You’re simply wrong about your own experience there.

At 90% humidity and 100 F the heat index is 176 F which is astronomical.

A heat index at 125 F is lethal to any human being eventually…at 176 F you’re dead in 15 minutes.

Either the temperature was lower, the humidity was lower.

Lots of people take the temperature high point they see and the humidity high point they see on the weather forecast and assume they happen at the same time. That’s generally not the case.

So people say “it was 100 degrees and 90% humidity”, when actually it was only 50% humidity at the hottest part of the day and something like 80 degrees when humidity was 90% in the evening.

Everyone’s guilty of this. They’ve experienced a really hot and humid day, they then tell the story with the 2 highest numbers because it felt really hot.

It’s an accidental embellishment and ultimately leads some people to die of heat stroke as “they’ve worked through worse” in their own mind when the warnings come in with numbers they think they’ve experienced before but haven’t in reality.

Negative I am a meat popsicle.

If you don’t know it already, look up the lyrics to the Mr Bean theme and the translation.

Open AI’s core business is lying to inflate their stock price. This tracks.

I could guess. Most English actors are not used to doing dubs. Lots are just giving it a go when they want to be a screen actor.

There’s a far more reliable pool of work for dubbing TV and film to languages other than English and therefore a greater pool of professionals to pick from. Leading to higher standards.

On top of that there’s an anachronism of American actors accents in older stories set in the past that don’t fit, or trying other English accents they’ve never been exposed to fit in.

Good English speaking actors and voice actors are in really high demand outside of the gaming industry too. There are a huge number of bad or inexperienced actors trying to get a career going.

The quality of actor for dubbing a game you can get for a budget is probably lower or at least much less consistent.

When we love an actor they get star billing and the cost to hire them rockets. They then move towards film and TV.

We love our good actors but that means they’re too expensive.

Carlos Sainz

No, I’ll install a better designed browser instead.

In civil cases they’re used by those who can afford them to oppress those who can’t.

Lawyers follow the doctrine that both sides need representation in criminal cases but time spent is still weighted to those who pay.

Lawyers claim a position of moral neutrality when picking a side as part of a process which compensates each side differently.

One dramatic way to reform the system is to enforce an equal budget to both sides of a case in civil and criminal cases. If someone pays for thousands of hours of legal representation to attack you, you should be able to spend that money on legal representation too.

All too often defending a case is not worth the price.

Anecdotally I’d actually like to bring a case against my landlord but the similar cases against them have been sat for years and often time out due to technicalities when someone can’t afford yet another solicitors letter.

Can you still play with the original soundtrack?

They don’t own it.

It’s literally a generic word for video call.

They might have registered it but in the EU it’s not enforceable in the context of video calls.

If Microsoft tries to defend it in that context they could lose it in all contexts.

Probably not an enforceable trademark in France.

I’d look at HMD fusion if I were buying now and look for the business edition with longer update support and more RAM.

My Nokia was made by HMD. It’s been great and will be for a while longer as it’s got plenty of support.

You can get an “outfit” (case) with a built in ring light for the 108MP camera which I definitely don’t need. The “outfit” system is basically the phone has a set of pins on the back that allow custom hardware extensions built into to the case.

The HMDs have got to the point I could repair them or replace the battery without worrying about a heat pad and glue. That’s a big selling point.

Unfortunately not. I really looked.

My criteria are:

1. Receives Security Updates for 5 years of more.
2. Has headphone Jack
3. Enough RAM to switch between apps without them closing.

I ended up with a bigger phone than I wanted. A Nokia XR21 which will last me until the updates end.

I recommend the “Quick Cursor”. It lets me use a larger phone one handed.

I miss the 4-5" smart phones. A HTC Desire was the perfect size and form factor for me. It’s not been beaten yet.

Prep occurs before cooking while the meat is raw.

Unless you’re suggesting cooking our fingers after food prep I think I’ll let someone else try that first.

Places in Germany and Denmark are moving not only away from US servers but US software.

The reason is “digital sovereignty”

So they’re investing in open source solutions. If it works there will be a reason and options to move for political reasons.

If it works and saves money expect a bigger shift.

Communism often coexists with Fascism.

Communism is not the opposite of fascism.

Thinking capitalism and humanism incompatible is irrelevant when discussing what is an opposite. Communism certainly isn’t it.

Spotify instantly gives you what the record companies paid for the algorithm to give you.

“Digging” isn’t hard. Give it a go.

But it sounds like you’re listed to “tracks” not albums. Frankly that’s your biggest mistake.

If you like lots of tracks other people don’t, you’ll always be struggling against an algorithm trying to feed you 3 minute songs nobody hates.

Listen to albums and every time you follow a rabbit hole you’ll have 40-80 minutes of music to listen to at least once, multiple times if it’s good.

You’ll find albums that are worth listening to as a whole and some you’ll keep tracks in playlists.

Personally I moved from CDs to Spotify to YouTube music, to buying CDs again, soon to have them on Jellyfin.

Once you get into actually listening to albums, 3 or 4 albums from eBay or charity shops are what I’d have paid for a subscription and if I need to take a break I’ve still got my old music and don’t have any more to pay.

You can of course sail the high seas if you’re strapped for cash or want things instantly. I consider the big 3 labels harmful and have only bought second hand copies. I try to buy from independents and smaller labels when I can directly.

The harm of the major labels is pretty big and frankly streaming has become their most harmful tool. I want to avoid supporting that model or supporting the big 3.

1. Talk to other human beings about music.

Music is not meant to be a solitary hobby. Share what you like, they’ll share what they like.

2. Like a piece of music? Look up that producer, or record label if it’s small. Look up the session musicians. Don’t just look up the artist.

Generally it’s not just the artist that makes the music top tier. There are other great professionals involved in the background and good people hire other good people to work in the background.

This is easy. Once you start doing this you end up with a queue of albums you want to get round to listening to. It’s easy enough to find too much music yourself without an algorithm. You start finding the artist radio a waste of your time.

The rabbit holes I’ve been down following a producer, guitarist, or bassist, etc. are usually very rewarding and often you pop up in another place you knew already after finding out about some lesser known great music on the way.

I’m not sure that works. There were 20 shillings to the pound.

So £0.75 a week.

This inflation calculator:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

£75 in 1843 is equivalent to £8,310.96

So 15s then is equivalent to £83.11 a week, £4321.72 a year.

40 hour week (which is implied to be too low). ~£2.08 an hour

So if he worked over 40 hours you’re talking a sub £2/hour wage. Around $2.70 in US money.

I suspect the stat relies on converting to dollars before applying inflation as GBP to USD was about 1 to 5 then instead of about 1 to 1.33

It’s fun but I wouldn’t want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point.