I love borscht.

You can also start fermenting beetroots to add to the soup, I think traditionally the recipe was using fermented beets.

It quite easy to do, lacto-fermented vegetables have a lot of health benefits and it being umami and a slight tanginess to the soup that brings it to a complete new level.

Even better: a “Dutch roundabout” with protected cycle lanes.

For any north American panicking at the idea of a roundabout, come in France. In a week you’ll have seen more roundabouts than in your entire life in the US.

I have a rule for my kids is that I never say no to fruits and I try to always have fruits in the fruit basket (as long as they eat the whole thing and leave a half eaten fruit somewhere in the house).

My two year old is really enjoying that and can eat two whole apples and some grapes in a row. Sure he will not eat anything at dinner after that but I can’t be mad at him for eating fruits.

I was doing that but now I have 2 young kids and a house that needs renovation.

It’s just impossible to do everything, there is tons of stuff I see everyday that needs to be done but I have to accept that it’s not possible to do everything.

It took me a week to assemble my mk4 last year, between work, cores and kids but I loved the process.

I loved the process as well. The instruction is very well made and it’s an extremely satisfying process.

The printer is now getting close to 2500 hours of printing and still printing well.

No, I tried for a while but I gave up.

I switched to Onshape and I’m very happy with the switch.

Bots on social media are like toupées, they look fake, unnatural and are easy to spot.

Does it mean that bots/toupees look fake and unnatural ? No, it means that we can only spot the bad ones, the good ones stay unnoticed.

I agree, all software developed or used by governments should be open-source.

There might be few cases where there is a legitimate reason for it not to be open source (no open source software available, need a proprietary software for running old legacy equipment …). In this case the decision should be voted on and the arguments exposed publicly.

I don’t know for other people but in my area the delivery person almost always calls me before dropping the package to check if I’m home and ready to receive the package.

Interestingly, an area I found where the spelling of words can evolve extremely rapidly is geography.

I’m mapping on openstreetmap and finding the right spelling for small dwellings and locations can be an impossible task.

Unless there is a clear physical signage for it somewhere the name of a single place can change drastically in a few decades. From one generation to another the name changes and finding “the right” spelling is sometimes an impossible task.

I have a lot of cases where the cadastral map, the postal database and the mapping institute each have a different spelling/name for the same location.

I have young kids in the house, if I installed a handheld bidet I’m certain that they will use it to spray each other when I’m not looking, regularly.

So I’m planning to install a bidet but in not ready yet

Yes, since the 60’ in the US the measurements are based on the metric system.

In 1959 the inch was redefined to be exactly 25.4mm.

So the US and any other country using the imperial system is just using metric but which weird conversion just to make things harder.

Yes, it was implemented during the French revolution.

40% of the world’s population lives in coastal area. Tsunamis are devastating as well so I’m not certain that a giant asteroid falling in the water would be less deadly.

I disagree, but in not in your situation so I can be wrong.

Unless you are producing way, way more electricity than you can use I think net metering is a great arrangement for the customer. (Not so much for the utility company)

The electricity is usually bought by the utility company at a much lower cost than what the customer is paying. Because the generation cost is only a percentage of the cost, there is taxes, maintenance of the grid …

For example in France we pay 0.1952€/kWh, but the utility is buying the solar electricity produced by household at 0.04€/kWh.

Meanwhile with net metering your electricity is virtually bought at the same price as what you are buying your electricity for.

Net metering is great, much better than being paid for the surplus.

With net metering the grid is basically an free, infinite, 100% effective battery.

How ? Is it just AC ?

We oscillate between 300 and 800kwh per month and it’s with an old water heater, an electric car charged at home, a dryer and electric oven.

I’ve looked it up and the Katy Freeway on the picture has an average of 219 000 vehiclra using it per day. Let’s be very generous and assume an average of 1.5 person in each car, so around 329 000 people are moved each day thanks to this highway.

A single metro line or two tramway line moves more people per day than that.

Replace the gun with a car.

How much of the “outside” can a kid access today without taking the risk of being it by a car ? As soon as he crosses the door of the house he risks his life.

I don’t understand how we accepted that as normal.

Now compare that with a carless world, kids could go everywhere.

Abduction or aggression are still a risk but almost insignificant compared to the risk of being hit by a car, yet this is the one we are talking about.

There is probably still a bunch of old people with a dialup subscription that they never canceled.