Oh, I was just trying to be silly by taking you too literally :)

I shudder at the thought of freeze dried coffee being even more fuckef up than it already is.

It gets bitter if you use water that’s too hot. For black tea you’ll want to bring it to a boil, then take it off the heat and you can pretty much immediately add the tea then. For green tea you want it quite a bit cooler than that, and so forth.

You’re definitely making tea wrong if you’re putting the tea in boiling water.

The crew isn’t Russian though. Just hired help that don’t care too much what they’re paid to do. Russia doesn’t care about their fate.

Much, much longer than that. But yes, they picked up the pace again in recent years.

Certainly was.

I think you’re thinking of Aptiva.

That particular one is Taiwanese I believe, and passed several minutes before the outage maintaining a constant pace.

Finnish border guard has stopped a tanker registered to Cook Islands that’s part of the Russian shadow fleet, which slowed down significantly while crossing the cable and was on site when the outage started.

Coming from a not English speaking country where subtitles instead of dubbing is the rule, it’s kinda the opposite for me. Subtitles allow me to see at a glance what to expect, so I’ll have an easier time focusing on the dialogue. I have some kind of hearing impairment, so that while my hearing is very good, it only takes a little bit of noise to muddy speech so that I really struggle to make out words. That said, subtitle translation quality has been going downhill fast for the past 15+, and that has made them a lot less useful. Especially with companies like Disney and Netflix not caring one bit about translation quality, only how much they cost to make. When you’re watching Star Wars and they start talking about attack helicopters, it’s time to switch off the subtitles.

Anyway, I’m sure it’s largely down to habit. If you’ve grown up reading subtitles and it’s perfectly normal to you, they’re not distracting and you don’t spend a lot of time on them. I can easily see how it could be a completely different experience when it’s an exception and not the rule.

https://imgur.com/gallery/edI8Zjc

Sadly your average person just doesn’t care about consumer rights, in any matter.

I learned my lesson about malicious DRM when Starforce broke my new computer’s DVD drive back in the day. Fortunately it was still under warranty so I had it fixed, but sucked all the same.

Indeed. My girlfriend lives there, last time I was over we went to the big demonstration against mass tourism. I felt a bit sick at the airport listening to all the north European pensioners talking about how they rent a place year round for 800€/month just to spend the odd week now and then there. While many locals working in tourism make minimum wage, around 1300€/month I believe.

Well, he does play Nick Fury.

And gives them time to reflect.

You don’t necessarily always check for something you’re used to buying, so the shrinking may go unnoticed for a while.

Also ammonium chloride. So delicious.

Reminds me of quite a dark joke that made the rounds in Finland some years ago, when a grooming ring run by recently arrived immigrants was discovered in Oulu.

“A sex holiday for the whole family: Dad goes to Thailand, mom goes to Gambia, and the kids go to Oulu”

I have no idea if they still do it, but a decade or so ago it was all over the internet that a Brazilian fast food company had started using edible wrappers and made a marketing stunt out of it. The chain was apparently “Bob’s”.

Heard about this on the radio today morning. Apparently his son said he’s happy he’ll never see the outside of a jail cell again. It wasn’t a direct quote though, the radio host may have tweaked the message a bit.