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I don't know where Jyrdano is, but easy to search for places that are:

https://www.iamexpat.de/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/when-will-summer-weather-finally-make-reappearance-germany

When will summer weather finally make a reappearance in Germany?

Summer 2025 is turning out to be a bit of a damp squib. If, like everyone else in Germany, you’re suffering from Wetterfrust (weather frustration), you might be wondering when summer might make a reappearance. The answer is: not as soon as you’d hope.

After what feels like weeks of changeable, wet and windy weather in Germany, it’s beginning to feel like summer will never make a proper appearance in 2025. While the forecast for the next few days is much the same, there is a small bright spot on the horizon.

According to Wetter.com, the reason behind this unseasonably wet weather is numerous low-pressure systems over Central Europe, which bring cool temperatures, frequent rain showers and generally unpredictable weather. They are essentially “stuck” over Germany and other parts of Europe at the moment because they are trapped between two high-pressure systems over the Atlantic and Russia and northeastern Scandinavia.

With the situation not expected to change for the next week or so, unfortunately rainy weather will dominate well into August. For Friday, August 1, the German Weather Service (DWD) is forecasting heavy rain, moderate winds and isolated thunderstorms for the entire country. The conditions look very similar over the weekend with what the DWD is describing cheerfully as “permanent rain”.

https://www.thelocal.at/20250730/why-is-this-summer-in-austria-so-rainy-and-how-long-will-it-last

Why is this summer in Austria so rainy and how long will it last?

https://www.lays.com/products/lays-stax-salt-vinegar-flavored-potato-crisps

https://www.amazon.com/Lays-Vinegar-Flavored-Potato-Crisps/dp/B00NGJM3D4

Your local store may not be carrying them, but it looks like Lay's still makes them.

First ad that comes out that bitches mouth, I’m taking a 12-gauge to every motherfucking one of them, patch the roof later.

"Further work from our user experience team has resulted in several recommendations, including revising the Google Mini for the North American market to add a Kevlar layer to the case and using data from the accelerometer to treat an abrupt, rapid acceleration with a threshold above a certain level as "undesirable behavior/behavior needs improvement" user feedback to Alexa+'s prior prompt response."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beige_box

IBM's early desktop computers (e.g. IBM Personal Computer, IBM PC/AT) were beige, and box-shaped, and most manufacturers of clones followed suit.[citation needed] As IBM and its imitators came to dominate the industry, these features became standards of desktop computer design.

Fun fact: they banned encryption on Amateur Radio frequencies.

Are you sure that this is recent?

https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/tge77a/is_it_illegal_to_encrypt_traffic_over_ham_radio/

is it illegal to encrypt traffic over ham radio?

OP, you should probably clarify which country you live in. The rules are different by country, but in the majority of places encryption on ham radio frequencies is not legal.

Specific to the United States, the very short summary is that there are narrow exemptions that allow encryption, but none that will let you legally send an encrypted message to another person, or have an encrypted two-way conversation that cannot be decrypted by someone else. Encryption in the US is only allowed for cases like protecting radio commands being sent to satellites from external tampering.

There are probably ways available to everyone to transmit data in an encrypted form. It sounds like some non-amateur frequencies that aren't that hard to get access to in the UK permit for encryption:

https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/tkbx8f/any_radio_with_encryption_that_is_legal_to_use_in/

Is there ANY handheld radio that is encrypted/has encryption that can be used in the UK

Get a business radio licence. They cost bugger all to get for what you'll need, from as little as £75 for a 5 year licence, and you can get digital radio gear from Kenwood, Motorola or Icom that'll do what you want.

You could use the licence free PMR446 but the range is utter shite.

I assume that given that WiFi exists and is usually encrypted, the unregulated spectrum permits for encryption, unless the UK deals with that range very differently than the US does.

Also, if you want a point-to-point link and can use lasers, I doubt that that's regulated.

Note that they put the ruling at the bottom of the article; I didn't initially see it and was having a hard time finding the text online.

Also note that the government appears to be appealing the ruling, so probably going to be more to the story.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11311369/ontario-bike-lane-removal-plan-court-defeat/

Also this week:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/leavitt-time-trump-won-nobel-225301881.html

Leavitt: It’s time Trump won a Nobel Peace Prize

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it’s “well past time” that President Donald Trump received the Nobel Peace Prize.

As a show of force, moving nuclear submarines around doesn't seem like a great play.

• A nuclear submarine's strongest asset relative to a surface ship is that one can't know where it is. It goes down, it doesn't come back up again for half a year, that makes it hard to identify. Why give clues that narrow things down at all?

• Because it needs to stay hidden, you can't show it to the party you're doing the show of force to to prove that you've done the movement, which makes your words just functionally words

the only weight here is the credibility your words hold. (Which in Trump's case may be one of, if not the, lowest credibility I'd personally assign to any historical US president.)

I mean, I think that moving literally any military asset other than submarines doesn't have this issue. Surface vessels, aircraft, land forces, whatever.

The article does not make it clear what type of submarine

attack (SSN) or ballistic missile (SSBN)

is being referred to. A "nuclear submarine" refers to both, as the term refers to the submarine's powerplant, not the armament. I am guessing, based on this response where the author says that he is not sure, that Trump never specified.

If the submarine in question is a ballistic missile submarine, it really doesn't need to be anywhere particularly near a target to hit that target. US ballistic missile submarines fire Trident II SLBMs. WP has the Trident II range as "More than 7,500 mi (12,000 km)[8][9] (exact is classified)[10]".

There are certain situations where you might want to fire an SLBM from less than that; you can fire it at a depressed trajectory to reduce the time until impact, which might be useful in a first-strike scenario where you want to destroy an opponent's nuclear weapons before they can get off the ground.

https://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs03gronlund.pdf

SLBMs flown on depressed trajectories would have short flight times, comparable to escape times of bombers and launch times of ICBMs, thus raising the possibility of short time-of-flight (STOF) nuclear attacks. We assess the depressed trajectory (DT) capability of existing SLBMs by calculating the flight times, atmospheric loading on the booster, reentry heating on the reentry vehicle (RV), and degradation of accuracy for a DT SLBM. We find that current US and CIS SLBMs flown on depressed trajectories would have the capability to attack bomber bases at ranges of up to about 2,000 kilometers, and possibly at ranges up to 3,000 kilometers. To target bombers based furthest inland, a new high-velocity booster might be required, and attacking hardened targets would require a maneuvering RV (MaRY).

However, in that case, you probably aren't going to want to hint that you are planning on doing so if you actually intend a first strike. Sure, you could try to so merely as a bargaining chip, but doing something that you probably wouldn't do in an actual attack undermines the credibility of the threat and thus devalues the bargaining chip.

The US doesn't really need to issue nuclear threats against Russia. It has strong conventional military superiority.

And there are some good reasons not to want to lower the bar for nuclear threats, as a convention. We don't want to nudge the world closer to a situation where a nuclear war actually starts accidentally

not just in this scenario, but in later ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q53GmMCqmAM

She was an older lady too (maybe 50-60), but i guess she never traveled alone before and just hadn’t had to do it for herself.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if her husband always did it, and he might have died.

One thing I think is a good idea in a marriage

which often, especially traditionally, divided up responsibilities

is to have the other partner do any important things at least enough to know how to do it at a basic level if they have to do so in a pinch. Could be taxes or making dinner or fueling the car or whatever. You may not always be available, and, to be blunt, one of you is going to die first.

Something I had not thought of but ran into with some people who lived with someone

not even always a spouse

and had someone die who always handled X and never learned how to do it themselves. If suddenly, in addition to someone dying, you now have to immediately deal with the fact that you don't know how how the family finances work, or paying utilities works, or where the X, Y, and Z subscription comes from, it just adds more load. It's a lot easier to deal with it ahead of time.

for my own experience, lost the tv remote, tv is now unusable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_remote

A universal remote is a remote control that can be programmed to operate various brands of one or more types of consumer electronics devices. Low-end universal remotes can only control a set number of devices determined by their manufacturer, while mid- and high-end universal remotes allow the user to program in new control codes to the remote. Many remotes sold with various electronics include universal remote capabilities for other types of devices, which allows the remote to control other devices beyond the device it came with. For example, a VCR remote may be programmed to operate various brands of televisions.

There's decent odds that whatever device you are playing the podcast on is capable of running software that does audio time stretching. This will speed up playback, but without making the audio sound high-pitched.