So many of those are also fiction. There was a post somewhere, where the op had compiled a list of top relationshipadvice posts that were highly suspicious at the very least up if you went into their posters’ histories. People were eating them up.

That sub became mostly a creative writing gym a long time ago.

Except when the train is operated by Deutsche Bahn. Then you wish you were walking from Düsseldorf to Munich.

Very different vegetables though. It’d be like comparing wine and beer.

I mean I am pretty happy with my nothing phone. It came with a pretty minimal stock android that runs on hardware that’s quite good for what I paid. Despite the shitty name that people have indeed made fun of, the phone’s been pretty good so far.

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Top right looks like he’s just about to launch into an angry rant about how much Kirk Hammett sucks.

These things are very heavily optimized for the singular purpose of reading books. They can’t do much of anything else, but they do that one thing very well and very efficiently. They run a custom, lightweight Linux OS that’s very aggressive with its battery management. Coupled with an e-ink display, they sip power and can run for weeks on a single charge. That’s not something a simple android can provide.

3 zone a/c is also pretty nice. No more “it’s too <exact opposite of what the driver is feeling>” whining from the back.

I once read a review of a sous vide machine that just would not work unless it was connected to a smartphone via an app. And then that app would not work properly without a connection to some backend. That backend died at some point, bricking the sous vide machine. What a wonderful world we live in.

I doubt it but it does look like it went through some heavy handed filter or even some upscaling.

They’re not out of order, it’s just there are two orders. The left side is “what if bicycles” themed and the right side is “what if bus” themed. Except the top left is shared, of course.

Obviously it could have been presented more clearly though.

Hell of a way to total a car though.

Absolutely not. Nvidia GPUs and some network cards can and will break sleep on Linux. It’s currently very much broken on my machine and I stopped trying to fix it. Up until a few days ago the PC failed to properly power down to a sleep state and would leave a whole bunch of things powered up, like the monitor and the fans and the lights. Now it’s even worse. On top of all that, the computer goes right back into sleep seconds after it wakes up. Extremely annoying.

I use arch btw.

That was said by one random, rather insignificant Microsoft employee who had no capacity to make such a claim. Not in a position to even have that kind of information on the company’s future plans.

And even if they did have the capacity, if you actually go look at what really was said, it’s reasonably clear that they wanted to say latest version but fucked up the sentence. I hate defending Microsoft but that thing has become a meme at this point.

European countries have done the same for a long time though. Your Schengen visa application can easily be declined if you do not show that you have accomodations and a return ticket already taken care of. It’s not a strict automatic rejection afaik, but it’s most definitely not unheard of. It’s also common for the border police to ask to see your return tickets, depending on your… appearance.

How am I supposed to explain that to my kids

Depression doesn’t make you do something so completely antisocial as displaying your shit stained ass wiping towel to your coworkers. There are deeper psychological issues there. That boy needs professional help.

What politician tried to introduce what and where? Europe is not one single legislative body. This stuff differs from country to country inside the EU, but AFAIK every country has some sort of regulations as to what can be built where and how. The laws might differ in their specifics, but they’ll serve the same general purpose tailored to their own cultural and geographical needs. It’s not zoning itself that leads to US-style suburban hellscapes, it’s how they are defined and applied. European countries simply choose not to zone their land like the US does.

Anyway, here’s a sample of German zoning regulations for you as an example. It names industrial zones, agricultural zones, mixed residential zones, exclusive residential zones, etc. Again, they won’t work the same as the US laws, but they’re zoning regulations. You’ll see the word “Gebiet” a lot in there, which literally translates to “zone”.

Here’s a map of Vienna’s zones.

Of course it is. They just work differently and are not as stupid as the US zoning laws, but that doesn’t mean zoning laws don’t exist.

What does this mean? What does zoning have to do with being American or not?