Can recommend Color Out Of Space if you’re the type that appreciates a bit of Nick Cage. It’s Lovecraftian horror but somehow also has Tommy Chong in its cast.

And why not make it a more Cage-y by with Renfield and Longlegs? Throw in some Willy’s Wonderland and you’ll be golden.

I never ‘dated’ in the traditional sense of the word. When I started college, I was about 19 and met someone when I went on a trip with my study association and was in a relationship with her for 8 months. It was sort of love at first sight.

After that I would meet people through my study association which was all fine but never really turned up anything serious.

The day I met my wife, I just got out of the relationship I mentioned before. It still took well over a year for us to start anything romantic. We were just okay friends, although at some point she started hanging out at my house more and more so that also kind of just happened.

I don’t regret not having to go through all the dating things. It might have been nice to meet some more new people, but I’ve always lacked confidence in these situations so I’m not sure I’d be at all comfortable with it either. If there is no click right away, might as well call it a day and stop wasting time.

I have three cats that would beg to differ as well. Also I’ve seen dogs fighting

Nice! Too bad it’s not next season

Yes, there’s room for discussion, so there’s no blind support for Israel. I’m not saying there is no support for Israel. Western Europe is walking the line between appeasement politics and reality. They all know that condemning Israel would create tensions with the US.

But if you look at citizens, pro-Palestine (so not necessarily pro-Hamas) protests are centered around ending human suffering, without actually taking a side in who has a claim to the land there.

The Netherlands is not participating in the Eurovision Song Festival, which might seem like inconsequential, but it’s a pretty big statement. Winners of the contest are returning the awards now that Israel is not banned from participating.

Plus the ICJ is located in the Hague, which isn’t recognized by the USA, but also show some moderate doubts towards what Israel is doing.

The entire situation in Israel is complicated with its roots going far beyond the temporal conscience of people. There’s no clear answer other than that nothing warrants bombing hospitals and blocking humanitarian aid.

The USA never really had allies after WWII. They did a lot to stop Germany from taking over the continent, but after that the USA was basically a playground bully, an enforcer, that believes it’s the boss and as long as everyone does what they want, they can be friends.

Now that they start doing things that don’t align with what the ideals of the European Union or Europe in general, suddenly we start seeing that ‘allies’ is a very relative term.

The USA just wants to be number 1. Now that they have started destroying their own economy, suddenly the EU, Canada, China, all of them seem like threats.

Basically the USA is just a market to Europe, and they provide the media we watch in the shape of TV shows and the like. They provide the arms we need to ‘keep peace’ where necessary. If shit is going to hit the fan (more than it did in Ukraine, maybe also tensions in Gaza since Europe doesn’t blindly support Israel), it’s not a given that the USA and Europe will be on the same side, but my point is it was never really a given.

I said somewhere around lap 7 that that was going to be the way the race would end. It wasn’t far off although if they’d showed us the action outside the points it would’ve been a cool race

I gotta say that during Max’s resurgence I was seriously debating not renewing my subscription for next year. I was just bored of the entire sport even though everything is so close and it’s much more thrilling than those dominant seasons we’ve become used to.

I’m sort of excited for today’s event but I’m not 100% sure I’ll be along for the ride next year. You get maybe 6 interesting races, the rest is all just processions that take a couple of hours.

Any site that generates content can choose to create an RSS feed. Essentially it’s a link to which the site can push new stories.

You need an RSS client. Good news! There are a lot of free ones (and open source, too!).

The pro’s of RSS:

• all your different go-to news outlets in one place
• no ad-ridden webpages
• no dealing with interfaces of said news outlets
• your pick ff categories, for instance if you’re not interested in celebrity gossip, you just turn that off

The cons:

• you’ll need to go collect RSS links from your favorite sites
• one of your sites might no longer use RSS because they don’t get ad revenue for it
• RSS readers are often not pretty
• you might get weirdly formatted text pages sometimes

Superfast Jellyfish by Gorillaz

I get drivers with some momentum in F2 stepping in, but Cian Shields? Pretty much the only thing you can say is that he’s in F2.

Pretty safe bet Yuki will bin it on a very inopportune moment

My mixtape

I go to the dermatologist every six months and they have to look at my entire body every time, I take extra care to be clean and smell neutral or faintly nice. Unless that one time I had to go by bike bugy that was outside my control. I feel pretty self conscious at those times.

Same goes for the dentist, I take extra care weeks in advance when I know an appointment is coming up. If you have stuff in between your teeth a brush won’t reach, one quick brush before the appointment has as much effect as taking a breath mint.

I only slept through like ten laps of this race. Huge improvement

I’m seriously considering to stop following the sport altogether since watching the events live often means I sacrifice part of my weekend and more often than not it’s just not worth it because either nothing happens all race or stuff does happen but the folks who direct it are more interested in showing celebrities and partners of drivers.

I regularly fall asleep during races.

It’s probably due to some cultural differences but the meat on a spin unit is called döner kebab here. Shoarma is little strips of pork with a certain herb on it. It’s more like gyros in a way.

Shoarma is popular in my country on pizzas. I was never a fan but it grew on me.

To me, shared experience is always an easy ice breaker. Stuff like mainstream media is a quick win. And yeah, sometimes if people are a bit more underground or indie as far as their media is concerned grants them an image of having a distinct personality, but that usually only works if they’re socially strong and have other stuff they can connect with other people over.

I’m not saying you should consume anything that gets promoted massively, but keeping an eye on what’s popular and seeing if anything floats your boat might give you an easier time striking up a conversation with someone.

I used to be really dismissive of anything with a huge advertising budget. If something gets promoted everywhere all the time, it’s unlikely I’d give it a chance. Somehow I felt more interesting than others because of this. Turns out you’re not, people lose interest really quickly when they can’t talk to you about anything.

The French and acronyms. You got NATO, but the French translate it so they call it OTAN. Directly translated, they also just say the ‘States United’.

Anyone’s guess who did word order first to find out why French is a silly language.