Rest of the world exists you know, where corn doesn’t get insane subsidies and sugar cane / beet is far cheaper than corn syrup.

Ingredients of our Cola bag-in-box for postmix machine: Water, sugar, colouring (sulphite ammonia caramel), acid (phosphoric acid), flavourings (contains caffeine), sweeteners (acesulfame-K, sucralose), preservative (sodium benzoate), anti-foaming agent (dimethylpolysiloxane)

Oh, sugar tax and health labels (green A good, red E bad) made everyone cut back a little and add some sweetener… Meh.

You can still accidentally leak your password via phishing or malware. 2FA is fine if you don’t tie it to a phone number, simplest way: install any authenticator app for TOTP tokens. Scan the QR code on multiple devices like phone + tablet, or old phone, for redundancy. Or save the secret key.

Google and most critical services also give you a list of 10 single use emergency codes that you should print or save in Keepass - lost the phone? Nbd just use one of the codes and reset 2FA.

I also never thought my non shared password would be public but one day I suddenly got prompted on the authenticator if I wanted to login; still no idea how or why but at least no one could get in and immediately rotated out the password.

For women. For men’s shoes it is US 15 UK 14 EU 49.5. Source: www.asos.com/discover/size-charts/men/shoes/

Or 15 14.5 48, shoesizingcharts.com

UK 13 seems too small, EU 48 idk is a maybe.

Zalando has like many many pages of shoes in the size 48 to 49.5 on the EU site, and even choice up to 52.5, do we have bigger feet here?

And they did U turn on that. June 2024:

Hertz is dumping Teslas onto the used car market. The rental car agency made a huge mis-step by ordering too many electric cars, and now it’s rushing to offload 30,000 EVs. Tesla makes up roughly one-third of all of Hertz’s global EV fleet.

Since January, Hertz has been aggressively offloading teslas at the nationwide average price of roughly $25,000, according to CNBC. Earlier this year in a regulatory filing, Hertz said, “expenses related to collision and damage, primarily associated with EV, remained high.” in the first quarter, Hertz took a $195 million write-down for depreciation of its EVS.

Eh, good thing factory chicken is a thing of the past in The Netherlands, it’s okay vs decent vs good.

Rondeel is decent: youtu.be/zwleQLKU-UI?si=kh7T6b_bV0HMXjzO

Label Rouge (France) is good: m.youtube.com/watch?v=aHlCEIAOpEk

Yeah sure it’s €4 to €5 per 10 eggs instead of €2.50 but there’s a big difference in quality. You get watery whites, tasteless yolks and paper thin shells with the cheapest eggs. Same for chickens, the Label Rouge ones are really small at 1.5 kg in comparison to faster growing ones.

That contradicts statements on arstechnica.com/…/ex-bank-ceo-gets-24-years-after…

Victims may never fully recover losses, DOJ says

In the community, people are still struggling to recover, Mitchell told NBC News, noting that some people lost up to 80 percent of their retirement savings. For at least one woman, retirement is impossible now, Mitchell said, and for another local woman, it has become difficult to pay for her 93-year-old mother’s nursing home.

US Attorney Kate E. Brubacher said that it’s hard to say when or if victims will be made whole again.

But it seems like they didn’t let it fail completely and transferred all assets and most liabilities to Dream First Bank? That would be nice for the granny with more than 250K in the account.

Plenty of people lost most of their retirement savings - FDIC only goes up to 250k which isn’t enough for super frugal FIRE - not when you get old and medical bills are crazy high in Murica.

Here’s a link to a consumer review org that actually tested it with standardized loads and measured drying times. They don’t work, takes just as long and cost the same in electricity.

www.choice.com.au/…/dryer-ball-review

It’s sad that nowadays most “reviews” are just going by feelz and not by numbers. The placebo is strong with this category.

A double espresso from 16g of beans is less than 40ml and stronger than a bigger lungo from a nespresso pod (~7g coffee).

Smaller cups tend to be stronger. That same double espresso with 130g ice and 100ml milk and blend until ice is crushed makes a pretty strong frappuccino.

From espresso to lungo / americano to Starbucks recreations, they all basically use the same dose but wildly varying cup size.

Cup to mug of the same strength filter coffee makes a difference though.

The expected return part is the main tax on billionaires. With capital gain you can hold on forever and never get taxed, and if you die you completely skip capital gains tax with inheritance. Effective tax rate is near zero. This trick obviously only works for people who don’t need their invested money, buy and never ever sell.

Compare that to NL’s tax. Invested? You pay 6.17% x 32% = 1.97% on your investment account, immediately, no deferral possible, year after year. And the rate went up to 36% in 2024 to reduce passive income’s rate advantage over income from work.