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Americans often also claim they invented Pizza

You call a fantasy event a renaissance festival?

Whenever a company claims "Your privacy is a priority", they just left out the word "Violating" at the beginning of the statement.

It's pretty clear though that they don't do all that because they care about privacy, but because they want to be the only real player in datamining town.

History is full of great and not so great scientists who just couldn't accept a paradigm shift that totally changed their field of science.

Germ theory for example was a big one that got rejected by most of the medical scientists and professionals for decades.

A very specific set of stars need to align for this to be in the owner's financial interest without additional financial incentives, but it does occur sometimes.

The top one isn't a rat, but it's perfect!

They are using 31-bit signed integers.

It's totally possible to refit office high rises for residential use. But it is a major refit (though much cheaper than rebuilding the house) and you will get rather bad flats in the end.

Double floors, double ceilings and easy-to-move plasterboard walls are great for offices, since they can change up the layout of the office extremely fast.

But in residential buildings this translates to walls that are too weak to hang stuff on them and bad sound proofing.

Not impossible to live there, but considerably worse than a high rise that was built for residential use.

This in turn doesn't make perfect financial sense, since the owner of such a building is now not renting out expensive office spaces in good locations, but instead low-standard cheap flats.

It can be done, but it's not something an office building owner would want to do without additional financial incentives, and then only if there is no chance that they can rent out the space as offices.

You left out a critical part at the beginning though.

Before WW1, the area now known as Israel was inhabited mostly by Arabs with a tiny Jewish minority (there where fewer Jews there than Christians) and controlled by the Ottoman Empire.

During WW1, the Brits promised the Arabs, that they'd get independence if they revolt and kick out the Ottomans. The Arabs held up their end of the deal, and in turn, the Brits, being Brits, turned around and took the area (by now called Mandatory Palestine) under control "until such time as they are able to stand alone".

And then, in 1917, they promised the Jews the same area, after the plan to create Israel in eastern Uganda fell through.

The Jews where settlers that where put there by an occupying force that betrayed their promise to the local population.

How would you react if an occupying force would move millions of settlers into your country / state?

To be fair, it was quite similar with Russia vs Ukraine, but by now seemingly everyone has forgotten that that's still a thing.

I totally know that feeling :)

Well, in the 90s, XML was the future. Luckily, not a lot of this future remains.

Just imagine what HTML would be like if JSON had been available back then.

Yes, there is: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven

I am just not sure if that's much better. Maven is just a huge pain in the rear.

Third option: their phone is having a stroke.

That's yet another example of "stuff gets more expensive if you are poor"...

A very annoying concept.

It's pretty much all foods. Cutting out the retailer avoids a markup of ~40%. Buying in bulk straight from the farmers drops the price even more.

Buying a whole pig from the farmer costs roughly €200 or roughly €2.80/kg.

In the super market you pay €10-30/kg (at least over here).

And there is the same kind of markup on everything.

No wonder processed food is so much cheaper.

No, I am kinda pissed because you called me weak-minded and because you kept attacking obese people.

I got a few obese people in my life that I care a lot about and I know how messed up they get because of the constant scrutiny and hatered they get from random people.

Again, I kept saying all throught this conversation that I think that addiction and obesity are not a weakness of character or something like that. Everyone has things that don't work out and issues that they work on for decades that just don't get better. And if we are honest, everyone is addicted to something. Some addictions are more visible than others, but that doesn't make them worse.

You on the other hand have done nothing but bashing addicts and obese people.

Go and eat your ribs the way you like it. Why do you think I care?

You are the one who brought obesity up. I was talking about addictions from an empirical standpoint.

You then jumped in and called me obese and weak-minded.

I didn't even mention obesity or being overweight at all in my first post.

There are also a lot of other conditions you can get by consuming too much sugar, even if you aren't overweight. For example, you don't need to be overweight to get diabetes from consuming too much sugar.

And contrary to you I know that addiction is not a character weakness and it has nothing to do with being weak-minded. Addiction is a psychological problem same as depression. Shaming people for their addiction is incredibly counter-productive, because it often is the result of people being very unhappy with their current state. Shaming someone makes this problem worse and usually results in more severe addiction.

I've have experience with addiction and I worked a lot with people who are affected by addiction. I do know how it works, and shaming someone (even yourself) makes the addiction much harder to get rid off.

Depends on the amount of sugar ;)

If you go into a sugar coma while driving, that could be very dangerous.

But sugar has a very wide range between the amount that it takes to have a nice effect and the amount it takes to have severe accute consequences.

Alcohol has a much narrower range.

That's also what makes Nutmeg such a bad drug, because it doesn't take much more of it for a lethal dose than the amount you need for a good high.

And not too long ago the whiskey would also have been considered ok.

In some jobs (e.g. sales) it's considered essential to the job to be able to drink a lot.

At least where I am from, alcoholism is in many contexts still normalized.

Luckily, this is slowly changing.