I have above average knowledge in a lot of areas due to browsing Wikipedia a lot.

I know more pure maths than most people in the world so there’s that too.

You seem to be in a weird state where every hostile act that both China and the US carry out is a reason to stop doing business with the US but not with China - unless you want to reassess the starting point where you said the Netherlands needs to leave itself open to pressure from China in this instance, every though that won’t cause dependence on the US, only a shift in balance.

Even with the hostile trump regime, China is still more hostile towards EU states than the US is.

New cold war

Litmus test: who bears responsibility for the war in Ukraine?

I dunno about that, but I do know Reeses cups taste bad. Too much sweet and salty.

Europeans don’t eat peanuts? Or chocolate?

1. Identify a problem. (User wants do something and can’t, something that is supposed to work doesn’t, someone wrote shit code that works and we want to fix it)
2. Get more info about it: ask users for more context, find out about their workarounds, assess the impact of the bug, find solutions to similar problems. Get together with others and hash out some design.
3. Do the coding. Often involves a bunch of reading documentation and trial running code to see if it works
4. Come up with a way to confirm the change does what it’s supposed to: write a new automatic test, or a procedure a person can follow to verify it works
5. Write a description of the change and test plan
6. Get someone else to check what I’ve done and make any changes they ask for (as long as I agree)

They exist; do you mean you want other people to choose them instead of SUVs? Me too.

I’m not sure what world population has to do with anything. It’s a city builder - players are building cities, not people.

Do you think they will completely stop doing business with someone that steals* their shit

*as much as this can be called theft, something which took place in specific non-arbitrary circumstances, rather than the Dutch government just thinking “I quite fancy that”

The UK undertook a similar action earlier this year when British Steel was threatened with going defunct by its Chinese owners. Business between the UK and China did not collapse as a result.

By realistic: China is continually carrying out low-level hostile actions against other nations - cyberattacks, IP theft, currency manipulation, and also this kind of attempt at industrial subordination. It’s realpolitik, which means that if it gets detected and a credible negative response, their reaction won’t be to cut off all trade; it will be to stop doing deals which they only wanted to do as a way of carrying out this kind of manipulation. If it were to cut off all trade, what you’re saying is that Western countries should roll over and accept abusive practices by China so as to avoid being dependent on the abusive USA. It makes no sense.

If you think that China is not actually doing anything that even deserves a response, then feel free to say so, of course.

It’s not really an SUV premium; it’s a heavy vehicle premium. This makes some sense, as heavier vehicles tend to be bigger and therefore require more space to park. But it would make more sense to have vehicle weight feature as part of car tax and actual vehicle size feature as part of parking permits, since that’s the variable that affects how much parking they require. Using either of these as a proxy for pollution (as is alluded to) is an awful idea, as electric vehicles tend to be larger and heavier than equivalent petrol ones.

No idea, but having read the Bible is not a requirement to be a Christian either, and whether it’s horrendous and insane is certainly neither here nor there.

Intriguing. I wonder after what length of time the world will “fill up” and it’ll be hard to find anywhere to start fresh? I guess this is something that the dev tries to tune consciously. In a similar vein, I wonder whether it will be best as a single player to start near someone else (to trade with them) or far away from others (to avoid bumping into each other)

One of mine learnt in postwar Britain but surpassed such stereotypes. The other did too but then lived in India for a long time and so made great curries.

“BJ - NOMNOM!” is how my partner communicates a desire for oral sex

Yeah, the situation where people don’t oppose horrific policies because it doesn’t affect them personally is unsustainable. A better collective conversation about them, and a fostering of empathy from a young age, are needed.

The tried-and-true method is to get recommendations from people you trust. Or even algorithms you trust.

“The 100 best movies” will be mostly generic with a small amount of rage-bait. If that’s boring to you, then find some less generic resources. https://www.allmovie.com/advanced-search can be useful for films. You can throw some pretty weird search criteria at it and find more off-the-wall stuff.

Starting from something you know you like and looking at the “other people liked…” section is never going to be 100% reliable but better than nothing.

Worse than anything is scrolling through Netflix. They purposefully make their descriptions beyond garbage-tier. Presumably they think that means people will just pick whatever slop is put in front of them and then… turn it off again? I dunno, maybe they want to be able to aggressively cut that new show after two seasons without biasing people’s expectations with a useful description. This is now just a rant about how useless Netflix is.

THIS IS MY ROOM! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!

AND ME!

ME TOO!

This is a specific genre of text adventure - have you been on text adventure sites to try and find more? Because they’re low cost to make you can find loads for free or little money.

I’ve only just joined lemmy.ml communities, is it US only or something?

Many of their songs are in Icelandic actually, and a couple in English.

Pff nothing can increase sleep inertia in me because it’s already at a maximum