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Probably that it’s a 130 year old camera model

22421382 here. I can’t believe I still know that number by heart after 20+ years.

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I was well into my 40’s when my kid was born, so I’ve had it both ways. I vastly prefer the kid. Yes it sucks to not being able to do some stuff on occasion. It even sucks more that my parents are gone so I have a real hard time finding babysitters. But I just love the little one so damn much!

The real people pushing this are lobbyists working for the companies that sell the monitoring software.

If you don’t pay for it, you can’t rely on it

I replaced my old Ford Focus stationwagon with a Nissan Qashqai, an SUV. It has much better milage so it’ll probably have less emissions.

Als, your bed is for sleeping (and sexy times). No phones, no tv, no distraction.

No, but I’d definitely download one if I could!

I really hope that takes off because that would be awesome. Same with issue tracking.

It depends on the cultivar, but usually yes!

I lost interest in this game half way through. I really don’t like how the enemies level up with you. I was about 2/3rds through the main quest line when the bad guys became such bullet sponges that it wasn’t fun anymore. Like, multiple nukes to the face and they still keep coming.

I far prefer games where the enemies scale by location, not the player.

Probably “Oops…”

They made booze from elderberries. The insult translates to “Your mother is a whore and your father is a drunk”

I’m not sure. Similar communities at different instances can have very different rules and vibes. There’s a reason people prefer talking politics on Beehaw versus Hexbear.

I like the Kbin solution so far. Leave communities separate but cross-link and deduplicate individual threads from multiple communities in your feed. The implementation at Kbin is still a bit flawed, but the idea is sound.

Mosquitoes

I know a guy who always wears shorts, even in freezing winter temperatures. Hell, he got married in shorts.

We absolutely should. As long as they have enough stable income to support it. Rough guidelines in The Netherlands is that you can get a mortgage for about 4-5x your yearly income (subtract any other loans like credit cards, phone contracts or cars), and for no more than the house is actually valuated at (unless you’re going to remodel, then you can borrow for the estimated value after it is done).

The entire “credit rating” system is totally insane and dystopian for people outside the US. Where I am from, we only ever register bad credit, not good credit. If you want to buy a house and need to get a mortgage they can ask for your credit rating. But that only shows how much your current obligations to other creditors are, and whether you have had trouble paying them. And you only cartain obligations are allowed to be shown on such a report.

In my country, someone with no credit card history whatsoever is in a better position to get a mortgage than someone who has a credit card and pays it off every month. The fact that the US is the reverse is just mad.

It depends, really. I turned my hobby into a profession and I am mostly happy. I lost a hobby, absolutely. I don’t practice my craft much anymore outside of work, but I do have a job I really like. And I found new hobbies over the years. But yes, I did loose a hobby.