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Not to worry.

There are laws in the EU that will save the planet, like drinking from soggy paper straws instead of normal ones and requiring caps stay attached in plastic bottles.

And just to make sure, at least in Poland they now charge you $0.10 if you buy anything plastic until you bring it back to the grocery store empty.

We are safe.

Love the timer, that's the killer feature.

I would add a leaderboard, and then from the second word on, as you keep guessing something like "better than 10% of users", to keep me motivated.

I also wonder if you add different languages, for me it wasn't that easy in English.

Same as in the USA. They are legally required to treat you in emergency situations there, too.

BUT, they will charge you for their services afterwards--both in the USA and in Poland.

Although I suspect that the bill from the American hospital will be A LOT more...

Not sure, that's why I specified "from what I understand".

BUT, most people aren't children, pregnant, or registered unemployed/very low income, so from that point of view to me it's still an insurance-centric system.

I pay a hefty amount each month and I was sick in the past and the system was so inefficient that I had to go to private doctors and clinics just to figure out what was wrong with me. I see the public insurance payments as a tax and I have private insurance to cover the costs of private doctors/hospitals.

But maybe that's just me.

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.

What I meant with "you have to wait months" is that if you go with the government-provided doctors and processes, they put you on a list and you have to wait for your turn. Getting an exam done can take months, and you can wait years for surgery, unless your condition is life-threatening.

If you go to a private clinic, of course you can get test results the same day and schedule any surgery within days.

Most people who can afford it go the private route. I had to do that too, which kind of pissed me off since I pay a hefty amount each month for insurance and I still have to go to private clinics. BUT, using the public infrastructure is just too inefficient. To get blood exams at a reduced price I had to schedule an appointment with my GP (days in advance), she'd send me to a specialist (about 1 week wait to get appointment), then a specialist would give me the paperwork required to get SOME of blood tests I needed covered by my insurance.

I live in Poland and despite being Europe from what I understand they don't have socialized healthcare. You need to buy insurance from the government, or private (I have both). If you don't have it, you don't have a right to healthcare.

Then, if you go to public doctors or hospital you still have to wait months for an exam or years for surgery. BUT, I've never heard of anyone going bankrupt from getting sick, or being scammed by their insurance not covering costs.

From what people make it sound, in the US you don't have socialized healthcare, getting doctors and exams is quick, but you also get scammed by insurance companies who will try their best to get out of paying, and I've definitely heard about people going bankrupt because they got sick.

I love how they framed it like this: "Temporary derogation from certain provisions of the ePrivacy Directive to combat online child sexual abuse".

Just--OF COURSE, think of the children.

Yes, that's true but I really like this model.

Maybe I should research some cool cars from that era.

I live in the Polish countryside and there is no public transport :-D

Yes of course. What else would you give plants, water out the toilet!?

How are they great?

Brawndo is what your body craves. It's got electrolytes!

Same here.

I drive a 1991 Honda Prelude and I don't think I'll want to drive anything else probably ever.

They should've called the app MapQuest :-)

You could write (literature) SEO-driven articles all day, or pain copies of famous paintings all day and then painting and writing is closer to plumbing, too.

$400!?

I'm not following, that's exactly what I want, I want the fan control to also turn off/on, so fan at 0 = off, fan > 0 = on.

Hair dryers normally have 2 controls, one to adjust how much air it blows, and another one to adjust how hot the jet is.

When they're off, they don't blow any air so it would make sense to me to decide that the button to turn them on is the one that controls how much air it blows. It goes from 0 to 1 to turn on, so you just learned that that button changes how much air comes out of it.

But no, most of them do the opposite. So, you turn them on with the temperature control. The action is: no air, yes air, air gets super-hot if you keep pushing the button.

I can't find any modern air dryers where they get this right.

As much as you're trying to find a way to prove it's complicated, it rollbacks your previous action. Extremely simple and intuitive.

Back means the previous screen.

If you're in Chrome, the previous entry in the history. If you're in YouTube, the previous video. If you were previously on the main screen and you just clicked into an app, the main screen.

What's confusing about it? Seems very intuitive to me, it's like CTRL+Z, it always changes what it does but the behavior is to undo the latest action.

That's what made me switch to Android.

At least you can have 3-button navigation

Tahoe was such a huge mess, but I'm hopeful that the new CEO will turn things around and bring things back to normal.

If they do, I'll consider upgrading both OS and laptop, but right now I'm holding on to Sequoia

AND, if you get hurt ad a Disney park you can't sue them because you agreed to Disney+ TOS.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-su...

A little far-fetched..?

This is so true, I pirated movies that I was ready to pay for so many times, just because they weren't available in my area, or there were no subtitles, or they only offered 720p.

You can download a MTK file at 4K with multiple audio tracks and subtitles and more often than not there are enough seeders to just start watching it while it downloads in the background.

They need to wake up.

This will make it a lot more intuitive to play

Space to me means fire.

You can show the mini-map in a corner, right? Why do you need to toggle it, Slither has it shown at all times.

Might be because there are less Swift projects to train with.

But I've seen Claude write crazy code in Python and JavaScript, too

That sounds absolutely awful

I see. OK, I'll do that next time, thanks.