Hmmm…

Enter Sandman, and The Unforgiven (Metallica)

The Phantom of the Opera in Tarja’s and Marko’s version (Nightwish). Also Storytime in Anette’s version.

The Keeper of the Seven Keys, and Eagle Fly Free (Helloween)

Chop Suey (System of a Down)

Dance With the Dragon (Dark Sarah)

Ace of spades (Motörhead)

… A bunch of stuff from Guns’n’Roses, Black Sabbath, and Poison (maybe my definition of metal is wider than yours…)

Other days I’d have listed something by Evanescence, Edguy, Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, Korpiklaani, Alestorm, Nanowar, Dragonforce, …

Yeah, I tend to be biased towards power metal, symphonic metal, and various '80s groups that are somewhere on the border between “hard rock” and “metal”. I know that’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

The common mistake of mistaking a “children’s show” based on something Astrid Lindgren wrote, for something that’s emotionally light weight.

Yep, that’s pretty close to what I’ve assumed is going on, and I’m doing what I can to accommodate.

That’s soo my wife.

Friends coming over for dinner, and we want another two seats available at the table? I’d better make her clear off that table because otherwise there’ll be another round of “NOOOO, you moved stuff, now I’ll never be able to find anything again”. “Sweetie, it’s all on the side table. I moved the stuff pile by pile, didn’t mix the piles” “It’s forever gone!”

The Democrats first moves, yes.

That the Republicans already made a bunch of moves…

And the company that charges “gas refueling fees” for a fully charged EV.

https://www.thestreet.com/electric-vehicles/hertz-charged-a-loyal-customer-a-277-surcharge-for-gas-in-a-tesla-rental

1 and 6.

I wouldn’t call it “measured in inches” as much as they are “named” with a partly numerical name, which may or may not be an adequate correspondence with a different country’s length scale.

It’s similar with bicycles: many tires are named in inches. Two tires with the same number of “inches” may however not have the same diameter, so to translate size-names into measurements is fraught with pitfalls.

Most of my family has this problem, but at least diabetes appears not to be the cause.

It varies so much from day to day, if I even notice that I skipped a meal (not breakfast, mkay? I literally can’t skip breakfast). Sometimes I’m in the zone and don’t notice that lunch time was like 4 hours ago. Other days I can get really irritated that I haven’t had lunch yet and it’s another hour until I’m supposed to take that lunch break.

Make everyone a criminal, selectively arrest your enemies. Very simple.

And as long as you keep track of which of your 5 different cups is the one that’s 16 times larger than the tablespoon measuring scoop. :)

-10F is cold, +80F is hot.

0C is “maybe it’s time to think about switching from summer shoes to winter shoes; there’s better grip on my winter shoes and that’s getting relevant today”

Which of the cups?

The one that’s in my cabinet? The one that Wikipedia lists as “this is definitely the cup, there’s no doubt about that”? The cup that’s also called a “coffee cup” as opposed to the cup from which I drink my coffee, which is very different despite also being both a cup and a coffee cup? The volume that my coffee maker defines to be a cup (or maybe that’s supposed to be a cup, sorry, coffee cup, but not the same coffee cup that the standard coffee cup - which still is named a cup)?

-50C is real cold - about as cold as regular humans will ever be exposed to, and survive, anywhere (outside of Antarctica). +50C is real hot - about as hot as regular humans will ever be exposed to (and survive).

Nice and symmetric.

Of course there’s a little bit of flexibility in these descriptions. I believe both Baghdad and Yarkutsk have surpassed their respective “50”-lines without killing their complete populations.

I should probably point it that I’ve never claimed to be Belgian - actually I’m not - so I’m not compelled to vote, though that’s still something I want to do. I’m just predicting that if a European court strikes down the Belgian law, my country’s FATCA law is perhaps not very likely to be deemed much more legally sound than the Belgian FATCA law. Though, IANAL. I might be overreacting.

In order to access my Internet banking service, I need a valid bank card of some variety (credit, or debit). My bank needs to know how to get a new one to me, once the old expires. (So far they’ve done this without complaints).

My country’s residency register does inform the banks automatically about my registered address. I cannot tell the government and expect the bank to not know (if the bank is incompetent enough not to know what to do about with that information, that’s a different story, and that is for a different day).

While I haven’t looked closely at what it would take to be allowed to take up residency in Canada, my impression is that it is quite difficult indeed. Add to that, that I’m married to an American with family connections near where we are living, and moving is even harder.

It’s significant already. If I get the math right (warning, I’m on my phone in bed at 3am and it’s been 10 years) I think that a 1 inch chip running at 3GHz clock rate could, if you aren’t careful with the design of the clock network, end up with half a clock cycle physically fitting on the chip. That is, the trace that was supposed to move the signal from one end of the chip to the other, would instead see the clock signal as a standing wave, not moving at all. (Of course people has (tried?) to make use of that effect. I think it was called “resonant clock distribution” or some such)

The problem with banning people from identifying nazis is of course that the nazis then have a field day doing nazi things, chanting “you aren’t allowed to call me a nazi …”

Yep, that’s what brought me over to XFCE for several years. Back at KDE again, though

My home country is one of those with a residence registry, run by the government. The banks get their address data about me from this registry. Unless I were to hide from that government that I’ve emigrated, which is legally dicey from several aspects, including to whom I should pay taxes, I have no way of hiding my address from the bank. And lying about which country I’m in - and then wandering in to the consulate in US and ask about renewing my European passport… No thanks.

Yes, the bank restricts parts of their web portal to anyone they deem being a resident of the US. IIRC that might not even have been primarily due to FATCA (I moved about the time when FATCA laws were being implemented around the world, not sure if I moved before or after my country implemented it), but to a second US law, called the Dodd-Frank act.