Finished “a conventional boy” by Charles Stross. It was fine, but I wish he would just publish either novels or novella’s, but not three stories in one book. Now reading “the sacred cut” by David Hewson. I read the first two book in this series years ago when they were published, and decided to follow up on it. Nice books if you’re into detectives and also like the city of Rome.

Only if you’re lucky!

I don’t think I’ve ever had bad food in Germany. In England my limited experience is mixed, some good, some bad and some interesting lunch choices like salted peanuts.

The fish is not raw, it’s gibbed and cured. It’s also eaten a lot in Germany and Scandinavia.

Also, we have vla in the Netherlands, and mustard soup! And we frown at people calling kale a super food, because it is considered one of the most generic winter foods over here.

I got in an argument over this sentence yesterday, but I think it aplies here: Perfect is the enemy of good. Carrots are fine, lentils are fine, and there’s always something better probably.

I have chickens, but no rats because I took precautions against rats, foxes, martens and whatever else roams outside. It’s not even difficult to do this, just make sure there’s no food laying around, and plan for the coop to be vermin proof.

I’m sorry I didn’t spoon feed my comment for you, mister obtuse.

You’re seeing a motivation behind my comment that isn’t there, so you really shouldn’t call me obtuse. Is Norway doing pretty good? Yes! Could they also do better? Yes! I’m not playing crab bucket, but I’m also not sticking my head in the sand here.

It certainly doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

Nobody said we shouldn’t. The point is, we shouldn’t look away from the issues in a country just because they are doing better than others in some cases.

Don’t be too hard on yourself, I’m not autistic and I also don’t get the point he’s trying to make. Probably something like “get a better job”, “leave to somewhere where things are better”, “go live with your friends/parents/whatever”.

I used to drink a lot more both in days and number of drinks. I found out that I wake up better rested when not drinking. I also found out that I have trouble sleeping if I’m not active at all during the day, I have a mostly desk job, and I need to at least take a walk for an hour every night to allow my body to be able to rest at night.

If the Dutch had designed it, the protestants would have been on top, in 1848 we just lost half the country to the catholics in the south during a civil war AKA the Belgian revolution. If the Germans had designed it, I don’t think Germany was united as a country jet in 1848?

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You must have been busy when Musk did his Hitler salute on live television? Also, it seems at least the GOP’s pro-semitism only goes skin deep.

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Nederland and Netherlands both mean low country? Low as in Lower Rhine. It has an origin in the Roman name “Germania Inferior”.

Luck definitely exists, but actions like knocking on wood or not using white lighters don’t influence it.

I loved the Bobiverse books, but I think there are more books than a trilogy. I don’t want to give spoilers though, so you’ll have to see yourself how it plays out with these aliens.

Started reading “halted state” by Charles Stross, but the 2nd person narrative killed it for me. I also didn’t find the theme of a crime in an open world game too appealing, so it went to the “didn’t finish” pile. Stayed with the writer and read “escape from yokai land” next, which was a blast, I’m a huge fan of the Bob Howard books in the Laundry Files. Now reading “a conventional boy”, the latest installment in this series. So far so good, but I’m only a few chapters in.

So I looked up the numbers. The packaging waste is collected as a mix of plastics, drinking cartons and metals. When collected it’s about 42.6% plastics, 8.3% cartons and 6.3% metal, the rest is residual waste. The sorting plant then recovers 39.3% plastics, 7.1% cartons and 5.9% metal which means over all more than 90% recovered. The plastics are recovered about 66% into mono streams like PET or PP. The other 34% is recovered as mixed plastics, which can be recycled for low value stuff.