In Sweden kids learn English from second grade and a third language from fifth grade.

What really annoys me is how many programmers seem to expect us to only be able to understand one language. I much rather have the program made in English than to read a bad Swedish translation.

You remind me of chatting with a friend from Hong Kong and how surprised she was that I, as a young man, knew how to cook and did it for fun.

And veterans

Agreed. It’s actually a simple choice for them. Either explain every single item on the list, or advertise the real price of their service in all commercials and so on.

I’m guessing that they want to eat their cake and save it. Or maybe more accurately: keep their cake and eat yours…

If most drivers are rolling through stop signs and you’re the only one stopping completely, while you might technically be in the right, your behaviour could lead to accidents due to the unpredictability.

Simply no. If you as a driver aren’t prepared that the car in front of you might actually stop when there’s a sign that says stop, and if you aren’t keeping enough of a distance to be able to break, then it isn’t the car in front that is the problem, or who is the one causing the accident, it’s you and only you.

The same applies to speeding. Driving significantly slower than the flow of traffic might slow down the traffic flow, leading to unsafe overtakings and such.

Again no. If they are driving at the speed of the signage, keeping the speed and driving predictable, then the ones driving “significantly” faster are the ones decreasing road safety. No-one is forcing them to perform “unsafe overtakings and such”. Also, just because you, from your vantage point, can’t see a reason for the car in front of you driving slowly doesn’t mean that there isn’t one.

While a dose of humility is good, a dose of personal responsibility is also great

I still miss Google+, my friends and my sharing is based on the subject not my relation to my friends.

To “hack it” also means to be able to handle something. That there were multiple meanings for the word was never in question and I really do agree with you that language evolve over time and you simply need to learn to live with that.

But also, if you go back and look at my response to op I also wrote that I found it unsuitable to use it in this case exactly due to the risk of being misunderstood.

Earliest I’ve heard was from MIT and the pranks they do. I think that was from the fifties.

Yes, Ikea hacks are much later. Me and my wife were doing it/calling it that around 2005 when we modded a desk. It was intended to be an example of the dual usage of the word hack.

You probably already know but hacking originally meant to modify a machine for instance (or furniture as in ikea hacks) but it really is a word one should avoid when speaking with people who aren’t part of the communities that use it in its original meaning.

I agree with you. So many times in the last decades democratic presidents have started their period with the economy in a downswing after the last republican president. They get the economy in order just in time for the next republican president to step in, take the credit and mess things up again.

The stupidity of that really baffles me. How can you be so low on empathy and understanding that you don’t get that this would be the reaction?

I mean, I understand, even if I don’t like, the drive some people have to greedily gobble up every dime they can get their grubby hands on. But I can’t understand how they could have thought that the people adversely affected by it would applaud it. It’s not like I expect cows to give me a high five when I eat a burger…

An infuriating part of it is that IMF, money lovers that they are, published research on this at least ten years ago.

But you can teach someone something that their job depends on them not knowing.

I mean, most protestant Christians dislike Catholicism, that’s why they are called protestants after all.

The new part is American evangelicals and other extremists thinking that catholicism not being conservative enough…

They already have. Been reports of congregations who have complained the the words of Jesus are too woke and weak…

…with a max load of 40 kg including the driver.

Yes but it can do “cd…”

Looking forward to the documentary of bounty hunters trying to catch him 😊

Good human

Never ask questions you don’t want an honest answer to.

I find it interesting that in Swedish the opposite of sunwise is “motsols”, i.e. counter sunwise or literally “against the sun”. Sunwise is called “medsols”, lit. “with the sun”.