johan

As we notice we're getting older (I'm still sort of young, honest!), my partner and I like to remind each other that aging is a privilege. I really hope we get to grow old together.

Except Flemish people tend to speak good French while people from Wallonia barely speak Dutch. I agree with your statement in general, but in the case of Belgium there's a lot more to it than that.

Not paid but where I live you get compensation for your travel time/distance (depends a bit on mode of transport, public transport vs car vs bike). I don't think anyone gets paid for their travel time, unless it's specifically travel for work rather than to work.

I really liked season 1. Season 2 as well I think (it's been a while), but season 3 was just too confusing and I really didn't care for it

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Don't know where you live but in many (maybe even most) places on earth this is completely untrue. So many people across all kinds of different countries spend lots of time socialising outside. I literally just returned from having dinner and sat outside, total cost with drinks was €13.50 for two people. Simple, no nonsense place with plastic table and chairs, affordable also for working class people.

I pay with a normal card but I'd say the majority of people around me pay with their phone.

Also, I need to use my bank app to pay for things online. I scan a QR code and confirm the payment with a pin or fingerprint. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think many bank apps also don't work properly with graphene.

Edit: maybe I'm getting confused, I thought bank apps normally needed google play services and that because of that they don't work on grapheneOS, but I don't know if that's correct

Do you know where I can read more about this? I haven't been paying attention to this at all and am curious to know more.

I just gave an example of running where it was about pushing, not if someone crossed a line. They even changed their decision after an appeal when other people looked at the same situation again.

And sports like football or hockey... Have you ever watched those sports? There are subjective calls all the time. It's objective criteria, but a human still has to interpret things like handball, which depends on if your arm is in an "unnatural position" or not. Those are largely subjective decisions and there is controversy around them all the time.

With breakdancing they are of course also judging specific criteria:

The winner is determined by a panel of judges, who score each performance based on five criteria each worth a fifth of the point maximum

It's really not that different.

Running has judges. Just the other day in the women's 1500m (I think) a woman was initially disqualified for pushing someone. She appealed and the decision was reversed. It's all about interpretation and subjectivity.

I can't think of any sport that doesn't have a judge or referee that has to subjectively interpret athlete's actions and the sport's rules.

Very cool!

Has anyone tried this yet?

And was wondering where this would work, is there a list of places that are supported?

Where I'm from a 36 hour work week is the norm. I work 4 × 9 hours and have every Wednesday off (plus I have like 9 weeks off every year). Some colleagues do work 40 hours a week and then save a day off every two weeks. A friend does this and he takes one fairly long holiday (like a month) and also a week or two off every two months or something.

And you can also take a sabbatical and be guaranteed of your job when you get back. A guy I know from another department took a year off to take a trip around the world with his girlfriend.

Yeah the search is not forgiving. One typo is enough to ruin the search results.

How well an area is mapped also matters a lot for search though. I now live somewhere that has all addresses in the country mapped from a government source. I didn't before, and it's so much easier now because at least I can just punch in the address and I'll find whatever I'm looking for.