Opening line of Neuromancer doesn’t make much sense any more "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

You could try to pickle them? The recipe I found uses 2tbsp sugar , 2tbsp salt, 1tbsp vinegar , black pepper and bay leaves for 1l water and 1kg of mushrooms. You cook the mushrooms for half an hour, then boil the brine as well, mix the mushrooms with the syrup, cook together for 15’ and put them to jars. I haven’t tried it yet, though.

I use that to annoy the same friend and send a random hedgehog fact in a text message from a random number.

“Despite their land-dwelling reputation, hedgehogs are good swimmers:they can swim across streams and ponds if necessary. Subscribe for more hedgehog facts!”

Skype is great when your flight is delayed, and you have some remaining cash in it from 15 years ago

Does it make floppy sounds?

So… Is this Aladeen news or Aladeen news?

Knowing the Germans there is a slight chance somebody going to court because it was advertised as 1.5€/kg, and winning

I tried that as well, but for me it was like being 10 again: -you meet the bandits -I, the lvl1 player kill them all -OK -I just remembered my party had a necromancer, raise the corpses -sure thing -I march around with my undead army and murder everyone who is in my way -This game is about creativity and cooperation -Not today -OK

I checked it, it’s not :)

Lots of astronomical objects have names, but somehow it’s asteroids and maybe craters that really got the naming hype, there are hundreds of them named after scientists, poets, the discoverer’s teacher, you name it. It’s a nice custom.

Disclaimer: I might be slightly biased, as I proposed my wife with naming one of them (asteroid, I mean).

Did you spot the capybara?

It’s 1.05 picoparsec^2

Nobody really expected global politics going down the drain as it does, either - just as South Park production stopped because there was no sense in parodizing reality when it’s weirder than what they could come up with

In short:

• In the beginning he won an election with supermajority, since than they changed election rules so it’s harder to get them removed (rules favor the single strongest party, so they can be beaten in 1v1 only, but the opposition has several parties)
• Many young people who had enough left the country, but it got harder to vote if you emigrated
• They introduced a public work program that local mayors use to threat people to vote for them
• Orbán realized that leaders in the EU stopped believing him, so he made new friends with Russia, Kazakhstan, etc
• He uses the only power he has - he can pose as the leader of an EU county legitimizing these autocracies, and
• vetoing EU decisions un favor of his New friends
• EU was created with a good faith, a county cannot be kicked out
• So the only lever they have is closing the money tap that would dry up his guild of thieves - that is happening right now

Wasn’t that a phdcomics strip originally?

What I don’t get is why anything these guys are saying makes the news. It’s changing every day, and it’s always a lie. They know it, everyone else knows it, it doesn’t make any sense to write about it.

One local news site wrote that it might be a mistranslation, and a poet from Leva got to be leftist poet. Can’t confirm personally, my Slovak vocabulary is 20 words at maximum

Use justtherecipe.com - it will not only cut ads, but also the sob story about the writer’s grandmother and how they kept this thing a family secret for exactly 137 years until now.

And Afghanistan was not available on that week?

As far as expats go, yes, Chinese are probably the largest group, their numbers are estimated around 18k now (used to maybe 50k in the 90s) but this is a lower estimate, since a lot of them are here without a citizenship. In 2013 a visa program was started when they could basically buy a citizenship if they buy government bonds for 250-300k€ (plus they pay a handling fee of 50k for a politician’s company).