Active ear protection become passive when the batteries fail. The active part is that they have microphones on the outside so that you can hear normally with them on. I do agree though that noice cancelling headphones should not be used as hearing protection.

We nagged our highschool around 97-98 until we got a programming course, we wanted c++ but the IT guy thought c++ would just be a fad, so we learned turbopascal.

University in Sweden is free for swedish citizens, it used to be free for foreign students as well, but since some years ago the universities are allowed to put fees on foreign students. Dont remember the exact details of how it works. Edit: looked it up, still free for people from EU, EES and Switzerland, and people living in Sweden with a resident permit.

It is a ~10 years old meme from reddit.

I want this picture on a sticker so I can put it on every Tesla I see.

Iain M. Banks - Surface Detail has a really fucked up version of that concept in it.

This is Chappie, he is a norrbottenspets who thinks he is meerkat.