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When I was living in student halls, an Italian once had a huge argument with a Canadian, because the latter said Alfredo sauce was her favourite part of Italian cuisine

The olive harvesting season is slowly starting, so I've been buying freshly pressed extra virgin olive oil from the local farmers... Simply amazing.

Niklas Schmidt has signed a contract extension

Sure, but do you think the government will immediately refurbish everyone's house because a bunch of people glued themselves to the motorway?... If not, then the only thing their protests achieve is disruption, additional emissions, and alienation of public support.

Transportation is responsible for about one third of UK's greenhouse gasses emissions. I'd say it's hypocritical (or just dumb) to protest policies that lead to greenhouse emissions and create more said emissions at the same time...

Why doesn't that surprise me...

What about all the additional emissions from stationary vehicles stuck on the motorway, with their engines running for hours?...

Don't ask me - I neither know, nor care

Ampelkoalition.

Looks like they are close to reaching an agreement, which means Porsche and Audi would join as engine suppliers! https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/f1-motor-2026-einigung-details-porsche-audi/ Simpler, cheaper power units, MGU-H gone, biofuels, increased capacity of MGU-K.

Glad you enjoyed it! I thought it was great, the dark humour was spot on, and the characters were refreshingly unique. I still think (and hope) there will be Season 2 at some point... Amazon picked it up for some reason, can't imagine them not giving it a chance!

Now that I would like to see

If you look at it that way, yes. We're all earthquake survivors

Yep, I came here about a week ago, and then those two arrived begging for food, water, and pets

Law enforcement jobs do attract people with psychopathic tendencies.

Meet Tzatziki & Gyros, my new unexpected fosters

I don't particularly care, to be honest.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-deepmind-is-reinventing-the-robot @Mel81x

A new attempt after a while... Tarantula Nebula, a hotbed of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Telescope: ASA 500N (50-cm F3.8) Camera: FLI PL 16803 with Astrodon narrowband filters (3nm) 3 hours observation time, processed with DeepSkyStacker and PS.

When (if) it is truly over, i will spend 24/7 lying under a palmtree in SE Asia for at least a year first

Yeah, it just amused me as that's the quintessential dad trait

Do you also pretend you're annoyed with her spending money unnecessarily, but in secret love the stuff she gets you?

Yeah, I honestly can't remember when was the last time I got an actual birthday present Think I was still in high school, haha. Flowers + going out for a nice meal and drinks is by far better, indeed!

He has the level of self-control a Buddhist monk would be jealous of

Better than getting nothing as a birthday present. Spoiled brats these days...