I'm in a German speaking place and I know someone named Xaver, which people here pronounce 'Ksah-fffer' (really strong f in the regional dialect). The English version is tame in comparison.
You seem like a great parent! I'm personally leaning towards giving them dumb phones once they have to take public transport to school, for the convenience of them being able to inform me when they miss the bus or want to have lunch at a friend's. But who knows if or when I'll even have kids, lol. Maybe things will change in that time.
When I was kind of strapped on cash, the 2016 iphone SE was the most best choice by far. The android phones I'd had before that usually cost a similar amount and they all broke in less than three years. But that 290€ bad boy lasted until I lost it in 2023. Shame they're no longer making those. But I guess the silver lining is that people don't make fun of me for having an iPhone anymore.
Experienced hikers average a greater speed than that even if you average it over 24 hours, so including sleeping time. Someone who can only walk 15km (that's slightly more than averaging 1.5km/h for 9 hours) a day would never go on a journey like that, and even if they did, they'd be much faster after a few weeks. So there's no situation where that calculation makes sense.
Not trying to be rude here, but this ain't it. This sort of thing happens to me a lot due to hypotension and I'm perfectly mentally capable. Criticize the shit he says, not his physical struggles/disability. This just normalizes ableism. A disabled person can very well be capable of leading.
I'm Austrian, we still call them Palatschinken. The extra thin ones are called crepe and the extra thick ones are called pancake, just like the French and English term, respectively. Palatschinken are somewhere in-between.
They're a scientist. Science is pretty international and often involves travelling to all sorts of countries for conferences with other researchers in your field.
Sometimes I'll be at the laundry detergent shelf at the shop and see a really low price, only to get disappointed by it being softener and not detergent. Shit be cheap, compared to detergent. Wouldn't even use softener if it were free though, so can't comment on how long it lasts.
I've been wondering what creamer was, since it seems to be a US thing. I thought it was just sweetened cream or something. That sounds sooo weird. I'll stick with soy milk for my coffee.
Not a solution to all your problems of course, but the only way to buy something and preserve your privacy is to pay cash. Everything else will get your info to someone. Lots of good suggestions for lesser evils here for when you have no choice but to shop online.
Anecdote to confirm what you're saying: my grandpa had to learn to cook in his 80s when his wife became too disabled to do it. In the beginning, she was giving him instructions the whole time. He's become decent at it. It's never too late.
Since this was true when I was in primary school, it'll always be seared into my brain. I mean, I realized this when I was learning to count and spell, of course it's saved as one of the most basic facts of life. Like, 4+4=8, 90s are 10 years ago 70s are 30 years ago etc was stuff learned at the same time, so it's like it's saved in a similar way.
If it makes you feel any better, we have a joke in Austria that we might as well not have an army, because we border 1) NATO, 2) Switzerland, and if either of those become a threat, we might as well capitulate immediately.
I'm in a German speaking place and I know someone named Xaver, which people here pronounce 'Ksah-fffer' (really strong f in the regional dialect). The English version is tame in comparison.