This is basically the most pathetic thing he could have done with this tech and it’s hilarious that he actually did it

About 200 meters, but I usually take the bike down to the Lidl 1 km away.

Where I last lived I had 200 meters to a small shop and 3.5 km to the local Lidl, which was fine but not ideal.

Getting a bike with a rack might be a good idea for your grocery runs. 3 km is less than 10 minutes on a bike.

These copium addicts will say anything lmao

Originally airlines preferred them over two engined planes because they were safer,

Up until ETOPS (aka Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim) was introduced in 1986, it was not even legal to run cross-atlantic flights to and from the U.S with twin engines.

As I understand it, point-to-point taking over from hub-and-spoke coincided with mid-size high-range airplanes like the 787. Before that, the economics of running point-to-point had trouble penciling out, since you needed fairly large aircraft to handle the distance. Hence, hub-and-spoke made sense - run small aircraft to and from hubs and then run a large long-range aircraft carrying a large amount of passengers.

Also known by his nickname ‘Jordgubben’ (‘The Strawberry’)

Drug trade as I understand it. His gang has also been actively at war with another gang, hiring minors to perform shootings or bombings.

May she have used it as toilet paper

You can’t opt out of government-provided health insurance. It’s not even really referred to as health insurance, it’s really just referred to as health care.

I get my additional private health insurance paid for by my employer, so I never actually pay myself, but the same one seems to be going for about €110 a month.

I don’t know that I would buy it if I had to pay myself, but I’m quite happy to get it for the small amount of additional taxes I have to pay on the benefit from the employer.

For me, it’s not music. Not mentally stimulating enough, it just makes me irritated. It has to be podcasts for me.

Music works when I’m doing tasks that are already mentally stimulating.

Yes, but there are two different ones - one for medical appointments and one for medicine.

Sweden.

A few alternatives:

• I could book an appointment at the local health center. I would probably get a time at the earliest next week, and it would cost me $30. Health center doctors are generally quite overworked, and can sometimes be a bit dismissive of your issues in my experience, but they will help you. If you need specialist care, they will give you a referral, which could take several months depending on the priority of the case and the type of specialist.
• I could use an app to get access to a video call with a doctor, after having described my symptoms in the app. I would get a video call the same day and it would cost me $30. Given the remote nature of this kind of contact, they can be a bit limited in what they can do for you, but will try to help you regardless. If your case requires in-person examination, they will ask you to go to a health center instead. If you need specialist care, they will give you a referral and you’ll have to wait the same amount of time as for a referral in the health center scenario.
• I am lucky enough to have a private health insurance plan through my employer. If I have any problems, I’ll submit them to this private health insurer, and they put a human on the case and connects me with a specialist right away if the problem warrants one. Typically this happens the same or the next day. This costs me nothing, apart from what I pay in benefit taxes to be on the private health insurance plan.

All in all, things work fairly well in Sweden, but having gotten private health insurance has definitely jaded me a bit on account of how much better the experience is when you have that. If only the public system wasn’t systematically underfunded and run by the dumbest politicians on offer in the country, then maybe everyone could have great patient experience.

I don’t think MnDOT are complying.

I’d trade off the massive amount of bathrooms for at most 1 bathroom with shower + maybe one toilet-only bathroom. Separate the kitchen out to a small room, make the common area larger, and add a balcony. The room sizes could probably also be varied slightly - not all rooms need a double-bed. Singles/bunk beds can be used to great effect.

It’s fully possible to share bathrooms with roommates, just as possible as sharing kitchens.

The alternative would be to just make a small kitchen and split these off as single units instead, this is just poor utilization of the space.

It’s not my favourite intervention to improve transit, but it does have some benefits, like reduced dwell times from faster boarding on buses.

The important thing is that it might get a candidate elected who can perform long-term improvements.

Tangentially related, but I really enjoy Hard Fork, which covers the tech industry generally.

I use Rectangle whenever I need to do some tiling go decent effect.

I’d agree, but my understanding is that Elitewheels are quite trustworthy.

I’ll let you know if they break and I eat pavement

Scored myself a very nice set for under $400, for road use.

The key in this case is of course to buy from China

A decent road bike. Not top specced, and with none of the additional gear you’ll probably want, but you can definitely get started with €1k. I bought my current bike for approximately €700 and have upgraded + bought additional gear for probably a bit over €1k, but that has gotten me some really great stuff and I basically want for nothing in the sport.