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  • If you find this kind of humour humourous, look for "Look around you". It's around on YouTube so go take a look!

  • Heh, we do the same. I appreciate that Changi airport has bottle-filling fountains at every gate.

    I really appreciate Haneda airport for having bottle scanners, so you can just bring your filled bottles through security. Saw this at an airport in Europe, too, but can't remember where (domestic Athens maybe?).

  • Yeah, this kind of thing. We have pocari sweat powder.

  • As a frequent flier I'd say the most important thing is what you do before and after your flight, not during. Go in well hydrated (get those electrolytes!) and well rested. If you're flying far east/west, adjust your eating and sleeping ahead of going, to make sure the adjustment is not so hard on arrival. If you're arriving in the morning, try to sleep on the plane... if you're arriving in the evening, don't sleep on the plane. Additionally, when you arrive, wait until the appropriate time to sleep/eat as not to prolong jet lag.

  • I've been busy travelling but somehow already reached 30+ hours playtime... and still only tried a few heroes. redacted is my fave thus far, I like how redacted is redacted.

  • No thanks. I'm good.

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  • I've had it farm fresh in Bali and at a swanky cafe in Penang. The shared characteristic was how smooth it is. Tastes different, not necessarily better or worse. Depends on what you're after in your beverage.

    In Penang, we had it with a normal espresso to compare. After drinking the Luwak coffee, the espresso lost all it's flavour... It did something to our sense of taste!

    Going through a factory you can tell there's no chance the poop makes it to the final product. In fact, none of the cherry meat is used, only the bean, so I question what effect the digestive process has. Maybe the preparation method is different? I haven't been to a normal coffee factory to compare.

    The conditions the Luwak are kept in vary wildly, apparently the worst practices are in Vietnam. The Luwak are super cute , amazing fur, ones kept as pets were fun to interact with. The size of two house cats. Nocturnal, so I've only seen them active once.

    I liked the coffee but not so much that I want to support demand for it. The Luwak is a totally unnecessary step in making what is already a great beverage regardless.

  • Got to witness crabs doing this when going for a walk one day. There was a very shallow pool on the beach, about a foot wide, and about 20 crabs having a 'swap meet', scurrying back and fourth between the different shells.

  • You don't see many cats out and about in Bucharest. Best move to Greece (or Turkey, I hear). In Athens the city microchips and makes sure "stray" cats and dogs get veterinary care. Public parks are filled with cats so you can't eat your lunch without making a few friends, and you can't park a motorcycle without a cat parking itself on the seat. Even the hill the Acropolis is on is covered in cats.

  • STOP IT.

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  • Just want to make sure everyone know about naproxen (Aleve, Naprogesic, etc), because I'm met several people in their 40's who still didn't know it exists. Over the counter, not a pain killer, targets the cause and stops cramps/nausea etc.

  • You've triggered my working with GameCube/Wii through Cygwin PTSD.

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  • her status and authority, unfortunately, make her an acceptable target

    Agreed, but It's really more that she's a complete arsehole. As a nimby mining magnate, she is a sponsor of organised climate denialism and vocal about it herself, a race she clearly has a horse in. She's also an active libertarian who wants to further dismantle the welfare system, and reduce taxation, and wants Australian workers to be cool like Africans and work for $2 a day. And a vocal Trump supporter.

    It's not the painting that makes her ugly, it's her behaviour and ideology.

  • To add to @slickgoat@lemmy.world 's points, Australia isn't afraid of foreigners, it has very high migration. You might be confused because of the government's reprehensible treatment of asylum seekers. Yes it was colonised by England, but internally, diversity is the most celebrated aspect of Australia.

    Australia has been dubbed 'the lucky country' because despite a lack of smarts (manufacturing and other value added economic activity), we've always been able to dig things out of the ground and sell it (coal, wood, gas, food, gold...). Though Australia never developed a serious manufacturing sector, it has pivoted to a service economy instead, with that sector's highest export being higher education.

    The lessons to learn from Australia is be rich, be on the other side of the world away from the world wars, and have high welfare spending (plenty of room for improvement though).

  • Numa

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  • Sunt iarăși eu, Picasso!Oh!

  • As the oldest Millennial (just scrape in), I insist they peaked at Dragon Ball. A half beaten to death pre-teen launching himself through the bad guy to defeat him? Epic stuff.

    (Married at 22. You can marry young and be in your 40's discussing Dragon Ball with internet strangers!)

  • Yes, to me, the nuance is what's important here.

    "You're welcome" implies you did something good, and you know it. "I am good for doing this for you. You owe me!"

    Whereas "no problem" implies it didn't cause you any trouble. "Doing this for you was not detrimental to my life. You owe me nothing."

  • I'm from a country with ranked choice voting. We can vote for our preferred third-party candidate and it's not only fine but better. Even if they don't get in, they will get a portion of government money for help with campaigning in future elections, and our vote for the first viable candidate will be counted instead.

    In the USA this is totally not the case. Your electoral system is designed to prevent third-party votes from meaning anything. As an anarchist who hates the politics of both neoliberal US major parties, I would still vote democrat, because a third-party vote is literally a wasted vote. It does not influence the 2 major parties in any way. They know there is no real threat from minor parties or independents unless they have massive overwhelming majority support.

    Change the system through political action, community engagement, and spreading information. This vote will not change a thing unless it's for a major party, and only really if you're in a swing state. It's shit but true.

  • Yes, very sure! It's probably because I'm not Dutch that I even considered it. Turned out really well, had to use lower heat then you would for frying regular bread as not to burn.