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A quality leather belt. Probably not for life, but already much much longer than any fake leather ones I had before.

That said, for tools I mostly go with the cheap stuff and so far most have lasted me well over a decade.

In terms of energy, the major fuckup was making gas cheap and electricity expensive (with taxes and renewable subsidies paid by private consumers).

If gas is 6 cents per kWh and electricity 35, no wonder people were installing gas heaters instead of heat pumps. Gas now being 9 and electricity 40 doesn't make it much better.

A heat pump would have to give you 4.4 kWh of heat for 1 kW of electricity to make financial sense even if it didn't cost more (Wikipedia: "Test results of the best systems are around 4.5. When measuring installed units over a whole season and accounting for the energy needed to pump water through the piping systems, seasonal COP's for heating are around 3.5 or less.")

Many won't answer honestly and just make up a polite excuse. Still worth a try.

The compromised Lawful Interception infrastructure is a pretty big deal. It shows the risks of having that sort of backdoor and makes it harder to argue for them. (Unless you're the UK or Australia, then lol what privacy).

16 would be 👍 (going by the mapping in this post, or the pinky if you do thumb = 1).

4 is 4 either way.

Don't forget 4.

larger glassware

Thinking of a typical US fast food soda cup: understatement. For comparison, a German McDonald's "Large" (the largest available) is 0.5 liters (17 oz). In the US, a "Medium" is 18 oz (0.53 l) or 21 oz (0.62 l) depending on who you ask, and, it goes to 30 (0.89 l) or 32 oz (0.95 l). And I've seen complaints that Wendy's shrank their large from 40 oz (1.18 l) to 35 oz (1.04 l). That's not a cup, that's a bucket!

A sit down restaurant in Europe will typically have soft drink serving sizes from 0.2 to 0.4 liters. The 0.2 is... unsatisfactory.

The rest I understand, but tiny doorknobs and tiny say in legislation? Can you elaborate? I thought door knobs were a US thing and Europe had mostly handles. And what is different in terms of say in government? Do you mean the states' direct democratic votes?

Indeed.

I guess you could also use an oversized heat pump in theory. With a setup like this, recirculation and/or wastewater heat recuperation would also need to be looked into. Either would significantly reduce the cost of running this.

But purely resistive heating without any form of recuperation would need impractical amounts of power.

Water typically comes in at around 15 degree Celsius, so it needs to be heated by around 25 degrees to feel warm.

A regular high flow shower head flows up to 20 liters per minute (that's 5.3 gpm in American). That's 500 kcal/min of energy that needs to be added, which is 35 kW, or a total of almost 150A at 240V.

These two specifically - I don't think I've ever seen them.

Hectoliters are sometimes used e.g. for measuring beer consumption for an event, decimeters in some informal contexts, some country commonly describe drink sizes in centiliters or deciliters.

Centimeters are common, I'd say more common than millimeters in informal context.

Technically, you're probably not supposed to.

Practically, yes, it works and is reasonably safe (unless the adapter is cheap garbage). Make sure the adapter has a fuse.

Long term, you could also consider replacing the plug on one of the multi-sockets with a UK plug.

However, the PC almost certainly uses a standard C13 cable. If the monitor also has a cable like that (e.g. a C13 or C5 going to the power supply), consider just buying replacement cables with UK plugs.

The smaller it is the less power it needs. That also means it generates less heat, allowing you to do more computation without the device melting.

I think it's the first visit at the doctor vs. followup visits, not first bite vs. followup bites.

If they're smart they'll just do nothing to block spam via the new feature except offering a button in all new chats to turn the feature off (just like there currently is a report/block button).

Spammers will do the rest for them :(

And I'm not even worried about writing this here - I'm not giving them ideas, this one was obvious from the start.

Window.

Oof. "Subtly" threatening allies that the refugees they accepted (usually with very generous arrangements to make it easier to get in) might become a threat unless Ukraine receives continuing support doesn't sound like a smart move.

Because that's how it was initially defined. I'm sure plenty of places use unsigned, which means it might either work correctly for another 68 years... or break because it gets converted to a 32 bit signed somewhere.

It's a good start but you absolutely want in-browser ad blockers too. Not all crap is served from dedicated garbage serving hostnames.

The logistics and cost of that does NOT sound fun. I'm pretty sure it would make the airport neighborhood look like a slum, based on the money needed.