Slightly, but certainly not 90°. You can see this yourself by trying to match the map location in Google maps or OSM. I think the reason they tilted the map a bit, is that it makes it much smaller, while still keeping Crimea on the map.

Seeing the overwhelming amount of acceptance in the other comments is amazing. But I do need to play advocate of the devil for a second here, and mention moderation.

I assume this concent will not be in English.

But if the existing moderators do not speak the language of the content, then they cannot effectively moderate. This makes it a massive risk to allow non-english content on your instance with only English speaking moderators. Hence, I would only recommend posting such concent to instances that are natively speaking the language. For example, German and Dutch content almost exclusively exists on German and Dutch instances respectively.

No need to have a good response. I’m with you in being a bit weirded out by it. I just felt I shouldn’t be alone in my state of being weirded out by this.

It’s a real sport nowadays: https://www.rulesofsport.com/sports/quidditch.html

As a European, this sounds like a rude and slightly exaggerated way of asking a normal question. A bad way to start, but probably not something that will get you kicked out of an interview in 30 seconds.

I would say the Soviet Union and the Dutch VOC were both bad for the same core reason: they were an ideological extreme. Capitalism is only a good system, if it is localized and regulated. Otherwise a small group of people will come out on top and exploit everyone else. But the same holds for communism, as clearly seen in any nation attempting communism, you inevitably get a dictator who will exploit the people for his or her own good. The difference is that when you weaken communism by implementing only parts of it, like universal healthcare, or unemployment benefits, then we call it socialism.

Ik heb een keer gehad dat de treindeuren nog dicht waren, en de trein helemaal donker was. Kon nog niet naar binnen. Dus ik raak verdiept in mn telefoon, tot ik plots zie dat het al tijd is voor mijn trein om te vertrekken. Maar de trein voor mn neus is nog steeds donker. Dus ik kijk eens rond me heen, en ik zie zo het voorste gedeelte van de trein wegrijden.

Anything that requires structurally lying or hiding information against the interest of the people I talk with/to. Sales, politics, advertisement, etc.

While catsitting I made the grave error of putting sardines (cat food) in the bowl of the cat. She sniffed it, turned around and sat down with her back to me. If I was going to put THAT into her bowl, I wasn’t even worth acknowledgement anymore.

If my knowledge about grenades from videogames is correct, you can just put a pin back in, if you kept the handle closed since pulling the pin.

I would have expected it to be a stressball. Anytime there is high stress: remember to squize the titan!

Just chug a glass of olive oil.

This already exists if you know what to look for, and are willing to dive into a technical solution.

The bleep tone is usually a 1kHz sine wave (according to wikipedia). We can simply create a band pass filter that removes all 1kHz tones from the audio output of windows.

This does have side effects. Most notably that human speach, especially some female voices, are around this 1kHz frequency too. Since the tone was designed to mask voices, this makes sense. So I’m not sure if the side effects are worth it, but you can certainly try.

Creating such a filter on live audio can be done with something like this: https://github.com/AndreasArvidsson/WinDSP

Never tried it before myself, but the description matches exactly what you would need. You will want a PEQ filter with a high Q and significant negative gain around the 1000Hz frequency. I’m not an audio engineer, so I have no idea what values would work well. But if you want to play with those: a higher Q creates a narrower band around the 1000 to filter out.

Billionaires seem to think exactly like I think when I’m playing a game of Stellaris.

Invading primatives is usually a bad idea, because they get a stellar culture shock modifier for 50 years. But the livestock “job” does not really suffer from this modifier…

That makes it too easy: just attach a ropeladder to the broom. That doesn’t work if the broom stops levitating when you get off.

The flipside of this coin, is that a lot of people want to feel desired. Having someone who active craves you, can satisfy that desire.

I call this effect borrowing energy from the future.

I used to drink around 3 big mugs of coffee a day. Then I just stopped, cold turkey. Took a few months to get adjusted. But what surprised me, is that ALL tolerance to caffeine is gone. If I drink a cup of black tea, I will feel more focussed for a few hours, and less focussed a day or two afterwards.

I now only drink caffeine strategically. If I think todays problems are more important than the next two days problems, I drink some black tea or a cup of coffee. Otherwise I stick to decaf coffee, which fills the habit of drinking coffee perfectly.

Yeah, but in the bottom one, the people are packed infinitely dense, which will probably cause the train to derail, saving infinitely more people.

This is an idle/clicker/incremental game. Not really what I would consider a strategy game.

What about the Bob Marley printer? You know, the one that is always jamming.