Wales though, isn't going to be at the heart of the heat wave. Them having oceanic climate and being pretty far north already, they won't be as hot. But I was surprised to see, that even there it's going to be more than 30°C for a bit.

Other countries like Spain, France and Italy are gonna experience the real extremes, with temperatures as high as 42°C in some places. Fortunately, AC is a bit more common there, as they are experience higher temperatures more frequently, but still.

In Germany, where I live, we're not very well prepared for the prolonged heat, and AC is still pretty rare here, especially in homes (and somehow has a bad rep).

We have a culturally ingrained technique to deal with it, by blocking out direct sunlight with our window blinds (if you haven't seen our common blinds, watch this: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KePLmie7lE) and airing out the house at night to cool down the building. This worked pretty well for the climate that used to be. But for heat waves like the one in front of us, where it doesn't cool down below 25°C we'll reach our limits.

I'm so happy to live in an appartement, that recently had split heat-pumps installed to replace it's old school electric heating system. Those can be used for cooling as well.

Chalk it up as a lesson learned. There are some hoops you have to jump through, when installing Linux on a machine built and set up to use windows. One of these is secure boot.

IIRC the older surfaces have some challenges. But usually, there are just a few switches you have to set right in the BIOS/UEFI-interface and then some things to be aware of when installing Linux (that don't really have anything to do with being a windows machine, but with older hardware). One thing is to be aware, i& your running it in BIOS or UEFI mode. Afair, that has implications from the partition table on your system drive down to the possible partitioning-schemes of some system folders.

And I don't have experience with surface laptops, but I don't think you'd need any obscure kernels from github. The mainline Linux Kernel should be fine, if you set it up correctly. And you shouldn't be using Kernels from somewhere else, if you don't absolutely know what you're doing. (And even then, you'd be better off compiling it yourself, with the right settings).

Usually though, it's just a matter of having the right kernel-params set during boot and loading appropriate models, which can all be done with a stock kernel, either by using the right boot-flags or even on a running system.

Compiling kernels, to my understanding, is something for Gentoo users, tinkerers and embedded system devs. Or if you want a streamlined installation on your laptop with minimal overhead; though that already puts you in the tinkerer category in my books.

You're right about the wages.

We do have a tipping culture in Europe though. It's just different. The details vary by country/region. But waiters earn a living wage here and tips are an optional bonus for very good service/food. They are not alms for the exploited.

producing them ourselves from plants like herbivores do

This bit is nonsense. I'll give you a point for meat consumption being an easy source of protein that allowed for some developments during the evolution of humans, that are unlikely to have happened without it. But that is more a question of availability than nutritious properties. In todays surplus society, where we have industrialized agriculture and optimized crops, there is abundant access to plant protein.
And meat is not a unique source of protein either. First of all, you don't even have to eat meat to obtain animal protein. Eggs and dairy have it too. And when it comes to the constitution of protein, eggs were even considered the gold standard for a long time.

Read the following wikipedia article to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/...

The listed examples should be interesting to you.

While meats are indeed easily digestable and contain useful protein for the human body, so do many plant sources. Soy protein is even on par with eggs, while meats don't reach the same score.
And of course we usually don't eat a single source of protein, and combining different sources, their amino acid profiles can complement each other to form a complete source of protein.

This might've been a bit of a ramble on a side-note when it comes to discussing the ethics of fucking animals, but I'm sure the discussion benefits from getting the facts straight.

Auf Re.. der Seite die nicht genannt werden darf, gabs doch diesen einen User der Illustrationen von Ländern und Regionen auf Basis ihrer Grenzumrisse gemacht hat. Wäre interessant dem diese Vorlage zukommen zu lassen.

You talked about a DIAAS (digestable indispensable amino acid score!) - you are my favorite person today.

Actually, I didn't. I just realized, that I linked to PDCAAS, which is a slightly different method. But it didn't really matter, as I just wanted to illustrate the concept. And I'm not too involved in the topic. I don't know what you're doing, that you're whipping up tables about this stuff, but I'm just a layperson with a little knowledge about nutrition.

Allow me a few remarks though:

1. you're referencing prepared meat, but raw tofu? In my experience, tofu is usually also prepared in some way, and with most preparations, it looses quite a bit of water content.

2. We don't have to rely on mostly unprocessed plant food. There's stuff like texturized vegetable protein, that delievers a more concentrated source.

3. While a table like this gives a good overview and reference, it's easy to miss the fact, that we usually don't get our protein from a single source. As I mentioned in my last comment, combining different sources can be a good way to enhance the overall protein quality.
   To reflect that, we'd need DIAAS data for prepared dishes, meal plans or a whole diet.

4. Can you even use DIAAS to calculate an amount of single protein source food, that you'd have to eat like that? I don't know if it scales that way, and even if it did, for an incomplete protein source, you'd end up with a lot of excess for the abundant amino acids in that protein source, which I suspect would have to be excreted and I don't know how your kidneys like that.

5. That table would really benefit from adding references to clarify what you base your assumptions on and where you get your data from.

But I think none of this is all that relevant for the underlying topic in this thread.

The specific event is the cause for the latest Arch News entry.

My only objection is when it comes to children being born from incest because of the higher risk of genetic diseases.

But that's still not a 100% consistent argument and it leans into another morally complex topic: eugenics.

Because, if you argue that way, you'd have to clarify your stance towards people with genetic diseases/disabilities in general.

And if you follow the logic, we would also have to shun/abolish sexual relations between people with genetic disease or who carry the respective alleles, so that their offspring have a higher chance of inheriting a disease (in some cases way higher than with random siblings).

It might be the root cause, why there seem to be marriage rules in most human societies, that exclude intermarrying of siblings (especially considering that the risks increase drastically if you keep procreating that way for generations), but the current taboo is not entirely rational and seems more based on cultural tradition than current understanding.

That's the general idea, yeah. But gold investments are just a kind of construct where you legally own a certain amount of gold. Wether anyone respects your right of ownership when civilization collapses... we'll see about that.

At least it's not a hypersexualized catgirl.

Confusing "FOSS" with just "Open Source" seems like the more typical offender.

Da entlarvt sich halt das Narrativ. Es ist gar nicht gemeint, dass die Leute kaufen sollen, was sie wollen (oder gar brauchen!), die sollen kaufen, was sie angeboten bekommen und was Geld in die Kasse spült. Eine informiere Entscheidung, noch dazu eine, die auf anderen Quellen als Werbung basiert, ist doch gar nicht erwünscht.

Dummer Kulturkampf.

Ganz genau. Das und nix anderes ist es. Es ist den tatsächlich Betroffenen, den Mitgliedern der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr halt einfach völlig wurscht. Also warum überhaupt darauf rumreiten, wenn man nicht hirnrissigen Kulturkampf betreiben möchte?

Lächerlich!

You can only write them once

CD-RW has entered the chat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-RW

Schwarzmetallsänger*in

Ach warte... das ist gar kein Mikrofon, oder?

Well, not if you still want to have some fun while doing so.

But I agree, that a regular bike should suffice and you don't need to worry about optimizing gear weight if you're not competing for anything and just ride it for your own well-being.

This bullshit-argument again.

Guess what, money will circle around the economy and it will be taxed on different occasions and often several times during its lifespan (whatever that means for todays mostly digital money anyways). Especially when things (or money) change owners, tax is to be expected.

When you got paid, you paid income tax, and when you buy stuff with it - oh my gosh! - taxes again!! (In the form of VAT) Outrageous!

This is such a common thing, that it simply baffles me how anyone could think that "that money has been taxed already" is a sound argument.

Dude's just trying to coerce 18*-24 year-olds into having sex with him.

It's not very effective.

* Lets give him the benefit of the doubt.

Klar, die CDU geführte Regierung wird da sicher einen Riegel vorschieben und ihre eigenen lukrativen Anschlussverwertungen gefährden...NIIICHT!

and it is lower-case only

More unsolicited German facts:

ẞ, that is the upper-case version, does indeed exist and has been official since 2017.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fes_%C3%9F

That being said, it's pretty uncommon, and mostly only typography nerd use it, but I just couldn't let that slide.