This was what I immediately thought of as well.

They can plan and wish all they want, Orban has made it impossible to get anything done without a 2/3 super majority in parliament and at the same time made it as good as impossible for any non-Fidesz alliance or party to win such a majority.

An example of how difficult it will be to not only rule but to stay in power: the budget council, packed with 3 Fidesz loyalists for at least the next 4 years, can veto any government budget for whatever reason. If the government is unable to pass a budget, the president (also a Fidesz loyalist) can call snap elections. Both can only be changed with a super majority. This is just one of the many legislative booby traps in the path of Tisza.

Windows 11 has given me so many headaches at work I have genuinely explored moving the entire corporate environment to Linux. Unfortunately it would be a massive multi-year operation that would not bring the amount of benefits required to get such a thing greenlighted. But simply the fact that I, and many peers, took a good hard look at it tells you just how incredibly shit Windows 11 is. It’s a fucking nightmare on so many levels, it’s ridiculous.

The one good thing that may come out of this, is the Arab countries bankrolling and supporting Ukraine, as the Ukrainians actually help defend against the drone and missile strikes with their homegrown interceptor drones and missiles.

Unlike Russia (supporting Iran) and the US (screwing things up as a policy), Ukraine is proving valuable to them in times of need.

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Throughout history the human population has only been able to increase thanks to innovation. Irrigation, the wheel, alternating crops, crop distance, keeping disease in check, genetic engineering to increase resistance and crop yields, and this is another innovation in that line. If you want to go back to nature, by all means do.

I believe the only way forward is through science and innovation and if that means genetically altered food for the bees, then so be it. This with the in combination with limiting roundup should bring the global bee populations back from the brink.

If it would allow you to end the commercial early, it would kind of be genius. “Watch this 2 minute ad or say ‘I love McDonald’s’ to immediately continue watching” is something that definitely would work. It would get these phrases or slogans ingrained while providing a better viewing experience.

Don’t get me wrong, I would hate it as much as anyone any other lemmy user. However from a marketing perspective it’s pretty solid while a significant percentage of the viewership would not only participate, but laud it as a good solution to skip the forced commercials.

Meanwhile I strongly suspect our legal reviewer of using chatgpt to review contracts, because he sends some laughably stupid comments that look fully AI generated.

To abscond should be in more peoples vocabulary.

By the time I started driving, we already had gps, but I do remember my dad pulling those folder or foldable maps when driving somewhere for the first time. His advice on how to read these things was “Look for the river crossings. It usually doesn’t matter much which road you take, you will always end up at the same crossings.”

And this is why, when planning a road trip in the pre-waze days, I would always check the river crossings first and when is a low traffic time to cross them, because you don’t want to be stuck for 2 hours because an ungodly amount of drivers need to be squeezed through a narrow tunnel.

But nowadays it’s hardly relevant anymore, only to make sure you don’t take too long of a lunch/dinner break or get stuck in said situation.

Olimpics

The bbc listed 160k confirmed Russian deaths at the end of 2025, with estimates of the actual total between 248 and 325k. So probably around 5-1 which is high for attackers vs defenders (I think historically this is estimated at a 3-1 disadvantage, so 1 defender dies for every 3 attackers).

Meaning Ukraine is doing a pretty good job and Russia a terrible one. Nothing new there

It’ll be quantum computing. Since the last hype around it, a lot of progress has been made to the point that quantum computers are actually becoming useful, since error correction is now mostly resolved.

I initially thought he was great. Their cloud business was booming, it looked like they were converging their tools, windows 10 had its flaws but was pretty good. But now the tools are an enormous mess because they have changed their minds 5 times over, Windows 11 is complete dogshit and all the tools that are actually handy are paywalled behind expensive licences. Copilot is being forcefed to unwilling users and every single one of their tools is becoming worse.

So yea, I think he’s a business illiterate because there is no strategy behind this mess.

Can I pay in fridges?

2 years ago I went to youtube without logging into my account. The amount of right wing manosphere crap being recommended to new accounts was frightening. Within 5 minutes there was a video playing of how women should be subservient to men because their role is basically a house cleaning baby factory with no free will.

I genuinely think google should be sued the everliving shit out of them for allowing this crap to be pushed. They looked at what facebook did and went “Oh, that’s great. Let’s do that as well!”

The hole for the tool (I actually don’t know the proper name) is large enough for ants to get through.

I’ve got 3 of those at home (actually got one as a gift last week) but we don’t use it because the open honey jar attracts ants. So we use spoons. I do like it though.

I bought my wife noise cancelling ear plugs for sleeping because I (in her words) snore like a pig. She has several recordings to back that up. So I bought her these noise cancelling earplugs (Soundcore A20 in case anyone is interested) in the hopes it will allow her to sleep. I will eventually get surgery done for it, because I also have apnea. She hasn’t put them to the test yet because it’s not always that she can’t sleep, but I hope they will serve her well.

Making a top comment for this. I have found a recording on medici.tv from April 2025 (same choreography): https://www.medici.tv/en/ballets/edward-clug-peer-gynt-grieg-la-scala

It’s a subscription service, but if you really want to watch it, it’s worth it (and you can cancel after a month anyway)