Meat. I’m vegetarian, my wife is not. When we go out to eat, if she orders meat, there’s a good chance the meat dish will get put in front of me.
We were at a Christmas market on the weekend, and one booth had a sign that said “Make your husband happy”, and it was of course a butcher stand.
I believe learning languages is generally a net good. But to answer your question, it would help to know: why do you want to learn Russian?
If you just find the idea of the language interesting, then yes! Start leaning it. If you have motivation, that will help.
Is there specific media you’re looking to consume in its original language, Russian? Then yes, absolutely :).
Are you just trying to learn “any Slavic language”, to extend the language families you have knowledge of? You already have some Polish, so what is it about Russian that attracts you? Is there another language that might have more resonance or utility for you?
As far as I am aware, mostly sue to Soviet influence, Russian is probably the most-widely-understood Slavic language, so this does offer some advantages. I have spoken with Ukranians and Georgians who now don’t like speaking Russian, for obvious reasons, though I don’t know how widespread this feeling really is. And at least here in Germany, I feel like Croatian, Czech, or Slovakian would be a more useful day-to-day or holiday language, but itball depends on your goals.
And, as a dentist once told me in regards to dental floss, but it applies here too: The best language to learn is the one that you will actually learn. If there’s a language you’ll actually stick with, that’s good.
For anyone curious: after a lot of research and then failing to find hearts of palm in any supermarkets, I ended up going for vegan crab cakes with jackfruit. At the end of the day, they didn’t taste a huge amount like crab, but with lemon juice, dill, and nori, they evoked vague impressions of seafood, I think. And everyone had seconds or thirds, so they seemed to taste good enough, even for the non-vegetarians :).
I used essentially this recipe, but with jackfruit instead of hearts of palm, and with far more nori: https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/vegan-recipes/vegan-crab-cakes/
Thank you for the ideas!
I’ve never made a vegan dashi, but that certainly sounds like an option, and relatively straightforward. I’m then thinking what I could make with it…when I think of a fishy dashi, I’d likely end up with some sort of noodle soup. Any other thoughts?
I absolutely love these sorts of things :).
I assume we are all familiar with User Inyerface? https://userinyerface.com/
Hrm, I wasn’t aware of that difference. In Germany, the “fastest” roads are called “Autobahn”, and they have no speed limit by default, and have no traffic lights. The next level down are called “Bundesstraße”: they have a default speed limit of 100 km/h, and sometimes run through towns (lower speed limit), and sometimes have only one lane in each direction.
I love explaining the Autobahn to my foreign friends. “It’s just the word for highway”. “All highways are called autobahns”. “Yes, sometimes there is a speed limit”. “Even where there’s no speed limit, we won’t be driving that fast”.
Cool that you’re trying something new out! I also often find prefix arguments a bit unintuitive in my flow.
First of all, you’re right that you could do (eat nil 4) to simulate the prefix argument. I do this in a number of my helpers.
For my advice on your code, I think it would be easier to understand if you used a let* block to assign meaningful variable names. I’m writing this from my phone, so it’s hard to give a detailed example, but:
(let* ((eat-buffers (match-buffers "\*eat\*"))
(last-buffer (last (sort eat-buffers))))
;; Body
)
And so on. This would let you reuse some values, and would also reduce the amount of nesting in your code.
Edit: Missed a few parentheses, fixing syntax highlighting
Traumnovelle. I randomly got reminded of the film “Eyes Wide Shut” and discovered it’s actually based on an Austrian story from the 1920s. I’ve been wanting to read more in German, so I figured why not?
It’s decently entertaining, and a nice little look into cultural assumptions in the 1920s, but I have to admit I’m excited to finish it and move on :).
I read the series years ago, and recently learned that it’s not just a trilogy! I just re-read the first three, read the second three for the first time, and am planning to start the next three (starting with A Little Hatred) in the next month.
I find the world-building in the first trilogy quite good, and I like having a bit of a darker story.
Wow, that’s a blast from tbe past. My cousin had this when I was a kid and I used to love playing it.
/me is old
Das macht absolut Sinn! Irgendwie habe ich das gar nicht erkannt, wahrscheinlich weil ich an “Junge” sofort gedacht habe.
I’m with you on Clair Obscur (I need to check tbe spelling literally every time I write that). I usually don’t risk the money on new games or things not-on-sale, but after all the positivity, I decided to go for it. And what a game! I’m still in Act 2, and I am loving it so far.
I’m playing Wylde Flowers. It’s a farm sim game with witchcraft, but I mostly like it because it is extremely low-stress. No inventory management, no time pressure to do things, just building a farm and talking to / romancing people.
I picked it up after I got to the point in Subnautica where you have too much contact with leviathans, and I need something calm and relaxing. Maybe I’ll make more Subnautica progress soon, though :).
Edit: Spelling
I finally tried resocketting the cable, and I’ve only seen the issue a little bit since, but not as extreme. But I’m not sure if it’s real or just my perception ;). I’ll keep an eye on it. Thanks for the idea!
I had a similar question a while back and ended up with Voip.ms.
When I toured the concentration camp at Dachau some years ago, the tour guide was very clear on this point: people did elect the Nazis.
In 1932, the Nazi party became the largest party in the German parliament, with 37.3% of the vote. It is true that it was not mandatory to make Hitler chancellor, but as the head of the largest party, it would have been expected.
The Nazi party received massive support in democratic elections, where the expectation of the voters would have been that if the Nazi party gained enough seats, Hitler would become chancellor.
This is an important point to me, as it shows that it is possible for democratic elections to result in a fascist government that dismantles democracy. Ignoring this historical example prevents us from applying the lesson to new situations.
Hah. I tried doing some research about what this kind of drain is called, but I have no idea. I’ve never had a drain like this before, but I guess it must not be too rare?
In my case, the issue is that it starts to stink a lot. We had a plumber out a few years ago, and he opened that thing up and used a plunger to remove a ton of hair. He then suggested we wash it out every now and again, but I haven’t been able to do it for a while now, since I can’t get that thing open.
Not at all a silly question! I have tried, yes. Also, I’ve been able to remove it before, but the last time I put it in, I really jammed it in, I guess. There are no threads, so the turning is really just about generating force.
I remember renting Surf Ninjas on VHS back in the day. I would prefer not to think about how long ago that must be now.