I usually love ASUS as they have dared to try unconventional ideas, like the eeePC. I also like how they make everything from MoBos to TVs and phones. But it felt like they wanted to brick the Transformer for some reason.

Personally I have a couple of Samsung tablets, they serve a purpose when I want have a “TV” on in the background in a random place in the house I also read some comics that comes as pdfs on it

A pager called MiniLink when I was 16 right before mobiles became common

The ASUS transformer with keyboard. As they did an update that made it super slow and clunky right before end of lifeing it.

Bill Bryson in his biography of growing up in Iowa tells how his grandmother in rural Iowa used to serve these dishes. He concedes that they all vere regular dishes with copious amounts of the food the advertisers sold. He also called Jello the state fruit of Iowa

In Norway peas, carrot bits and shrimp in aspic is called “Cabaret”. It is not bad, but not so great you choose it over almost anything else

Living in rural Norway this was never an option. Normal stuff was accessible (and in shops with qualified staff) but anything special was only available if a distributor had it.

EBay, Etsy, Ali Express and amazon (however much I despise their business practice) makes stuff available. Even now living close to Oslo, Norway is such a small market that stores can’t really have that much capital bound up in stock that occasionally sells.

A few examples:

• Pluck foam is impossible to find outside specialized commercial vendors that want to sell it by the ton or something
• Small vortex mixer that is not sold by ThermoFischer for an insany jacked up prize.
• 3mm rubber mat, that apparently you get cut to measure in Home Depot according to the craft YT channel, cannot be found outside companies selling them as health and safety mats to cushion walking surface… Guess if they are cheap?

Had cable growing up in Norway and DJ Cat Show and Fun Factory showed most of these.

Think I have randomly sung the Denver the last Dinosaur song at least once a week since 1988

Ok, looked into the data and saw that there were practically zero until 2011 and a steady rise to 5/100000 annually for Norway. That is equal to 280 people a year.

Looked at national newspapers and found that following numbers: Between 2017 and 2021 860 people had malnutrition and starvation as main cause of death. 3790 had starvation as one of several causes if death.

These are all gearateic patients in hospital or assistes living. If you stop eating or drinking you will worsen existing conditions and also be more susceptible to new afflictions. Because of increased awareness to this in Norway, doctors writing cause of death has started registering more cases.

As I said as long as the numbers is just presented and not quality assured and explained it’s like discussing apples and pears. There is a problem with geariatric patients not starvation in Norway.

We have some similar memories :)

Crisp “smell” after first frost.

Oceanic pine forest on hot days

Onion and garlic when heated in oil making food.

That fucking makes me curious as I am a Norwegian and hunger and malnutrition is not visible. But 5 in 100000 in Norway with 5.6 million totalt population is 280 people. But it all depends how deaths are reported. In Norway the norm is old age homes, run by the local municipality and there has been discussion how the food served is not the best. And how the residents doesn’t eat enough. Also you need more flavour to make food palatable for the elderly as you loose your sense of taste as you get older.

How anyone can have infant malnutrition on Norway is beyond me. You have mandatory visita to health station at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months (and 2 and 3 years) with consultation from physician and nurses. They weigh and measure and vaccinate. We got state sponsored prescription for hypoallergenic baby formula, so actual malnutrition should be caught. But I know that some immigrant communities and “alternative medicine” doesn’t trust the system so they might be the numbers.

There is no information on how the data is collected. Perhaps China labels the deaths as heart failure or some other cause of death.

And like the other comments states, these numbers needs to be weighted for population.

Imagine that there IS indeed a company that caters to such needs

They also enforces E(xplosives), done that for ages but the E is silent.

This sentence on their flagship “burger”

“The chilled tomato slice goes perfectly with piping hot meat sauce and freshly grilled patty.”

Makes me think of this

Are those challenge coins in the background or patches?

Most likely worthless. But some medals, especially with providence can have value.

Less so if it was a war souvenir.

Short docu on war souvenir medals looted from Berlin 1945. https://youtu.be/2tUhKEdNgEE?is=3-nt-tGcq7_rC9rf

The policy of not asking about personal medical information by regular email is sound.

I work as an engineer(not in the US) in a governmental capacity and we would never ask for sensitive material to be sent by mail.

We do however have a secure service in our web page where you can upload such material, with the option to cc in people by mail to alert them that you have sent something. Otherwise it will take a day for our archive to send it the right way.

Edit: We have more secure options, but that requires an invite/link. We ofc can handle proper secret stuff as well, but that involves a seperate intranet and secure terminal and so on.

Along with Hagard, B.C, Beetle Bailie and all the other comics started in the 50s and 60s I have completely written them off as unfunny, bland and repetitive. This is far more on point than I would ever have expected.

Third recommendation of this game… I gave it a cursory try over 10 years ago…