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> Since the constitution distribute the power based on religion, any census that would mention religion might put into question the current distribution.

Funny how similar it is to Belgium's situation, the "language border" was established through census and then was revised as few times with census results, but since not everyone was happy with it it was essentially fixed and stopped being revised.

Today it's which side of the border you live in that determines which language you officially "speak".


> it's largely possible that the location of testes actually doesn't matter

It's not really that it doesn't matter, just that there are several different options to allow good enough fertility.

If sperm has to be stored/generated at a temperature lower than 36°C, then external testes are a solution to that, but a lower body temperature works as well. Developing enzymes that work good enough at a higher temperature also works (apparently what birds have done). And maybe just accepting a lower fitness of sperm cells works if the animal produces more of them.

Hippopotamuses have a low body temperature of about 35°C, so internal testes work for them.


It's not just that. They contribute to a mans physical appearance and attractiveness.

A hippo doesn't care much about looks ;)


I'm sure lady hippos care about looks just as much as any other mammal, just different looks than a pair of low-hangers.

Honestly I don't find it more useful than Termux, especially for being so much heavier.

Just because I was curious.

Termux is doing a container. The android terminal is doing a virtual machine. That's the difference.

Termux would definitely be the light weight option, but you will be pinned to whatever version of the kernel your device is shipped with (may be a bit old.)


No, termux isn't a container, it's running directly in userspace on the host. The only weird thing is that because it's running directly on the host, it has to be built to use unusual paths, eg. /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash instead of /usr/bin/bash. If it used containers (which IIRC it can't because Android doesn't really support it) that would actually be easier because then it could use a chroot to make the paths look normal.

Ah, well that stinks a little. I guess it makes sense, if android doesn't mandate a few kernel settings then working with containers might not be an option.

Couldn’t it implement a “fake chroot” by e.g. creating its own libc which wraps the real one but with path remapping, and then linking all its executables against that?

That would only work for things that use libc (so eg. most Go programs are probably not going to work). The main way that you can do an unprivileged fake chroot is proot, which termux does offer - see https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot - but that has a significant performance hit.

> you will be pinned to whatever version of the kernel your device is shipped with

That doesn't matter much for using SSH though.

For running more complex Linux programs or scripts Termux is indeed less comfortable (but it can still work).


I have been running my mail server for about 20 years now, using three different domains.

I have switched servers regularly, mostly between OVH/online.net/Hetzner since they are the three big cheap European hosts. I have also used various server software, now happily running OpenSMTPd.

I have had a few problems with Microsoft in the past but contacting them (what made me care enough was marrying someone with an @hotmail email address) eventually fixed delivery for good. No notable delivery problems otherwise. I also run my company's mail server, it works fine too (with a much larger volume and different usage patterns), also running out of OVH servers.

What I recommend for people who don't want to do sysadmin is buying a domain at OVH to use the free email service offered with it. It's cheap and works, and it's easy to switch to another registrar or provider if needed.


> it feels fundamentally more right that my car by default follows the road than keeps going with the turn radius I had previously input.

A car shouldn't "keep the turn radius", they normally drive straight by default. The forces acting on the wheels do that automatically.

It doesn't seem like a wrong thing, to me.

> Where do you draw the line?

I think the line is quite obvious between the physical comfort features and the mentally disengaging features.


GP said s/he didn't understand why anyone would want these in-betweens. I gave an explanation as to why.

Based on what you're saying, it seems the divide arises from some drivers classifying these features as physical comfort, and some as mentally disengaging.


Those inductors are cheaper than what PCBWay charged for making that wooden box, I don't think their cost matters much here.

There's no "enforced savings" that I know of in Europe.

3.50% in the US sounds extremely low to me. It has fallen a bit recently but the savings rate was about 25% in France in 2020. Common knowledge says to strive to save at the very least 10% of one's revenue around here.


There is a very large and growing portion of the US that maintains no savings at all. In fact it's the opposite and many are slowly spending their way into perpetual credit card debt.

It's essential to the way the system works. One person's money is another person's debt. Normally the government would take on enough debt to ensure everyone had money, but the USA is a weird case.

Money and debt are just mechanisms to allocate resources. The government can print infinite money like Zimbabwe and it wouldn’t matter if there aren’t enough resources to allocate.

It seems like savings include pension ([1], but it is a bit unclear to me) , and that is a kind of forced saving (as in many places in Europe you can't choose to not get pension and get it as cash to spend instead).

1: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...


It's not clear to me either, but as I understand it it doesn't include pensions because social contributions are not part of "disposable income".

I think that "the net adjustment for change in pension entitlements" is there to take into account the expected reduced future income from pension entitlements dwindling over time (edit: in effect, making pensions count as negative savings) somehow, but it's unclear.

I looked for another perspective but the French national bank doesn't mention pensions in its explanations[0].

[0] https://www.banque-france.fr/system/files/2024-08/epargne-de...


Sounds like they don’t count that. They seem to only count disposable income and payments the company does to your retirement aren’t really disposable

According to some sources, 1 in 4 Americans don't/can't save at all.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/economy/job-prices-debt-e...


The UK has "enforced savings" in the form of auto-enrollment pensions for over 10 years. Looks like Ireland is just starting to do it too.

That's mostly to prepare teenagers at the time for having no state pension in 50 years.

I have about seven of the buggers and I'm only in my mid 30s.....


Pensions or teenagers?

Unless I misunderstand something, that texture is not especially related to Firefox or vertical tabs.

I have it both under Firefox or Chromium, and whether my tabs are vertical or not. It's just the website's background.


Very nice, I could suggest two more factors influencing growth that are important for plants: geotropism and phototropism.

Geotropism basically makes plants grow away from the source of gravity, and phototropism makes them grow towards light (and that is usually reversed for roots).


To OP, I don't know why but you're apparently shadowbanned, and your comments appear "dead" even after vouching for them.

Probably an automated heuristic, you might want to send an email to mods so they can reverse it.


I vouched too, the two comments seem restored now.

Oh, those are great ideas. On that note, I was also considering simulating nutrients and rewarding the roots that find them.

> ‘US Americans’ makes it sound as if a distinction is being drawn between Americans inside and outside of the US or something

"US Americans" is routinely used to name "people in the US", since "Americans" is ambiguous, and "US citizens" is more restrictive and explicitly excludes residents that are not citizens.


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