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  • Why are faucets so expensive?

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  • I dont know anything about faucets other than using them. But not all faucets are the same. The mechanism, the design tolerances, the materials, the granularity, smoothness and its longevity can vary by a lot.

    Grohe used to be amazing, i am not so sure how things are nowadays. I've heard enshitification has hit them. If you own a house, a faucet is something that you will use for decades, even centuries(your descendants). Something that you will interact with many times a day. It is worth spending a bit more money to get something good.

  • European Christmas songs?

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  • TIL The 'Hawaiian Pizza' or 'Pineapple Pizza' was invented by a Greek immigrant in Canada and called Hawaiian due to the can of pineapples he used.

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  • In Greece, eating watermelon or melon with feta cheese is pretty common. Sweet(fruit) goes nicely with salty(feta).

  • I've had ios apple phones all my post-2010 life and am thinking about buying my first android phone, what are some things to know before switching?

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  • Only flagship samsung and google phones offer 7 years of OS updates support.

  • Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats

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  • Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats

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  • Noone uses cash in Sweden, except for maybe drug dealers and super old people(and the occasional tourist). Most businesses dont even accept cash anymore.

    It isnt just the convenience of not having to carry cash, it is also much safer. Much lower risk of getting robbed, for both individuals and businesses.

  • I have an Nvidia GPU, should I get an Intel or AMD CPU?

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  • Either is fine but i strongly recommend going for amd, especially an x3d one, like 7800x3d(if you care about gaming).

  • Baby come back, you can blame it all on me

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  • What a bromance.

  • Jensen Huang is now worth more than Intel — personal net worth currently valued at $109B vs. Intel's $96B market cap

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  • You dont need to sell your stocks to access that wealth. You can use that as collateral to take loans or exchange stocks.

  • ‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating

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  • Pretty much all houses in Greece have this and no, it is only good for the summer or sunny days. But still it is a no brainer, unlimited free hot water during the summer and limited free hot water during most days.

    The tricky part is calculating whether it was sunny enough(during the winter) to produce enough hot water for your shower or if you need to turn on the electric water heater.

    Some greeks pre-emptively turn on the electric heater for 15-30 mins, other more financially stressed greeks prefer to gamble.

  • TIL how much it clearly didn't stop at Aristotle and Alexander the Great

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  • I.d.k. why i thought that Euclid, and perhaps also others, were around Plato

    There was an Euclid that was a pupil of Socrates. He was a friend(and classmate i guess) of Plato.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_of_Megara

    And dont worry, it wasnt just you who was confused

    "Editors and translators in the Middle Ages often confused him with Euclid of Alexandria when discussing the latter's Elements. "

  • Cyprus leader says he is ready to resume peace talks 'today'

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  • I mean anything is possible if one side is basically ignored. The UN Plan offered was just terrible.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annan_Plan

    The only reason it even got to where it got was because Turkey wanted to join the EU and Greece wanted to normalize relations with Turkey. But ultimately, Cyprus(greekcypriot state) is an independent and democratic state, so it decided against it(and Greece follows whatever Cyprus decides).

    If Turkey was a normal country, you could say that all the disadvantages of the plan wouldnt be relevant in the long term. But Turkey is a mini-Russia and as Russia has shown us, appeasing nations with imperial ambitions doesnt work in the long run.

    Imagine any european leader saying to their neighbours "We could come one night". Or "our neighbours are scared because our missiles can reach their capital". Both statements were said by Erdogan. Only in the last year, he has chilled, mostly because of the invasion in Ukraine. For once, the West did something good, instead of writing "stern letters" so Erdogan is afraid that the West might actually military support Greece in case of a turkish invasion.

    Also because Greece is getting f-35 jets and Turkey needs american engines for their homegrown ghetto "f-35" equivalent(so the US told him to shut up and be nice or else no engines for their "f-35" or upgraded f-16).

  • PSA: Starting today, you'll need a Samsung account to use the Galaxy Store

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  • I think the Galaxy Store occasionally has some offers, like 50% discount on purchases and stuff. If you play gacha games, you can "save" a lot of money.

  • Demographic decline: Greece faces alarming population collapse

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  • There was also a version of Zeus dedicated to "hospitality"(philoxenia, friend of foreigner).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus#Roles_and_epithets

    Zeus Xenios (Ξένιος), Philoxenon, or Hospites: Zeus as the patron of hospitality (xenia) and guests, avenger of wrongs done to strangers

  • European politicians say migration is out of control. The numbers tell a different story

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  • It is down for the over the Mediterranean Sea routes and up for the from Turkey into Greece routes. And through the Canary Islands.

    How long the downward trend will hold remains to be seen, however. Smugglers are always quick to adapt and find new routes around border controls. In the Eastern Mediterranean, the second-most-used route, smuggling networks are now using speedboats in increasingly aggressive ways to avoid controls and targeting islands farther away from the Turkish coast in the central Aegean, according to Greek authorities.

    The number of migrants arriving in Greece by sea and overland during the first eight months of the year rose by 57%, U.N. data shows.

  • Putin: lifting Ukraine missile restrictions would put Nato ‘at war’ with Russia

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  • Doesnt this imply that, for Putin, Crimea and Donbas are not part of Russia? Those have been repeatedly hit by long range western missiles.

    Maybe someone should inform the Russians living in those areas that their leader thinks less of them than other Russians.

  • what in the blue hell?..

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  • ISIS-K is behind the terrorist attacks in Russia. ISIS-K also wants to overthrow the Taliban and take over Aghanistan(and parts of Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. Kyrgystan and Pakistan).

    Literally all the countries in the world are fighting or oppose ISIS. The US has probably worked with the Taliban and has hit ISIS-K inside Afghanistan. And it might not be official but if you want to hit terrorists, you need to cooperate with the Taliban because the US has basically no presence in Afghanistan atm.

    Obviously for Russia it is even more important to cooperate with the Taliban, considering that ISIS-K hit Russia.

  • While we're talking about fire-breathing pets

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  • You might be right, though the ears arent floppy.

  • While we're talking about fire-breathing pets

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  • It kinda looks like a basenji, with relaxed tail. Their tails are usually curled, but when they relax, it can uncurl.

    Maybe it is a basenji mix, hence the uncurled tail and kinda off whitebrown colour.

    Be aware that basenjis are not normal dogs, they are more like cats. And also there are a billion stray dogs that need companions, no need to breed extra.