It’s also bullshit. My parents (both 50+) are both learning English right now. Of course they’ll never be close to native speakers. But they are absolutely able to communicate to get around, well beyond the basics too.

It doesn’t get easier. But it also doesn’t get impossible. Motivation is a big step towards it.

But I’m curious, why are Europeans so horrified by the idea of heating water in the microwave?

Not op. But I’m really curious about the whole “microwave water” thing.

For me it’s just a completely foreign idea. Maybe because electric kettles are so ubiquitous over here. Like everyone has one, including office kitchens and hotel rooms.

I’m also curious over the practicality. Doesn’t it spill over? What kind of container do you use to hold the water? For example if you want one cup of tea, do you just put a cup of water into the microwave? Depending on the container, do you watch it the whole time?

I understand why one may use the microwave to heat water, I also understand it works, but the idea of actually doing it is… mystifying.

With a gun to my head I’d struggle to say my date of birth correctly.

There is a science or food YouTuber out there who’d be really excited to try this, if only they read your idea.

People who know programming already, yes. People who are getting into it / want to get into it, see it as an amazing shortcut.

I had two working students already, who thought and communicated that they don’t really need to learn programming, because they can do it with ChatGPT / Q. It was quite infuriating.

I was so hyped when I saw the trailers, because the visuals and ideas of the story they showcased were exactly my jam. But oh boy, what a dumpster fire the whole movie turned out to be.

Edit: yep, still goosebumps watching the trailer

Someone moving out of the way still doesn’t equal everyone moving out of the way. He’s way ahead of them at the end of the video. The point still stands.

French electricity leaves the chat in summer when their plants need to be shut down because the rivers are too warm or don’t carry enough water in the first place. And that’s nothing to say what they will do in the next decade years when a good portion of their reactors should be commissioned out.

Scalability is not viability.

And if you leave an axe in it, you’ll occupy the whole neighborhood’s minds for some time.

My impression came from headlines like this:

Tech moguls Altman, Bezos and Zuckerberg donate to Trump’s inauguration fund

I didn’t follow these donation news too closely, but from the headlines it always sounded like they do it personally!? Maybe Trump makes a point out of it that it comes from them personally? Would make them personally attached to him.

Exactly, enterprise world. Letsencrypt doesn’t aim for that.

Which of them is free?

A hundred euro is quite a difference. Didn’t expect it to be that much, tbh.

The only consolation is that, with the discounter sets, you will get something that has been tried and tested and everything is according to the relevant technical standards. Should be, anyway.

Any of the Discounters, really. ALDI, Lidl, Netto, etc have regular offers in their online shops.

You really took the downvotes with grace.

I’m proud that in that time of crisis I was strong and served my country and fellow citizens, simply by staying home and not bothering anyone.

In my experience: the higher up the management chain, the higher the chance that they are just in for the bonuses - not for the company / industry. And those bonuses are always bound to these numbers which need to go up. When the numbers go down, these people are long gone.

The first people to leave aren’t going to be the clock punchers, it will be the best and brightest who can easily find other jobs.

Yes. But some of them are also the most expensive ones, so when they leave costs go down. And we all know “numbers must go up” (=cost must go down).