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I remember a story from an acquaintance working in construction. In one case they had to dug up right where a fiber optic ran, so they had cleared it with its operator and waited for their go-ahead. And waited. And waited, until the boss said something to the effect of 'start digging, we have a schedule to keep'...

Here in France, while Polymarket is blocked, I was able to access Kalshi without any issue. But I didn't try to use Kalshi's services

> Study Saying California Will Suffer If Its Merger Is Blocked

Well, that might be a way to get Trump to go against the merger, considering his opinion of California...

Funny, I read it as 'Nike tried to chase after another market, while neglecting its core market in its advertising'...

> plain old feed which twitter now offers

I'm pretty sure I've only had a plain (chronological) feed since I started using Twitter a few years ago... There's a few times I had to switch back/reenable it, but it's not new. Though I've always hated Twitter's algo so I would have stopped using the site if the chronological feed went missing.

cyclists kill (and hurt) pedestrians, just like drivers

> I also think that the current Apple big shots never use their stuff or they would have noticed.

Or they do and they don't think it's worth their time and energy to get them fixed. I think they just don't care about their products, unlike Jobs.

and taking into account a minority that will have no choice but to interact with the new regulation (unlike service or white collar worker for whom it would be easier to take public transportation) seems like a good idea, no?

Knowing the author through his work, it doesn't surprise me he's using that expression. And quickly searching on the blog, he's used it before.

> the real target was whale oil, the best lubricant

and it was used that way until the second half of the 20th century

> very few people have those requirements beyond plumbers.

I'd say everyone who's working in the various home improvements/renovations, so carpenters, tillers, HVAC/boilers installers and maintainers, roofers, painters, kitchen designers, those who install plancher or carpets...

what happened? I just use NM once every few years to download the same handful of mods

My point is that the parent to whom I was responding didn't address the cases where one need a motor vehicle for their work. If it had been addressed as 'those cases will have to pay for the charge and adapt their prices', I wouldn't have mentioned it. Of course, as pointed in another (more useful) response to my comment, for those cases it might become cheaper since they might spend less time stuck in traffic.

I like trams, they're cool. I wonder if, once automated driving is advanced enough, we'll go back to cars and trams sharing the road (here in France all the trams I've seen have their tracks separated from the road and for good reasons).

> "What about all the people who need to drive into the city for work?"

How are they going to do if there's no public transportation available for their commute?

edit: and how about plumbers (and the like) who need a vehicle to carry what they need to work?

why did they use people instead of mechanical mean to pull the ropes?

I've seen paid toilets in train stations (last month in le Mans, a few years ago in a corner of Montparnasse station, though that was before the last round of renovation) and in a mall (CNIT in la Defense). Some RATP train stations have public toilets that you can access with your train ticket, so it's not quite free.

> We'll spend a trillion dollars bombing people halfway around the world that never meant us any harm

While I'm sure the US has bombed a significant number of such people, I wouldn't call Iran as 'never meant us any harm' (though I'll still say the current war is a stupid mistake).

If it happened, it wasn't in all of Innsbruck. I was there earlier this year and it seems a good chunk of the historical center hasn't been replaced by more modern buildings.

I don't know where in the EU you're thinking of applying that, but here in France inheritance are heavily taxed

while it's not on that kind of level, but the wikipedia page on operation Sandblast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sandblast) has a few details on the daily life aboard, between weekly routine and maintaining the machinery. Also "Beach [the captain] maintained that the greatest challenge facing the crew was a seemingly mundane activity, garbage disposal and cleaning"

> It's not uncommon for the immediate family to visit the body before the funeral, but I haven't heard of restoration being used for that and I think embalming is quite unusual as well.

As you say, that would vary by country. Here in France, while I wasn't the one who managed that, I know that for my grandmother someone intervened so that the body could stay in her home where she died until she was taken for burial a few days later. I think it would have been a Thanatopracteur, which can be translated to embalmer. And for my grandfather, if I remember correctly, died after a fall that left him bruised, bruises which were hidden before I went to visit the body before the burial. But neither of those burials were open-casket, I think it's quite unusual here.

> And the hyperbolic headline strikes again!

I mean it's The Register, the day they stop doing hyperbolic/sensationalistic headline, they'll just be another tech news outlet

Maybe they're French and forgot to translate that month (in French March = mars)

Well for DS1 DLC, you had to kill an enemy from one of the latest area you unlock, then go to the back of an early zone, without any indication that you had to do so.

> They experimented with different approaches in DS3, where certain NPCs you encountered would essentially evaporate after you exhausted their dialogue, and they would later materialize back in the hub.

I can't really talk about DS2 because I didn't play very far in that one, but in DS1 there are a few NPC who do that, like Laurentius, Griggs and Ingward

> In my opinion, it would've been worth the money to just buy a gaming PC, put it in a garage, hidden room, etc with the networking gear, then stream it over the network to a Steam Link

Well if you scroll down the page, it's presented as a selling point of the machine

> Now only rich people get to enjoy a sport meant for the masses, yay.

By and large, the masses have always experienced football on a TV screen. (though removing lower price tickets from such public sport events is still bad)

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cf https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tankie#Noun

> A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other authoritarian socialist governments.

But the meaning seems to have drifted to (Western) supporters of the current Russian regime.