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901.
by ginko 4y ago
I never got the point of pre-sliced bread. What's so hard about slicing bread yourself?
902.
by ginko 4y ago
My cancelled 2020 flights I claimed through my travel insurance. I assume my insurance then asked for the money from the airline but that wasn't my problem at that point.
903.
by ginko 4y ago
>Yeah but you need to provide proof of ID and the like if you book a flight Do you? I don't think I've given any ID when booking any of my recent Schengen flights.
904.
by ginko 4y ago
Plane tickets are often bought months ahead of time. Does it make sense to block an amount of credit for that long?
905.
by ginko 4y ago
> Allowing punitive damages would be a major change to the foundations of German civil law. There ARE punitive damages the airline has to pay you if they cancel or delay your flight. It's EU law. See the sibling comment. For instanc
906.
by ginko 4y ago
I worry that this would essentially make it easier for airlines to drop passengers in the long run. Right now if your EU flight is cancelled you're entitled to a monetary compensation[1] on top getting your ticket money back. I worry t
907.
by ginko 4y ago
The main thing it seems to be missing is brakes.
908.
by ginko 4y ago
Meanwhile there's over 2000 deadly car accidents a year in Poland, 20% of which are pedestrians[1], meaning there's more than one pedestrian killed by a car every day. [1] https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/11&#
909.
by ginko 4y ago
You seem to be under the impression that bikes are like cars where you're essentially guaranteed to be dead of at least maimed when they hit you. In reality the most likely thing to happen to you is that you maybe get so nasty scratche
910.
by ginko 4y ago
It's almost as if the EU were composed of many different people with different viewpoints.
911.
by ginko 4y ago
> Rather a lot of them were young and naive left-wing supporters who looked at USSR through rose glasses. The EC is dominated by conservatives.
912.
by ginko 4y ago
My guess would be that monks ate a lot of meat and other varied food than the average medieval peasant.
913.
by ginko 4y ago
I could do my part if they let me travel there as tourist.
914.
by ginko 4y ago
>In many part of Europe you can find archaeology pretty much anywhere outside of cities and other areas that have been developed in modern times. I can assure you that you can find plenty archeology within cities as well. Probably even m
915.
by ginko 4y ago
That's why you drop an atomic bomb on the oldest church in Japan[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_Twenty-Six_Hol...
916.
by ginko 4y ago
>Can you name just one civilization with staggering inequalities which has not been subject to social conflict? Sweden has rather high level of wealth inequality (about the same level as the US) while being quite stable politically and s
917.
by ginko 4y ago
Yeah, I was kinda hoping for a plot distance vs force.
918.
by ginko 4y ago
>for passengers you get a cab instead of shouting like a cave-person on the street. Maybe I'm a cave person but to me just waving to hail a cab or just entering the first car in line at a taxi stand seems much more convenient than h
919.
by ginko 4y ago
When I travelled around East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Japan) it felt like every second hotel breakfast buffet used the same album of Studio Ghibli piano covers.
920.
by ginko 4y ago
Flying squirrels evolved gliding independently from bats. Bats aren't rodents and they're not closely related.
921.
by ginko 4y ago
>Face Id I switched from an iphone 7 to a 13 mini and I dearly miss touch ID. It worked a lot better than face id IMO. When the new SE was announced just months after I got the mini I was pretty bummed.
922.
by ginko 4y ago
I mean, it's even linked in the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu
923.
by ginko 4y ago
>my guess would be south/central America got the Funimation music. The Spanish dubs used the original Japanese soundtrack afaik.
924.
by ginko 4y ago
Pretty sure much of the famous music for Dragon Ball like "Makafushigi Adventure!"[1] and "Cha-La Head-Cha-La"[2] was made by Japanese composers. Did he do the music for the US dub maybe? [1] https://en.wikipe
925.
by ginko 4y ago
Flatpak? Are you serious?
926.
by ginko 4y ago
And people that try to provide workarounds will get called 'clowns' and sabotaged by the GTK people: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/4829
927.
by ginko 4y ago
This feels like a product that Casio should be selling.
928.
by ginko 4y ago
The "fun" part is that hydroelectric dam failures are even more localized and in many cases much more deadly, but people generally don't remember them either. As far as I can tell the single most deadly power plant disaster i
929.
by ginko 4y ago
Can someone explain to me what value there is to allowing an online book store to use their funds gained in completely different industries to strong-arm itself into the healthcare business?
930.
by ginko 4y ago
We need more Twingos.

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