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  • Well, I hope you find a model that works. Though, with the benefits of having a job also being social and having a purpose, I think I'd prefer having the elderly stay on the job market is some respect on reduced hours and so on.

  • It's not a weird flex, but I don't know how you're going to balance your budgets with that early a retirement age. Or maybe you don't have the same challenges with the large generations retiring now that we do?

  • In Denmark, my pension age is 70. It seems wild that the French are rioting over a rise from 62 to 64...?

  • I don't know man, for me 'burger' also refers to the shape. Fry up a lovely mushroom or whatever and add it instead of the meat and I would call it a burger still.

  • Language is the only truly democratic system we have, despite the best efforts of e.g. Academie Française the language develops as the speakers want it to, on average.

    This legislation seems symbolic at best, and like a nonstarter at worst. And I dobt think it makes anyone's life better....

  • In Danish it's definitely a shape, so... Which underlines the fact that this sort of legislation is pretty ridiculous in a multilingual society like the EU.

    Please also remember, as per Saussure, that for the language user only the present exists. Etymologies are curious facts at best and doesn't necessarily mean anything for current usage.

  • I feel like that's largely a habit thing. I never cook using the microwave, I would have to spend a lot of time looking up shit to cook something decent. But I cook meals from scratch most days and I know exactly which ingredients to use, where things are, and how to cook a dish quickly and effeciently.

    I often cook while I listen to podcasts, which strangely enough helps me focus on the mechanical tasks since I am not distracted - or rather, only distracted by the podcast. That works well for the dishes I know by heart, but if it's something new where i need to check a recipe I have to force myself to concentrate as well :)

    Good luck however you feel like feeding yourself!

  • If you like easy meals, get yourself a simple Italian cookbook. There's like, one million different pasta dishes with about 3-5 ingredients in them which can be cooked in 20 minutes.

  • Microwaving:

    1. Season and wrap
    2. Put on plate
    3. Place in microwave
    4. Microwave it for 3 minutes
    5. Eat

    Frying:

    1. Season
    2. Put pan on stove and add butter/oil
    3. Heat the pan
    4. Add the fish and fry for 3 minutes
    5. Eat

    If you can microwave stuff you can also fry stuff, cooking is just following steps and practice.

  • Worse than just frying it for 3 minutes which takes the same amount of effort.

  • Last I checked it included 'sausage' too, but that's a shape??

  • Pathetic. Get in the game, women.

  • The answer to that is no, we're not currently able to do that. They're not commercially available drones, and drones are hard to track.

  • Can you think of ANYONE ELSE with anything to gain from this besides Russia?

  • It does, it just depends on how it's coded. Like, take word order. If you have a case system with nominative, accusative, etc. your word order can be pretty free, you can move objects to the front of the sentence like 'food-ACC eat I-NOM'.

    Remove the case system and it's simpler to encode the words, but word order becomes much more fixed.

    All languages are equally complex, in theory at least, but where the complexity lies is different.

  • I sometimes feel like all the negative experiences people post about rude waiters in e.g. Paris is down to this, just a cultural difference in what we expect.

    I feel uncomfortable every time a waiter comes by my table and I am not about to order or ask for the check.

  • I never use it dried, probably why I don't think of it as a spice :) In Danish, garlic is called 'white onion' so I probably mentally classify it as belonging to that family, which it also does belong to botanically.

  • I planted herbs all around my house, so I always have fresh herbs available. But I almost always end up using thyme, occasionally rosemary.

    People here keep saying garlic, which I also use extensively but I don't think of it as a spice.