That style probably won’t fit in a window throughout much of Europe. Portable A/Cs can be used with a window adapter, but I think they’re usually more expensive. Also the efficiency tanks.

It may depend on the topic. In my interactions it’s generally seemed like nuance is appreciated, with some caveats.

Politics are a thornier subject. Starting from common ground, before moving to the area of disagreement helps. It’s important to know your audience and have some idea of how the community feels. I think my typical instance may have severed ties with the more firebrand instances, which probably limits hostility.

It’s not terribly different from tackling more sensitive subjects in person.

It may have even been a prompt to send one for the gas. That seems a bit indirect for Dutch, but Dutch directness sometimes seems to take surprising forms.

It does look like a pretty neat calque. I hadn’t noticed that the -oline ending was likely related to oleum.

I’ve definitely been there quite a few times. I can get by romantically, but sometimes I just don’t have the energy. Finding someone you mesh with can be exhausting.

I have a handful friends of varying genders who seem to be in similar boats. I can’t be sure as I haven’t asked. It seems like the current options are inadequate for a good chunk of people.

And the temperature and sound changes too. Also it’s pretty neat to be in a crowd for a moment of communal awe.

Does it also suppress inline images from others? Because that sounds real nice

Over the past 7-ish years more and more states have legalized online sports gambling. There was a longstanding law that essentially forbade it in most states. It was struck down at the start of this rush.

It could be part of a gradual decline as a result of that

The cards were definitely being called chip and PIN as they were being introduced.

I don’t recall the PIN ever being used outside of debit cards (which already used PINs in certain contexts).

Occasionally gas pumps will ask for the postal code of the billing address, but that’s about as close as we get.

Haven’t done Ubik yet, but I loved a Scanner Darkly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep didn’t really appeal to me either. It’s got a bunch of cool stuff, but doesn’t really manage to tie any of it together in a satisfying way.

I’d hazard most people like talking to other people. Even most introverts, although the threshold for how much is enough or too much is lower.

A few hours. For me home is always a few things: my current residence, the place I grew up, and any place I slept last night that I’ll sleep again tonight.

They don’t all mean the same thing, but let’s go home could mean any of those.

Grooves and hooves are more common words than roofs.

I think I would notice if someone said groofs or hoofs (although that’s also a word with a different meaning), but I’m really not sure I’d notice rooves vs roofs.

I think I’ve been saying rooves my whole life. I don’t think I’d generally write it that way, but it feels more natural to say.

If I have, I’m not sure anyone’s noticed. My speech patterns are odd though, so it might not be terribly noticable. It’s also possible I’ve never had to say the word. It’s not common that you need to pluralize roof.

Exactly. If you’ve got a head for remembering Latin, i.e. is id est, so you can try swapping “that is” into the sentence to see if it sounds right.

E.g. is exempli gratia so you can try swapping “for example” in for the same trick.

If you forget, avoiding the abbreviations is fine in most contexts. That said, I’d be surprised if mixing them up makes any given sentence less clear.

I.e. is used to restate for clarification. It doesn’t really relate to the other two, and should not be used when multiple examples are listed or could be listed.

E.g. and ex. are both used to start a list of examples. They’re largely equivalent, but should not be mixed. If your organization has a style guide consult that to check which to use. If it doesn’t, check the document and/or similar documents to see if one is already in use, and continue to use that. If no prior use of either is found, e.g. is more common.

Maybe function first helps with cosplaying as rural. People get very up in arms about frame type. The twice yearly sedanfull of potting soil is incredibly serious.

Slightly different, but I’ve had people insist on slop.

A higher up at work asked the difference between i.e. e.g. and ex. I answered, they weren’t satisfied and made their assistant ask the large language model. Their assistant reads the reply out loud and it’s near verbatim to what I just told them. Ugh

This is not the only time this has happened

If I’m remembering right, transportation of a food item makes up no more than 2% of the total carbon emissions for that food item.

Eating local produce can have a big impact on the quality and freshness of food, but has comparatively small environmental impacts. It won’t make beef greener than beans, no matter where you choose to get each from.

That will work in some regions. In others you may need to rent a bear canister. Talk to your local rangers to find out what’s appropriate, it depends on the local bears.