Got a little platform in all your Nazis*

Yeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate and that’s a little boring :p

二 (pronounced and romanized to “ni”) is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda

Same with 三(San)

Lemme try my favorite way to explain the birthday problem without getting too mathy:

If you take 23 people, that’s 253 pairs of people to compare (23 people x22 others to pair them with/2 people per pair). That’s a lot of pairs to check and get only unique answers

1554 is one of the GOATs of beer

Sure! The tasting part is complex but to grossly simplify it:

Each site has a bunch of people who are taster verified and have other jobs (rigorous program that takes a while to be part of) and they 1+ taste panel per day on each site which has a mix of new beers, old shelf beers, all the new releases, all from all of the sites, plus other market stuff (competitor products). You don’t usually know what you’re tasting outside of trainings so you just use a bunch of chemical words to describe the beer (no, you don’t say “fruity”, you talk about the specific fruit compound like acetaldehyde or ethyl hexonoate).

They only use the data of attributes you’re best at, so each taster is like an instrument that they’re also Corsa calibrating with spiked samples throughout all of that.

The best part, by far? Free snacks; good ones too. We already had limitless free beer so that doesn’t incentivize anyone

Beyond that NBB was dope. Love the people, love the beer, the company actually stands up for what it believes in. Based af, if it was in Europe I’d 100% work for them still. But we did wanna leave the US so…

I live in Europe, but was an expert taste panelist at New Belgium Brewing in the US when I lived there.

Lefthand Milk Stout Nitro is a great beer.

There’s a lot of good beer all over the world (okay, much of it anyway). Quality has a LOT more to do with freshness, cleanliness, and lack of dissolved oxygen in the beer. You can also find bad beer most anywhere. Don’t let someone making silly blanket statement get ya down.

I will just go ahead and contradict myself by making a blanket statement that the low end of food is just better in most of the EU cuz of how much stricter the rules are. From McDonald’s to the grocery store, you kinda can’t get “terrible” food.

Yeah let me timestamp this comment with 2024 and say that I’m ready for it to be worse everywhere. Yay!

I used to live in the US and now live in the EU

PC parts are expensive as hell everywhere here. One of the things that is tempting to buy on a vacation in the US and toss in a suitcase

Favorite? Meld in Magic

https://www.thegamer.com/magic-the-gathering-mtg-every-meld-card-strongest-ranked/

There’s only 6 pairs of them across all of mtg. You meet some conditions and mush two cards together to make a bigger card. Some are good, some are meh, but they are large and that’s what counts

This is extremely relevant to me as well.

I need even less interaction than most. I just need to check a private group I’m part of for events. Any way to extract that info into something else nicely?

I see the recommendations for FBPurity and the Firefox container, both of which I’ll use on desktop. I was hoping for something for mobile too but just desktop is probably fine

Big +1 for Fairphone

Tom Morello is based as hell

Or, if you’re a little more friendly: “Fuck trump, eh? What a piece of shit. Let me know if I can help at all, so sorry about all this”

The point is that the opportunities are systemically lower for women, so they end up less experienced on the whole or out of the workforce longer.

Compared to the US, I’d say they’re extremely socially progressive.

Healthcare, low gender pay gap, higher “minimum” wages (I know there’s no legal minimum most places but there are commonly accepted lowest wages), very low homelessness, very LGBT+ accepting.

Socially progressive enough? Not for my tastes. But it’s a lot better than the US in social systems

Wow that is a hot take

Oh, I think that largely depends where you live. Some places it’s much cheaper than gas or electric to heat your home. If that’s how you were already heating your home some water on top is easy

Do you have a fireplace or a stove for heating anywhere? My family always used a pan of water on top of those in the winter

Hm glass ceiling. Strasbourg?