Here I was thinking that I didn't care all that much about the mandatory Facebook login for the Oculus Quest 2, and now, just a few days later and before I've even received my device, Facebook threatens to "quit Europe". Not the best omen.
I'm kidding, of course, but there is a kernel of truth.
Off-topic, but I just have to ask: does "TFA" mean what I think it means? (i.e. the same as in "RTFA")
I have seen that acronym used more and more lately, and I always trip up when I read it in a rather polite sentence.
If you offer compelling arguments for changing certain aspects of a country to be more similar to another country that handles things better (in your opinion), then I don't see the problem. Sure, some people will always be offended if you propose to change amything about their country, but many more people are open to suggestions for specific changes. Very few people, on the other hand, are actually proposing change just for the sake of "turning one country into another". If that were the case, then I would think it a very weird fascination too.
Austrian here. I regularly drink pure milk, sometimes a full litre at once (sometimes raw, which probably isn't a wise decision). Though I have to add that I rarely drink milk outside of my home, i.e. in public or at friends' places, or see other people doing so. I also think that most of my friends don't drink as much milk, as far as I know, and I've heard some of them say that they are lactose intolerant.
The comments below are fascinating too. Some claiming that it's two separate recordings even though you can easily see that it's a single six second video, and others even talking about Russian brain washing.
I don't know. It could be traumatizing to kill someone in a rather unspectacular car crash just because they weren't using their seatbelt. Same for helmets.
This struck me as a ridiculous statement, so I just checked the front page and not a single thing I saw could be classified as anti-white by any reasonable standard.
Oh interesting. I recently ordered "How To Invent Everything" because it seemed interesting, but had no idea that the guy behind Dinosaur Comic wrote it. This makes me think that I made the right decision.
The "Terms of venery" section[0] of the Wikipedia page for collective nouns will probably answer some of your questions.
In German, as far as I'm aware, we don't have that many different collective nouns for groups of animals (or at least they are never used outside of hunting circles). We have "Schwarm" for fish and birds, "Rudel" for pack animals, "Herde" for farm animals and most herbivores, "Schule" for whales/dolphins (and possibly some other animals). Those are the ones I can thing of off the top of my head, but there certainly must be a few more. Not eveb close to the variety in English though.
You can have fun at all those levels, jumping back and forth between them at your leisure. Just because you can program a computer to solve a sudoku doesn't mean that you can't enjoy solving one by hand from time to time. Digging a ditch can be fun too, as long as you don't have to do it all the time.
I don't have to use WeChat to know that it would be a huge deal for me if messages were censored. Not only does this conflict with my sense of privacy and freedom, but it would also be annoying apart from the censorship aspect, simply because some of my messages won't get through. That's the main purpose of a messaging app. If my friends don't receive my messages just because I happen to mention something that seems connected to HK protests or the Tiananmen Square Massacre due to some word or number matching, that would mean the failure of WeChat as a messaging app.
This contrasts with my query of "guys in jean jumpers singing too ra loo ra loo" a few years back, which Google correctly identified as "Come on Eileen" by Dexys Midnight Runners. To this day my favourite search experience.
My cursor was hovering over the downvote arrow while reading your first sentence, before I realized what was going on in your post. Thank you for pleasantly surprising me!
There shouldn't be a clear line between "good" and "cheap" for vodka as well as for wine. There is good stuff being sold quite cheaply and the other way around.
What I like about GNOME apps is that they usually have a "Keyboard Shortcuts" entry in their hamburger menu, which shows you all, or at least the most important, shortcuts you can use in the app.
On the other hand it took me a bit to first find this option because it is hidden in the aforementioned hamburger menu.
I've never been on a train and wished that I'd taken the bus instead (or that the line was replaced by buses). The ride is much smoother, I have more space for myself and my baggage and I can more or less comfortably use the toilet.
Can you empty that box yourself and reuse it?
Just asking because I was pleasantly surprised when I found out I could do this for a similar box in our office copy machine (this one catching waste toner particles) when the machine from one moment to the next stopped working without prior warning and wanted a fresh box.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.