Electric scale because it’s more accurate. Wooden utensils yes agreed, plastic from utensils does break down in your food especially while cooking, high temps. Electric stoves are a lot healthier than gas, for yourself in the kitchen and for the environment/climate. Electric stoves got soooo much better in the last 15 years. Other than nostalgia, I don’t see a reason to prefer gas nowadays. Glass for storage is the best, agreed.

It used to be pay per SMS (and not cheap either), that’s why WhatsApp got so big in the first place, it was “free” anywhere with free WiFi. But since many years now, regular SMS became free / dirt cheap (especially within EU), so it’s no longer as good as a reason to use WhatsApp now. Now it’s because it has groups, media, history, is searchable, etc.

How cool would it be to out of nowhere see Valve come out with a SteamPhone based on Arch which does everything you ever hoped for and runs on high quality hardware including all the features that others took away (colour alert pixel, 3,5mm jack, replaceable battery), complete with dual boot or a containerised Android-mode for running apps that would never work like banking or eID. Would buy instantly.

Interesting indeed. I was only talking about public TV and only streaming on their website. Thread you’re talking about seems like it was a private channel situation? I thought this legal nonsense is one of the reasons the Tagesschau never shows soccer but only talks it, it’s to complicated and then they gotta put up the geofencing restrictions too.

To watch Flemish public TV news online, you have to login to your account (verified e mail address). Which is bad enough. If you want to watch it from abroad while not living in Belgium and using foreign IP, they ask you to login + “verify your identity” with your identity card or something like that. Goodbye VRT, I’ll watch other regions’ public news channels, stick yours up yours. Wankers. British, German, Dutch … all offer the basic news shows to everyone without any hurdles.

Some people are getting very very rich from the ongoing war. There are now definitely strong forces at play to keep it going as long as possible, without a victory for any side.

I’ve been listening to it: https://antennapod.org/deeplink/subscribe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fs%2F104e3eb08%2Fpodcast%2Frss&title=Boring+History+for+Sleep.

I think it progressed. The oldest episodes seemed very genuine, enjoyed listening tbh. The more recent episodes… are unlistenable to me.

Just tell him it will all be good, while you slip his pills in his snack during bingo night and tuck him in to bed; in the elderly home where he belongs.

Not super common I guess, but I find temperature describing a valid way of describing how music feels to you… Closely related to matching colours to music, which seems more generally accepted as being a ‘real’ thing

https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/music-and-temperature.html?m=1

_Cold: high-pitched, clear, dry, minimalistic sounds. Metal, ice, brittle materials breaking. Abrupt changes. Sharp sounds, with reverberation. Clear, precise, correct, sterile. Digital, technological. Lack of emotion.

Hot: Pleasant, immersive sounds, without abrupt changes. Muffled sounds, as if heard through a warm blanket. Warmth = wellbeing. Rich, deep, low sounds. The sound of soft materials melting. Human, analogue, non-digital. Love, closeness, emotion._

And also for example how a high quality vinyl record playing on old school decent stereo can really feel very different (warmer) from all other ways of listening to the same music… In general imo society did lose audio quality (warmth) when moving away from vinyl and big stereos to digital and pc speakers, Bluetooth speakers, earplugs… it’s still the pinnacle listening experience for albums.

To me that isn’t neutral music at all tho, it always sounds very warm for me… Like the evening cooldown after a very hot day. And I like that about it.

The actual “genre” that comes closest imo is Bossa Nova, think Girl from Ipanema.

Is what you’re looking for perhaps Elevator Music or Muzak??

Focus your resources to keep seeding near dead items, more local/regional/obscure things. 1 seed more or less on a 150 swarm of a very popular, new item doesn’t matter as much as being (almost) the only one left.

Bicycle road rage does exist, between road bikers and regulars, between fast electric and regulars and in general because plenty assholes do also ride bicycles if the infrastructure is good enough.

Other than that, all valid points!

Happens in multiple countries. Germany, Netherlands, Belgium I know for sure. Probably elsewhere too.

It’s very young and got very popular suddenly, someone will make a nice stable UI for it at some point…

In some situations they’ll rather have empty houses than rent it out to the poorest people for lower prices. Or actively destroy (“upgrade”) affordable housing to keep prices of the rest up. And if the prices do really go down a lot it’s still poors with mortgages but suddenly no more enough income selling their places for bargain prices to the ultra rich for whom even in a real estate crisis with crashed prices it’s all still just a game situation, not a food on the table one. They use it to gobble up even more.

There is plenty of housing currently in Western countries, it’s just not being made available to those in need. That won’t change with lower birthrate, it will stay not available to them. It can only change with system change where no one can hoard insane billion amounts of $ € ¥ numbers on their screen or have thousands of homes as their belongings.

If you count using shady free streaming websites, I think the number is waaaay bigger than 1%

I wonder if now is a good time to download all Wikipedia and put it on a spare offline drive…

Buy one that can also burn m-disc