There are plenty of places with nice beaches on the Med.

Yes, but Italy is a lot closer to Germany or Switzerland than the Croatian or French mediterranean coast, nevermind Spain or Greece. Distance matters, lots of people still drive to their holiday destinations.

I honestly thought that most tourists go to Italy for the beaches. Not sure if this graphic takes into account how long visitors stay, I’d expect beach holiday tourists to stay longer than city tourists on average.

Stiftung Warentest (at test.de) does a great job comparing products and pointing out faults. Probably not that useful if you don’t speak German, though, if the products they’re testing are even available in your country …

said one user on X.

The irony.

trigger happy police drones - I Can’t Believe It’s Not A Real Cop ™

Probably contains “AI”, though.

Cannabis use prevalence is actually kind of low in the Netherlands, many european countries where it’s illegal have higher prevalences. Turns out, legalizing cannabis doesn’t turn everyone into a stoner.

You’d think Netherlands of all places would have data. Did the authorities just give up or what?

The article says right there that only 1 in 3 people are doing that (in europe).

What strawman? I’m talking about my old phones in my drawer, and I’m certainly not the only one who does that.

The thing with that is that nobody can get (much) use out of my old phones, because I already use them until they’re broken or unreasonably old - when even aftermarket ROMs like LineageOS don’t get security updates anymore, it’s time to retire that phone, and I regularly use my phones beyond that point.

My last phone broke after about 1.5 years of me using it (and it was already a refurbished device), and my current relatively new-to-me phone only has 2 years of security updates left (also refurbished). I’m probably going to use it for longer than that if it doesn’t break, but that would definitely be a good time to get a new phone if money was no object and I didn’t give a shit about the environment.

The thing is, recycling is clearly better for the environment than having 3 unused old phones in your drawer.

Who isn’t? If the phone doesn’t break, it becomes unusably slow with any operating system that still receives security updates (if there are any, which is not a given). Also, I have my doubts on whether it’s actually possible to reliably delete all data from your old phone as a consumer.

I use xfce4-terminal, lxterminal is also good for the same reasons. The nice thing about them is that their configs are very stable (this can be a bit of an issue with KDE, e.g. I recently had to redo my editor themes for Kate because the old ones weren’t compatible anymore), and they save system resources by letting all terminals run in one process. Running terminal windows in separate processes might protect you from crashes, but even though I use terminals heavily I just never have terminal crashes. And they’re simpler to configure than e.g. urxvt.

I like pineapple pizza (as long as the pineapple pieces aren’t too big), but that burger sounds annoying. Not saying the flavors don’t combine well, but the amount of toppings makes it sound way too tall unless the slices are razor thin.

Depends on how long I’m inside, how dark the store is and how much of a fuck I give on a given day. I do think that most people think it’s rude/douchey/etc., but I’m not convinced that I should care about that kind of moralizing of etiquette (though I do care, to various degrees, what people think of me).

It’s somewhat harder to see inside with sunglasses, but I, too, wear prescription glasses so it’s a bit of a hassle to change to normal glasses.

At least the stuff I like (if it would actually be called ‘drumstep’, which I’m not certain about) is generally quite a bit slower than drum’n’bass.

halftime 2-step drum pattern like dubstep

Is that not what drum’n’bass is doing, too? I don’t think I’ve ever heard a drum’n’bass track that wasn’t halftime with some kind of two-step-pattern.

It’s not really an album kind of genre, but here’s two EPs:

Margari’s Kid - We Are Ghosts Now

TMSV - Ego Death

Drumstep is probably pretty niche. It’s like oldschool dubstep but slightly faster and with busier drums/cymbals/percussion. I think I actually need an even more specific descriptor to differentiate it, because if you search “drumstep” on youtube etc. you mostly get stuff with those brostep-style midrange noises that is super popular in more modern dubstep, drumstep and drum’n’bass, which I mostly don’t like at all.

I’m listening to a ton of niche genres, but TBH I don’t really have a good idea which of them would be the least known or least popular.

Straight to racism, huh?

As opposed to France and UK who also don’t recognize Palestine and in the case of the UK have at least as much responsibility for the conflict?

But hey, fuck me for learning something new, right?