RecursiveParadox

Same.

Houses in NL, including my very well insulated one, do not stay stable at mid 20s in the Summer anymore even if it cools down a bit at night (and it doesn’t always).

I work from home and can tell you that trying to work in my home office when it’s 27C is no good.

I am NOT a food purist and fully support this meme, but Indonesian and Thai food are nothing alike at all.

The only thing they share in common is sate which pretty much every country in SE Asia took from Indonesia.

And I suppose congee/juk/whatever your country calls it (and now I want some even though it’s not breakfast time here)

[for anyone who doesn’t get it this is the most famous comment from Unidan who was a scientist but, alas, drunk a bit too much of his own koolaid. Other than that, he was a very cool commenter.]

As the others said, food. Specifically unsalted cashews. I called our (Dutch) bird rescue center and they said that’s the healthiest “human” food to give them.

I have three crow friends (and sometimes their buddies) who light on my balcony railing and wait for me to come out. One will eat it there while I’m watching; the other two fly it across the street to their stashes. All three will just sit on the railing and watch me work sometimes.

Sometimes the magpies show up, but they are super, ultra cautious around The Human. I can tell they know me though when they fly through the street. They make the happy magpie sound they make to their mates when one of them steals a cashew intended for the crows instead of being silent.

I get that this is illegal, but you do not have to give them a lot or make it obvious . One or two a day. You may not see them, but they will see and remember you as Cashew Guy/Gal/Nonbinary Pal.

Also alas, Unidan, where did you go?

Alexander is tripping if he thinks Turkey can ever join while Cyprus is a member.

But overall I agree with his comments. He’s a smart dude.

" Experimental Beef Jerky" is the name of my new Bluegrass/Metal Bee Gees cover band.

Spartanburg, SC in the States, Purmerend in the Netherlands.

So …if you never let any Microscope product update on your Apple product, you should be fine, right?

Requisite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvS97KtUhEE

Very cool thanks!

“The West” is still doing business with Russia, but be patient. I have it on fairly good authority the 21st EU sanctions package will contain a full services ban. This will effectively end all European involvement in transporting Russian crude/products, other commodities, etc. Probably in the Autumn.

The authors actually have cameos in the show. They were very involved in its conception and making. The books had a lot more details, little sub-stories, etc. The show made a few substantial changes, but IMHO they all made for better TV (like making Arwin a major character in Jackson’s LotR).

Fun fact: the authors initially intended for The Expanse to be a table top game.

What I think they meant to say was not that they were getting their news from social media. They clearly knew what had happened from actual news and were commenting that social media wasn’t really reporting things accurately.

The phrase I’ve heard is “epistemically privileged.” And deservedly because from a standpoint of pure ethics, “science” has done way more good than damage than competing ways of looking at the world.

But let’s say someone asks you how a car works. You go into a bit about the internal combustion engine. You explain how little explosions make pistons go. They ask you about these explosions, so you have to take them to a chemist to explain. Then they ask the chemist why does this reaction happen, and the chemist sends them to the physicist. You go through the Newtonian bit, which seems intuitive enough, but when you ask about atoms, you have to go into subatomic physics. Which is something you cannot experience without special equipment that you trust the physicist is telling the truth about.

So, yeah, while the empirical method is fantastic and the best model we have, in the end it relies on faith as much as any religion.

Can confirm this is - or at least used to be - a thing.

Yes!

We have those in NL. A few other European countries as well.

Thank you for the explanation.

Getting downvotes (and bots were here etc) but this is essentially true, if delivered a bit mean.

Don’t buy ceramic knives; they dangerous as hell and will fail catastrophically at the wrong time. And never put your cutting knives in the dishwasher, as you amended your post to say.

Good knives don’t have to be expensive, but you’ll have to so some research or buy second and learn how to sharpen them. They will burn me as a witch, but there are other methods than a whetstone that are just as effective and that do not significantly damage your blade.