The man had also been keeping an anti-aircraft gun in his basement

How big is this man's basement??

Nothing, but it was the first period in the last 25 years.

There's no point in being scared, but I do keep an eye on the news about it.

I wouldn't mind a lock down happening again. Of course it's bad if people start dying and shit, but the disruption of the daily grind is much needed for society as a whole.

I'm honestly disappointed with how little changed after the last pandemic. People really ought to take some time reflecting on it instead of immediately returning to the old bad habits.

I once ordered a mushroom and runny egg pizza by accident because I couldn't read the menu in Japanese, so I asked the waiter to give me whatever he recommended.

It was surprisingly good.

"Build it and they will come" is true for transport infrastructure.

Yes but then what happens is that the bus people get angry with the train people.

It was a commercial flight with 80 passengers. WHO is searching for them.

Also, another patient from the ship is in a hospital in Switzerland. I have no idea how they got there, but I think it's safe to say that the ship has not been isolated to begin with.

She was older than him to begin with.

Yes. USA, Canada and Mexico use a different rating. You need to add about 5 to get the same number on the more common RON scale.

Education time and income instability. People are well into their 30s before they know where to settle down after finishing an education. They're well into their 40s before they can afford to.

If any country wanted to increase childbirth rates, they ought to lower working time, increase education pay and move employment out of the central cities.

Or put simply: Money and time needs to be available for the people they want to reproduce.

Now, I just saw the latest Kurzgesagt episode on this, and there's one thing they missed: Automation. We don't necessarily need to keep a stable or increasing population if only we can automate a lot more labour. In my opinion it's the only solution to avoid the future population crisis.

Churches use music. Some of them have pretty advanced setups with dozens of microphones for the choir, speeches and instruments, all of which is mixed down and send to a speaker setup that has to cover weird acoustic rooms and also transmitted by radio to people with hearing aids etc. Organists also use some wild midi setups at home for practicing. A surprisingly big part of free VSTs are made for that specific purpose.

I don't really like religion or churches, but I have massive respect for their audio guys who sets up the equivalent of a big stadium concert every Sunday using hand downs from the thrift store and free software.