I’m not some kind of activist set out to undermine your movement, I asked a question. This is an online forum where anyone can comment, if you feel like it’s wasting your time then don’t answer.

when was the last time you sent an email to an elected official?

Last time? A few months ago when a chinese company wanted to build a chemical distribution center in my district.

I don’t know what you mean by “allegiance”, you were talking about ethics and that authors don’t get what they deserve. Your problem was not compensation itself but that some people that you don’t think deserve it get a bigger cut than you’re comfortable with.

It logically follows that in this frame of mind the ethical thing to do is to cut out the middle man and compensate the original author for their work directly.

I don’t know what kind of box you put me into based on one sentence but not everyone is out to get you who doesn’t 100% agree with you. This is why civil discussion is not possible online anymore.

I’ve been meaning to watch it for years, thanks for reminding me. I watched half of it when I was a kid but didn’t really understand it yet.

Can I ask where you’re from that it’s a requirement in school? Or was it only in your school?

So you pirate it and donate the normal price to the author directly, right?

I usually don’t pirate, if something is overpriced then I’ll wait until it’s on sale. I have a set budget every month that I pay for entertainment, if something like a new video game is more expensive I’ll just wait a month.

I’m especially against pirating products of asshole companies like Adobe. That’s because even if you don’t pay for them you’re still popularizing their products, helping it stay an industry standard. I’m not in a profession where they’re a necessity so I use their competitors like Affinity, which is good enough for my purposes, and I’m ok with supporting them.

I sometimes watch movies or series on non-legal streaming sites if they’re not available elsewhere, but that’s about it.

Before buying your fitst home:

• bring someone with more experience than you to have a look at it, maybe even a professional
• scout out the area (on foot) during the day, evening and night
• visit local businesses like cafés, restaurants, bakeries etc.
• look at statistics like crime and air quality
• have a talk with the neighbors, get a sense of the community if you can, otherwise just observe while taking walks
• if applicable, call the home owner’s representative (or whatever the equivalent is where you live), ask them about the home, neighborhood, community, expenses, plans for the future etc.
• have a set budget of how much you want to spend on it before you move in, don’t overstep that amount

What? You mean Hitler should have stayed in power and drones were not invented by Führer Himmler but are future tech?

Damn, maybe Germany would have lost the war, I wonder what kind of world would that be…

Small Lemmy or other fedi instances maybe?

The problem with absolute free speech online, if you only moderate illegal content, is that extremists of all kinds who have been chased away or banned from mainstream social media will find a home there. Just look at /pol/ or lemmygrad, one is full of neonazies, the other with tankies.

This will turn away “nornal” poeole so what you’re left with might not be the poeole whom you want to interact with.

Even tho I agree with free speech as a principle, especially when it entails protection from states/governments, I don’t think it’s something that the internet culture currently can handle. This is why I prefer forums that have as little moderation as possible while still maintaining a level of civility.

Glad you found it interesting, when my grandma used to butcher (I think that’s the right english word for it) chicken she always made it from fresh blood and liver, it tasted amazing. When it was a rooster she also added the testicles.

The recipe seems legit, google translate only makes one mistake. You should pour the blood into boiling water with a pinch of salt, not a pinch of blood into hot water. Otherwise that’s how I’d prepare.

I’ll take a look into what you linked also.

My favorite is fried liver, and it’s easy to prepare. Just coat them with flour, then whisked eggs, then breadcrumbs and finally fry in hot oil. Don’t salt them before frying as they’ll turn bitter.

In my region we also prepare them with onions and chicken blood. I know how it sounds but it tastes amazing.

Ready Player One. It wasn’t the best book I’ve ever read but I enjoyed it.

People hate chicken livers?

No, I hate that. Standup comedy is so overrated, what I want to hear is your phone call!

Doing dumb runs in EU4 while cheating. I give myself a few techs at the beginning of the game to be stronger than everyone else and focus on my objective.

For example, Hindu Hungary, Jewish Arabia, Totemist England, Tengri Russia, Protestant Ottoman Empire, destroying France as a small East Asian country and forming it again by culture converting, being Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by starting with an African country etc.

They absolutely had people with the same name in the same village. But they had nicknames, and this is also where a lot of family names come from.

Limpy Chris, Chris the smith, Lying Chris, small Chris, Brad’s son Chris etc.

Also, countries (at least in Europe) didn’t really keep track of people but churches did. You couldn’t give someone a name that the village priest refused to baptise them as (I hope that’s the proper English name for it).

There is a good reason for it, and that’s saving money. Computation on the user’s device is free, doing it on the server/cloud costs money.

Serving static files that’s cached in the browser, and providing a thin API layer is cheaper to host and might be worth it on the long run.

Great, this explains everything, thank you

So basically because you have more than enough rpms to maintain idling the engine knows to turn off fuel injection until it needs to exert force again?

I’m thinking of a scenario when you start on a level road, reach a slope going downhill, then reach a level road again. Then the engine first consumes fuel, then it shuts it off, then eventually on again, without me pressing the gas pedal at any point?

I’m thinking you think the engine itself has a brake on it… No.

Of course not. I know it’s not an actual brake but it comes from the engine’s resistance to spin on higher rpms, so when you shift to a lower grear the rpm goes up, which “activates” this resistance.

What I’m confused about is the relation between idling and engine brakes.

Even without giving it additional gas the engine is still idling, so on a level road you could travel with a certain speed without pressing the gas pedal.

So what happens when you’re going downhill, you don’t press the gas pedal and the engine brake effect kicks in? Does idling not consume fuel anymore?

I think I’m missing some information that would put everything in its place for me.

I might be in the minority but I prefer to do it like this: Boolean(m).

It’s the same thing but less cool. On the flip side it’s easier to read when you have a line full of operators.