After moving from the US to Europe there is something magical about walking around the city and town centers here. Not just the tourist traps like Rome and Paris but smaller towns and villages with tiny narrow streets lined with shops and restaurants and people walking around. So much better than the souless shells our downtowns have become in the US.
My wife owns a small business and I work for her. I get all kinds of perks including being able to sleep with the boss.
This is what bugs me more than anything. They "know" my bag didn't make the flight but instead of sending me a message (to the email / phone number I already gave them) they make me wait two hours on the ground after a one hour flight.
"In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.".
Yeah sure, tell me another one
The next step will be to blame Ukraine.
The airline didn't do this to try and humiliate the passenger.. they did it to make sure the plane doesn't crash. What the hell is wrong with people? I've been weighed many times for flights in small aircraft. It's absolutely normal.
It seems we've come full circle. I remember early adverts for Android phones showing a line outside an Apple store waiting for the latest iPhone. An older couple ask the youngsters in front of them if they're excited and they reply "oh no, it's not for us .. it's for our parents. We use Android".
Shows that the $60 oil cap is working. The Russian central bank will likely raise interest rates to halt the slide. Unless Russia can boost it's exports or reduce it's imports there are no other options. Putin is unlikely to reduce spending on the war so in the end it is ordinary Russians who will bear the brunt of this.
I have the opposite view. A country at war should have the draft, and there should be no exceptions, so that the politicians who send other people's children off to fight also have to send their own.
Most soldiers in a "professional" army are there because their families are poor and they have few other options to make a living.
High on my list of important attributes is an instance that specifically does not defederate from others. If I see something I don't want to see anymore I just block it myself. But I'd rather be treated like an adult capable of making my own decisions about what to see and read. If you're also looking for this I suggest unilem.
A law that prevents someone from burning a book counts as a major restriction on free speech as far as I am concerned. It's a book for gods sake. The fact that burning it causes offense is immaterial.. simply causing offense to a group is not sufficient ground to place a restriction on an act that otherwise harms no one.
And God help you of you ever try to browse the site using an older, low resolution monitor. It borders on being unusable.