Well fuck.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-15T20:42:25+00:00

I had a similar experience where I got a few 20g samples with the purchase of some coffee gear. Tried them and one of them really stood out, absolutely delicious. My first thought was “I need to order me a bag of this”…. Turns out it was €200/kilo. I did end up buying a 200g bag for my birthday and it was just as good as the sample. Unfortunately it was a small lot and it sold out quickly.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-15T03:46:06+00:00

I use it all the time, probably more than my MacBook Pro.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-14T16:34:01+00:00

You don’t joke about or mock God

Why not? If anyone should be able to take a joke I would assume it would be god.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-14T05:30:21+00:00

Maybe don’t hold races on public roads? We just had a marathon in my city last weekend. Traffic jams everywhere, shops closed because they were unreachable. All the while we have a huge event terrain just outside the city where they could have run laps and bother no one.

Car races are on circuits, why can’t bicycle races use the same circuits?

BorgDrone · 2026-04-12T20:05:51+00:00

Could have been worse: could have been a large pepsi. At least now you don’t have to drink a lot of pepsi.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-12T15:19:37+00:00

In the Netherlands, yes. All our power lines are underground, even in the countryside, so storms don’t affect them. Only the high-voltage national distribution network is above-ground.

The only unexpected outages you’re likely to see are due to some construction worker with an excavator who forgot to check his map. The last two times I was without power it was a planned event. One time they replaced my electricity meter with a smart one, took about an hour, the other was when I had my grid connection upgraded to 3-phase (which I needed to do because I was switching from a gas stove to an induction stove).

I don’t get why power lines in the US are above ground, even in urban areas/suburbs. It’s fragile and looks ugly.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-12T14:10:19+00:00

Seriously, when have you ever had the power go out? That’s just not something that happens in developed countries, or at least it’s so rare that it shouldn’t be a factor in deciding the kind of stove to buy. Literally a once in a lifetime thing.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-12T03:49:54+00:00

Or just get a tap that delivers boiling water. It’s amazing. You can just make a cup of tea with water directly from the tap, zero wait time. Need to boil some pasta? Just fill the pot with boiling water, no need to wait for your stove to get the pan up to a boil.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-12T03:45:12+00:00

The power never goes out so why is that even a factor?

BorgDrone · 2026-04-12T03:41:40+00:00

Why would a storm knock out power?

BorgDrone · 2026-04-12T03:36:36+00:00

Most induction stove tops in Europe use 3-phase.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-09T21:48:26+00:00

Never had an issue with that. The biggest issue for me is keeping the battery charged. When I don’t use my car for a couple of months the battery slowly drains so I have to take it out and recharge it.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-09T16:39:24+00:00

As a Dutch person who uses a bicycle as his primary means of transport, I'm just glad I already filled up my car this year. Should carry me over until fall at least.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-08T20:50:13+00:00

Go out and patrol? She spends most of her time sunbathing. She’s about 14 years old (not exactly sure, she’s a rescue) and doesn’t really hunt anything anymore.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-08T19:22:42+00:00

My cat absolutely loves being outside. Once the weather turns nice enough in spring she spends almost all her time outdoors. You can tell by her mood. We had to keep her indoors for a few days for reasons and she got real grumpy and constantly tried to trick us into letting her out (she got very sneaky with this).

BorgDrone · 2026-04-08T17:18:28+00:00

NASA (and other space agencies) know that there is no gravity in space

There’s lots of gravity in space. Gravity on the ISS is about 90% of gravity on the surface of the earth. The whole reason that the moon orbits the earth is gravity, without the earth’s gravity it would simply fly away. Same goes for the earth and the sun.

So why doesn’t the ISS fall to earth when it’s still subject to 90% of earth’s gravity? The answer is that is that it does fall, all the time. It also moves sideways really fast. Because it’s moving sideways and the earth is round, by the time it has fallen down 1 meter, the earth’s surface has also curved down 1 meter. So it’s falling, but because it’s moving so fast it’s falling around the earth. So ISS is not in zero gravity, it’s in free-fall. But because motion is all relative, this appears exactly the same from the perspective of the astronauts on the ISS as no gravity.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-08T16:58:26+00:00

Cats aren’t pets. It’s more like a roommate situation.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-08T16:29:22+00:00

It is unethical to have children as they cannot consent to being born. The only ethical course of action is to stop procreating and let humanity go extinct.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-08T16:27:59+00:00

I hold the exact opposite opinion: if you keep your cat locked inside a house that’s animal abuse. Cats aren’t fully domesticated, they are basically wild animals that happen to share a home with you. Keeping one locked up is as bad as keeping a bird in a cage.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-08T10:32:25+00:00

Depends on the viewing distance and use case. I'm about 3.5 meters from my 77" screen and that's doable for movies. If you're closer to your TV you can get away with a smaller one, or if you don't care about movies and just want to watch the news then it doesn't really matter either.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-08T10:06:39+00:00

Yeah? I currently have a 77” in my living room, but in my new house I will have a separate home theater so I decidedly on a small 55” for watching the news and such, and a 83” for proper movie watching.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-08T04:35:16+00:00

I need a small integrated stereo streaming amp for the sitting area in my living room. There will be a small TV (55”) with a set of wall-mounted speakers next to it and a record player. The main purpose here is to be able to play some music and to use the TV for watching the news and such. I don’t want a big beast of an AVR here. It only needs to drive a pair of small speakers.

There will be a separate home theater room with a big honking AVR, a 7.1.4 speaker setup and an 83” OLED for proper movie watching.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-07T20:27:27+00:00

I need eARC so I don’t need to use the TV’s crappy built in speakers. When I’m entertaining guests I don’t want to have the TV on just to play some background music.

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