My first thought a few hours after the first dose was: "This is how live works for all the other people? All the time? YOU FUCKERS."

I mean, I'm not in a bad place, but I still feel I paid way too high of a prize for it. And I want to slap a few select people for making me internalize I was just too lazy to try hard enough.

From my experience: Check your blood pressure regularly with a proper monitor that goes around the upper arm. I've gotten the BPM connect from withings as it is really fire and forget as long as I'm within reach of my home wifi. Do not double, but take maybe 25% increases. Keep a state log because it is easy to over- or underestimate the effect, the brain is bad at remembering properly. Proper sleep, physical excercise and selfcare are still important and can, when ignored hard enough, almost negate the positive effects of my meds.

So, how is it going?

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I bet Randall didn't think that would need a disclaimer.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/20/indian-certification-authority-emudhras-private-keys-compromised-one-of-them-was-the-number-4/5304312

Oh, I think everyone with that experience has their own selection of best-of-unempathetic-bastards, no need to share.

It gets better though. There's a lot of things I'd prefer young people to do differently than they do, but I find their generation acknowledges personal struggle and gives it leeway, by and large.

I am stealing that expression.

Klar nichts zum Klimawandel in der Sendung.

Den gibts ja auch nicht mehr. Gibt nur noch Migration und schlechte Wirtschaftszahlen. Sonst sind alle Probleme gelöst oder irrelevant. /s

The enemy is consistently portrayed as both subhuman and endowed with extraordinary powers. That framing justifies any use of force, since no ordinary means could defeat them. Stripping the victims of human worth absolves the attackers completely.

Don't confuse honest technical motivations with "technical motivations" here. Starting new projects to grab EU funding is a lot more profitable for the individual companies that get to take part in them. Especially when failure is an option in the end.

I'm not saying that's the case, but I have experienced one or two EU funded project here and there that didn't really make efforts to make the jump into a market viable product in the end.

little 3.7L engines

Ah, America... 😁

Mel Brooks had explained, that's because he found the money, in a bag, in his basement a while ago.

Oh they see it coming as well, but unlike us, they have the levers and means to come out on top of it.

THERE IS NO GODDAMN PETROL ENGINE BAN.

There is a ban on engines though that can't run without creating additional CO2 emissions from 2035 though. Tough luck for fossil engines in their current configurations, but not unsolvable for the very special applications where they'll still be needed.

Ja nu. Faschismus kann schon funktionieren, wenn man früh zusieht, dass man auf der richtigen Seite ist. Case in point: Jedes deutsche Unternehmen das in den frühen 2000ern auf einmal einen Historiker für einen schwer nachdenklichen Bildband in niedriger Auflage bezahlen musste.

Despite the drawbacks, Keel told the outlet that the tool is saving him “six to eight hours weekly now.”

“I’m not the most tech-savvy person, so it’s very user-friendly,” he added.

And that means you should not be using it. A CNC lathe looks easy to run, press start, wait, have part. However, no one would think to give unsupervised access to one to any person on the street.

If you don't like the smell of vinegar: A 5kg bucket of food-grade citric acid powder costs 20€ and will last you a lifetime. I literally bought mine when I was an apprentice over 20 years ago in my first one room apartment. It has moved nine times with me, it is half empty by now so when predictions are correct, I'll have to get another one for retirement.

Fill the kettle, add a teaspoon of citric acid, boil for a second and let it sit. You'll see small bubbles rising where the limestone deposits are being dissolved. That fizzing is carbon dioxide escaping: limescale is mostly calcium carbonate (CaCO₃), and the citric acid attacks it, breaking the carbonate apart. The calcium gets bound up by the citrate into calcium citrate, which washes away, while the carbonate leaves as CO₂ (the bubbles) and water.

Roughly, the reaction looks like this:

3 CaCO₃ + 2 C₆H₈O₇ → Ca₃(C₆H₅O₇)₂ + 3 CO₂↑ + 3 H₂O

Citric acid is a weak acid, so it happily eats through chalky scale but simply doesn't react with stainless steel, glass, or plastic, whatever the dose. The one teaspoon rule isn't about protecting the kettle, it's just about not wasting powder and not having to rinse forever. Use more and it works faster and fizzes harder.

The one exception is bare aluminium: citric acid can dull or lightly etch it, so don't use this on an old aluminium kettle or pot.

Once the bubbling stops, the reaction is done: everything that could dissolve has dissolved. Pour it out, give it a quick rinse or the next coffee will have a sour note, and the kettle's clean, no vinegar smell.

EDIT, because I only now read OPs post properly: I've only used this on electric kettles - I wouldn't even know any other ones, I mean, unless you count the ones you put on a burner at a festival or something like that. Those never saw enough sustained use to build up limestone for me.

Don't be surprised if it starts shivering its timbers and hoarding booty now, though.

Achso, Singular.