Luc

I’d be curious what country/ies the downvoters are from. This is also how I see it but nobody online ever agrees. I suspect it’s a culture thing: most people online aren’t from the Netherlands and I can’t say if this type of news also exists abroad (Tagesschau seems okay but I haven’t looked at it in detail or talked with enough germans about it to say that with any confidence whatsoever, and I’ve got even less info on other countries)

In NL we of course also have some loonies who call the general news channels leftist propaganda, but overall I don’t have the impression that places like NOS spin things one way or another. It’s also government-funded which, going by the banners google now shows on publicly-funded youtube channels, probably means American readers of this message think I’m completely brainwashed by my government? Who knows, but then I’d be curious to hear what types of things they ever represented counterfactually

Thanks, now I want to spend the afternoon playing Ragdollsoft games with Dimrain47 as soundtrack. (I have a Windows XP VM with Flash Player and offline SWF files)

What’d that be in Kelvin? Asking for a lord friend

25 AVERAGE?! So like 15 at night and 35 during the day is considered not “heat” where you’re from?!

Unicode consortium stopped accepting new flags. Far, far from all current languages are in there. Don’t expect there to be an emoji for every language, and fewer and fewer as the current version ages and flags change

And that’s regardless of that flags are often a poor language selector (south african flag can mean a lot of things), but if you insist then SVGs of what regions you want to support might be a good replacement

Oh, bloemkool! I see now ^^

When you don’t have health insurance, I’d assume? Because the tax system is basically the UK health insurance so I’m not sure if it’s a fair comparison in that case (the amount you pay through taxes or to a private insurance company might be very different though, but then that’d imo be the number to compare)

You forgot to mention the region this is for

Same with any other system that runs any OS you want

You’re going to drive it without lessons? Is that legal where you live? I’m confused about the question

Does she do graphic design, or why would an Apple be better than any other brand for half the price?

Of course a 200$ laptop isn’t very usable, but why pay thousands of dollars extra just to have an Apple logo and get the kid introduced to vendor lock-in

Oh, I had completely forgotten that I did something similar!

To cross the rails, you have to go under them through a tunnel. Someone on crutches took the elevator down while I was carrying my electric scooter and heavy backpack down the steps. I’d make it to the other side before them and could ride the elevator up myself (I thought it would be weird to stand inside, waiting for them), but the person looked like they weren’t having the best day on these crutches. So I walk through the tunnel and order the elevator, but turn around and take the stairs up myself, just as they’re exiting the elevator on the other side so they didn’t see me order it. When I reach the top of the stairs, they just pushed the button and the elevator was right there waiting for them ^^

(As for sending the elevator down to where I know someone will be coming, yeah I do that all the time as well since there’s no reason not to tell the system where it makes sense to go)

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.

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

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

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

Yeah exactly. The key combo was ctrl+shift btw