Well, we have 6 governments, does that count?

It refers to the annexes you see growing out of the back of the house. People used to (and sometimes still do) start with a modest house, and then as time went on and money came in, build out into the yard, adding a new kitchen, toilet, shed, veranda, etc.

It has since also come to refer to things that get extended and patched up over time without a lot of coherence or forethought, like our tax codes (they just add rules, bonuses, penalties, etc. on top of the baseline instead of doing a thorough tax reform)

This is Belgium, it’s a great example of what we call “koterijen”

I’m gonna read that as ‘disemballed’, which just means they lose all their golf ballls

U niest

-bedankt voor de attentie

(the response is not quite as standard as the first line)

In Dutch you can say “you sneezed”

The paleontologist reconstruction does better match the deadliness of a hippo, much more so than real life does.

I always knew I’d die crushed by the Côte d’Azur.

Best case you have some shampoo bottles you can read the ingredients of. Or for the very sophisticated you have toilet literature in your bathroom.

I thought it was funny

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Think of an NFT as a membership card to a club. You can sell your card to someone else, but there’s nothing stopping the club from changing their system and no longer accepting old cards, not letting someone in despite having a card, or going out of business.

And you’ve never been able to own movies or video games, unless you made them yourself. NFT’s don’t change that either, you may own a receipt for access to something, but the club analogy still counts.

But you’re not the owner, though, you don’t get a copyright, the image is hosted externally, anything besides the receipt is just a contract which needs to be enforced via regular legal means and can be broken.

Odor

Then pay for the software?

I mean, just change apps at that point? There’s no lock-in, worst case you lose what you paid to remove ads. No point getting worked up over hypothetical scenarios

What can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence to boot. I have a very hard time believing any of this mess.