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If you like museums, get the Museum Pass, which grants you access to 30 museums over the course of 3 days. Just a heads up that some of the museums (especially the ones on Museum Island) are so popular you have to book a reservation the day before. Only 2-4 hours of free time per day is quite limiting, though.

Pergamonmuseum is the most popular museum in Berlin, but I believe it’s under renovation work right now (which sucks; it has the best collection of hot naked muscular statues and reliefs). My personal recommendations are Altes Museum, Bode-Museum, the Gemäldegalerie, and the German Spy Museum.

Rüyam Gemüse Kebab makes my favourite döner kebabs. I got addicted to the one on Hauptstraße back when I was there. Other people have different favourite döner stores, so try them all out while you can!

oh boy, yeah no don’t do that. fermented anything should be used in small quantities to flavour a much larger quantity of stuff, like rice.

even better yet, make that durable phone shell user-replacable! you can even have those shells in different styles and colours so users can accessorize their devices any way they like! this would also give birth to a thriving industry of aftermarket shells for your phones, where small makers can even 3D-print their own shells for sale.

because we sleep at night and are active during the day, and so we need to track that in a way that is universal. if i mention 12:00, people understand that it is noon where i am, and if i mention 22:00, they know it’s bedtime.

the whole point of time zones is to have time cohesion in a wider region within margin of error of solar noon, so people on the far east and far west of a time zone are close enough to solar noon at 12:00. you can take a train to a neighbouring city without having to worry about needing to adjust your timekeeping devices by a few minutes.

to put your scenario into perspective, china has already done what you suggested on a smaller scale: the entire country is on UTC+8 for the sake of “unity” and “national cohesion”. beijing loves it; 12:00 is still noon there! except it ain’t in xinjiang and tibet. xinjiang has its own unofficial xinjiang time zone of UTC+6, and so people have to specify which time zone they’re talking about and convert times between the two time zones in conversation because the uyghers use xinjiang time and the han chinese use beijing time, and you can imagine the confusion and also technical issues that has arisen from that.

imagine that, but 12 times worse. no thanks, i’ll do the simple math of converting time zones if i ever need to communicate internationally.

fuck daylight savings. take that shit out back.

because we sleep at night and are active during the day, and so we need to track that in a way that is universal. if i mention 12:00, people understand that it is noon where i am, and if i mention 22:00, they know it’s bedtime.

the whole point of time zones is to have time cohesion in a wider region within margin of error, so people on the far east and far west of a time zone still see the sun at roughly its highest point in the sky at 12:00. you can take a train to a neighbouring city without having to worry about needing to adjust your timekeeping devices by a few minutes.

to put your scenario into perspective, china has already done what you suggested on a smaller scale: the entire country is on UTC+8. this is great for cities like beijing and hong kong

you teleport by creating a copy of yourself in the new location and then destroying the original.

“AI” has been a very common and very old term used in video games to refer to NPCs that react to player behaviour. It’s also sometimes used to refer to bots that emulate player logic to play a game, such as in this CB video.

If you missed that much and yet still know about machine learning: welcome back to society!

i don’t drive, but reverse parking is the norm here in hk.

he should be the one wearing headphones. you do not deserve to be gaslit into suffering through this poor excuse for “accommodations” for him.

multipoint bluetooth headphones exist. open back headphones exist. make him use them.

if he’s not willing to budge, you’ll need to separate the TV from your PC; one has to be relocated to a different room, preferably as far as possible. that plus shutting the doors should be the maximum amount of effort you’ll put into accommodating your partner. if that is inadequate, i recommend couples therapy; or just dump him.

I’ve had a cube for quite a few years now for casual fidgeting. My current best time is just under 50s using this official Rubik’s Cube guide (plus a few personal optimizations).

I’ve tried my hand at proper speedcubing algorithms, but they’re just a bit too complex for me to handle, and I’m perfectly happy where I am at with my cube.

Anyways, be proud of your son, and don’t kick yourself for not knowing how to solve it. At this point it’s a memorization game, and if that’s not your cup of tea, that’s fine!

It’s because the comic strip’s style and history didn’t fit the story being told. If anything, it was a massive tonal shift compared to previous comic strips in the whole webcomic.

The author was used to the 4-panel comic layout, which was great for comedic setups and punchlines, and didn’t know to switch to something more appropriate for such a somber subject in Loss. That’s why Loss feels lifeless, rather than sad.

There are so many great ways to add tension and emotion in comic form through panel layouts, compositions, style, and shading; if Loss had employed any of those to convey a compelling emotional story, it would not have been so badly received, even if posted in the same webcomic series.

play an MMO game. plenty of ways to break into friend groups there.

just learn at your own pace and don’t burn yourself out. if you’re enjoying what you do, you’re good to go. if you have an off day where you’re just not feeling it, then take a day off from it.

any fucking thing with touchscreens or touch buttons. those stupid things barely ever work and imagine not being able to use your appliance once that shit breaks.

bro doesn’t know the difference between “stay safe” and “play safe”

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Not really an answer to your question, but Firefox + Ublock Origin will fix that problem for you.

technical art and programming for video games

English, Cantonese, Mandarin, German, Japanese

I’m native at the first two, fluent in Mandarin, currently learning German, and Japanese I learned by watching Puyo Puyo gameplay.

you’re mixing up sex and gender.

sex is the genitals you are born with.

gender is a societal role, stuff like “males are supposed to be strong and emotionally distant” and “females are supposed to be beautiful and submissive to males”.

one does not necessarily have to lead into the other equivalent. why can’t men wear dresses and makeup? what makes something “boyish” or “girly”? why does a “male” or “female” label define what a person can and cannot do for the rest of their life? do they not get a say in what they want to be defined as?

the only, only useful thing about biological sex labels is for medical and sexual purposes, and yet we base almost everything else in life and society around it. that’s just an inefficient use of space on an ID card.