Yeah, some colleagues from India expressed their concern last week, because they heard how hot it was here.

Felt really weird to have that be actual concern and not just them mocking us, because they’re used to + equipped for worse temperatures.

Also funny: Bosnia and Herzegovina has almost exactly a 100th of the population of the USA.

3,412,000 vs. 341,784,857

Hmm, I’m not sure you do. It’s a pun. “Just dua lipa” sounds like “just do a leap-a”, like someone with an Italian accent might sound like.

Took me a moment to get it, too, though…

It just isn’t easy at all. If someone editorializes a Wikipedia article, they can:

• make claims without citation,
• cite a source which does not support the claims,
• misrepresent a source by citing it out of context, and
• perhaps most devious of all: Just not talk about aspects that they don’t like.

You could write an entire Wikipedia article on Adolf Hitler with perfectly cited sources, which never mentions the genocide, the warmongering, that he lost the war etc…

You can use Wikipedia as an entrypoint for research, but you have to actually read the sources and find additional sources, independently from that.

Yeah, I have also played it on there. Just to give others an idea, we’re talking an MP3 player from 2007, that looks like this:

Here’s an article showing the successor model running Doom: https://hackaday.com/2016/12/30/sansa-mp3-player-runs-doom-unplayably/

Yeah, true. To both, your correction and your caveat. 😅

I do find it an interesting choice. Normally, you’d put a comma there, but you could also use a colon. If you combine comma and colon, you do get a semicolon.

Well, yeah, but it does also say that he was born in “Austria-Hungary (present-day Serbia)”.

I mean, OP did respond by now, so I guess, it isn’t about that guy either way, but don’t think my brain did too bad of a job. 🙃

I’m guessing, it’s about this guy?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duško_Popov

Do not ask me why my brain remembers shit like that…

If that works for you, then that’s great. I’m not saying folks have to get into podcasts, I’m just explaining how I find them useful now. I did not get them for a long time either, because I had wrong expectations for them.

And well, I also happen to work as a software dev, but my brain hates when I have to process words that I hear, while also processing words that are on my screen.
So, my own 6h of music per day is generally without vocals, or at least vocals that I’ve heard many times before or which are in a foreign language, so that my brain doesn’t have to process them.

And that probably makes my music collection comparatively unengaging. I guess, I also don’t grab new music often enough to make it engaging that way.
With all that combined, music is kind of largely relegated to the background thing for me, and podcasts are a foreground thing, when I can’t look at a screen.

Again, just explaining how they work for me. It does sound like music could take the foreground role for you.

Those are actually two different etymologies/meanings. Amazingly, the word “impregnable” itself has two meanings, which are kind of the opposite of each other.

See etymology 1 and 2 here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impregnable

For “impregnate”, it lists the meaning “to fill pores or spaces with a substance” under the same etymology as knocking someone up (which is etymology 2 above): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impregnate

WYPINWYG?

I mean, do you watch videos? I find, they fill the same role, but for when you can’t look at a screen.

I often walk to work now and just listen to a podcast on the way. Or if I’m cleaning or sewing or, well, I don’t paint so far, but I imagine, they’re excellent for that, too.
Lots of handiwork stopped being boring, since I’ve gotten into podcasts.

But yes, obviously also just pick better podcasts. One of the podcasts I listen to, is just interesting/fun science topics being presented and discussed. That’s not low-effort at all…

Oh no, there’s probably stock traders that sell, because Jupiter’s about to do a loop, and then there’s other stock traders that know those stock traders will sell, so they’ll try to sell before.

Even if none of them actually believed into astrology, they would still sell, because they assume others will sell.

Yeah, certainly not uncommon for dictators to murder people on one side, but portray themselves as loving animals on the other…

Yeah, the long explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism

Well, the guy did say “briefly”, so if you drive into the water with speed and the right direction, you might theoretically not need to propel yourself nor steer…

Apply as much force as you can. Realize the door is now moving quite fast and about to crash into something on the other side. Leap for the door handle. Body-check the lady into another dimension. You’re alone now, so walk through the door like nothing happened.

I mean, kind of has to be the reason for the top image. When the door opens into the room, you’re really not helping by opening the door and then not just following through into the room.

That’s so awkward to push down the handle and then step back to let the other person go first, especially since it’s actually slower for the other person than just letting them operate the handle themselves.