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It matters because, if you give in to their demands, some cats will learn that they only have to annoy you enough to get food, and they will be happy to repeat this at the earliest convenience.

People do “cognitive tests” for all kinds of reasons. The kind for dementia is only one of a large variety of tests that fit in this very broad category.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

Unless when you try to push them off of something. Then they turn massive and solid. Cats have non-newtonian properties.

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If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.

I recently bought a Brother Innov-IS and found it really easy to get started with. Didn’t think I would enjoy sewing this much.

Gah, stupid ninjas cutting onions.

Mine used to, too, but we mostly managed to train it out of him. He’d literally get in your lap and do a combat roll into this kind of thing. I think it was supposed to say “play with me”. Or just cat mischief.

No, it would just be the 🤣 emoji in different colors.

I wouldn’t even call this “aesthetics”. Rather “conceptual homogeneity” or something like that. It’s what happens when you strive for a uniform look over a useful or visually pleasing one.

I swear my upstairs neighbors have bowling balls where other people have feet.

I like the position held by NOYB: Providers of websites that show either a restricted ad-supported version or an unrestricted subscription-based version of the site should be required to offer a third option that is restricted and ad-free for a fee that equals the market value of the information sold to advertisers (usually a few cents per month and per user).

“You should clean this shit lol my legs barely fit”

Kidding of course. Cats always find the most effective way to disrupt what you’re doing, regardless of what your desk looks like.

I mean, a person with a mental disability probably won’t do something like this. A narcissistic billionaire who strongly overestimates his cognitive abilities on the other hand absolutely would.

I wish I had an explanation for that, because subjectively I feel the same.

Yes, the 2.3% increase is the inflation rate for July 2024 versus 2023. Regarding the “how is it measured”: This is an interesting topic.

Typically, inflation is measured by tracking a consumer price index (CPI) over time, which is a weighted average of prices for a wide selection of consumer goods (i.e., a typical “market basket”) and other living expenses (e.g., rent). The weights are computed on the basis of surveys, and the prices are tracked in a decentralized manner by market watchers (both online and in stores). The German federal statistics agency has a documentation for their weighting method here. They also provide a tool for computing a personalized inflation rate that is adjusted to someone’s individual consumer behavior.

One interesting part about rent is that it typically reduces estimated inflation rates when they receive a large weight in the computation, because large rent increases happen only when people move to a new apartment (which happens relatively rarely, so the impact of rent increases on yearly inflation is often relatively low). There are also other indices that use different weights and track different goods and services, so the inflation rate will be different for those.

Tell me you don’t know anything about German society without telling me you don’t know anything about German society.

From a German perspective, punks camping on Sylt during the holiday season is a 100% fitting way to protest the far right, economic exclusion, and failure to act on climate change. Honestly they should make this a yearly thing, make it bigger, build a festival around it.

That’s true, but taxing wealth is significantly harder than taxing income or financial transactions (including inheritances).