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I would be very careful with this kind of advice for people leaving in a dictatorship. What happens when the police catches people with apps that circumvent government policies?

Besides, the general advice is that protestors should not take smartphone to protests, and in the specific case of countries like Iran, I would advise against using anything that leaves any paper trail, physical or digital, when doing any communication against the regime

The only advantage bitchat has is that, being supported by an American oligarch, it might already have a better network. But somehow I doubt it really makes a difference at this stage.

This and the recent Wine patches to support Photoshop’s installer might open the door to Linux becoming viable for graphic designers.

Really good news on that front this week.

Is there anyone invited to board who isn’t a raging warmongering psychopath?

It might even be inevitable. Even humans display “domestication syndrome” in comparison with our closest primate relatives, and bonobos also seem to have changed in analogous ways when they became more sociable.

In Uruguay, they have a dialect of Portuguese that is often called portunhol, but is distinct of what most Portuguese and Spanish speakers would call portuñol/portunhol, because it’s a stable dialect. And Ciudad del Este might be a similar case.

Some might argue those varieties are creoles

I’m not a linguist, but I think surzhyky and portuñol are usually just considered code-mixing or code-switching, for the reasons you listed.

Cinnamon.

If you are already going to get bad news anyway, might as well get them from a professional.

Deutsche Rentenversicherung should send you an estimate of how much pension money you are going to receive every year. Assume that is optimistic, but a good baseline. I assume the matching program you mentioned is a Betriebliche Altersvorsorge (bAV)? Those usually also tell you how much they will pay you as a minimum, and another estimate based on normal economic growth.

Chances are that those together will not be enough to match your wage at retirement. So you should plan your savings so you can cover the difference for at least 16 years (which is the current life expectancy at 67 years old in Germany), and overshoot that if you can.

Sorry, best they can do is kill the little competition that managed to survive.

If you don’t go full Minority Report on it, having something that could predict crimes with 98% certainty could be amazing.

Imagine if instead sending everyone to jail, you could use the predictions to just prevent the crime. For example, if someone was likely to commit murder as passion crime, maybe society could have a team of trained councillors to mediate the conflict before it happens.

I had one once, it did this magic trick where it would get too hot and shutdown even in the winter.

The Treaty of Tordesillas is the the True and Only Path to Everlasting World Peace.

The same happens to me often. Luckily for me, both Gen Z and people in corporate environments like to insert random English words in my native language, so depending on the context it might come up as pretentious corporate or “Howdy fellow kids”, but at least not like I’m a complete idiot.

What if I forgot the word in several languages?

Let’s play tic-tac-toe?

IMO, the yellow uniforms also look better than Kirk’s tunic green, so it ended up being an accidental improvement.

The South Africa where he was born was also stolen land, and he’s still salty the real South Africans took it back.

Denmark sent a group to prepare the logistics for larger troops deployments, so Greenland probably can’t support much more troops right now. I assume the immediate goal is to have troops of as many countries as possible in the ground, and increase the numbers later.