It’s the opposite. On Android I have an adblocker. On my work iphone I have to raw dog the internet

Hm. You can’t print it like that, it’d a ton of ink and too heavy.

Black paper and white ink? That’s interesting

Not to rub it in, but I moved from the US to Scandinavia (during Biden’s presidency) and while I have plenty of problems and stresses there’s a relief to the safety and stability of it that I didn’t realize I was missing in the US.

Life is far from perfect here but it’s all in all better than life was in the US for us, and I feel that would be even more true as time goes on.

Also sorry about wtf is going on to you (presumably) over there.

100% agree and think you’re slightly underselling it

Much of Japan is very very clean in general. People take a lot of pride in that!

Yeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate and that’s a little boring :p

二 (pronounced and romanized to “ni”) is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda

Same with 三(San)

Surprised to see Japan at ~40

He probably couldn’t explain it well if he didn’t know how to code at all imo

1554 is one of the GOATs of beer

Sure! The tasting part is complex but to grossly simplify it:

Each site has a bunch of people who are taster verified and have other jobs (rigorous program that takes a while to be part of) and they 1+ taste panel per day on each site which has a mix of new beers, old shelf beers, all the new releases, all from all of the sites, plus other market stuff (competitor products). You don’t usually know what you’re tasting outside of trainings so you just use a bunch of chemical words to describe the beer (no, you don’t say “fruity”, you talk about the specific fruit compound like acetaldehyde or ethyl hexonoate).

They only use the data of attributes you’re best at, so each taster is like an instrument that they’re also Corsa calibrating with spiked samples throughout all of that.

The best part, by far? Free snacks; good ones too. We already had limitless free beer so that doesn’t incentivize anyone

Beyond that NBB was dope. Love the people, love the beer, the company actually stands up for what it believes in. Based af, if it was in Europe I’d 100% work for them still. But we did wanna leave the US so…

I live in Europe, but was an expert taste panelist at New Belgium Brewing in the US when I lived there.

Lefthand Milk Stout Nitro is a great beer.

There’s a lot of good beer all over the world (okay, much of it anyway). Quality has a LOT more to do with freshness, cleanliness, and lack of dissolved oxygen in the beer. You can also find bad beer most anywhere. Don’t let someone making silly blanket statement get ya down.

I will just go ahead and contradict myself by making a blanket statement that the low end of food is just better in most of the EU cuz of how much stricter the rules are. From McDonald’s to the grocery store, you kinda can’t get “terrible” food.

Denmark checking in, it was like $3 USD for 10 eggs yesterday, and Denmark isn’t cheap

Oh, duh, that’s fantastic

Can you explain it for me? The aFd one? I know the AFD party of course

Hi! I was a controls engineering in the automotive industry in the US for a while.

Yup. You sure should! Some cars even have tire dimensions and quick selections of winter/summer tires for exactly that. Some cars make it much harder/impossible to do.

Same with motorcycles if you swap sprockets of course (a common modification)

Edit: seems bikes are a pretty mixed bag where the speed sensor is. Your mileage (and speed) may vary there

Fun fun fun fun fun

I lived and worked outside Shanghai for a bit, but it was a while ago and probably has changed a good bit. What makes you think their lives are far better off than those in the states?

Not necessarily disagreeing, but it absolutely was not the case 15 years ago. American life is on a downhill though, zero argument there.

Interstellar. That ending was so unbelievably dumb that I can’t even stomach the rest of the movie thinking about it.

I know it’s got rave reviews, a stacked cast, Nolan directing. Plenty was pretty, cool concepts, high stakes scenes. But that ending… shudders

Yeah, I guess the assumption it takes is that there aren’t larger topographic changes for the other legs between their points, and that the legs are equal length. But I like it, it’s a fun one I’m trying next time