darklamer @ darklamer @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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unless the thing is originally German

This is the key, if I can read the original, I want the original.

Disabling the absurdity of 12-hour clock with am/pm, which bizarrely often is the default for no rational reason whatsoever.

I found The Ambassador by Mads Brügger to be particularly gripping, he goes too far and realizes that he's gone too far and many uncomfortable truths are revealed:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2048877/

Google Flights can do that, see for example this search for flights from Mysłowice to Åre which found the small regional airports of Katowice and Östersund, click on "Change flight" in the flight details to see the original search query which only mentioned the places of departure and arrival, without any airports specified:

https://www.google.com/travel/flights/s/YqdhwS3UoZT9w3F17

You need to enter the UK using a British passport as a British citizen.

This is very common and the EU has the same requirement, anyone who has EU citizenship must use their EU passport (or national identity card) to enter the EU (even if they also have other passports that could otherwise have been used).

My local Viking bar no longer has axe throwing, but they still serve Icelandic White Ale so it's still OK, I guess.

You had me at "nuclear".

Already with a single standard in a single project things have a tendency to start breaking down as soon as there's more than one developer and disagreement arises about what the text in the standard specification actually means.

https://archibab.fr/texte/12972

[…] now that the US is directing their usual behavior towards white Europeans.

That's nothing new, that's happened before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netwide_Assembler

👆 This.

I personally prefer programming barefoot, but then I also use GNOME.

Casablanca

Compared to a debit card, it adds an additional layer between my money and the rest of the world. If my card is wrongly charged, by malice or honest accident, I then have some weeks to sort that out before the money is actually going to be pulled from my bank account. That's why I prefer to pay by credit card instead of by debit card.

Thanks for the tip! Despite never actually using sushi, I had it installed so now I've uninstalled it to avoid using it by accident.

I'd be really curious about the Tarzan experiment, having a human infant raised by apes.

Wikipedia knows what saint the city was named after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego#Name