The idea is to ensure no future invasions by Russia, not to stop the current one.

I would say that is not a decent boss then. At least, not for that employee.

If a worker is making their colleagues unhappy by being an ass, management should be willing to take appropriate action.

I inherited some workers with bad attitudes when a company I was at merged two teams. On paper it was impossible to fire them, so I wasted so much time trying to get them to fit in. After a year I gave up and went to HR who was like, “oh yeah no problem we’ll let them go”. I didn’t even think that was possible, based on our management training, but it turns out that since their shit attitudes and associated shit performance were well documented it wasn’t a problem. We just paid them severance and off they went.

I was worried about the impact on the other employees, but everyone was happy to see them go.

I talked to one of them months later and he actually thanked me. It turned out that he was unhappy with the job but unable to get motivation to move on. He ended up at Greenpeace for a while; I don’t know how long he stayed there… we were not friends. 😅

Aren’t there plenty of US-hostile countries in Europe? I mean, starting with Russia and Belarus, but also maybe Turkey, Serbia, and maybe Hungry?

For people saying “it’s fine”, they are probably not talking about the same thing

I assume you mean this monstrosity:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_percolator

Which is indeed a crime against humanity. My parents used one and kept me from realizing that coffee is delicious until I was 18 years old or so.

The other people probably mean this simple yet effective device:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot

Especially the comment about 60 million Italians.

The moka pot is great and I use it to make my own latte every day.

The European Union imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia worth around €4.48 billion ($5.2 billion) in the first half of 2025, up from €3.47 billion over the same period last year, according to EU statistics agency Eurostat on Monday.

That is shocking. 😠

Windows 8.1 was released in 2013, so yeah, a blast from the past!

You can move and make new friends!

Not sure what to do about the family though. 😔

Marriage is also about allocating resources for taking care of children.

In a society where women are often harassed, many women use bathrooms to escape men, even if just for a few moments of peace.

I don’t think this is true, although maybe in some places.

For example, the more gas a business uses in the Netherlands, the less they generally pay per unit. This is terrible for our carbon footprint, where we basically subsidize the worst emitters. 😟

I guess that a hydrogen fueled vehicle would be allowed then, which is terrible since basically all hydrogen is made from methane currently. 🙈

Banning sales of fossil fuel cars after 2035 is exactly the plan.

That’s what I thought but there’s slightly more than that.

The writer tried to trick ChatGPT 5, saying Vermont has no R in it. ChatGPT did say “wait, it does”. But then when pushed it said, “oh right there is no R in Vermont”.

I mean… the inability to know what it knows or not is a real problem for most use cases…

Netanyahu is a terrible human being but an amazing politician.

In Israel all governments are coalition governments, and as Netanyahu got less and less mainstream support he tacked further and further to the right, joining with crazy religious fundamentalists because that was the only way to stay in power.

My understanding is that very shortly after losing power he will end up in court on corruption charges, and maybe die in prison. Not because of crimes against humanity, but for crimes against Israel.

Locations in Belgium: 3549

Locations in the Netherlands: 102

😳

Not available on F-Droid. 🤔

I have not heard about Switzerland, but this is true in Finland and Denmark at least.

https://www.autoblog.com/news/highest-speeding-fines

There are more Jews in the USA than in Israel?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country

Nixon was a potty mouth.

A TCP session is a unique combination of client IP, client port, server IP, and server port.

So you can use the same IP and port as long as the destination is a different IP or port.

This means that in principle you could use the same IP and port to connect to every IP address on the Internet using 65536 concurrent sessions. 😆

This wouldn’t help going to popular destinations, since they have a lot of people going to the same IP address and port, but for many (most?) of them you probably have some sort of CDN servers in your data centers anyway.