Took a moment…

For Germany, this webpage lists a bunch of online retailers, sorted into product categories: https://lmaa.space/

Well, the guy did say “briefly”, so if you drive into the water with speed and the right direction, you might theoretically not need to propel yourself nor steer…

Time to post a classic: https://hmijail.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

It’s a few years old, so probably need to double these numbers. At least, Wikipedia says that Bezos’ net worth is now $284 billion.

You can also often get TVP for pretty cheap, as it’s a byproduct of vegetable oil production. Might be sold as “soy chunks” or similar.

In particular, you can prepare it to be chewy like a steak, which I was somewhat missing from other vegan foods…

That looks a lot like a clarinet for some reason. 🙃

Seriously, though, when you work in IT, you constantly use VPNs as basic infrastructure, just to connect devices into larger networks. It is such a fundamental technology that the Linux kernel – the core of the operating system – ships an implementation (WireGuard).

Trying to regulate that is akin to regulating cables. Sure, cables can be used to access things you might not want. But good luck writing a law that prohibits the use of cables only specifically for the things you don’t want, without being so complex that it results in tons of bureacracy for all kinds of organizations.

And even then, it would necessarily lead to legitimate use-cases being prohibited, because you often cannot, and really should not be able to, see the traffic that users send over the infrastructure you provide them.

Ja, will niemand den Musikgeschmack absprechen, aber davon bekomme ich einfach nur Kopfschmerzen…

I think, you have to read it as “they were – all of them – deceived”…

I mean, this research wouldn’t be able to tell what about oranges makes these bacteria thrive, so would need a separate study for dried oranges or similar variations.

Having said that, your tea likely has so little actual orange in it, that it’s very likely negligible either way.
There’s probably just a tiny bit of orange in each tea bag to begin with, and it might even just be orange peel. And then it’s just traces of that which go into your tea water, too.

Of course, drinking tea in general can probably also help with depression in some way. At the very least, it hydrates you and presumably improves blood circulation, which can help get you out of a rut.

I’ve been setting an alarm for 20 minutes, because that’s supposed to be the optimal length for a nap (before you enter deeper sleeping phases, which you shouldn’t interrupt until like more than an hour of sleep time).

Sometimes, the 20 minutes work great, but sometimes it takes me like ten minutes to fall asleep. Then it always feels like the alarm robs me of the actual nap time. 🥴

Mine isn’t actually very warm. Like, it’s just tiny glass marbles inside. My other blanket that weighs maybe a tenth is much warmer, because it has actual fluffy stuffing inside…

I don’t even work in user support and that’s still part of my troubleshooting routine when folks (mostly techies) ask me for help.

Like, step 1: Did you restart the thing?
Step 2: Let’s redo the obvious troubleshooting steps together. Step 3: Is it the proxy?

The thing is, it’s just really easy to go through the obvious steps again. So, even if there’s just a 5% chance that they missed something, or that some error message can be seen that gives me more info, or heck, even if it just gives me more time to think, then it’s worth doing.

I make the assumption that it looked creepy, specifically because that girl stepped in. She had much more information about the situation, so almost certainly made a better call than anyone here could.

Well, and if the boyfriend is making a joke, he’s going to overdo it for comedic effect, too.

Yeah, I do kind of hate the word “train” for that reason. It just makes it sound like the animal is braindead and all the effort was on the trainer’s side.

In reality, it’s much more of a communication problem. You need to explain to the animal without using speech that you will reward it for a specific action. And then you need to explain that you will do this repeatedly and not just today either. Well, and the animal has to actually want whatever reward you’re giving it, too.

So much training advice seems to just boil down to communicating clearly and not breaking the contract of “do the thing → get reward”…

My doctor told me that vitamin B12 deficiency is common these days, because we get B12 from bacteria that live in dirt and with how cleanly our food is now, you just don’t get the occasional dirt in your diet anymore (and the animals you might consume don’t really get that either).

So, maybe¹ eating dirt might actually be healthy.

¹) Okay, no. Get B12 supplements. They’re almost as cheap as dirt and don’t give you illnesses.

In a similar vein, I also try to see it as an opportunity to make my conversation partner smarter (if I happen to be right, of course).

For “winning”, it’s enough to prove that what they’re saying is wrong. But for making them smarter, you need to point out what’s correct and why that makes sense.
Well, and in general, it’s a whole different way of formulating, i.e. less hostile, more helpful.

In the vast majority of cases, that makes all the difference for actually convincing them.
And it certainly hones your own mind much better, too, when you actually give the explanation rather than just pointing out fallacies.

Yeah, never liked the online communities. Like, they’re good when people can ask there for advice, in case they’re stuck in some ultra-religious family or village. But most of the time, they just devolve into anti-theism, because “religion bad” is sure to get you upvotes…

Jo, Katholikentag sollte für einen CDUler Heimspiel sein. Solange irgendwo christliche Werte erkennbar sind, könnte er das maximal schlecht kommunizieren und die wären trotzdem gewillt, das richtig auszulegen.

Mit der Merzschen Politik würde man eine zweite Maria aber abschieben anstatt sie aufzunehmen. Das läuft so offensichtlich gegen die Kernbotschaften des Christentums. Also wenn es ein Kommunikationsproblem gibt, dann dass diese Kernbotschaften bei Merz nicht angekommen sind.