Work in Germany, both in some retail jobs as a student, as well as as a dev, sometimes in rather ‘fancy’ office environments. No one ever cared, though I only ever cursed about a situation, never a person.

The way they did representation was one of the few things I really liked about Discovery. And that they gave us that Pike, and a Spock that turned out a lot better than I thought. Still, felt like every season got worse, plot wise.

Just because I found it’s interesting and tangentialy related, here’s a bunch of statistics on the BRICS States by the German federal office of statistics.

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Thema/allgemeines-regionales/BRICS/_inhalt.html

Auto-translate should work. The statistic on CO₂ Emissions might be slightly unfair, as I assume a lot of that is directly, or indirectly related to production for G7 countries.

That’s why I stopped using it. They require a phone number, phone numbers require kyc with an ID around here, and there’s just too much illegal shit on there.

It’s of course possible to get a more pseudonymous experience, but honestly, what they offer isn’t worth the hastle.

I feel like their service quality has been going down lately. Though if you flew domestic from Germany to Paris, it must have been quite some time ago anyway.

Been pretty happy with ANA lately. Have yet to try Ethiad and Emirates. Supposedly very good, but I don’t like the owners.

The specialty roasters around here post about coffee pretty much exclusively. Happy this forced corporate funny/meme culture hasn’t spread to them.

That just sounds like a list of things to say to have plausible deniability.

I played badminton with a friend and their girlfriend a few days ago. Guess in HK that’d pass as a euphemism.

Yeah, the thing is - I just don’t get it. Like most people likely do, I have thought about what I’d do if I came into a large sum of money, maybe by selling a company, and honestly, the answer is, a relatively normal flat in the city I live in; some travel, but nothing ‘luxury’, just seeing places I find interesting; giving both to charities I find worthwhile, and my local community; and investing in a responsible way (fuck returns if you get them by investing in oil and weapons, one could argue that investor owned companies as such are a problem, but I’m probably not going to be able to solve that can of worms).

So the difference in my life would be having less financial stress, being able to give back more, and focusing more on family, friends, and hobbies, and I just couldn’t imagine blowing through money like that man has.

It may be partially because I saw my father find incredible success, only to spend a lot of it on pointless luxuries before dying in incredible debt, but it also just feels like common sense.

Women are so cute and I don’t think that that’s the thing making me a bad VP pick.

If I remember correctly, the app was originally built by an Australian public broadcaster and then sold to WordPress Matt, so yeah.

Oh, yeah, wait, I am using AntennaPod too. The subscription stuff was actually the reason I switched from Pocket Casts. Mixed up the names. I’d claim old age, but I’m not that old yet, really.

Many modern podcast solutions seem to be injecting ads into the audio file they serve, to varying degrees of success.

I listen to several ad supported English language podcasts, and most of them seem to have difficulties with Pocket Casts AntennaPod, or some other part of my setup. The only ones that do get ads placed are the ones that use Spotify Megaphone for their backend.

There is a paid version of pocket casts?

True. Grindr as a corporation still sucks, though.

That’s a whole lot of words to say almost nothing.

I’d go in a different direction - requiring someone to sing your national anthem is wrong. It’s wrong when the U.S. do it, it’s wrong when Canada does, it’s wrong when China does it.

I find national pride hard to understand, but forced displays of national pride are really iffy.

I love how everyone is debating “Sells that information to companies”, but no one’s talking about “knows everything you do”.

I think Reuters only has a Best of feed from their agency side, which isn’t really that useful as a news feed. All their feeds seem to be shut down, at least the ones I had stopped working.