It would be interesting to have such a statistic. Perhaps there was such a day more recently than we think.

Today’s not that day though. https://www.worldometers.info/

That’s the background for the story: Russia sent their convicts to war in trade of a “get out of jail”-card.

The guy was in jail for killing his wife. He took the deal and was sent to war. He got shot, got sent home as a free man, and immediately started killing people again.

It’s not a single case. It’s likely that convicts are taking the deal, not just to get out of jail, but also so they can go back and get revenge over those that put them in jail in the first place.

Yeah, nothing beats a clean rectum.

Two beggars are sitting side by side on a street in Rome.

One has a cross in front of him; the other one the Star of David. Many people go by and look at both beggars, but only put money into the hat of the beggar sitting behind the cross.

A priest comes by, stops and watches throngs of people giving money to the beggar behind the cross, but none give to the beggar behind the Star of David.

Finally, the priest goes over to the beggar behind the Star of David and says, “My poor fellow, don’t you understand? This is a Catholic country; this city is the seat of Catholicism. People aren’t going to give you money if you sit there with a Star of David in front of you, especially when you’re sitting beside a beggar who has a cross. In fact, they would probably give to him just out of spite.”

The beggar behind the Star of David listened to the priest, turned to the other beggar with the cross and said: “Moishe, look who’s trying to teach the Goldstein brothers about marketing.”

In my latest setup I’ve chosen to make due with what’s available for Linux. I’m not going to bridge Windows VSTs.

So I don’t mind the software, I’ll use whatever is available, but it was really the hardware issues with Windows that made me switch. I don’t want to spend another night trying to make Windows recognise my old controllers, when they all work without any issues in Linux. I need my tools to work too.

There’s a lack of linux native VSTs, but other than that my exp has been that Linux is both easier, less demanding and more stable than Windows for audio. Don’t know how it compares to Mac.

Perhaps the piezo speaker can still be used to mess with people.

Europe is about 3 times larger than India. The map just shows the comparison of states to similar sized countries.

Rich people don’t buy those things, like jets and infrastructure. They own companies that buy those things.

I think that for an individual rich person, their personal purchases are still within the million dollar range. Luxury doesn’t come from a single purchase. It’s the cost of upkeep that really separates rich from poor.

One thing that shocked me is the price of getting an elevator in a house. It easily costs as much as a small house, but it’s the maintenance that is gross. It can cost about the same as a full time employee just to own one. It makes sense in a tall apartment building where the elevator is in constant use by many people, but for rich people who are never home and only use it maybe once a day, it’s ridiculously expensive to pay that much just to not walk a stair.

His name is Jürgen Klopp. Football coach.

He started working with Trivago on 2024. Prior to that, they used American actor Tim Williams.

Some are easier to make than others.

John Dough Rest in peace

Cheese hole

First line is the shop. It’s free text, so I guess they just call it by location. The following lines are the address of the company with the VAT number.

It’s the sort of thing that always gets messed up. When you open a new shop, nobody has the details right and these forms are filled out in a hurry by whoever gets the email. Then the terminal supplier misspells the texts anyway and it can only be changed by them, so nobody bothers.

Then when you get het home from holiday and check your bank account, you’ll wonder what the hell you bought at some randomly named kebab shop, because the place you actually bought something from used the neighbors terminal that day.

The images are from Houston.

The parking lot picture is from the 1970s, so probably not exactly fair to compare to a modern city. I don’t know (care about) how it looks now.

It’s supposed to be Hong Kong, fwiw.

That’s unbelievable. The Greeks won’t steal anybody’s jobs.

Yes, sure, and I’m not trying to defend or downplay the story. I’m just sharing the info that is otherwise only available in Danish.

The past was indeed a horrible time. Social experiments like these happened in many places worldwide. Similar things have happened in America, Russia, China, Brazil, France, Germany. All of which were done because people thought it was a great idea at the time.

Although the damage cannot be undone, at least these women will now receive an apology and some kind of compensation for the wrong-doing.

I do find the timing of the stories very peculiar in light of America’s desire to take control of Greenland.

Earlier this year we had the story about displacement of children, now this, and I predict that next you’ll probably hear about the racist hiring practices in the military, which also occured in the past on Greenland.

All of these happened almost half a century ago or more. There has been plenty of time to bring it up. I am happy that they do bring it up, so it can be redeemed as best as possible, but I do find the timing very convenient for certain people outside the kingdom who is currently interested in sowing division.

I agree it was wrong, and it was probably also illegal at the time happened.

For context:

It was done to avoid an explosive population increase which happened in the 60s.

At the time, Greenland had the worlds highest birth rate, despite having access to free contraceptives like condoms and pills, of which information campaigns had obviously failed. A lot of the births were given by teenagers aged 15-20 outside of marriage. Infant mortality also hit records with about 1/3 of the total number of deaths on Greenland being infants. I should note though that Greenland does not have a much higher statistics of inbreeding than elsewhere, despite rumours.

However, something had to be done to lower the number of unwanted pregnancies. The humanitary organization Mødrehjælpen (mothers help) did a test run with volunteers and it gave a positive result.

At the moment it is unclear who or why it was decided to roll out the forced spirals. An investigation of that is happening currently.

Humanistic psychology has a way to describe things in very long and broad manners that might sell a lot of books to schools, but contain very little practical information.

Also, they often use specific terms that can mean one thing in psychology but means something completely different to anyone in any other field, who have not studied the exact psychology book that they’re referencing.

It’s a lot simpler than described on wikipedia, and you do not have to discuss feelings with your co-workers.

The point of including your own feelings in the sentence is to turn to the topic away from fruitless chasing of logical arguments where there are none or they are irrelevant. It’s about taking personal ownership of the problem, so that you don’t claim that it is the other persons problem, even if they are the one who needs to do something in order to solve it.

Well, that was fucking waste of time for everyone.