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Take any action movie and really focus on those kills, especially when it's with melee weapons instead on guns. Don't even need to go full splatter movie, just actually show the violence that's happening in great detail and with maybe some amount of realism (people rarely die in one blow, and bladed weapons can get stuck in bodies)(obviously that doesn't work as well for sci-fi and superhero movies). There are going to be a lot of turned stomachs.

A lot of spy movies, just don't fade to black when there's torture.

Yeah. Someone has to put in the work for packaging an application if you want it as a .deb/.rpm etc. package and deal with any bugs that might come up, and it's not going to be me (speaking as a user, not a developer).

That said, I also painted myself into a corner when it comes to harddrive space. LUKS can be complicated, man ...

I think Github is a relatively simple issue. There isn't really a shortage of european (or just selfhostable) alternatives, and the way git works means that most contributors have complete local copies of the codebase. TBH I worry more about the ability of american contributors to continue working on a project if the code is hosted in europe - basically a lot of open source developer teams could end up being split or shut down entirely. And the bigger projects like Linux and a lot of the intermediate layers between the Linux kernel and applications are majorly backed and developed by american companies and their employees.

It's usually a good thing to diversify. What happens when one of you falls ill or just dies unexpectedly, or have a fight? It's easier to find more friends right now than when you have literally no friends and just lost a parent. On top of that, any kind of emotional labor can get pretty exhausting for both people when it's just the two of you.

?Why not both?

The far right national government certainly isn't good, but you're right that it's probably not that far off from most other big european countries right now. Definitely research the specific region you're moving to, there are often extremely large differences between regions in european countries when it comes to political leanings, general tolerance and economic opportunities and it's not always as clear-cut as "big cities good, countryside bad" or "north good, south bad".

Considering the way MAGA voters act ...

Maybe their goal is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage.

Yeah, that's fair. They certainly don't make it easy to vote in USA, which is deliberate to a large extent. Easy to forget.

I think it was the votes of less than a third of eligible voters that made Trump 2.0 a reality, roughly another third just behind it, with the remainder not bothering to vote at all. I would say the often fantasized silent majority is actually not pro Trump.

That means that a third didn't bother, though, despite Trump very much being a known quantity. The exact reason why they didn't vote is up to debate and it's probably several reasons at once (these people are not a monolith), but it doesn't say any good things about them or the political system.

Anti-intellectualism has a certain tradition in the USA, it's kind of well-known.

A German perspective: I think Germans have always been this stupid, they're mostly just more willing to say the quiet part out loud than they were between 1970 and 2014 (rough estimate). The difference is that the far right extremists have a popular platform now, and the mainstream parties refuse to ban either the far right party or all the media (X, Facebook, local tabloid press etc.) that's pushing them. If this party had been around in 1960, it would definitely have been banned.

Ever heard of cheese analogue?

And now I’ve eaten all of it slowly over the coarse of 2 months. Just fistfulls of late night cheese.

See, that's exactly why I don't do that! Also I don't think my local supermarkets actually sell 3 lbs of mozzarella for $7.

In that case, the ingredients must be so cheap that the food coloring actually makes a significant price difference for them.

Yellow cheese (assuming it doesn't use food coloring) typically takes a lot more time to make than white cheese, so yeah. Though mozzarella is also just the standard pizza cheese, it seems like most people in the know prefer mozzarella's properties (e.g. stretchiness) over other types of cheese.

There is SearXNG, it's open source and decentralized but AFAIK the different instances don't really share information between them. I'm personally interested in trying it, but I'm apprehensive about the fact that it's really hard to know whether a particular instance is trustworthy, and while it's possible I don't think it makes much sense to host it myself.

https://searx.space/

It would be dangerous to assume that the underfunded infrastructure is an accident, though.

I'll be pleasantly surprised if the EU and its members don't fumble this opportunity (both for themselves and for the scientists). Many EU countries are having a resurgence of anti-immigration sentiments and e.g. in Germany the immigration bureaucracy was already extremely awful before the recent shift to the right - it's one thing to be shitty and stupid about refugees, but by what I hear from friends who have personal experiences it's pretty bad for highly qualified people, too.

The machine takes only about half as much space as the rack and it's easily stackable with a washing machine.

edit: I think you were actually referring to a clothesline instead of a rack? I never had a place to actually put up a clothesline, where do you put that? Straight through your bedroom?

IDK your living situation, but that "bit of room" might be a lot in smaller homes. My first room as a college student wouldn't even fit a full-size drying rack, and it was definitely in the way in most of my places since then. And it's going to be a lot more often than once every 2 weeks if there's more than one inhabitant, and depending on what how thick the clothes are and the air humidity, 24h is not enough to dry everything.