That’s why he’s starting now, so that he can actually ride his work elephant by the time he is able to get his elephant licence.

Luckily software like Teams has noise cancellation, so keyboard sounds generally get filtered out.

While I somewhat get the decision from a security standpoint, doesn’t cancelling the pride event give these lowlifes exactly what they want?

What are the odds that a second attack like this happens on the same event?

Pride is a protest as much as it is a celebration.
Attacks like this ruin the celebration, but in my view they also increase the need to protest.

If they take issue with you disliking Musk (since I presume that is the political belief you are talking about) then maybe they are not great company to keep.

Walled slop shop

He has nothing to say about the International Criminal Court.
The US isn’t even party to the ICC.

Cities Skylines and Paralives

The prospects for China are not looking particularly good. Decades of a one-child policy seems to have helped normalize one child per couple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate

China has a fertility rate of 1.02 children per woman.
For comparison, in the US that rate is 1.62 children per woman and in Germany 1.46.

A “healthy” fertility rate, where the population remains more or less stable (not accounting for immigration), is roughly at 2.1 children per woman.

The West is going to have issues with their low birthrates, but the looming Chinese demographics crisis is looking to be much worse than what the West is going to be dealing with.

10 Mbps up in the year of our lord 2026?..
I swear to god, I’m not convinced the US is a first-world country.

I’m on my phone which runs Android, so technically I am also using Linux

The first time I saw a black person as a kid, I was staring… as young kids do… The guy notices and engages by showing the palms of his hands and saying something along along the lines of “Look. Not all of my skin is black.”

Apparently that scared the crap out of young me

My mom still likes to tell that story sometimes

Funnily France will probably be the loudest opponent to giving Iceland this concession.

Realistically though this is the best opportunity for Iceland to try and get this concession, since Europe needs allies and the UK isn’t there to throw a spanner in the works.

The Brits are probably still a bit salty about losing from Iceland in the Cod Wars three times over.

Why would I leave the car keys at home? It’s not like they’re heavy or anything

The hope is that the European Union is willing to add water to the wine, and give Iceland an exemption to the common fisheries policy for the sake of finding more better allies in the world and expanding the European Union.

Maybe we’re in a simulation, but the script of history ended in 2020, and now an AI model is just halucinating what happens next.

Tipping is a thing in the NL. But this 15% nonesense by default can go fuck itself.

Tipping is gratuity, to be awarded for excelent service. If they dare ask me for a tip, I’d consider that rude and they’ll get nothing from me.

Like hell it is.

Card terminals may be asking for tips, but if they do that they’re getting 0% from me. Asking for a tip is rude and a guaranteed way not to get one.

I experienced it once at a place where I had to prepay for the drinks, so they dared to ask me for a tip before I even received service. The absolute guts of asking for a tip before even offering service…

Tips are gratuity awarded for excelent or exceptional service. Unlike America waiting staff actually earns a proper wage, so it’s not like they need tips to get by.

And it will be again after they’re done eroding trans rights. And then they’ll continue with civil rights, etc.

That’s not what I said though. I said people would opt for a heatpump that is also capable of cooling, in other words and air conditioner.

Airconditioners are (air-to-air) heatpumps

The specific solution for heating/cooling a home might be different for different types of housing. But air-to-air heatpumps are a very interesting way to replace the water boiler as the main method of heating your home.

And as a bonus you can use it to cool your home in summer.

I live in an apartment, and I installed airconditioning

An apartment is just a house where you also happen to have neighbours above and below you as well. There is no reason why an AC shouldn’t work in an apartment.

The biggest struggle is updating the rules of your home-owners association to allow for the installation of an external unit, but once that exists all tenants can freely install ACs as they please.

(In my case the rules specify that the external unit needs to be placed on the balcony on the east side of the building)