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Another fun fact:

In Dutch, the US is called Verenigde Staten.

But, the English United States sounds like u naait het steeds and means "you keep sewing it" or "you keep fucking it".

People in Poland are friendly and cities are surprisingly international and it looks very liveable (walkable + bike lanes). If you ignore the weather, Poland is better.

I've wondered the same as OP and never saw one in real life.

Probably it's a regional thing, like how in some countries (as I recently discovered) they don't know what a cheese slicer is and just butcher cheese with a knife.

Yeah I suppose those boutique shops are more for rich people but there's shops with cheap stuff too, often kind of hidden and unwelcoming. I used to live across from one for a while before I even realized it was a shop, and it was still open. Just saw the guy closing up but never saw a customer. I had a look out of curiosity and it was just some old guy selling bottles of washing liquid and everything was covered in a layer of dust like it hadn't been touched in years. He looked happy to see a customer so I felt sorry for him to just walk out again.

You mean that combination of something rotten and something metallic? I occasionally pick that up in crowds and the smell is atrocious but nobody else around seems to ever acknowledge it

I'll grab some beers from the minimarkt at most. Everything else comes from the supermarket. And I often pass those tiny stores that never seem to have any customers – e.g. a shop just for socks? – and I always wonder how they can exist. There must be some kind of tax breaks or tax evasion going on.

I tried Wayland for a day but went back to x11 (using KDE Neon) because of annoyances. Mostly input-related issues:

– I used Fusuma to remap extra mouse buttons, which doesn't work anymore

– Touchpad scrolling is buggy and pinch to zoom barely works

– Espanso has a Wayland version but doesn't work most of the time

– select with shift+arrow and release shift: it also releases the arrow so you have to press it again (seems small but annoys me)

And there's problems with windows opening on the wrong screen and then completely crashing when you try to move it (under Wine with full screen at least), and some apps with weird behaviors like drag and drop not working.

Filesharing is nothing like it was before. You can find stuff on YouTube etc that keeps recommending the same things but it just seems so tedious now. It's not like back when we'd hear new things on the radio and you could download albums with that artist to discover similar music.

After all those years of collecting mp3s, I barely listen to any of it. I'm just kind of losing interest in music over time. If I'm out with my earbuds in, it's rather listen to a podcast or something.

Maybe it's because there's so little good music nowadays and discovering new music isn't as easy as it once was

It probably doesn't count as a shower thought. Also, the list is probably all wrong, e.g. Khmer and Tamil are abugidas, not alphabets.

Don't forget Anna's Archive. I found most comics I was looking for lately, also non-English.