I remember once hearing a Dutch person say something like “British food might be shit but at least they have something, there are no notable Dutch dishes”.

UK is US-lite.

Some sodium ion batteries use an aqueous electrolyte, meaning they’re full of water.

Seeing as how I’ve worked with thick pieces of wood every time I’ve built a fire, I’ve “tried it” thousands of times.

You can’t light thick wood on fire with a match.

Yeah, where’s the version of this comic with a boomer sitting on a recliner for 12 hours straight drifting in and out of consciousness while a news channel drones on a TV?

The world wide web runs on top of the internet, but its not the same thing as the internet.

In the 1980s the internet existed, with forum-like things running on top it, but access to it wasn’t widely distributed.

BBSes just used the preexisting telephone network. (Which, yes, dial up internet access later did too, but in the case of dial up you’d be calling the number of an ISP, and afterward your connection would run over net infrastructure. In the case of a BBS you’d be dialing the person running the server directly.)

EDIT: you probably already know this, but just clarifying for others.

For some things you do have to multitask and keep the plates spinning, so to speak. For example making sure something doesn’t burn while you’re cleaning the last mess.

And that is something that a lot of people need to acclimate to I think. If anyone reading this is one of those people then I’d suggest focusing on reducing the mess as much as possible while you’re cooking, even if you aren’t perfect. Then try to take care of whatever’s left after you finish cooking but before you actually eat. One or two dirty implements is a lot less daunting to take care of than a sink full of stuff.

Another thing I’d suggest is trying to reduce the amount of stuff you dirty in the first place by focusing on single pot recipes or modifying a recipe to be single pot. Frying meat and onions in the bottom of a soup pot before deglazing and adding the rest of the ingredients, for example. This isn’t always possible to do of course, especially if you’re doing something big and fancy, but you should save those kinds of recipes for times when you have all day to dedicate to them.

The usage rates in Japanese cities are among the highest in the world, as are the punctuality and reliability of the intercity trains.

Could the system be less convoluted? Absolutely. But IMO most European countries aren’t in much of a position to criticize given that they aren’t even willing to step up to the plate to anywhere near the same degree, to say nothing of North America.

Now, one might argue that this has more to do with city form than it does with the quality of the PT infrastructure, but that is infrastructure too, and those two types of infra are two sides of the same coin. And yeah, the city form isn’t completely perfect either, but when it comes to moving a greater proportion of people in the safest and most energy and space efficient way, the numbers are just higher than most other places.

Their public transportation and a lot of their other infrastructure is advanced, their IT infrastructure is not.

All the shit people hate about JavaScript now, the spying, the adtech, was done in flash first.

And the shitty slow overly complicated ‘web app’ pages that could’ve presented the same content in a hundred lines of HTML. That was done in Flash before it was done in JavaScript.

I feel like 90% of any bookstore I’ve been to has been self help (and/or loony new age stuff), biographies of / stuff written by politicians, and military “history” books.

Most of the rest are young adult novels and smut with some guy’s chest on the cover.