Are you sure it's that cheap in Singapore if it's illegal there? A kilo is about 20 grand here in Estonia, has been for ages. When buying by the gram anyway, I don't know anyone who buys it by the kilo. Assume it would be a bit cheaper them. And we don't execute smugglers, it's just illegal.
I'd assume if they kill smugglers it'll be way more expensive in Singapore
Then you should know that code not working is the absolute easiest fuckup to catch. It's literally not one to be concerned about.
One in a million chance of an edge case that doesn't throw an error at all, but does something unexpected? Good luck if you don't know how the system works.
So in most of western Europe you'd be right as they use the long scale, but none of those are natively English-speaking nations. UK and Ireland use the short scale, as does the US, NZ, AU. Canada uses both, I'd assume the French speaking part uses long scale. Eastern Europe, Northern Africa, the Gulf states, and NW Asia actually use short scale with milliard instead of billion, and as you go towards south or east in Asia, you'll run into completely different number systems, such as the funky Indian one that goes by hundreds rather than thousands as groups starting with 1,00,000 (1 lakh) and 1,00,00,000 (1 crore)
TL;DR: There's no unified worldwide standard, but for pretty much all English language usage, you'd be wrong.
I can definitely tell you that food pictures look more appetizing if they don't look like the food was exported straight from Blender into the ad.
I read that as wassabi* and was thoroughly confused for a moment.
*Yes I know it's actually wasabi, that's just how I read wabi-sabi wrong. As wassabi. Not wasabi.
Oh I doubt 99.999% of people on HRT would even consider doing it for that reason. I'm just saying that a failed male athlete could claim to be trans, take a minimum amount of estrogen to look slightly more feminine, just to compete in women's sports and if that were to happen, it'd ruin the reputation of any MtF athletes that have genuinely transitioned. And I'm also saying that IF a trans woman manages to become a competitive athlete at any serious level, she might be tempted to reduce her estrogen intake similarly to how cis athletes may be tempted to take steroids or do blood doping, but while we have regulations for the latter, I don't think there's currently any regulations for estrogen levels of mtf athletes?
This is like asking who’s going to regulate the minimum amount of ankle weights a woman has to wear to not have an unfair advantage
Why would women ever have to wear ankle weights to not have an unfair advantage? Women already have an unfair disadvantage.
Anyone who transitions in order to win a trophy is a particular idiot
Agreed
we should just leave people alone.
Well the reason we even have separate competitive leagues for women is that in most sports, women physically can't compete with men. If we have one class of women who can regulate their strength, ability to recover from exercise, etc by taking or not taking their estrogen properly, that's not really fair towards the women who can't.
I'm just saying that it's going to be difficult to regulate, but there needs to be some sort of regulation and personally I'd prefer it to not be "trans women banned from all women's sports competitions".
In that case you still come after daddy's money, but you're daddy.
I dont think that is true tbh dads nowadays take care of babies as much as moms even after doing job and everything
If you’re ‘doing a job and everything’ then there’s an entire workday’s difference to begin with…
In the context of this thread, you're very clearly saying that the mom is always doing more because the workday is a vacation for the dad.
If that's not what you meant, maybe rephrase your comment, because that's what it reads like and judging by the 10 downvotes (none of which was me), I'm not the only one seeing it that way.
Because ultimately the meme was about moms not getting a break, and if the dad works all day and then goes and takes over the responsibilities at home for the rest of the day, then the mom is the only one ACTUALLY getting a break on any given weekday. And that's what most, though not all, young fathers seem to be doing these days. Maybe not in your corner of the world or when you were young, but as far as I can see, that's how it is these days.
Püss is definitely still going, though personally I haven't been there in about a decade. Was more my kinda jam back in university, but it was just so loud I couldn't stand it anymore at some point.
I can tell you though that Rüütli street feels dead compared to a decade+ ago. Like there's still bars, there's restaurants, they all seem to be doing well enough to stay open... But at least when I last visited it on a spring evening a few years ago, it wasn't as swarming as it used to be in say 2014 or 2015. Of course I guess that was when we still faintly remembered that COVID exists, maybe 2021 or 2022, so perhaps it's changed for the better.
There's also plenty of great bars to visit that have been open for a while and are still going. Möku (in the rooms of Genialistide Klubi for well over a decade now), Pirogovi Lokaal and of course Barlova. They all seem to be doing well, the nightclub scene has taken a much bigger hit than the bar scene IMO. I may of course be biased as well, I've never liked night clubs and I don't overly like socializing with the type of people that love night clubs, I like bars and I like people that like bars. If that makes sense at all lol
I'd never compare a Tesla with anything, it's a piece of shit anyway. I'm pretty sure the $30,000 Camry has a nicer interior than a Model 3 lol. The Rivian's cool, but not even being sold on the continent this article is about (which incidentally is also where I live).
I've only ever done EV to ICE price comparisons in a particular company's range rather than between different manufacturers, and I've never particularly cared about anything in the super low end of the market (I'm sorry, but a Hyundai Kona is not for me, EV or not), nor the super high end (As much as the Mercedes-Benz S-Class is my favourite car in the world (older models, anyway - not a huge fan of the W223), I'll never be buying one new or even lightly used). So it's always been things like the 5 series, X5, E-Class, GLE, etc. Executive cars, essentially.
So 5-6 years ago, there weren't many comparison points. But you could compare the EQC to the GLC and you'd find out that the minimum to shell out for a GLC was about 20k less than the EQC, but of course the EQC's base model had better performance.
Now, Mercedes still makes their EVs more expensive than their ICE vehicles, but there's finally another German manufacturer making decent EVs and that's BMW, who will sell you a base iX for roughly the same price as the base X5 and again, the electric base model has much better performance than the diesel. They will also sell you an i5 for just 7 or 8k more than the base 5 series diesel, and that is actually the same model of car (iX and X5 are same size, but different platform).
You lose comparability again when you go to Audi because those bastards renamed their E-Tron to Q8 E-tron, whereas the E-Tron was actually a much lower-end model. They also haven't made anything worth calling a car in 5-10 years unfortunately, EV or not.
Volvo still makes EVs look unfavourable in their lineup while also phasing out ICE vehicles. The EX90 starts at significantly more than the XC90 and the base EX90 is RWD whereas the base XC90 is AWD. There's also a pretty big gap in favour of ICE in their smaller vehicles (XC40) and of course they've entirely done away with all sedans besides the ES90 and all wagons altogether, which is amazing, because the V90/V90CC was super popular here. 6 decades of great wagons and now they're telling you "SUV or GTFO".
Personally I actually cared significantly more on top of being the one who had to work a full-time job and side gigs, but my ex is a unique kind of piece of shit and I'm not trying to insinuate that this is a common experience.
But your original comment sounded like something my ex would say when she still allowed me to go to the office. "Oh you get to take a break for 8 hours." No I don't, that's still work, it's still very taxing mentally. If you work for 8 hours and then come home to take care of the children for the rest of the evening so your partner can have a break, there's only one person actually getting a real break. Of course if you come home and drop yourself onto the couch and expect dinner to happen, then it changes who the person getting a break is, but IMO that's not as common among young families these days, compared to a few decades ago.
Going by kilometer driven/ridden my first car for sure cost me way less to maintain than the bicycle I had at the same time. Of course it was an old bike (10 years old at that point). But then the car was also nearly 30 years old.
Fuel costs put it back in the bike's favour of course. But in terms of maintenance and repair, over one summer I rode maybe 500-1000 km at most and must've put like 200 EUR into the bicycle, and drove maybe 5000-6000 km and put like 100 EUR into car maintenance and repairs.
Bikes tend to be cheaper to maintain because the mileages are significantly less.