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35 years ago in communist Romania, do you know what was the most prized, cared for, cutting-edge technology in my family? If you'd think a TV (television set), you'd be wrong. It was this: A piece of WW2 equipment running 10 Km of wire through mud to connect us with the civilized world by...

That's the first one that I picked :) I was born in a family that due to my mother's peculiarities had the 1'st World Problem: "I have no food. I only have plenty of ingredients to make food". So I taught myself to make possibly the best egg omelette on this planet... and this is where it...

I think they share strong similarities. COVID has done two good things for me, at least one of which people say has been a revolution not seen since funk knows ... industrial revolution? 1) Work from home. 2) Learn to cook. (#2 refers mostly to men).

I suppose you are aware of the dangers of Paracetamol. Don't exceed 2 grams per day. Not 2 grams at once, that's not how this works!. Leave 8 hours between administrations, if you need to keep your fever down alternate with ibuprofen every 4 hours. (With the mention that over 39 °C use sodium...

Tylenol (paracetamol) becomes inneficient for fever over 38 Celsius and useless over 39. If you have high fever, alternate Ibuprofen with sodium metamizole every 4 hours. Once under 38 for 8 hours you can get back to Paracetamol alternating with Ibuprofen every 6 hours for a day then 8 hours...

Eastern European software developer here, making about $120k gross per year. Rent here in major city is $300 per month and car insurance $150 per year, literally 10x less than what this guy quotes for Canada :D

Selective pressure in selecting genes has pushed me to an 130 IQ when talking to the police and deciding on weather fucking you over now or later. This is the guys you face when invading a sickle-yielding country that's not been invaded in the last 2 million years or so.

I can feel there's two sides of me. The civilized European. And the Falx yielding barbarian:

With the guys near me it's natural. We are all university graduates, very intelligent, even though we might have been born in lower middle class families. But the key issue is none of the very smart guys I know or interact with were born in poverty let alone squalor. Some of the guys are...

I have two acquaintances if not to say friends, on the American continent. One in US, the other in Canada. I also have local, physical friends and acquaintances. Every Friday morning since 20 years ago we meet in one coffee shop for one hour and chit-chat. People came and went over the years...

"Multis annis" would be the congratulation in Romanian, meaning "many years [from now on]"!

>> You can forget ChatGPT now, ChatSonic will solve all your coding problems in minutes And ChatEaubriand will solve all your hunger problems :D

It's pretty though, mathematics, not some software PhD wank. It would require more effort that I'm willing to put in for the reward involved. It's not that I don't study/research but if something is coming out of this it's first and foremost making a lot of money for myself. And truth be told...

Although I live in a country where college education is free. Like not only the state didn't ask for money, they provided me with housing (a students boarding house) for free and on top of that a $cholar$hip paid every month which amounted to some half the minimum income for employed working...

Deutch: Rezept für trockenen Speck, trockenen Speck; Pökeln, Räuchern und Trocknen von Speck. Trocken- und Nassspeck, sowie Räucher- und Trockenspeck. Well fuck me, I "learned" German as a kid but 99.9% of the effort was directed in learning declinations of verbs and adverbs. Consequently...

>> While I enjoy the art and understand the sentiment, there's a gold rush using chatbot in useful ways. As a ruthless, amoral Slavic I totally understand that. Not confusing it with reality though.

"How Transportation Technologies Shaped Empires" : https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/transportation-tech-shaped-empires Axiom: an empire cannot be more than 1 month away from it's subjects. From my corner of the Empire, I sit and laugh at the "Schengen" vs "Not Schengen"...

Sometimes I went to bed hungry. Because of this, really, my mother. If only I knew how to cook back then... On the other hand I probably hold the secret receipt to the best egg omelette on the Planet :D

We're starting to reach an agreement here, more or less we speak the same Latin so far: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/silly-thread-alphabet-letters-pronunciation-around-the-world.371844/#post-5743649 What I'm arguing about is whether that denominator is really $1 or actually zero. 100%...

Let's try a few European languages: English: Recipe for dry bacon, dry bacon; curing, smoking and drying of bacon. Dry and wet bacon, as well as smoking and drying bacon. Bosnian: Racept za suhi špek, suha slanina; pacanje, dimljenje i sušenje slanine. Suho i mokro pacanje , te dimljenje i...