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Did you ever find anyone was following you? Or ever heard of a friend who was followed?

It surely happens but so do meteorite impacts and such cases make news because they’re special. If it’s not showing up in regional statistics (the nearest couple million people or so) and you don’t even know a friend of a friend for whom checking would have been useful, I’d say it’s unnecessary in the place where you are

I agree with everything else but the starting bit about only starting conversations when you’d also do it with a guy: if you’re not into guys… like on a dating site you’d not equally talk to the men, why at a sports club if you’re wanting a relationship with a woman? If you think someone’s fun and attractive in a way you’d simply not have with a bloke, hecking yes talk to them where appropriate and be friends (if they also want to be) and see if they really match and are also into you etc.

Once you go apt install qalc you never go back

Edit: or the gui version, idk, I pretty much live on the command line so maybe I’m biased but this thing does everything I’ve ever wanted from a calculator. Also use it on my phone now, yes from the command line, because I still haven’t found a proper mobile app that can conveniently do more than multiplication

A surprising number of people from 1920 were alive in the 80s!

Not a native speaker. To me it sounds the other way around, like it’s God who’s constantly bothering them? Can it be read both ways?

I was in Britain for only a handful of days and think I saw at least two meanings for the word bubble and none of them were “air pocket inside a liquid” (or even “fizzy drink” or something related to bubbles). One was mashed potatoes, I can’t remember the other one. You’ll simply need to ask to find out what it is they’re selling!

The show that this fuck Microsoft clip is from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpCOYkdvTQ

I was set on watching until this quote occurs to get the full suspense and context and comedic relief… but I failed my goal during episode 2. Cannot suspend disbelief for this one, it’s too dumb, makes no sense, most jokes fall flat. It’s like they gave Gandalf a clown costume and Frodo acts as though that’s normal and we’re supposed to be falling off of our seats from that

Where does all that stuff go after it’s used? I can’t imagine it’s all recycled properly (let alone reused) but also not really that the bulk is not separated out at such volumes

dack - Dutch

Dutch is alsjeblieft (informal), alstublieft (formal), thanks (informal), dankjewel (informal), or dankuwel (formal). The former probably means “as you desired” in old Dutch, the latter “thank you well”, and the formal/informal variants simply insert the right word for “you” (je or u). And then there’s thanks being commonly used. Or also bedankt, sounds kinda formal to me as well, not sure when you’d use that instead of dankuwel

Just “dank” (maybe you wrote that and autocorrupt kicked in?) is not really a thing we say, it just means “thank” which you’d also not say by itself in English (unless you’re Rocky)

Edit: writing “dank” in an English sentence feels like everyone will think our thank-yous are like dank memes. The pronunciation of the “a” there is as in Clark; the English pronunciation of dank would map to denk in Dutch and means think!

Have you ever seen someone use a turn lane to only jump out of it at the last moment?

Yeah, when they have their turn signal on to indicate they want to change to a different lane

Leaving the turn signal on when you’re already where you want to be is the more confusing thing. I know most people do it because it’s taught that way in driving schools, but it’s a matter of habit, not actually logical if we’d design the system anew and everyone learned from scratch

Interesting. For me, the latter scenario is the most clear. In the first one, they may want to turn into a driveway, just stop on the roadside altogether, switch to a different lane to their right (on a double turn lane), whatever: they’re potentially trying to deviate from the path they’ve chosen to take. If they just want to follow the path they’re on, turn signals off makes the most sense to me

Of course, if you’re in a country that crosses different traffic directions on green (like Belgian and German lights that go green for you wanting to left turn, but there’s traffic coming straight on) then it’s needed to indicate you’re a turner and not someone going straight on. But then, mixing traffic is a recipe for confusion and accidents anyway (saw a stat recently that right turns having green together with pedestrians increases accidents by iirc some 60% — probably a low number to begin with and so any change looks big, but still crazy to me that countries continue to choose this)

Another scenario that appears more universally, where you have one lane for two options (straight on or right, for example), the turn signal is also needed of course: there is no path you’ve already chosen and so you need to show intent to change

You mention 150€/day in the comment thread. I’m struggling to think where in the world you couldn’t stay on that budget if you spend some time looking for cheaper accommodation (hostel or something like airbnb) and mind a bit where you eat. Australia seems (per Wikipedia) to have the highest minimum wage at 18$/hour, ×8h to € comes to 127€/day. Sure, temporary accommodation costs like five times more than more permanent places, but in terms of food and transport you can pretty much do whatever the locals do so that, on the whole, you should be able to meet that budget pretty much anywhere

In Europe, Iceland might be the only place where you’d really have to plan ahead to get to an average of 150€/day as tourist. It’s Europe’s most sparsely populated country and lots of things need to be imported, making essentials like food expensive and accommodation options few and far between. If you don’t want to drive a long distance every day (outside of the wider Reykjavík area at least) you’ll easily spend three quarters of that daily budget on accommodation, and with food being expensive even in supermarkets and needing a rental car to get anywhere, you’ll exceed the budget on a lot of the days

So that’s challenge mode! I’m curious what values people who tried to cheapskate Iceland get to. We were at 290€/day for 2 persons. That’s including the rental car, eating out most days (not at expensive places necessarily, but sometimes simply the only place), and we booked reasonably priced but not always the cheapest option for accommodation. This price excludes costs of attractions like the lava show, boat tour, swimming pool, etc.—the country is plenty beautiful to travel to without needing those necessarily, though I’d recommend all of the above. This amount is for 2 persons, but the car and rooms don’t scale much when you’re alone so a per-person cost price wouldn’t be fair

Yeah exactly. The key combo was ctrl+shift btw

What moved them to pick the bigger devices?

Asking as someone who is currently trying to pick between the smallest options on the market

Over here in the Netherlands we are a bit of an outlier in the sense that we use the US layout of QWERTY

Tell that to Microsoft! I remember people using Windows would complain their : turned into ± etc., actually I haven’t heard that in a while now, did they finally fix that or just change the layout switching hotkey to something one doesn’t accidentally press?

• 2 decades: Netherlands
• 2 years: Belgium
• 2 months: Finland
• 2 weeks: Iceland
• 2 days: United Kingdom
• 2 hours: Switzerland
• Somewhere between 2 minutes and 2 seconds: Netherlands, Germany, Belgium all at once

• 6 years: Germany
• 6 months: France
• 6 weeks… this is getting tricky, Luxembourg is probably closest but not close enough to claim this tier
• 6 days: Poland
• 6 hours: Sweden
• 6 minutes: I give up

I didn’t realise it was a life goal of mine to spend 6 minutes in a country until this post, but now I’m not sure I can unsee this list. Maybe the Vatican is a good candidate for that? Italy can go in the 2 days slot, bumping UK up to 6 weeks another time. Germany will exceed the 6 years slot soon though, maybe I’ll need to visit all sixers to get bingo on a row of sevens instead. And where are we going for 7 seconds? Another tripoint, does that count?