History is a circle.

First we had bicycles. These then got helper motors. Then we got motorcycles and the two stroke engines had helper pedals to start. Then the pedals were removed.

Now we still have bicycles. These then got electric helper motors. Then we got electric bikes, that still have pedals, but people hack them to run entirely on the motor.

Make up your minds already. Everyone of these changes upsets the elderly.

No, but there are fees for late payments and other special situations.

Their main income is from the transaction fees that they charge the merchants.

The idea is that people who don’t have money can spend money and create a transaction fee on a sale that wouldn’t otherwise have happened if they didn’t lend the money. That way it’s the same as a credit card that you only pay monthly.

The difference is that the payments can be split, so that the customers can … uh … utilize their entire credit maximum every month…

Needless to say, this kind of credit maximum optimization can end really badly for people who have unstable incomes. The same kind of people who might be tempted to use it.

Five nights at Freddy’s is a media franchise that includes games and movies. It’s a horror story about a pizza place that has teddy bear like robots who are also ghosts of children.

It is or was popular among preteens for a while. It’s somewhat similar to Poppy Playtime, with the characters being used all over tik-tok and Roblox etc.

I have no idea nor desire to know how it makes any sense as porn, or why any adult would even want to create that kind of content.

Depends on the cause.

If you’re protesting against anchovies on pizzas, sure, it might be a bad idea to block the roads.

If you’re protesting against unidentified terrorists abducting and killing your neighbors, then you should obstruct the roads to stop them from proceeding with their genocide.

You won’t be rewarded for being obedient. They’ll come for you next whether or not you followed their law.

But whatever…now we know why the Germans didn’t stop the concentration camps in WW2 even if they knew about them: They had to go to work and didn’t want to obstruct traffic.

Don’t be a gramour Nazi.

I like the idea, but unfortunately most PCs don’t boot from USB out of the box. It requires a few easy steps, but this might just be enough for a lot of people not to try it.

He goes on a rant, saying out loud what everyone is thinking.

This is unusual for him.

Personally I liked the start of it more, where he clearly and simply explains some basic facts that a lot of people need to understand.

Just like many other good distros, Friends ended when the larger one ate the smaller ones.

That song was written in 1963 in New York.

Sunvox is a masterpiece. Perfect for small size audio. It’s strange that it isn’t more widely used in game development or even webpages. Not just because of small sizes, but because it’s also possible to interact with the music, while it’s being generated. I have no idea of how to classify this as a piece of software but it’s mind boggling powerfull and it still runs perfectly on any potato.

It would be nice to have better recording options than using the sampler, but I guess that defies the purpose of it.

There’s only two classes. There’s nothing in the middle.

If you’re in doubt which class you belong to, look at the paycheck. Does it have your name on it? Then you’re one of the ones who get paid.

If that even made sense, it would be even more reason to deny him it.

I think every country in the world will recognize this declaration just as well as the weather followed his sharpie drawings in 2019.

I wish it was just a website. You can’t even download Android Studio or any other starter package without being forced into some kind of AI bloated IDE just to write “hello world”.

On every single skateboard post or short video, somebody will mention Mullen too.

But anyway, outside of skateboarding, millennials also know of Bam, Sheckler and maybe Dyrdek.

Gen-z probably knows of the YouTubers that show up in their feeds. SkateIQ (Mitchie Brusco), SkateNomad (Mike Boisvert) and probably Andy Anderson because he’s everywhere.

I think it’s safe to say that skateboarding isn’t as mainstream as it used to be when MTV was the main youth cultural feed, but it also allows for a lot more unknown people to rise up. Nobody cares about what young dude Thrasher and the industry wants to portrait as a professional. The skate scene these days basically consists of old men and young women watching footage on YouTube.

“Nippon” isn’t hard to pronounce for Germans, either.

I don’t know about that. Even if Germans are not shy of pronouncing letters wrongly (using V as F for instance), the P in Nippon makes no sense in German. It would have to be spelled with an H to make the right sound.

There’s some survivorship bias to that. Most of my favorite movies are the 1970s, but that’s also the best of an entire decade.

I’m sure there’s an equal number of good contemporary movies, we just don’t know which yet.

It’s the same grid as most of Europe. AC 3 phases 50 hz 230/400 V.

Other places can do the same, but it’s a legal issue rather than technical. It’s difficult to tax.

I was surprised when I read about it too, but it’s true, they quite literally just plug them right into the normal plugs.

It works because there’s a certain tolerance on the German breakers that allow for power to reverse. The balcony panels take advantage of this. However this also limits the possible output to whatever the tolerance is, otherwise it would overload and shut off or worse.

Bicycle tires were invented by Dunlop and improved by Michelin.

You know these names, because it actually wasn’t a dumb idea.