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Dutchie here: tobasco style hot sauce.

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Godzilla. The 1998-ish version.

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You may have got me there. It was overhyped. So. Much. Merchandise. It drew people to the cinemas too, at least where I live. I do not remember whether it was actually praised though.

BTW: I hated the sound track. Anything with Puff Daddy or whatever he tries to call himself nowadays should not exist. Most lazy music ever.

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The God Machine. They were a shoegaze band from the early 90s. Sadly, one of the three members died, so they never got big.

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Football (soccer for Muricans), both as a participant and as a spectator.

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I bought a Tuxedo two years ago. They have affordable (and highly configurable) Linux laptops, some of which are aimed at gamers.

www.tuxedocomputers.com

Most unique looking celebrities?

I’m working on a side project studying variations in human facial features. It’s been helpful to study celebrity faces because it’s easy to find numerous reference photos. I’ve actually got a fairly good range of weird looking white men, turns out Hollywood is pretty flush with those, but it’s been harder to find...

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Rami Malek comes to mind. If I am not mistaken, he is Egyptian, so not your typical Hollywood white mail.

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I upvoted you, but you are not entirely right in my opinion.

Not all classical music is created equal. I am quite convinced that if J.S. Bach had lived today, he would make music like Squarepusher. However, somebody like Gustav Holst would probably be in some kind of doom metal or progressive metal.

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YES! He’s a massive idiot too.

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Phil Collins’s solo work is mind-numbingly, eye-bleedingly, toe-curlingly boring and awful.

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I started running some 20-odd years ago. It helped me get stability and self-confidence and helped me get my shit together.

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Having lived in both, I prefer the big city. Aside from numerous reasons already mentioned in this thread, I notice that big city people are more open-minded and more diverse. Being slightly different for whatever reason is more of an issue in a small community.

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+1. I am an avid runner and on running days, I wear briefs. On rest days, I prefer shorts.

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I have a friend who makes his own piña colada. He always makes way too much of it, so occasionally the odd bottle ends up in my liquor cabinet. I am normally not too much into sweet drinks, but I absolutely love that stuff.

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A P1 sensor. I have recently entered the rabbit hole of home automation. One of the things I care about, is to be as private as possible, so I went for Home Assistant.

A P1 sensor is a small thingumabob that you plug into your electricity meter and it measures electricity and natural gas use. It comes with its own webserver and it integrates seamlessly into my HA energy dashboard. I did not have to subscribe to any cloud service and as far as I can tell, it does not phone home.

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That sucks. Back here, the company that maintains the electrical grid actively stimulates the people to use such sensors. All in the name of saving energy. There’s even a page with vendors on their website.

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Among other things, in order to compete with the populist far right, they have been actively campaigning against migrants. As ASML is entirely dependent on highly educated foreign workers, this hurts them.

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Exactliy! I am more than willing to trade in my aging station wagon for a comparable EV or hybrid, but there are hardly any models available. The few ones that are, are fucking expensive.

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I have bouldered for a few years and will agree with the friendly atmosphere.

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Excellent decision! I wish you many healthy and injury free kilometers!

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I insulated my own house despite not being particularly skilled (to say the least) and absolutely loathing DIY.

A bit more context. I live in a house that was built in the early 70s. When I bought it back in 2009, there was hardly any insulation and due to the way it was built it was draughty and cold. A few years ago, I had the walls insulated, which made the major rooms a bit warmer. However, the house was still cold, part of the problem being the crawlspace and concrete floor. Last year, I got all the debris out of my crawlspace and put a thick plastic film on the sandy floor. That had instant effects: not only did the humidity drop (and some occasional musty smells), but we also needed to use less natural gas to heat the house. This year, I finished that project by insulating the bottom of the concrete floor with thick rock wool. That job took me several weeks. First, i had to glue wooden slats to the bottom of the floor and then I had to apply the rock wool.

My DIY skills are poor. I did this alone. It was a hell of a job which I do not intend to do a second time. However, the rewards, both in terms of comfort and savings are great.

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As a random dude from the Internet, I am proud of you! :-)

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Ecellent choice! My personal choice is “threads” from their third album.

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I have several actually:

  • As mentioned earlier: Portishead - Threads. Actually, the whole album is perfect for a certain desolate mood.
  • The God Machine - Picture of a Bleeding Boy
  • The Cure - End
  • Joy Division - Komakino
  • Nine Inch Nails - The Wretched
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What kind of society or culture considered being friendly towards children a red flag? Spoken as both a father of two and former child: you can be friendly to children without being a creep.

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As a fellow Dutchie: I miss the early 90s optimism. Nowadays, people are disillusioned and the hidden bigotry among which I grew up has become explicit up to the point of us having a fascist government.

I also miss not living in a neoliberal dystopia.

I am not sure that both are not connected.

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Physical. I love the smell of paper.

I do occasionally use a Kobo, which is a very convenient little device. However, I prefer a paper book.

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My vote goes for J.S. Bach. One of my shower thoughts is that he would make a great experimental IDM artist. He would give Authechre a run for their money.

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“Mof”. That is the Dutch equivalent for “Kraut” as in the slur for “German”. My grandparents lived through the second world war and went through some traumatic experiences.

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What is your definition of stability? I have used Arch for about ten years without any major breakage, but sometimes you do have to do some manual tinkering if a package stops working. So it’s stable enough for me, but maybe not for others. Since it is a rolling release, packages are generally being updated quite rapidly.

I think that any modern rolling release distro would fit the bill though.

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I don’t think the BBB has a lot of momentum left either.

I wish I was as optimistic as you.

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