I don’t expect people even in border villages of Czechia, Slovakia or Hungary to speak German

German is actually a fairly popular foreign language in countries east of Germany: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Foreign_language_learning_statistics#Upper_secondary_education

Though learning a second or third language in school is probably not quite what OP envisions here, and there’s a big difference between getting language lessons in school and actually being able to speak that language (shoutout to my Spanish lessons in school, I should probably have picked French instead).

Or is it more if you lived even like 500 meters of a border do you learn the language of the country your in?

That tends to be how it’s done. States tend to be rather protective of their official language, and it’s generally impractical to send your children to school in a different country. Being somewhat proficient in the other country’s language is quite common, but to truly be bilingual you pretty much need to be some kind of ethnic or religious minority.

Also depends a lot on the relationship between the countries and languages; some borders are easier to cross, and some languages easier to learn.

A few hundred years ago, their language was a German dialect!

This “cuck” is probably an anglicism.

Also, the barrier between English and Dutch is pretty flimsy.

I had to stop consuming caffeine for health reasons (exacerbates my digestive issues). I found that it actually makes a fairly big difference, depression tends to sap your energy and caffeine counteracts that somewhat.

I do think it’s a bit crazy that people learn to drive manual cars on the road. It is a lot to manage when you have no experience. Learners should be given a few hours to just mess around on an airfield or car park so they can get a feel for the machine first of all.

Really good point and IMO it should extend to automatic cars. Handling a car isn’t completely trivial, I never understood why you’re supposed to learn it in the middle of traffic (OK, the answer is probably “money”, but still).

Hard to say without knowing details. How’s the traffic in your area, is it a big city or more rural? What country?

It’s true for pretty much anyone who is actually worth pillaging.

IMO, the weird part is taking your glasses off in the first place, especially when you apparently need them for desk work. It’s not like they’re coming in from outside or were taking a shower, they were clearly already sitting at the desk in working position.

The $700 build is definitely not keeping up with AAA games for two full console generations.

That’s cool, but most people want to keep playing current AAA games.

Many people already have a laptop and want to build a PC specifically for gaming, though. Upgrading isn’t all it’s cracked up to be IMO, it’s definitely nice to have but a console lasts the entire console generation (5 years give or take?) if you ignore then mid-gen upgrade which is usually entirely optional.

… can you actually make a PC with comparable performance these days? What does a console-level GPU cost these days?

Really depends on the teacher. The ones who are dicks about it are way too common.

TBH I have no idea which one of these the stuff I use qualifies as. It’s called “Panzertape” where I live, and the residue when you remove it doesn’t really seem to be in line with what you describe from duct tape (i.e. it’s very little).

I often put a piece of duct tape on power indicator LEDs, some of them are incredibly bright to the point that it’s hard to read the display. The LED is generally still visible under the tape …

There are countries that have none of those issues and still have low birth rates, e.g. the Nordic countries.

People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anaemic

AFAIK they also have a somewhat severe housing crisis. No idea whether it’s actually worse than e.g. in Australia, though - who doesn’t have a housing crisis these days?

The biggest advantage of bows in a gun setting would be stealth, can’t shoot what you don’t know is there. Makes the superhero stuff a bit difficult, though.

I’m fairly certain that most antilope-type animals have quite pronounced sexual dimporphism (e.g. in several species, the females don’t have horns at all). Male giraffes are also quite a bit larger than female giraffes, though that could be explained away by the male being younger.