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Very substantive comment Dr. Bob!

Pacemakers are one of the few things that can get damaged by magnetic fields AFAIK.

Define worse. For most people’s use cases it’s not.

It looks like you’ve got the reverse experience of a Windows users who has to use Linux sometimes.

AFAIK Frisian is only spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland, and not even the the whole province. Groningen (Dutch) and Ost-Friesland (German) speak a Lower Saxon dialect which is a different minority language all together. Their version is different from most Lower Saxon dialects (both German and Dutch) though.

So, since the US president likes to help the people of Venezuela, when does he start helping?

Personally, I wouldn’t believe Yesilgoz if she said water was wet.

Because bosses always want to make more money than the people they’re bossing. But, also because leadership is responsible, I (engineer) wouldn’t want to take the responsibilities of my boss for the same pay.

The day after he (allegedly) shot that CEO, all claims were approved without questioning.

I know, but if they’re not rich for the tax collectors, they shouldn’t be rich for the news agencies, the groupies or the history writers.

Let’s not forget he’s not a trillionaire, unless he sells his stock and realizes their “value”.

San Marino’s constitution was apparantly written in 1600.

Am I the only one having such an experience?

I’d say that’s pretty normal. Most people will say their first time was underwhelming, it can be awkward with lots of fumbling. The feeling of penetration is only a small part of the sex, great sex is defined by being turned on with what’s happening, and connecting with the other person(s) in the horny section.

A pornstar from my country (decades ago) said that she preferred working with black men because of the contrast on screen. Totally unrelated tidbit, but it makes sense to me that the same goes here.

In the Netherlands: blue collar mostly 7:30 - 16:00, white collar half an hour or an hour later.

“workers” is a disambiguous word in this context, as well as “management”. Source: the rest of the article.

If you really look into stuff like featherbedding, it seems (to me at least) that it’s just a propaganda word for populists. It would be easy to convince someone that others are making more money due to featherbedding, meanwhile never discussing the worth of the work this specific someone is doing. In reality, I’d estimate over 80% of all paid work done today is some kind of this so called featherbedding.

Yeah, I foresee a few quiet walks alone around the block in your future.

Ah, the old internet, when you’d get 25 MB of web space with your hosting account. At some point in time you could get a .tk domain for free, suddenly everyone had one. Plenty of the old pages didn’t even have css, but used HTML tables to format the site.

Why would a 20% reduction only lead to a 20% price increase? Pricing depends on what people are willing to pay for it. For example, if Rolex were to make 20% more watches, would they still be able to sell at the same price? And not just in the short run, but also in the long run? The market for Rolex would get over saturated, and prices would drop significantly more than 20%. (for Rolex it would be even worse, since they would lose clientele at the high end of the market).