I guess you haven’t seen Top Gun: Maverick yet?

Forgotten as usual. 😉

Debt is not a force of nature. Money is owed to someone.

BSD is freer for programmers (or frequently their corporate overlords), but not for people using the software.

I don’t think that they were being ironic…

I feel personally attacked.

I don’t think that you’ll get scurvy in the 3 days of this diet. 😆🍋

I can understand the confusion. Dutch does combine words, but not normally with the enthusiasm of German. So seeing verkiezingbijeenkomst in the caption might have confused you. 😉

In the Virginia mail-in voting instructions it is very clear that you are not to show anyone who you voted for. I guess I’m not surprised if other states do not have that, since voting rules are so haphazard in the USA.

It may be illegal to show your vote, exactly to prevent people in an unequal power relationship from pressuring you to vote in a specific way.

I know that you mean well, but you seeing your mother’s vote is exactly why mail in voting should be the exception. Voting booths exist so that votes ate secret, which is how it should be.

My mom hates Trump since she thinks he’s crude, but I’m 99% sure that my dad voted for them both by mail in votes.

Yeah but some prices double and the 2024 bar is less than 2× as high, other prices that are also double have 2024 bars more than 2× as high. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I wish people would stop conflating energy with electricity.

So Germany had ⅔ of it’s electricity from renewables, but still has gas for warming homes, petrol for cars, diesel for trucks, and so on.

Maybe up until they stopped having “don’t be evil” as their company motto?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don’t_be_evil

Stock options and grants are a tool to trick you into accepting lower pay and conflating your interests with those of the capital class. (Speaking as someone who has received both!)

Our drugs aren’t that good. And the system isn’t optimizing for maximum happiness.

As you did when you made the decision decades ago.

My son was literally crying earlier today because his VR headset is no longer visible from Windows and all of his efforts to fix it (driver updates, tweaking various program settings, and so on) failed.

So… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As someone who moved to a new country, having preparation instructions for things that “everyone” knows how to cook are super useful.

Meh. There’s also .UK, which is not the country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland… that’s GB.

We also have .EU, so this stuff is all pretty flexible in some sense.

Country codes are defined by the ISO, which is not UN run.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization