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The only really effective thing is ozone, as has already been posted, though an ozone generator in the living quarters comes with its own gotchas such as ozone being corrosive and harmful to your respiratory system.

Apart from that, we used to get the smell out of hair and clothes with a hairdryer set to hot. I'm not sure how you could apply that knowledge to an entire room, but there's probably no harm in trying.

Having said that, if your roommate carries such a strong smell, does he really smoke outside, or does he just sorta-kinda stand in the half-open doorway and call this outside?

Well, it was less error-prone than some other language's "if (c=5) { ... }", and more mathematically correct (or so they say)!

No, a distant relative of German boxer Conrad Turbo.

Cue the people cheering who still have at least 500 rolls left in their basement from last time.

Your guess is as good as mine. 🤷‍♂️ You know how the things politicians say before the elections and the things they do afterwards don't necessarily have a lot in common, so I guess it remains exciting.

From what I hear the answer is no. The current opposition party (JxC) started supporting him when it was clear that their candidate couldn't win against the incumbent party's candidate (Sergio Massa, the current minister of economy), but they say they plan to vote against some of Milei's more radical ideas.
\ What actually happens, and how many of his ideas Milei will actually try to get through parliament, remains to be seen.

Jack Russell mix
\ hound/husky mix

Aww, never a dull moment with that combination, I imagine. But I bet they are good girls. Give them my warmest regards and some head skritchins!

I know, right? Consider this though: Argentina's biggest problem right now is the economy, and his opponent in the presidential race was the current finance minister, who one could argue has already given a quite impressive demonstration of his incompetence. "Four more years of the same" simply isn't a realistic option. Milei's plans for the economy on the other hand could be worth a try.

I suspect he's a bit of a calculated risk to many - some of his ideas might actually be good for the economy (not the selling babies part obviously), and his more, uhm, controversial ideas are highly likely to be blocked by parliament. In that aspect he might be the kind of healing shock that the country needs.

So far we know that he appears to have toned down his rhetoric a bit since his victory, and that the other party supporting him plans to 'keep him in check' in parliament. Let's see how that turns out.

They seem like a dynamic duo. Are they different in size or is that just the perspective? How old are they?

Whoever said you can't hold on to happiness has never hugged a dog.

For maximum happiness, train yourself not to be bothered by being woken up by the sound of retching right next to your pillow.

Here's my stray - is it legitimate to make this a dog pic thread?

For books I've bought, I download them into Adobe Digital Editions and then use ePubor Ultimate to remove the DRM. That gives me an unencrypted .epub file.

Others claim to have been able to de-DRM their ebooks with calibre, but I never got that working. Maybe it used to work with older DRM versions or something.

I don't think most people actually voted for him - it's more like he was the lesser of two evils. Now consider what that says about the other candidate.

Sort of. Switzerland doesn't have leash-free zones per se - there are places where a leash is mandatory or recommended, everything else is the owner's responsibility. The law basically just says "make sure your dog does nothing stupid".

I agree on out-of-control dogs being a problem, but it goes both ways. Mine wait by the roadside when I tell them to (and we always make a show of it so the oncoming people can see we're aware of them), and we still get yelled at by a lot of dickwads on bikes even though they have 3/4 of the road to themselves.
\ And frankly, keeping a dog where it can't run and play off-leash on a regular basis is animal cruelty.

It could be worse really. At least the people who watch NASCAR for the crashes are gonna have four very entertaining years ahead of them.

It sadly is. Thank you.

I wasn't aware of the CloudFlare thing, thanks. Though I'd trust them more than Google or Meta, I share your reservations. Looking at how big a part of the web they serve, there's already way too much power in too few hands anyway.

I don't know Don't Starve and have only played ONI for a short while, so the other answers are probably more helpful that mine, but at its core the game is about managing (and obtaining) limited resources. You start out inside an asteroid with a limited amount of oxygen and food and need to build a sustainable environment from there.

Silly fun also seems to be a big part of the game - one of the character stats (they're called duplicants in the game) is the reaction to stress, and apparently one of mine is an 'ugly crier' and another one a 'binge eater'. Two appear to have a crush on each other and spend the day avoiding work and exchanging heart symbols whenever I'm not watching.

As for the game itself - yes, I find it very overwhelming. There are short tutorials on how to navigate the map etc. and a lot of stats, but not an awful lot of info on strategy or what exactly is expected of you. So far it's still fun though.

That app was revolutionary for its time and a true life-saver. (For the young ones: at a time where mobile networks were still really, really slow, Opera's technology would load the requested web page on its server farm, parse it, strip out the unnecessary stuff and send it to your phone in a highly compressed form. It basically enabled you to surf 'normal' web pages without overloading your phone and with load times measured in seconds instead of minutes.)

ISTR news/discussions where several shady companies were said to want to buy Opera for that technology, for the simple fact that everything you did on Opera Mobile was at some point processed on Opera's servers in unencrypted form. I dread the day where Google or Meta start offering such a service.