Maasdam and Gouda (among others) are towns.

Vance is somewhat of an expert on gender and sexuality though, being the cough fucker he is…

Vielleicht ist es dieser Puma?

Whý does thís woman emphasize wórds at rándom?

About 20 years ago, there was only dial-up internet available in my street. My parents lived about 200 m away from me in another street, and they could get ADSL. So I set up a wireless bridge to them, and it worked surprisingly well after some tweaking. Kept it running for a few years, eventually got my own connection because one day my dad called me because he needed the router password. Turns out he was also sharing the connection with his neighbour who was running an internet radio station.

True, and it seems to also have function in the immune system.

It’s actually thought to be benificial. The old notion that it’s some remnant from before is considered wrong today, and it seems that different mammals evolved an appendix parallel to each other.

That’s my fetish…

People who complain about multiple once-in-a-lifetime events happened in their lifetime really are snowflakes.

dude. Jesus. Silly opinion

Yeah I’m done here. And hurt, I even said you’re right!

Last three weeks I finished John Scalzi’s “the consuming fire” and “the last emperox” and “the android’s dream”. Latter one was just up my ally, the other two were fine except for the villains of the story, they were too over the top for me. Somewhere along the line I also read Orson Scott Card’s “the last shadow”, I had read all the Ender and shadow books years ago, but somehow missed this one. It’s not the best book in the series, way too much people for way too little storyline. In the last month and a half or so I’ve read the Beastie Boys book by Adam Horovitz and Michael Diamond, which was a good book to read on and off between doing other stuff. Basically I forgot to mention it before because I wasn’t reading it during my normal reading time. Currently I’ve just started “the long earth” by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, it’s a bit too early for an opinion on that one.

You’re right, drinking distilled water is perfectly fine, just take a multivitamin to compensate for the lack of minerals.

Source for the salty foods? Salt in food is normally sodium chloride, not the calcium or magnesium which you need to replenish.

Can’t find it right now, lots of articles online about electrolyte imbalance causing issues, but none linked to an actual source.

For once, yes. But exclusively? It’ll extract minerals from your body, causing health issues.

Nope, distilled water has nothing, no minerals or anything else, including ions. Deionized water is also not the best for consumption.

I have a kid of the same age, and ours are less strict, except for bed time, it’s 21:30 if there’s school the next day. Wake up time is whatever necessary, like others said teens need their rest. Screen time ends at 21:00 on school nights, but will get more strict if school results are getting lower. Basically we give our kids a lot of freedom, but expect them to do their school work and behave like normal human beings. We’re also strict on alcohol, drugs or other substances, which is not always the case in my part of the world.

The acces to birth control?

Meanwhile I learned this weekend how to pronounce “dandelion” from watching a Beavis and Butthead clip. And I haven been speaking English for decades, in both professional and social settings.

China is doing a lot of sneaky stuff in the EU (and elsewhere), like operating illegal police stations or have state owned companies acquire critical infrastructure.