we named our first electric car “White Fire” as an hommage to the launch roller coaster “Blue Fire” in the theme park Europa Park (Germany) near where we live.

In January we gave back the white car to the leasing company and got a gray one, which is now named “Greyfire”.

Nice that’s also exactly how I browse Lemmy, so much variety compared to only focusing on communities you subscribed to.

Salt is pretty good, but yeah, mayo it is

hey don’t belittle technological advancements in germany, people here at are the forefront of innovation: https://simple-fax.de/fax-ki

:'D

Haha don’t get me started with US coins, I also have a fun story there: we arrived fresh off JFK Airport in NYC and headed to our rental apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn. It was pretty far from the a subway station so we got a connecting bus to get us closer.

The next day, we thought of taking the same bus line to head to Manhattan, except our party of four ended up being expected to pay 4x $2.75 in a machine inside the bus… in coins. That’s 44 quarters. Yup, don’t have that on day 2 of my stay. So we walked 6 blocks.

I visited the UK back in 2022 and I was pretty baffled at how you can universally “tap to pay”. We visited a pub on the coast of Dorset where they wouldn’t even accept cash as a mean of payment. All in all it was nice, because it meant not having to deal with a foreign currency at all, we spent 10 days just using electronic payment, so as a tourist I think it was a good experience.

In Germany, where I live, you’re basically getting nowhere without cash, it’s still very difficult to eat out or buy small food items like bread or a sandwich. There’s also a culture of paying cash for many things, including pricier items like a second hand car! Shop cashiers usually don’t even blink if you try to pay with a 100€ bill (except if you’re coming super early and they don’t have change available yet). It’s not unusual for me to end up drawing a quarter to half my monthly salary in cash.

I first disliked it when I moved from France, but now I think it’s actually good for the society. You always have some change to tip a waiter or give to a beggar, a coin for the cart at the supermarket, get something from a vending machine… Also I live in a very quiet area so getting mugged is very unlikely, making it not so scary to carry cash around.

Yes! Thank you!

I tried to find something witty but my morning brain wasn’t functioning properly ^^’

ASL?

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LTT posted a video this week about the new push YouTube made to A/B test thumbnails: https://youtu.be/lHIWMmVoA44

“teledildonics” is the most glorious word i’ve ever heard :D

my reply was more a comment on Adam’s nickname ^^

Yup, can’t eat the A of an artificial intelligence

I found this, it looks like it’s not really possible because the structure of the two services are pretty different:

https://lemmy.world/post/12903915

I would play the piano more, read all the science fiction (Azimov, Herbert, HG Wells, Orwell, Bradbury, AC Clarke, UK Le Guin…), play Boardgames & Magic the Gathering with my friends, probably start making content for youtube or twitch, make pastry everyday, do gardening and building projects around the house…

The question is, do I have any budget to do all that, or are my basic needs covered but I can’t choose where to live, what I eat etc?

Honestly, I don’t find any satisfaction in work because I love doing so many things and would rather do one of them for money.

This is Shana, she is turning 16 in 2 months, and she is well! A bit of age-related aching, but we give them what she needs to relieve her old bones. She is very vocal and cuddly, must be at any time near us.

Okay, so my idea was really bad :-)

Hmm touché. But sifting through all the pots might take longer though, and making a huge mess might be something they want to avoid

Stick it in the dirt of one of the 130 plants in my place

You posted a couple of duplicates, if you care to tidy up a bit 🙏

She’s a Siamese chocolate point. In Siamese cats, there is a mutation for the genes of an enzyme (Tyrosinase) that inhibits the production of melanin above a certain temperature. Where the body temperature is lower (extremities, airways), that enzyme is deactivated and melanin is produced, allowing the fur to darken.

Siamese kitten are born completely white, as their temperature is kept high everywhere in the womb, and rapidly start to color after birth.