Given there’s suggestions he has Parkinson’s or has dementia, it might also be the medication. Something like haldol, even in low doses, will make him sleepy.
TBF he’s old. I had trouble staying awake in class when I was in my teens and twenties. No surprise an old man has similar issues during a long day in court.
Perhaps if he hadn’t gone around calling his opponent ‘sleepy’ for years on end, people would have been more charitable and assumed he’d simply slept poorly.
It’s weird how much the media still cover twitter, given how increasingly niche it’s become.
Also seems quite high. I did a google and apparently it’s half the number and closer to 300 million.
Forget who said it, but: “Kill your darlings.”
Photography, painting, writing, jokes. You produce a lot, you cut most of it, you gain practice along the way.
This being said, there are people with inate genius who produce 90% gold.
Yeah. He’s an obvious troll. The bigger problem is that when I’ve called him out in the past, a mod here has deleted my comments for misleading reasons. So it’s obvious that at least one of the mods does support Russian bs. Of course, there are other mods who do give him the occasional ban so he calms down a bit.
I’ve said this elsewhere, but if you’re angry about what’s happening in Gaza, you really don’t want ‘friends’ like that supporting your cause. One spoilt apple ruins the bunch. It’s like if you run a children’s hospital that accepts donations from Gary Glitter.
Also:
1995: Skynet is founded. Its name is a reference to the evil mainframe computer from Terminator Franchise.
I use a VPN. Good luck whoever decides to DDoS the CIA, FBI and/or NSA.
FBI/NSA/CIA man: don’t pay attention to me, as you can see all I do is torrent shit movies and watch porn.
Why would you need a freezer to treat rice?
I do genuinely enjoy buying enough rice to last a year. Also bought a great cheap rice cooker at my local Chinese grocer. Idiot proof and almost certainly saves electricity.
I think I once worked out that the rice based meal I’d just eaten had cost less than a euro to make.
Pay your parents some rent, help out around the house, treasure them while they’re still alive.
Save up and invest as much money as you possibly can.
Meh. To achieve peak Germany you need to sprinkle in some homeopathy and naturism.
AI.
For example:
https://www.dw.com/en/ufos-and-aliens-in-germany/a-58077707
However at least of the German UFO clubs seem to be perfectly reasonable:
In Germany, there seems to be an endless list of hobby clubs and nonprofit associations. The Association for UFO Research (GEP) is one of them. Their databank includes 140,000 entries, and 95% of them can be explained. Aside from satellites, strangely shaped balloons is one common answer, as well as weather phenomena and insects that zoom across photos. The remaining 5% “perhaps also have natural causes, which we just can’t explain yet,” Hans-Werner Peiniger, GEP’s head, told DW. Members of Germany’s UFO clubs — there are at least three — are not blind alien believers, Leipzig-based Fleischer said. They are rational, engineer types who use limited resources to analyze what curious sky watchers send them. The result, however, can be a great deal of information about what is happening above us. The really interesting cases “are a matter for the military,” Fleischer said. “They control the skies and have instruments and radar.”
OP is German. Most Germans don’t have AC, in part due to higher electricity costs. It is most definitely considered a luxury.
Here’s a relevant article:
Recently exacerbated by the war in Ukraine:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/business/europe-electricity-prices.html
I’d move back to the UK. It’s where I spent my childhood. I genuinely love Shakespeare, theatre and all that crap. Small studio in London, volunteer/work in the arts/cultural sector, go to the theatre or a tv recording during the weekend.
Unfortunately life is shit in the UK if you’re not rich. I once calculated that I’d be better off staying unemployed where I live, than finding suitable employment in London. I have a couple of degrees, but starting wages were abysmal when you factored in cost of living (rent, etc.). A lot of money would also mean I can get another degree and get a visa. Also: private health insurance. The NHS ain’t what it used to be.
Of course, if I was really rich I could also just stay where I am (low capital gain taxes), build a fully self-sufficient eco house (energy, water) then fly/drive/take the train to London, Berlin, Paris, Prague, Amsterdam for the weekend. Hell, buy a nice car, go for a drive.
Air conditioning is a luxury much of the world can’t afford.
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How do you say “I’m very lonely” in C++?
For example, you hear a word that sounds (exactly/a bit) like another word, and can tell it’s not that other word, because the other word has a different gender. Or you only really need to learn one word because both are very similar. Some examples:
Spanish : La Nina/La Nino. Both basically the same world (female/male child) and sound the same, unlike boy/girl in English.
Dutch : Het jacht = the boat / yacht, de jacht = the hunt. No need to guess the meaning of the word from the context, you can go by gender.
Spanish: El Capital = Capital as in money, La Capital = Capital as in Capital City.
French: Un Livre = a book. La livre = pound sterling.
I live in a western European country. A few anecdotes to illustrate what Americans don’t get about healthcare:
I was involved in a serious accident and the passenger in my car was taken to hospital in an ambulance and had to have scans, etc. It ended up costing 1000 Euros.
One of my teeth needed to be replaced by a dental implant. I had it removed, a bone graft was necessary, then a few months later they drilled a metal pin into the jaw bone, then they placed a crown on it. The pin was Swiss made, the dentist did a 3d scan of the inside of my mouth for the crown. I had a few return visits. It ended up costing me 3000 Euros total, but I specifically spread the appointments around the new year: november - january. This was a big deal for me, as I was unemployed and needed to dip into my already small savings.
I had a headache, so I bought myself some paracetamol(tylenol?) at the drug store. 50 for 2 euros.
Sounds ok, right?
Here’s the thing that Americans don’t get. These are all fully private prices.
The first incident, I received a bill because it would have to be paid by the other party’s insurance. 1000 Euros was the fully private cost without government intervention. The accident had happened just across the border in another country.
The second anecdote, this was also the fully private cost. Dental implants are not covered by healthcare. I have supplemental private dental insurance (20 Euros per month), which has a maximum deductable of 2000 Euros per year. Spreading it out meant I ended up spending only a few hundred euros, after I received money from my insurance a few weeks later.
The US system isn’t just absurdly expensive for people who aren’t insured, it’s absurdly expensive compared to fully private healthcare in plenty of developed countries.
Hell, have a look at how much it costs to get plastic surgery in the US. A boob job is likely to cost you less than a visit to the ER, despite the latter being a far more involved and expensive operation.
It seems obvious to me that a lot of price gouging and anti-competitive behaviour is going on in US healthcare, and simply regulating (not privatising) properly would already make things far more affordable. How else can you explain healthcare costs per capita being up to three times as high as comparably developed countries, but outcomes often being worse? Healthcare shouldn’t have to cost this much. The healthcare industry can make a reasonable profit while charging far more reasonable prices.
TLDR: you’re getting ripped off, but you have no choice in the matter, because what are you going to do if it’s an emergency? You can’t just leave the country.
