on related note what would be the best VFM sneakers/hiking shoes which will be mostly used in the city and are also available in Europe? in US you have pretty sweet deals on sneakers or some walmart or other cheap good quality brands, but here in Europe everything which ain't Adidas/Nike/Puma will have for me collapsed heel within few weeks, and mind I am not even some fat guy, my BMI is like 21 and literally every single noname shoe (think like Lidl) will collapse for me
not necessarily, my kids have citizenship of my home country while daughter never lived there and son only for a year, and for none of them it's their mother tongue
same goes with car quality, long gone are the times when German engineering was synonym of quality, if I had to choose something German or Japanese in the last at least 15-20 years the choice would be easy...
Where I come from it's almost always considered sincere and I would think it would apply for mos of the Europe where we don't greet each other "how are you" without being interested in the actual answer like certain orange crazies voting nation.
Personally I thought the 6th question about the rules was the most German one, sticking to the rules no matter what (that would be actually the least Chinese one, where rules are made up just to exist, but not to enforce).
Struggled most with last two questions, too many correct options to answer.
German -33%
Autistic -36%
Apparently:
"You probably ended up here through social media, which means someone you follow scored either Both or German. They sent it to you as a question or a joke. You are their control group."
illiberal - opposed to liberal principles; restricting freedom of thought or behaviour.
AI overview says:
Illiberal describes attitudes or policies that are narrow-minded, bigoted, intolerant, or restrictive of personal freedoms. It signifies a rejection of liberal values like pluralism, minority rights, and open-mindedness. In politics, "illiberal democracy" refers to regimes that hold elections but lack fundamental democratic safeguards like rule of law and free media.
So I am quite confused, seems author is defending/praising the Hungary while at same time he is calling Hungary an illiberal state? Wouldn't word "conservative" be more suitable for not promoting new progressive ideas?
> It wasn't that long ago that men would sign up for almost-certain death in defence of their families, their people, their nation.
I would say WW2 was pretty long time ago, none of the latter US wars was about thing you mention, everyone serving in following wars were not soldiers but mercenaries.
Btw. why you need army to defend your own family? Also your family is more likely to be hurt by your fellow citizen than some foreign soldier.
A staggering number of people enlisted or re-enlisted after a break in service due to 9/11 and patriotic ideas. (... And then more than half ended up getting sent to Iraq.)
"Mr. Back and Satoshi shared many of the same writing tics.
We collected the archives of three internet mailing lists where Cypherpunks congregated in the 1990s and 2000s. We merged them into one big database and compared them to Satoshi’s body of writings. We performed three different writing analyses. All three pointed to Mr. Back as the closest match for Satoshi.
One of the analyses focused on tics I had noticed in Satoshi’s writing:
Satoshi put two spaces between sentences and used British spellings.
He sometimes confused “it’s” and “its” and ended some sentences with “also.”
He spelled “bugfix” as one word instead of two and “half way” and “down side” as two words instead of one.
He wrote the compound noun “double-spending” with a hyphen even though it didn’t require one and the compound adjectives “file sharing” and “noun based” without hyphens when they should have been hyphenated.
And he alternated between “e-mail” and “email,” “e-cash” and “electronic cash,” “cheque” and “check” and the British and American forms of the word “optimize.”
Only one among hundreds of subscribers to those three mailing lists matched all those writing quirks, according to our analysis: Mr. Back."
this was not really an issue before food delivery apps came into fashion
btw. kids up until certain age can pretty much in all countries ride bike legally on sidewalk, are there any countries where 8yo can't ride bike on sidewalk?
It's a problem in the US where bicycle food delivery is really rare. Even in places with good bike lanes, they'll often prefer the sidewalk because if there is some sort of obstacle in the bike lane (e.g. a car that parked illegally), it won't jump out of the way for them like a pedestrian with a sense of self-preservation, which would mean they might have to slow down.
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