When you click on “What!?” it’s the same text but capitalized.

Absolutely. Like in the brexit referendum of 2016, which had a 72% turnout. Not like that referendum you are referencing, which is… Which one exactly?

Exactly. I keep forgetting yt even has ads until I visit friends.

The EU is not an alliance, so not being an ally is a moot point.

I was relistening to an episode of the podcast “The age of Napoleon” and it was about the Code Civile and (partly) about how it reverted women’s rights concerning divorce. During the French revolution women gained a lot of rights, including the rights to divorce from abusive husbands. The Code Civile actually reverted some of those rights, hence why this was mentioned, but it’s quite amazing that over 200 years we are still having these discussions.

Is it really that difficult to not consider 50% of the population inferior by default?

“How do you normally reprimand your car?” 😂😂😂

That would probably improve the infrastructure and economy of that region, so I don’t think they would mind that much. It’s scarcely populated jungle now, so the roads they would put in alone would be helpful.

The trick is a shoebox next to the screen. Cats like keyboards but can’t resist a box.

If you’re not used to cooking with induction it’s a bit of a learning curve. It gets warm very quickly so your timings are different. I burnt a ton of food learning to cook with induction, but once you get the hang of it, it’s super convenient.

I’m already investigating alternatives for my company to move away from vmware for when it inevitably turns to shit. We have not forgotten the shit Broadcom pulled with Veritas and finally managed to move away from that fully last year. Azure Arc seems promising and I have heard that a lot of companies are already switching from an old colleague.

There is the G1000 initiative in Belgium and the Netherlands. The idea is to have the legislative body be random people. There are even towns that already have implemented it. The concept is simple enough: representative democracy is inherently flawed, so just have legislators drawn by a lottery. With a high enough amount of people, you will get a near perfect representation of the population proportionally represented. For national bodies, the proposal is to have 1000 legislators, hence the number.

Personally I quite like the idea, especially if it were to be paired with a technocratic executive branch.

Ah, that hits close to home. I have spent a lot of time and energy to get my direct bosses onboard with following best practices and doing things right from the start. To their credit, they got onboard with it and are pushing that message themselves now. Of course, the board doesn’t care about that and just jams random projects with strict deadlines without any thoughts given to the IT aspects of it up our asses, but our head of IT has apparently grown a spine and started pushing back, with some moderate success.

The MO of my company has for years been: do a POC and then as soon as it works, push that POC in production. I’m still cleaning up the mess of idiotic shit like that from 15 years ago.

I saw a comment about kagi.com two days ago in a thread complaining about duckduckgo and decided to try it out. The search results are spot on every time so far, so I might keep using it and get a paid account.

When you’re a wunderkind, exceptions are made.

If we’re not talking about US airlines exclusively, I have very good experiences with Austrian Airlines. Their booking is straightforward, no hidden fees, good service on the airplane. The only issue I can think of is that it can be difficult to get into contact with a person from that airline when flying from a non-Austrian airport, but that is rarely needed anyway. They’re not low-cost though.

But it is steadily improving. A couple of months ago the everything feed would hardly change in 24 hours. Now when you refresh after 4 hours you already see a lot of new content. It’s not a sprint, this is a marathon and lemmy has a highly engaged user base.

The mod tools are improving, the content is improving, the user base is active and engaged, the larger instances have become stable and there are a ton of third party apps available now. Things are looking up for lemmy, and the users will come whenever a large site like reddit screws up again.

Well, I learned something new today. Now I’m happy I don’t have a tail.

We have 4 and two litterboxes. No issues with them doing their thing. I have had it recommended we need more litterboxes, but since there are no issues, I don’t really see the point. That being said, we religiously clean those twice a day, so I suppose that helps. And on the point of 4 cats, I agree, it’s a bit much. We had two and then last year we found two kittens on the street (not at the same time), one scroungy as hell and the other one had a gaping wound. We nursed both back to health and then didn’t have the heart to give them away, so yea, that’s how that went.

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Same with Inuit. I guess it makes sense when snow is such a dominant part of your life.