Can a Romanian person with a good understanding of this shit show please give the rest of us a solid rundown of how the second election is likely to pan out?

OSM is a great project. It’s the basis for a lot of different tools and as such really needs to continue to be independent from American tech bros.

From the experience of a friend of mine: if you are of European descent, try finding out about your lineage and if that can somehow get you a European citizenship.

A friend of mine, who is Mexican, wanted to remain in Germany after finishing her Master’s degree, since she had a German boyfriend and generally believed her prospects were better here. While it’s possible for non EU citizens to get a work visa, the requirements are very high. She ended up applying for Spanish citizenship, since one of her grandparents had emigrated from Spain. After getting the Spanish EU citizenship, everything was a breeze. She didn’t need any further paperwork, could remain in Germany indefinitely and apply for any job that doesn’t specifically require German citizenship (such as some public service jobs).

Similarly another friend of mine, who is Brazilian, now holds German citizenship, despite not speaking a single word of German. He’s fluent in French though and has found work in Luxembourg easily.

Therefore, if at all possible, try getting any EU citizenship via your grandparents/great grandparents. It will open the door to living and working in any EU country without ever needing a visa or work permit.

This looks great! Gnocchi with pesto and a few additions like sun-dried tomatoes are also a go-to for me, when I have to prepare dinner quickly.

This looks amazing!

Perhaps they will be able to meet up in the afterlife soon, since I believe both of them are likely heading in the same direction there.

Thanks! I’ll definitely try freezing ginger. That’s usually one of the things I could have sworn I still had but it went bad last week, so… Yeah, definitely putting some of that in the freezer from now on.

For frozen herbs my go-to is always chives and parsley.

The problem with using AI assisted coding in my experience is that you might save time in the short term, you will spend months sorting through the inefficient and error probe spaghetti to unburden your product from all the AI induced technical debt. Use AI as a research tool or as inspiration for potential solutions, never as a copy/paste type of deal

I dread the elections in France in 2027. France is one of the last bastions of Freedom that is capable of standing up to the authoritarian states if push comes to shove. The last few presidential elections have moved France closer and closer to having a Kremlin sock puppet in charge. While they have managed to pull back from the brink a few times, it only needs to go wrong once.

Thanks for sharing! Concerning logistics when travelling I can also share my experience.

I travel on a Dutch passport and my children, while also having Dutch citizenship, travel on German passports because that is where we live and where my wife is from. They also use my wife’s German last name. Therefore, when travelling, my kids and I have different names and nationalities. For some reason nobody ever questioned any of that. I keep a copy of the birth certificate just in case though.

I don’t want to excuse Netanyahu here. He certainly belongs behind bars in my opinion. However, he only holds a part of the world hostage rather than all of it. I see him on par with folks like Kim Jon Un or Mohamed bin Salman rather than Trump or Putin.

The answer will likely depend on the place in the world and even on the cultural background of individuals getting married. I’ll just share my experience.

We got married out of convenience. While it’s technically possible to arrange the bulk of the legal stuff with various contracts, it is just easier to use the “default contract” that already covers the most common use case. Some legal arrangements, for example cuts to inheritance tax or the right to remain silent when asked about your spouse in legal proceedings, are only available for “real” marriages.

Once we decided to have children we looked into the various arrangements needed to make that work and quickly found out that marriage is the easiest way to sort everything out. In our day to day life nothing really changed. In legal terms quite a lot is now different.

By the way, as others have mentioned, getting married isn’t expensive. All we paid was the administrative fee which was something like 50 Euros.

These look really great! Perhaps you could format the ingredients as bullet points, making it much easier to see at a glance what you used.

The last time I visited China was ca. 2005/6 and pretty much matches what you describe.

The last time I was in the United States was in 2015. While I work in banking (specifically IT for banking) it was fairly chill at the time. I changed jobs though in early 2016 and haven’t been required to leave the EU for work related travel since, which is incredibly reassuring.

Exactly. The risk is too high for me to personally want to take that chance. It seems like many others also come to the same conclusion in their risk assessment. Nonetheless there are still thousands of people visiting the United States (and China, for that matter) every day. The majority of them aren’t randomly arrested on some trumped up charge.

The United States are now more or less on the same risk level as China. While it’s likely that your visit is going to be uneventful, there is a chance that you may be disappeared without any form of recourse.

I remember visiting Mohenjo-Daro in the mid 1990s and being impressed by the sheer scale of time between these remnants of civilization and myself. It’s sad that the site isn’t as developed as it deserves to be, since it is among the oldest proofs of civilisation still around.

Awesome, I’ll try it that way next time.

Awesome, thank!

Hagelslag is awesome as a topping as well. It’s finer than baking chocolate chips, which I really enjoy.