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Higher than Belgium!

I've recently hiked to the highest point of Belgium, it's 693 meters but because humans have some ego thing attached to round numbers they built a 7 meter tall stone tower you can ascend to hit 700m.

Don't ever use that word outside of a Serious Screenplay.

Tell me you're from the US without etc.

It's a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Which, funnily enough, is of British origin instead of American.

Bit of an odd comment overall. The fact that I know that the highest point in the Netherlands is in the Caribbean pretty much demonstrates that I'm not from the US.

> Bit of an odd comment overall.

It is, isn't it? Maybe there was a reason? :)

To make up for my tone (which wasn't intended to be snarky but without the missing fact probably came across as such), did you know Douglas once described the experience of trying to get Hitch-hikers made into a film as "like trying to cook a steak by having a succession of people come into the room and breathe on it" which is a description I treasure!


I know. Guess which country had "fuck" and which country had "Belgium" in the Rory's description.

WTF how does she measure 36km/h on the leisurely cycling people? And how does she measure the 28km/h guy when being so far from the direction he's travelling?

It's probably a device meant for and tested to measure cars, not arbitrary objects. Probably needs to be used in a specific way too.

vast.ai has H100 at 1.93/h, H200 at 3.8/h but no 2500$ minimum. It's also possible to get a DPA with them, see where the machine is, this feels a bit comparatively dodgy

Just get a tape drive. Then you will find out how nice and simple disks are

On topic of dental innovation why isn't there a toothbrush with accelerator that would monitor which areas you've cleaned and where do you need to work more?

Or even better: a device (like dentures) that you put in your mouth, bite on it and it brushes all your teeth at once


> Or even better: a device (like dentures) that you put in your mouth, bite on it and it brushes all your teeth at once

It's your lucky day: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=whole+mouth+toothbrush


I’m pretty sure oral b has that.

We need a solid way to prove we are meatbags. How about a simple USB accessory that goes around your neck and measures your ECG. It could also give you subtle electrical shocks (in a unique pattern; a challenge) and measure how the ECG responds to that.

im rather fond of a blood tester that gives you unique drug cocktails as a fingerprint


Please post - I’d like to upvote a twitter alternative


People are also stressed because of high gas prices, cold swimming pools and offices (19 degrees), industries closing down (chemical sector declined 20% 2022-2023). And not just in Netherlands either


50cm by 2080! Campi Flegrei next to Naples had 1.5m uplift since 2005.


The average elevation of Groningen province is maybe 100 cm


I think it was a Russian (or American?) psy op. Europe would be almost self-sufficient with the Dutch and Norwegian fields so they had to be shutdown. All while the storage is at historical lows

https://ned.nl/nl/gasopslagen-nederland#:~:text=Verloop%20va...


European self-sufficieny in oil products peaked in the 1990s around 65%

Never high enough for self sufficiency without major changes that the people close to the money spigot delayed for decades to line their own pockets.

Another resource curse.


Ok not 100% self-sufficient. But Norway is producing 3x as much gas now as in the 90s. Gas use to be a waste product almost


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