The article doesn’t talk about costs for the government but lots on GDP

I will give my 2 cents: in the 90s, my Italian family held a vigil of sorts at home, with a rosary prayer and then dinner with some dishes that were only prepared in this occasion (nothing overly fancy, over time it just got associated). Nowadays, I think some nuclear families still hold a short vigil, but mine doesn’t anymore. It feels it got less popular with the drop of religious attendance/affiliation.

Trick or treating is becoming increasingly common, (as in: it used to not exist and now some kids go around, not many).

I honestly forgot about it this year, until yesterday evening. Next year I’ll try to carve a pumpkin and do my grandma’s special recipe.

Thanks for this, the article is extremely unclear about what the strikes were about and how things unfolded. Do you know what the current student cap, if any?

Didn’t we likely play a significant role in the extinction of megafauna all over the world much sooner than that?

Amazing topic!

I love how you summed up at least 75% of science. I’m in this picture and… I have mixed feelings!

Just because I’m a pedantic little academic: if you know how your data is crap, you can make an extra shiny model that doesn’t give only crap outputs

I always, always am mystified when in a film someone says “that would be mister Schmidtt” and the other character just… writes the name down, no problem.

I spell my family name out loud 100% of the times, still get post from official businesses with weird ass spellings!

The rules are strict on the relationship between writing and pronunciation, so you still know how to spell something

Urgh! I rarely encountered it, but the need to tiptoe around (some) men’s who makes my skin crawl…

To decrease gas from dried beans: while soaking change the water once (roughly one hour in) or boil them 2-5 minutes before the soaking and throw the boiling water. This second method also shortens the soaking to only an hour if I remember correctly.

Sometimes, there are indeed reasons to do things on a Sunday at the office. Making a post highlighting how important the work is is a way to raise moral. Overall, this linkedin lunatics seem relatively tame

Really? I thought both autism and ADHD had enthrallment basically as a symptom. I admit I am not familiar with any other neurodivergency, so my knowledge is definitely limited

Exactly! You go in with negative expectations, and end up pretty surprised!

But he thought about it for at least a month! Must be a good idea! (/s)

Many hobbies don’t require much to start! Gardening requires an investment of some 20$ and a decade of your life

The Lost City of D is a masterpiece in light weirdness definitely highlighted by Harry Potter popping up and messing things up!

You know one snippet of my father in law. Is it really sufficient for you to judge the whole man? I sure hope never to be judged so harshly!

In my case, they are overall nice and caring people with, sometimes, a bit of a blind spot. I was very glad when they came around on the climate change issue, that was the only sore spot between us.

This gives me flashbacks to the one time in my life I really wanted to answer “okay boomer”

My father in law was supporting the claim the climate change might exist, but it’s nothing we have to concern ourselves about because it’s going to take decades to do anything.

And I was like: you have grandkids, they will be there in decades! And: you just experienced the first drought of your country, how is that not climate change??

After half an hour going in rounds I gave up and bit my tongue to not torpedo our relationship. Two years later he admitted that maybe there was something about climate change nowadays…

Thanks for the clarification

Honestly nothing unexpected. Also: night ÖBB trains have showers and room options (and are slow because if you take a night train you only care about arriving by tomorrow). And have similar furnishing dating from last century.

Main takeaway: I want serious night trains in EU!