8.95. Thus 45 €cents/dose. Bit pricey, no? So I checked a few places. All the same price and one pharmacist said the price is controlled on Riopan. No pharmacist can legally charge less than €8.95.

Yet this stuff is non-reimbursible. WTF? If a doc prescribes something, it means the patient needs it. If it’s needed, why would it not be covered?

At the same time, what’s the point in a price control on something that is unnecessary? This is bizarre, no? If medicine is needed, sure price controls make sense in a socialised medicine context to ensure equal access. But if it’s not reimbursable, it’s therefore treated as not needed, yet there are price controls which seem to worsen the deal for consumers on something like this due to lack of competition. It seems like an incoherent combination of disadvantages to consumers.

Also bizarre that despite being an openly accessible OTC drug, they don’t put Riopan on the shelf. You have to ask the pharmacist for it as if it needs some kind of controlled supervision/nannying. What is that about?

Does it make sense to buy Riopan or other drugs in neighboring countries? Obviously not worth a trip for Riopan but I just wonder if I happen to visit NL, DE, or FR, are there any OTC drugs I should buy.

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Now illegal in Belgium for lawyers to accept cash payments, according to a lawyer. Thus, no due process for unbanked people? (fedia.io)
submitted 2 days ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/Belgium
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Consider linking other free-world Belgium forums in the sidebar (fedia.io)
submitted 1 week ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/Belgium
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The mod might want to consider adding these related communities to the sidebar (all of which are properly decentralised):

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Seizing frozen Russian assets is ‘an act of war,’ says Belgian PM (www.politico.eu)
submitted 2 weeks ago by tfm to c/Belgium
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27227073

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Groen pleit voor crisisbijdrage miljonairs om extra defensie-uitgaven te betalen (www.hln.be)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Kualdir to c/Belgium
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