What’s minimum wage in the area?

A filling material capsule is about $5.

Amalgam or cement? I pay around 70€ for the material of a ceramic filling.

Usually yes.

Birds are a pretty good motif because a small selection of them might already span the whole continent (don’t know if that’s specifically the case here), disregarding any borders. They also lack representation in a part of the world where people classify themselves mostly as either a dog or a cat person.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra […] was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language […] He is best known for his two-part novel Don Quixote, a work considered to be the first modern novel. Don Quixote has been labelled by many well-known authors as the “best book of all time” and the “best and most central work in world literature”.

Wow first try and already perfected the artform, why did anyone else bothered writing books? Idiots!

eh so definitely not Germany then

That’s how it also started, with time-sharing terminals because hardware was way too expensive.

Yeah self-made iced tea (industrial iced tea is usually chockfull of sugar) is great, too, but is not as readily available as a bottled drink unfortunately. A sugary drink on a hot day just makes me feel more dehydrated than before.

Corona Cero might be my favourite. Non-Cero is already a rather light corn beer, but Cero is the perfect summer drink.

Do you like non-sweet cold drinks that are not water? Non-alcoholic beers tend to be the only option in that regard (and even then most are too malty for my taste).

I don’t know about the US, but the parents of my peers (East Germany) recalled that the fathers were actively discouraged to enter the delivery room.

ok how can I watch anything then?

A seven year old iPhone I got very cheap.

I hope by “CDs” you mean CDs bought directly from the artists.

It mattered to Musk that there are Black communities to fuck with, so why not mention that.

That’s not what they meant when they said that AIs can be a powerful tool for doctors.

I guess not, but he also didn’t start talking semantics. Also, bad teeth have usually financial reasons if dental care isn’t part of the healthcare package.

A few federal traits does not make a federation. My federal government in Berlin impacts me on a daily basis, and it may overrule state or communal governments. My state shares a common constitution with the other states and leaves a bunch of tasks completely on a federal level; they could not function on their own.

The institutions in Brussels on the other hand do not impact me much, mostly because they relate to specific areas like trade or environment. Member states retain a very high degree of sovereignty, so much that the EU constitutes a unique, supranational construct. Non-members like Switzerland or Norway can productively co-exist with treaties, a bureaucratic hurdle the UK has to face now, too.

This blimey limey has been told by rat catchers that Brussels has far more power than it really has. I mean we weren’t allowed to call jam products marmelade because of the brits (this has been reversed yay). That’s the level of impact for the average Joe and Jane.

But you obviously don’t understand what a federation is (hint: the EU ain’t one).

I think tropical fruits are one of these goods we really shouldn’t burn oil in container ships for.