Just do stuff that other nice people do. Volunteer work is pretty good to meet decent people.

3 in 4 minutes. That's a throughput of 45 drivers per hour.

NATO doesn't need Germany to approve anything for something to be a NATO operation.

The operation was conceived by french/UK and was handed over to NATO as a condition for Italian participation.

Here:

NATO’s North Atlantic Council (NAC) in Brussels, Belgium exercised overall political direction of OUP, while Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium, carried out NAC decisions with military implementations through Joint Force Command (JFC) Naples.

Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard was the overall operational commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Unified Protector. Under his leadership, NATO Maritime Command Naples directed naval operations in support of OUP. Although NATO’s Air Command Headquarters for Southern Europe, in Izmir, Turkey (AC Izmir) managed air operations, the air campaign itself was conducted from NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre Poggio Renatico in Italy. For this reason, major elements of AC Izmir were moved during the course of the OUP.

Italian Vice Admiral Rinaldo Veri from NATO Maritime Command Naples led the maritime arms embargo, while Rear Admiral Filippo Maria Foffi served as the Task Force Commander at sea.

I'm not a secret.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_71652.htm

I lived through the time when every other website was a malware farm because of that POS platform.

I don't think there is a single other piece of software that inspire me so much hate as wordpress so I'm really rooting for a complete implosion of anything WP related and that Mullenweg end up forced to sell his body for food in Pattaya.

Ah enjoy your single thread. I'll be there writing writing kick ass code in rust and wondering about important stuff like... err... who owns that fucking variable....

Back when I lived in Dubai, around 06, you'd go to some well known parking spots and some Indians guy would come to your car with a bunch of burned DVD in giant binders with all of the latest release, classics, complete series...

That was useful because internet was pretty shit and expensive. If I remember I was paying €120 a month for a theoretical 2Mb.

And there was even a "special" binder for that famous vin diesel movie. I guess he was very popular because it was very large binder that lots of people asked to see every week. It's weird to me because pitch black was clearly his best and the only one worth rewatching but, every single week, people really seems excited to buy a new copy of xXx.

If an event chance is too high the cost of insurance increase to a point where it stops making sense.

If every house in an area is 100% guaranteed to get at least one flood event over a 5 years period, that means that every 5 years the insurer need to get in enough money to rebuild all houses, so the cost of insurance will be more than 1/5th of value of a house per year (plus operating cost, profit, and so on). There's no other way, it's just maths.

Ok, the actuarial math is more complex but it boils down to getting enough cash in to pay for claims and pay the operating cost.

At a that point people need to realize that if the risk is too high they need to accept it, plan to rebuild every 5 years on their dime, or move.

Unfortunately people suck at understanding risk.

Same with my mbp 2019. Failed on me earlier this year, every works fine except a $0.10 flex cable that they decided to solder inside the panel so it can't be changed.

Someone did a dark souls no hit run, level 0, weapon level 0, any%. Anything is possible.

Honestly it wasn't bad but it wasn't great. For the period in which it was released it was graphically meh, the combat was shit, the exploration was meh minus with copy pasta generic boring cave, enemies and boring ass loot, the NPC were dumb as rocks, the questing was about being the dog in a game of fetch, the RPGing was on rail, the storyline was... Wait there was storyline? Oh yeah, you're the one, go kill a dragon for some reason. Eh, sure whatev' and the writing was... Well... Nothing to write about. :D

And of course, if was full of bugs and glitches and unfinishable quest that borks your save as one can expect from Bethesda.