Perhaps they will be able to meet up in the afterlife soon, since I believe both of them are likely heading in the same direction there.

Real Madrid have been poisoning the well for years at this point and it’s becoming really dangerous. This talk of robbery by supposedly crooked referees reminds me of a certain group of people and their lies that elections are stolen. There should honestly be consequences for Real Madrid for their aggressive rhetoric aimed at the officials that goes beyond a slap on the wrist.

Thanks! I’ll definitely try freezing ginger. That’s usually one of the things I could have sworn I still had but it went bad last week, so… Yeah, definitely putting some of that in the freezer from now on.

For frozen herbs my go-to is always chives and parsley.

The problem with using AI assisted coding in my experience is that you might save time in the short term, you will spend months sorting through the inefficient and error probe spaghetti to unburden your product from all the AI induced technical debt. Use AI as a research tool or as inspiration for potential solutions, never as a copy/paste type of deal

I dread the elections in France in 2027. France is one of the last bastions of Freedom that is capable of standing up to the authoritarian states if push comes to shove. The last few presidential elections have moved France closer and closer to having a Kremlin sock puppet in charge. While they have managed to pull back from the brink a few times, it only needs to go wrong once.

Thanks for sharing! Concerning logistics when travelling I can also share my experience.

I travel on a Dutch passport and my children, while also having Dutch citizenship, travel on German passports because that is where we live and where my wife is from. They also use my wife’s German last name. Therefore, when travelling, my kids and I have different names and nationalities. For some reason nobody ever questioned any of that. I keep a copy of the birth certificate just in case though.

My daughter is currently at the phase where she is starting to play with others instead of only next to others. It took her over a year to steadily get there. Some children are shy, others are outgoing. My recommendation is to not be discouraged if there is little or no interaction between the children - that will come eventually.

I don’t want to excuse Netanyahu here. He certainly belongs behind bars in my opinion. However, he only holds a part of the world hostage rather than all of it. I see him on par with folks like Kim Jon Un or Mohamed bin Salman rather than Trump or Putin.

The answer will likely depend on the place in the world and even on the cultural background of individuals getting married. I’ll just share my experience.

We got married out of convenience. While it’s technically possible to arrange the bulk of the legal stuff with various contracts, it is just easier to use the “default contract” that already covers the most common use case. Some legal arrangements, for example cuts to inheritance tax or the right to remain silent when asked about your spouse in legal proceedings, are only available for “real” marriages.

Once we decided to have children we looked into the various arrangements needed to make that work and quickly found out that marriage is the easiest way to sort everything out. In our day to day life nothing really changed. In legal terms quite a lot is now different.

By the way, as others have mentioned, getting married isn’t expensive. All we paid was the administrative fee which was something like 50 Euros.

I’m getting too old for this…

These look really great! Perhaps you could format the ingredients as bullet points, making it much easier to see at a glance what you used.

Blijkbaar is er niet veel te discussiëren. De overheid wil bezuinigen en de onderwijspartners willen de kwaliteit verbeteren of in ieder geval niet verslechteren. Dat zijn standpunten die niet samengaan.

Überzeugter Nationaldozialist mag Nationalsozialismus. Und morgen: Wasser ist nass.

For me it boils down to trust in the service provider (in this case Proton) and the risk of anyone accessing your information. While your proposed solution is elegant and super accessible, it’s not without risk.

Relevant risks could include your device being screen- or keylogged or even the TSA randomly selecting you and forcing you to open up your phone under the implied threat of a free vacation to El Salvador.

For super sensitive data that can be memorised, I recommend memorisation. You can keep a backup hard copy in a safe place, even if that’s not immediately accessible. This should also be accessible for your relatives in case of death. Such a safe place can be a safety deposit box or even just a trusty old envelope stashed away behind a specific drawer.

For sensitive but not super sensitive data that you need on the go I recommend using an encrypted hard copy, which you can keep in your purse or wallet. Use any publicly available (long enough) document as your cypher, such as the Magna Charta or the Declaration of Independence (although I recommend more obscure texts, obviously). You can even use the cypher method for digital sensitive data if you prefer that. As long as you don’t tell anyone about your cypher you should be fine. It can still be brute forced, but should be really difficult if you use the right cypher.

Thanks for sharing! It’s interesting to get the perspective from a non-heterosexual couple. We should really try to share our experience as a “regular” married couple with friends of ours who also have two children but happen to be two mothers.

Awesome! Which tool(s) do you use for the family calendar and task sharing?

Give daycare, pediatrics, classmates parents, and family and friends your contact info and instruct them to call you first

Where I live (Germany), many organisations seem afraid to call the father, even if specifically instructed to do so in my experience. Our day care for example never hesitated to call my wife for every little last thing when they knew she was on parental leave. When they knew that she was working full time again and I was on parental leave the day care seemed reluctant to call me. Even when they did, they apparently had a mental block that meant they would communicate very differently with me than with my wife. It almost feels like a man’s time is usually respected while a woman’s time is regarded as “free”, so she can pick up the kids anytime anywhere at the drop of a hat.

Make sure you know your child’s SSN, birthday, allergies

We found that keeping a shared cloud storage for things like mail from the various bureaucratic institutions we need to deal with as parents has been very helpful. Everything is available at any time without having to spend half an hour searching for the right piece of paper.

Keep a family calendar where you can see appointments

We use a google family calendar, which works like a charm. We’re trying to limit the exposure to google and similar evil tech companies recently. Do you know of a good alternative to the family calendar that doesn’t consist of just inviting each other to dozens of events?

Thanks for the insight! We talk a lot and I would hope we still manage to share a bunch of the load by taking charge of particular aspects. For instance, just like you described, my wife is in touch with other mothers and is therefore much deeper into clothes thanks to clothes sharing. Meanwhile I try to keep track of always having an adequate supply of food for the children. Still, I feel like it’s been drifting more into her direction lately, which we want to rectify.

The last time I visited China was ca. 2005/6 and pretty much matches what you describe.

The last time I was in the United States was in 2015. While I work in banking (specifically IT for banking) it was fairly chill at the time. I changed jobs though in early 2016 and haven’t been required to leave the EU for work related travel since, which is incredibly reassuring.

Exactly. The risk is too high for me to personally want to take that chance. It seems like many others also come to the same conclusion in their risk assessment. Nonetheless there are still thousands of people visiting the United States (and China, for that matter) every day. The majority of them aren’t randomly arrested on some trumped up charge.