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[–] notabot@lemm.ee 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You can also bake an entire lemon, peel, pith and all and it comes out sweet and tender. Wrap it tightly in foil so none of the juice escapes then bake until the whole thing is soft. It cooks well on the side of a BBQ too. Goes well with ice-cream.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

Then I guess I'm one of today's luck 10k, it's the first time I've seen it.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] notabot@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago

You could say you just go round and round hunting for it, but no matter how hard you try you just can't corner it.

Well, you could.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago

One must also consider the thermal conduction of the chicken. Slapping it, either once or multiple times, on a single area will impart energy to that area, raising the temperature there, but it will take time for that to disperse throughout the fowl. Thus will inevitably lead to the slapped area/areas being overcooked and the rest being dangerously undercooked. Losses to the environment must additionally be taken into account unless sufficient insulation is employed to mitigate this.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Bend them the other way. Start with all fingers open for zero, and curl them as needed. You only need to move them a bit, so even twenty (thumb and ring finger back, the others curled) isn't too hard.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, it purged the entire ecosystem except trout, so what are the trout eating? Don't tell me we now have nuclear powered fish, the implications are terrifying. What happens if you're bitten by a radioactive trout? Do we get troutman, the superhero we neither want, need or deserve?

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

A really rough calculation (and I acknowledge I could be somewhat off here) suggests that if you contribute for 40 years, and get around 5% interest per year, you'd need to put in an average of €10,000 per year to reach €1,250,000. Working out average salary progression through a working life is left as an exercise for the interested reader, but assuming you're putting 10% of your salary into your pension, you'd need to be earning six figures to make that pension pot, so a drop to around €73,000 including the public pension could be hard to manage.

As I said, not so much can't retire, as can't retire at the same standard of living, especially as annuity payments wouldn't increase with inflation.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's probably not so much you can't retire, but you can't retire with an income that you'll be comfortable on.

A brief look suggests the average pre-tax wage in Belgium is around €3800, or about €45000 per year. Assuming you already own your home, or continue to pay mortgage payments at the same rate as before retirement, your pension needs to roughly match your income to not have a drop in living standards. A €1250000 pension pot will buy an annuity that pays a bit more than that, probably around €55000 a year, but assuming you amassed that in your pension pot you would probably have been on a higher than average salary, so it's going to be close, and an annuity at that level wont increase with inflation, so your buying power drops over time, just when you're more likely to need a care home or nursing support.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's been years since I had to admin Windows servers, but I was quite impressed with the number of MS products where the install and configuration tools would output the Powershell commands to carry out the changes you'd asked for. It made it quite a lot easier to automate. I'd love to see that paradigm catch on more widely, with the GUI and CLI having the same functionality and the GUI giving you the commands to run.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

I think that the point is it's entirely pointless building something like this into the email system. It should be a separate system that you can choose to use if you want it. Building it in just opens questions about exactly what they're doing with your data, despite their assurances.

 

I've noticed that recently comnents on posts no longer have the long colored bars next to them showing their depth into the reply chain. Was this deliberately changed, and is there a way to bring it back?

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