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2y ago
I think you mean bread made with the Chorleywood process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process Most Europeans know what this is, calling it something like "toast bread". In Britain and Ire
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2y ago
Denmark's advice for what to stockpile is here (in English): https://www.brs.dk/en/prepared/
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2y ago
It's an idiom, though I don't know how common it is. I've heard it before, but not at all often. https://websites.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/sig.html
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2y ago
It's potentially a problem in a typical brick house in Europe. I'm sure it's less of a problem in houses with other materials.
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2y ago
British people would say city centre or town centre. Australians are the ones who say CBD.
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2y ago
I think powerline adapters might work very well in the UK, where sockets on each floor are connected in a ring. In my small apartment in Denmark, with new wiring, they are terrible. I get about 30-50Mb/s rather than the advertised 120
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2y ago
You can find them all described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet Specifically these: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5 (early 1980s) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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2y ago
That would be fine in the garage, but few people would want this anywhere else in their home. There's a wood effect version, but I suspect it would make a home look like a 1980s office: https://homemaster.techinfus.com/
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2y ago
It's very difficult to judge from these tiny clips. They're supposed to be showing off the technology with this video, but choose many clips with very little dialogue.
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2y ago
> It's estimated that bitcoin mining uses as much energy as a small country like Poland. That's probably the first time Poland has been described as "small". It's number 39 by population!
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In some countries it's common, in others it's not. Stripe has a list of what they support: https://stripe.com/en-dk/pricing/local-payment-methods
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2y ago
> I doubt Norway and Sweden are the easiest to reach from Berlin, for instance. Do you mean for delivering cars? A quick search suggests they used to be moved by road, but are now moved by rail. I don't see why Norway and Sweden ar
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These are figures from Europe. Musk's credibility was significantly damaged in Europe from early 2024, when he became an outspoken supporter of Trump. Two people I know were holding off from purchasing Tesla cars last year, thinking t
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2y ago
It wouldn't necessarily be a Pantone shade — that costs extra, and any mid-green is adequate. The pictures on the Wikipedia article show several shades of green: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_stationery
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2y ago
That one is a little different, as both Poland and the UK considered breaking the Enigma machine a state secret until the 1970s. That Polish mathematicians broke the codes, and shared this information with the British, is taught in the UK.
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2y ago
The railway companies in Britain built their own hotels. The first was in 1839: > The first railway hotels in London were built at Euston. Two hotels designed by Hardwick opened in 1839 on either side of the Arch; the Victoria on the wes
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2y ago
SuSE is the obvious choice, and I'm surprised that some European Linux developers aren't aware of this. They don't mention it at all on the linked "Goals" page.
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> I don't even know how you start a conversation like "aws works fine for us, but let's switch for political reasons" (whether the political reason is good or bad is out of topic.) Someone relatively senior sees an a
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2y ago
Fritz Cola is the western Germany equivalent. The company is from Hamburg.
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2y ago
I've seen it for sale in at least a couple of bars in Copenhagen. A bar owner I know here says selling these more-premium sodas is a good way to make a bit of extra money on people who aren't buying alcohol — you can charge more f
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2y ago
In addition to the other replies, plenty of words are descriptive until they get used offensively. Another example is "retard".
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2y ago
It looks like it was invented by a satirical 'news' site: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-bud-light-tweets...
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The Latin teacher at my school and my French teacher would discuss private matters in Latin, confident that us 13 year olds wouldn't understand. I've no proof, but my assumption is there are students of Latin casually speaking the
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"Can you tell me the name of your favourite teacher... hmm..." "Oh, it's a load of random letters and numbers, starts with X" "Yes, let's proceed" Happened to me once, I can't remember the compan
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If searching for recipes in English, you need to add "UK" or maybe "Australia" to avoid the American recipes. (Avoiding US measurements and processed ingredients.) But even then, there's still a lot of spammy or dum
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It's the BBC's news helicopter, according to the first result of a Google search. It's very easy to make these searches, and not invent conspiratorial nonsense.
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Then your comment about rowing across the sea is idiotic. The airlines that redirected flights to Paris arranged buses to London.
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1: It's clearly not been as disruptive as you're suggesting. Flights have been diverted to airports within a few hour's journey by bus or train, others have been cancelled, just like would happen with Atlanta. 2: I don'
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It's reasonably common on regional trains in Europe, meaning the trains that don't stop at every station within a city, but do stop at many or all of the stations between two large cities. (The intercity train only stops at the ci
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Children can't drive, so only those with parents who have time to chauffeur them can take part in that sports team, doctor or friend's house. Children can take buses and trains by themselves. Children living in towns and cities wi
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