And some of us might not even be in Italy.

Maybe they’ll try to start a second solar industry so they can kill it off again.

Even though this meme shows MMBN 4, arguably the weakest game of the series. Still damn good games overall.

Yeah. Baking is chill because the ingredients are effectively standardized and fungible so if you just follow the steps it’s hard to screw up. You usually only heat the baked good once and that happens in isolation.

Meanwhile, cooking is anarchy. Just because one piece of chicken breast took five minutes on medium heat doesn’t mean that the next one will. You constantly have to monitor and adapt to changing conditions and everything from ingredients to measurements to the very steps of the recipe itself is up for negotiation. And you have to do half the steps while heating the meal and if you ever take too long for something you burn it and it’s ruined.

When I bake I’m relaxed. When I cook I’m in nonstop crisis management mode.

The AfD reflexively gave a statement that any suspicions against their MPs are completely unwarranted.

Or, even worse, the video shows them one word at a time.

There are also some subtle variations in agnosticism.

There’s the soft variety that says “there is no proof that convinces me either way but I won’t rule out that someone could come up with one”.

There’s the hard variety that says “I don’t think it’s possible to prove either way”.

There’s even a variety that says “it doesn’t matter whether (a) god exists or not, hence there’s no need for a proof”.

But yeah, the core of agnosticism is that you don’t believe the existence of (a) god has been conclusively proven or disproven and are unwilling to commit either way without that proof.

Oh, that’s simple. Just have the law require all end user OSes to have government-verified ID check functionality that is out of the user’s control and the integrity of it protected by Secure Boot.

Accessing any online service with an operating system capable of manipulating or bypassing the check will be considered some flavor of hacking or fraud.

Boom, done. All the privacy activists go into the slammer and Microsoft gets to sell a new version of Windows to everyone.

Someone will definitely pass a law that will make it effectively impossible to legally operate a server and then be all surprised when companies threaten to move their datacenters elsewhere.

You never got hammerstung by a river elf? You must’ve lived a sheltered life.

Traffic circles are. Roundabouts are okay.

I am kinda giving them shit for when someone pointed out that they’re essentially storing PII completely unsecured and their response was “you should use app isolation anyway”. That is not a good security model.

Okay, new scheme: Every continental shield is a continent. Everything not on one is terra incognita. Continental platforms are just delusional sea floor.

Certainly that classification won’t lead to any confusion.

Jumping Cubes is the kind of game that works really well on a PC and has super simple rules but is absolute hell in real life.

That game on the Risk board was fun, though. IIRC North America in particular tended to have those terrible chain reactions that just kept going and going.

Das Öl wird für die Lackproduktion benötigt, um den Flüssigkeitsbedarf der Union zu stillen. Unvorstellbar, wenn die wie gemeine Bürgerliche Wasser trinken müssten.

Die AfD wäre auch deutlich weniger populär. Die deutsche Solarindustrie hat gerade im Osten viele Arbeitsplätze geschaffen und verspätet doch noch die Versprechen eingelöst, die zur Wende gemacht wurden.

Dann hat die Regierung ihr den Genickschuss verpasst, zehntausende Leute arbeitslos gemacht und die gesamte Region zu weiteren Jahren der Brachlage verdammt. Kein Scheiß, dass die nicht mehr gut auf die damals etablierten Parteien zu sprechen sind.

Im Zweifelsfall kriegen wir eine Mischung aus 70er-Ölkrise und COVID-19.

In Sachen aktive Maßnahmen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen (z.B. 100 km/h auf Autobahnen wie in den 70ern) und Pflicht zur Remote-Arbeit wo möglich. Empfiehlt ja auch die IEA so. Dazu vermutlich noch die Einstellung von Kurzstreckenflügen, allein schon aus Kostengründen.

Auch zu erwarten sind wirtschaftliche Schäden mit Firmenschließungen und einem deutlichen Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit. Massiver Anstieg der Benzin- und Dieselpreise, weil das Öl für die Wirtschaft benötigt wird. Und all das spielt den Bauernfängern in die Hände, weil bei komplexen Problemen die Leute mit den einfachen Lösungen immer Gehör finden.

Das hätte frühzeitig vermieden werden können, wurde aber nicht. Mit geschickter Steuerung könnte man das noch abdämpfen, aber ein Teil des Schadens ist gemacht und, naja, wir haben die Union am Steuer.

Remember when they made that post
And I thought of a song
I felt would go with it
Because it fit the mood?

Well you said it first and now
I’ve got nothing to comment with
And now you see I’ve gone
Completely out of my mind.

And they’re coming to take me away ha-haaa!
They’re coming to take me away ho-ho hee-hee ha-haaa!
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they’re coming to take me away ha-haaa!

Oh, there are a few differently colored varieties that are hot like hell. As a matter of fact, Pepper X, the currently hottest pepper on record, is yellow. Red just happens to be the default color for capsicum so most of the hottest ones are red.