The Scots are a violent, savage people. I was attacked there and beaten, and everyone I met on the rest of my week stay regaled me with stories of people they knew who had been similarly brutalized. “Oh yeah my sister got a kicking last week.” “My mate Barry tried to pull some geezers off a bird and then she helped them give him a kicking!” And on and on. Amazingly even more vicious than the English, which hardly seemed possible.

Except the water faucets (“taps”) come in pairs, one with cold water and one with hot. So, not so much like going into the future, but more like some primitive land too stubborn to change for the better in even the most straightforward, obvious ways. 😆

The first rule of Christianity is, “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

There is no probation against killing in general in Christianity, only murder, which makes an appearance as the 5th commandment. Murder being unlawful and/or unjustified killing, so clearly wartime killing is a-okay in Christianity.

Now, you could argue that “love thy neighbor as thyself” might implicitly forbid killing, but if you start looking to Christianity for morality or even simple consistency you’re going to have a bad time.

As someone with both solar panels and a water kettle I promise you this is something I frequently wonder about!

I thought the same thing. In the Netherlands it’s not allowed to have realistic looking toy weapons. I basically think that’s a good thing.

Is that a problem? Is there a special reason these should be replaced?

For popular stuff I stop seeding when I’ve uploaded 10x the download size. For other stuff I keep it uploading forever.

I’m not sure why I have even one parallel cable, but I do. Surely I could just buy one online if I ever needed one. 🤔

I don’t understand ice in drinks at all. It displaces what I want (a delicious cold beverage) with what I don’t want (blocks of ice and watered-down drink).

Cold brewed coffee: delicious. Iced coffee: no thanks!

I don’t think you are correct. Since the best way companies found to make money while giving things away for free is advertising, they need to keep people watching. Sadly the things that engage people most are fear and hatred. So that’s what we get served up.

It’s just the same old adages that news used to have, “if it bleeds, it leads”, but pushed up to 11.

I’m curious why you think Python is unsuitable. Both of my kids picked up Python pretty easily.

What? I assume they work at a lab?

Meh. I lose power every 3 or 4 years on average. A UPS just doesn’t make sense for me. (When I lived in Virginia it was once a month on average, so for sure it made sense…)

The sequel films are trash, but a lot of Disney’s Star Wars stuff for the small screen has been really good.

I mean, it does also cause visual, aural, and olfactory hallucinations. Plus mess with how you perceive time.

Me too! I remember mansplaining to my girlfriend at the time how long it would take to visit a page and download images, and how nobody would wait that long to see pictures of cats. I underestimated how much people really want to see cat photos.

Poland uses coal to produce most of their electricity, unlike the rest of Europe. They don’t have a lot of coast for wind, they are northern and don’t get much sun for solar, they don’t have nuclear plants, and they were avoiding Russian gas for ages. Plus they have had right-wing governments for ages, who don’t care about pollution or global warming.

The biking culture in Amsterdam is fine. The problem is tourists standing on the seperate bicycle lanes - colored red, with pictures of bicycles on them - and thinking that they are being assaulted when a cyclist rings their bell to wake them out of their cannabis-induced stupor so they can get to work.

Fat bicycles modified to go faster than 25 km used to be a problem, but they get stolen so quickly now it’s less of an issue. 😆

Fluid ounces measure volume, so analogous to liters. As opposed to ounces which measure weight, so analogous to newtons, although everyone uses kilos to measure weight in day to day life.

There are also Troy ounces, which are for precious metals, but I honestly couldn’t say what those measure…

I reboot every box monthly to flush out such issues. It’s not perfect, since it won’t catch things like circular dependencies or clusters failing to start if every member is down, but it gets lots of stuff.