I’d pay it all as a voluntary additional tax payment, the government would do a much better job than I could myself in making sure that the money really benefits the entire community.

How One Of The Last Fez Makers In Cairo Keeps A 600-Year-Old Tradition Alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYPXGqtacpw

Nothing at all, I want my phone as slim as possible.

I have only simple needs so I’ve remained loyal to conrad.de since before AliExpress was a thing.

Sure, but it amuses me when that date isn’t thousands of years into the future.

Salt has an essentially infinite “best before”, so if you ever encounter a packet of salt with a “best before” less than hundreds of years into the future, you can know that it’s a lie.

Of course, that one’s awesome!

That is not what anyone means with “life” in the context of work–life balance.

I don’t consider work separate from life.

That seems deeply problematic to me.

They’re all named after a famous old silver coin from Bohemia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar#History

Emotionally it’s definitely a good thing, anyone who hates their country of birth can renounce their citizenship but I have simply built a good life elsewhere and wouldn’t want my old passport involuntarily taken away from me, it’s emotionally valuable to be able to go back and show the old passport and be welcomed just like one has always been, even if my daily life nowadays is somewhere else.

https://njal.la/

Run by Gottfrid Svartholm Warg of The Pirate Bay who has already served two prison sentences for acting on his beliefs around personal freedom and intellectual property.

For learning language learning, I believe that this book currently is the best fact based resource available:

https://fluent-forever.com/book/

This book is currently boosting my morale:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453652/not-the-end-of-the-world-by-ritchie-hannah/9781529931242