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If you steal my food and poison my soil until my family is starving, you shouldn’t be surprised when I come back at you. And don’t expect me to steal the fish back, that you’ve already eaten. Of cause I’ll take whatever I can get hold of.

It weren’t primarily neighbour countries, it were especially European and Chinese vessels that were doing that shit.

They’re not totally wrong though. A huge share of the goods the Caribbean pirates “stole” didn’t belong to their “victims” anyway. In fact, most of it had previously been stolen from the native Americans who had been conquered and killed or extorted from slaves on the plantations. Stealing from a robber isn’t stealing imho.

Another, more modern example are the pirates of Somalia, who originally were fishermen. Only when foreign ships came into their waters to steal their fish and dispose toxic waste, they began to arm themselves to “steal” their own goods back.

Disney on the other hand…

Much simpler: They looked into his passport to see that he’s a man and then they looked into his pants…

A lot of car manufacturer did also produce airplanes in the pre-jet era: BMW, Mercedes, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Piaggio, Saab, and probably more. Some of them later concentrated on one thing or split into two companies.

They were the ones who knew how to build engines, chassis and so on. If you think about it, a 1920s car is not that much different than a 1920s plane. Just wire the motor to a propeller and the steering wheel to the flaps instead of the wheels, weld a pair of wings to the sides and call it a day.

🎶Never gonna look down 🎶 Never gonna show up 🎵 Never gonna get up and hurt you 🎶

Every month is wild. Do the electricity prices change based on the season or why can’t they just calculate the average over a year?

Recently we also got more and more smart meters here in Germany, as there are a few power companies that calculate your price by the hour. But that’s not based on your maximum consumption but on the time of the consumption. If you use the solar and wind power on a windy summer day it’s basically free, whereas the price goes up when it’s expensive power from gas plants on a windless winter night. So you can lower your price by washing or charging your car at the right time.

That probably would not work that way in Norway as you have a lot of hydroelectric power which is available much more continuously, as far as I understand.

Are there really people in the US driving from house to house reading the meters? In Germany you just get a letter (or an email nowadays) asking you to read the meter and tell them. Unless the values you’re providing are obviously wrong, noone questions you.

If you lie there you’ll be found out when you move out of your apparent or when the meter is changed after 20 or 30 years.

It was xz, a software most people probably use without even knowing it as it is a library which is included in a lot of other projects. The vulnerability targeted openssh which is one of these users.

That being said: Do you also audit the dependencies of the software you’re installing? I usually don’t, unless a customer pays me for it. However, before I pull any dependency into one of my own projects I take a look at it’s dependencies. If a library for a simple task brings tons of dependencies with it, I rather not use it.