Where I live there are two official languages, the one from the country, Spanish, and the one from the region, Valencian, so you have places and streets named in one and translated into the other and both are valid. Some important places have only one official name in Valencian.

Well there is a huge historical railroad station called Estación del Norte (North Station) that people called it by translating it into Valencian, and now the official name is Estació del Nord.

The thing is that the station was never located on the north of anything in the city, it is called Norte because that’s how it was called the company that built it.

Making the translation official not only increases the confusion about its location for people who doesn’t know the city, but it also hides its history, I know a lot of people living here that don’t know where the name came from and who build it.

I don’t have issues with making official naming in Valencian as long it does not change the name of a person or company.

For me walkable means that you don’t need to own a vehicle from going from point A to B and pedestrians are not an afterthought.

For my daily commute or to meet my friends it’s faster/comfortable to walk to the metro station or bus stop than picking the car.

A walkable environment also means good public transport.

I remember a British ad where police is in front of a bank where a robbery with hostages is taking place.

The sun shines and both police and criminals enjoy it and together (I think they were doing a BBQ and the ad was for a BBQ sauce)

When visiting France the carbonated water was ubiquitous. The company I work for have water fountains with the option of carbonated water in all of their French offices.

I could be benevolent and part of the population would be still against me (slumlords, libertarians, nazis).

After some attempts to kill me I doubt I couldn’t become aggressive against the population who wronged me.

Where I live the water is very hard, poor quality (but inside of the allowed limits), and also the pipes in my flat’s building are fucking old, so yes, I only drink from bottled or filtered water.

It might not pose a real risk, but I prefer err on the safe side. Additionally the Brita filter removes the nasty taste that the tap water has here and the kettle doesn’t have lime stains.

As other mentioned, lack of physical buttons.

Minimalistic interfaces in software:

• In websites they waste a lot of real estate on the monitor.
• They make harder to find things navigating menus and submenus that should have the settings you are looking for but they decided that it should be better to bury it somewhere else.

Apps and websites copying the designs/colour scheme of popular ones. How many Slack looking websites are too much?

Copying IKEA furniture design, I don’t like most of IKEA designs and the sensation of making your personal space identical to thousands of other people personal spaces. I don’t have an issue with IKEA itself, my issue is that you try to find alternatives looking elsewhere and is the same thing, sometimes inspired, sometimes a clear copy, and most of the time even worse quality.

I’ve been looking for a wall shelf for almost a year and it seemed that every company, every store had the same ugly designs varying a little and with different prices. I’ve just bought one that it was the less ugly I could find, it was expensive and the materials quality is crap.

Carlos Sobera, a really great TV host in Spain, with the boom of sport betting websites and almost no regulations on the ads, he became the face of one of those websites with very aggressive tactics.

He also started to appear on ads for a payday loan company.

So he was promoting gambling and high interest small loans that are used by gambling adicts.

The radio alarm clock, couldn’t find the specific year only to narrow towards the late 70s.

My flat, the building was built around the beginning of the 70s.

Just checked Coccodrilo, seems a nice place.

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Mmmm, I’ll try to go with enough cash and contact my bank regarding fees when getting cash there.

A lot of people have already recommended to try Döner, it seems very different to the one we have here. The Döner seems too far away, but I’ll take it into account just in case.

Just checked the Technikmuseum, added to the plan for sure.

I’m a bit into mechanical keyboards, I’ll try to check the store.

Thank you.

I’m noting down the restaurants.

And thanks for the advice.

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Internet is the interconnected networks and WWW is the open system of interconnected pages that can be accessed through internet.

Before WWW you had online portals and BBS.

Its is more like saying that cars existed and were used before of the production of the Ford Model T.

Broken/buggy software usually is not developers/QA’s fault but management and clients.

Consulting want something that conforms exactly what is signed and as fast as possible, if there are later bugs that doesn’t invalidates what was agreed or new features take longer to introduce it means more money as maintenance/evolution contracts.

Clients often don’t see why they should pay extra and include extra time for better code. Also they prioritise stupid things like changing the font in a page over fixing a bug in the checkout page.

Usually the arguments I saw in favour of decriminalisation instead of legalisation are:

1. Taxes, nobody wants to pay taxes
2. The introduction of licenses, regulations, bureaucracy and any other burden that having a business or being an independent contractor requires.
3. The government knowing perfectly who is a sex worker in the case that it decides to ban it again and go against them.

I’m in favour of legalisation and proper regulations (I think in professional porn industry actors/actresses are required to be tested periodically), however I also worry about the point 3.