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Yeah, there have been some cases of “pedo hunters” here; turned out to be a flimsy cover story for violent nazis.

It’s, uh, not a topic suited for thoughtless entertainment.

So, a mastodon user? :^)

Yeah, to my ESL ears man/woman are nouns, not adjectives, and using them as adjectives comes off as childish.

That said, “female X” can also sound clumsy, if it’s implied that a bare X is male, e.g. “politician” and “female politician”, vs male and female politician. There was a twitter account calling itself a “male programmer” which took the piss out of that trope.

I could see the Borg as viewing the non-Borg universe as just something for their feed, though. Something like you can vote for a civilization to be put through Alice In Borderland or whatever, and watch them struggle.

Uh, don’t we already have three? Dia-, ferro- and paramagnetism?

This varies a lot by culture, though. If you ask a North American how they are, you’ve basically said “hi”. If you ask a Norwegian the same, you’ve asked a personal, private question. You might get an answer if you already know them privately; we might think you’re prying into something that’s neither your nor the workplace’s business if you don’t. Keeping professional is polite, prying is rude.

What an absolutely weird thing to be lying about.

I think most of us would just be honest with our aunt about what we need. Or just travel together.

Yeah, I switched to deezer then, haven’t had any trouble with it.

Induced (and latent) demand still holds. So if someone is enticed out of a car by this, they’ll likely be replaced by another driver.

And in the case of enticing walkers and bikers into transit, nothing is really gained, and it might actually have a negative public health effect.

If you want to reduce car traffic, restricting it is the way to go—price signals on driving and parking work well, as do restrictions on where you can drive and park.

And to get people to use transit, it has to be efficient—not stuck in car traffic, frequent enough, reliable and reasonably direct. And of course, pricing is important as well.

So correct policy will vary by location and situation. E.g. if transit is already jam-packed, reducing the price will be the wrong way to budget; capacity increases should be the top priority. But if the other metrics are good but ridership kind of lacking, dropping the price should improve the ridership. It ain’t exactly rocket science, but there’s also no silver bullet.

This was my first Yakuza game and can confirm the last paragraph!

I actually thought the rest of them would be turn-based too, which is part of the draw for me.

Yeah, I’ve experienced that as well. A summer party is often nicer than a winter party too.

Depending on the country you might get some collision with midsummer celebrations though

You do sometimes have to worry about that weird g without the leg, though. But it’s normal to them, so they don’t guestion it. :^)

Nothing to be ashamed about! There’s lots of stuff around the world that some people love but the majority shy away from. All the rest of us can ask is that you enjoy it responsibly and don’t bother other people with the smell. :)

No, there really is talk of tariffs several places to neutralise the price advantage that the Chinese subsidies result in. The Chinese want to promote their domestic auto industries, but so does any other country with an auto industry.

There are some more ways, usually involving fermentation. Us arctic types know some methods. But I get the impression rakfisk, lutefisk, hákarl, surströmming and kiviak would have caught on as exports by now if they were actually something humans in general were interested in eating, rather than the descendants of very specific kinds of desperate people.

Batteries seem to work fine in rural Norway. If you live somewhere warmer and/or with a bigger population or population density than Norway, you should be fine.

Boobies !!

You don’t really need the bird flu in that mix, even. Pasteurization was a huge public health win.

What next, fridges are woke nanny state inventions and real red-blooded Americans store all their food in room temperature, especially their raw milk and meat?

Or as we call it in Norwegian:

• Teensy tiny Christmas Eve
• Little Christmas Eve
• Christmas Eve. Or just Christmas!
• The first Christmas-day, or recovery day

But why did the pepperkaker taste like puke???

Was this actually surprise German nominative determinism, Kackland, Shitland?