I was thinking North Macedonia or something, but then I remembered that the post referenced pounds

It’s been probably 25 years since I read it and I can still remember what an impression it made.

Big recommend!

We use Cursor at work and I find it quite useful for quickly putting together something brand new, but fairly painful to try to do anything connected to expanding our existing codebase.

I often run into situations where getting it to do what I want takes longer than just coding something myself.

It’s also the biggest language (in terms of native speakers) in the EU. Not that it’s anywhere close to a majority…

Ufff, hurts to see because it would have definitely had at least a chance at winning the whole thing!

That’s basically it.

A famous example was a few years back when Electric Callboy wasn’t even invited to the national finals for selecting the song because the selection committee knew they would win but “didn’t feel the song was fit for radio”

It’s true, but I also can’t bring myself to say it!

It was the only controller I could ever play first person games with!

Track-ball mode on the right TouchPad is just… chefs-kiss

I love my steam deck but I’m extremely disappointed by the TouchPads compared to the steam controller

I use opensuse (tumbleweed and slowroll) because I just wanted to try it out a few years back and it mostly just works.

If I were to reinstall today, I’d probably use fedora again, since it’s much easier to use things like Waydroid.

She (similar to Reagan in the US) enacted a massive shift in government/society from a more social-democratic focus to a more (economocally) liberal one. Her big goals were to privatize and financialize as much as possible.

This ended up leading to (as it always does) massive increases in inequality, with particularly rural/industrial regions suffering heavily while the services/financial sector in London boomed.

So she is EXTREMELY polarizing. Many conservatives or big-business types worship her, while for many/most others she’s seen as the worst thing to happen to the UK.

Cars in cities.

You don’t realize how insane they are until you spend time somewhere without them.

Well, we’re comparing them with (electric) cars here, which are much more expensive.

The value of the stock (which is outrageously overvalued) is solely down to musk’s personality cult. So now that it’s been announced that he should be “leaving government and going back to his companies” it led to a stock jump, since his presence is the only reason that the stock is worth a lot in the first place.

The issue is that Musk often sounds convincing when he talks about things you don’t really know much about, and there are a LOT of investors who have a lot of money but don’t really know much about anything.

I’m not sure if it’s a big reason, but one thing I noticed when living in the UK is that it seemed to be much easier for local landowners to block things from being built compared to other countries I’ve lived in.

I feel like the Thames path through London was kind of representative of that. I feel like anywhere else it would be a normal walking path along the river, but instead it has big gaps, sections that are private, or even some which are closed certain days.

Just the fact that they wanted to make HS2 go UNDERGROUND through large parts of the countryside was a wild idea.

The physical design was somewhat similar but if you look at old footage from cities you’ll see that walking on the street was completely normal.

There didn’t yet exist this idea that we have to leave 80% of the street exclusively for cars.

I’m well aware, but I prefer more light in the afternoon than in the early morning.

Having the middle of the day at 1 PM is nicer year-round

I’m genuinely confused how you think that these two examples of internal uprisings are at all connected to someone saying effectively “don’t count on international law to mean anything since there isn’t any body to enforce it”

Huh, Süd was always my favorite

I did visit a Nord once and it was surprisingly unpleasant

I guess you visited vienna?

Germany is actually trending the other way. Modern Parlaments have more parties than they did in the past.