that pressure tho

A passive, careful engagement is very different from crossing swords with heavy hits and swords sliding along each other or blocking.

When I see armor fights I always think of how exhausting it would be very fast. I’d love to see exhausted people gasping for air. :P

Still, blunt weapons can still be 1-hit KOs or heavy hitters. But you don’t see that either.

Recently, I’ve been mindful of how long fights are in movies.

Sword fight? Fanning at each other, crossing and smacking swords. Maybe even walking around each other. I don’t think that’s how a real sword fight would look.

Fights where it’s mostly talking. Talking and talking. Nobody would fight like that.

Fist fights without a smack and dead. It’s fancy movement - only because of the shaky camera and cuts of course. Give me back Jackie Chan or smack them once and they fall over.

I also dislike noticing the wire-guided movements. Fast acceleration and you can see them balancing in the air lifted by wires. Wires removed after-the-fact, but it’s such unnatural movement.

And of course, the classic gunfight where nobody hits anything.

Or any monster chase or fight. If a giant monster chases you it’s faster and instant-kills you. But not in movies.

It’s certainly prevalent.

including getting Russia to prioritize humanity over self defense

Self defense? They’re invading another country. Again. Terrorizing civilians. That’s the opposite of self defense. There was no threat.

They increased the target from only 50 to 60 percent in-office. And don’t even have space for their people, lol.

We’re supposed to be inside 60 percent of the time, but there are only seats for 50 percent of the staff, so you have to puzzle. In some places there is a lot of space left, in others not. Yesterday, for example, two of my colleagues sat in the toilet and took meetings because there was no room. Others go out and get in the car,” she says.

What does “space for 50 percent of the staff” even mean? With the 60 % target being over the year, you’ll still have phases and instances where a lot more than 50 % of people come into the office. Maybe not 90 %, but I would expect at least space for 70-80 %.

Maybe it’s a pretty and elaborate toilet room with comfy chairs and desks? Glass windows and a view of nature or the city?

Sad how surprised I am. It goes so much against Apple’s practice and wants. Thank regulation.

Death by cake. Sign me up! /s

Putin saying something doesn’t tell you anything about what he believes.

He took the opportunity to paint Ukraine in a dangerous light, and put out a threat of escalation as well, while also painting Russia in a powerful and rightful way.

although Zelenskiy later clarified that neither a nuclear program “nor anything like that” is part of his plans

They’re repeating Russian talking points to a non-thing.

The title and teaser really don’t make the article justice.

The title and teaser is promoting Putins propaganda.

The article later does give context both to what Zelensky said and the history of Ukraine denuclearization and failed security guarantees.

I still hate the whole layout. First and foremost, it fearmongers or baits.

I would have liked a title that summarizes the article, or puts Putins claims into context. Not publishing Russian propaganda.

The town of Stadtallendorf had proudly unveiled the new structure less than a year ago

oh boy, structure not even a year old, and 10 fire trucks burned down

at least the fire protection wall worked as intended, guarding against further fire spreading

The closing paragraph is kinda absurd.

Schäfer said for reasons of safety as well as for local morale, the building had to be reconstructed as swiftly as possible. Whether a future structure would be fitted with a fire alarm system would be a matter for discussion, officials said.

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Steak?? Really??

I can understand burger, fillet, sausage as the/fundamentally-based-on the process of preparation/construction. But not for steak. Subjectively anyway.

Looking at steak on Wikipedia:

A steak is a thick cut of meat generally sliced across the muscle fibers, sometimes including a bone. It is normally grilled or fried. Steak can be diced, cooked in sauce, such as in steak and kidney pie, or minced and formed into patties, such as hamburgers.

Grilled portobello mushroom may be called mushroom steak, and similarly for other vegetarian dishes. Imitation steak is a food product that is formed into a steak shape from various pieces of meat. Grilled fruits such as watermelon have been used as vegetarian steak alternatives.

Exceptions, in which the meat is sliced parallel to the fibers, include the skirt steak cut from the plate, the flank steak cut from the abdominal muscles, and the silverfinger steak cut from the loin and including three rib bones. In a larger sense, fish steaks, ground meat steaks, pork steak, and many more varieties of steak are known.

I guess I’m just not enough into steaks. I guess it can be a label for the process before a meat steak.

From the court press release:

Access by the police, in the context of a criminal investigation, to the personal data stored on a mobile telephone may constitute a serious, or even particularly serious, interference with the fundamental rights of the data subject. However, it is not necessarily limited to the fight against serious crime. The national legislature must define the factors to be taken into account for such access, such as the nature or categories of the offences concerned. In order to ensure compliance with the principle of proportionality in each specific case, the examination of which involves weighing all the relevant factors of the individual case, that access must, moreover, be subject to prior authorisation by a court or an independent authority, save in duly substantiated cases of urgency. The data subject must be informed of the grounds for the authorisation as soon as the provision of this information is no longer likely to jeopardise the investigations.

• National law needs to define when police may access
• A court must approve - weighing proportionality
• Only in duly substantiated cases of urgency court approval may be skipped
• The subject must be informed once that act no longer jeopardizes the investigation

The court demands local legislation to define where it is allowed, and requires a court approval to weigh interests of privacy vs investigation.

It’s really not about police randomly deciding to access phone data.

Article 9.5 of this directive leaves the door open for each country to decide whether or not to require companies with fewer than 100 employees […] to publish this information.

Absurd.

It’s also kind of crazy that even in the state Russia is in, the administration still has to look out for how they are perceived. Despite its oppression and control.

The remainder gets imported

32,1+26,6+14,8+7+5,1+1,4+1,1 = 88,1

So 11,9 % gets/got imported?

According to Swierk et al., nine of those 10 inks did not meet EU regulations; five simply failed to list all the components, but four contained prohibited ingredients.