I usually download apk directly to my android devices and install from there, no pc or other device is needed. So your whenever is for me almost never.

Initially yes, a tiny bit, but long term no: it will go to a new equilibrium, where over time just as much leaves as enters. Except thanks to the extra water that is being retained locally, the local environment will be greener + more temperate than without the panels. And that new green lung is likely to have beneficial effects further away as well, similar to forests.

It’s what Amazon, Walmart, etc want it to mean. They want the profits, but none of the responsibility that comes with selling goods. So they did some legal linguistic gymnastics and thus according to them, stuff that is bought in the Amazon store, with a % markup by Amazon, with payment to Amazon, and with shipping by Amazon, is somehow not Amazon’s responsibility.

The USA government had gone after the large platforms for selling defective/dangerous goods, but that was in 2024 under Biden, so I expect that investigation to be dead by now. The EU is still going ahead though: reuters.com/…/eu-make-temu-shein-amazon-liable-un…

Normally running a large deficit acts as a stimulus for the economy, but Trump’s reverse Midas touch is just too strong.

I’d say stupid. I live in a country where most houses are brick walls + concrete floors, and smoke detectors are still common + since a few years also mandated by the government.

The government mandate came after it was found that of the dozens of people that died every year from house fires, 95% suffocated in their sleep.

Some numbers for my region: ~7m population, 70% of houses had smoke detection before the mandate, on average 63 died per year from house fires.

Some incorrect approximative math: Lets assume that the amount of dead could have been halved if those 30% houses had 2 smoke detectors per person (lets say 2 cheap ones for 220 euros per 10 years): 7m0.3 220€/10 /63*2 = a cost of 267€ per year per life saved. Imo that’s a no brainer, it’d be stupid to not invest in smoke detection.

Not the same in all western countries. Afaik it was tradition in most countries for the wife to take the husband’s surname, except in Italy and Spain. Regular people also often didn’t have surnames, instead they were “son of …”

In the last few decades, most western countries (afaik again) are allowing the woman to chose if see wants to change her surname or not. Or to use both surnames. They also allow the man to change his name to that of his wife. Equality.

And that recent development is also why it’s not a problem for same sex marriage. Back when the wife had to take the husband’s name, same sex marriage wasn’t allowed so there was no naming problem. Countries that allow official same sex marriages are typically also countries that will already have equality for surnames.

Imo this crisis was handled pretty badly by Sony and the us government: if Sony had ridden the wave of publicity after the hack, and if the government had promised to aid the threatened theaters, then it probably would have been a smash hit (Streisand effect). Instead they rewarded NK by pulling the release, showing that blackmail and threats work, and also ensuring that from then on there would be more self censorship concerning authoritarian states.

The surface of the salt grains reacts with what is in the air (moisture, smells), slowly changing the surface over time, and since it’s that surface that touches our taste buts most, the taste of the salt will be different.

Salts are also often not pure sodium, but have added elements that give it a distinct taste and aroma. That original taste/aroma will be lost over time, because aroma = smell = particles flying away in the air. Long exposure to a strong smell will also cause the salt to acquire that different smell as part of it’s new aroma.

Starting from larger grains and grinding them shortly before usage, would thus give salt that smells and tastes more like it’s fresh from the salt factory. But I do wonder how many people would be able to tell the difference in a blind test.

If they were giant smokestacks further back, then they would be in the haze of the smog, like everything else in the background. There’s a similar vertical object visible in the top right corner, far back and obscured by the haze, but I think it’s a chimney just like those in the front.

This was done by all the allies, not just Norway and Denmark. In 1945 none of the allies had motivation to stop Norway, since they themselves had decided to do it this way. en.wikipedia.org/…/Forced_labor_of_Germans_after_…

Even mine sweeping at sea was done by German sailor POWs. en.wikipedia.org/…/German_Mine_Sweeping_Administr…

As legal justification as to why they could do this, the allied command claimed that these prisoners of war weren’t POWs anymore after Germany surrendered, instead they were “Disarmed Enemy Forces” and thus according to them the Geneva convention no longer applied: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmed_Enemy_Forces

There’s also a Danish film about these POWs: Land of Mine. Good movie imo. And after seeing it a few years ago, I looked up the historical background, which is how I knew that your comment was incorrect.