I’m only taking issue with one part of your comment:

Why are the English language and Non-English language lists the same? Those would seem to be mutually exclusive designations.

I think they’ve also misread the sentence, which is ambiguous to begin with. I believe the intent is that in each individual case of 75% of coal-fired power plants, the economics would support replacing the plant with purchased renewables. I don’t think there’s a claim that replacing 75% of coal-fired plants…

I was debating doing that, but by the time I got to that part of the route, I was seriously dragging. Lifting my arms for a high five was not on the to-do list.

I’m totally appreciating spectators at the moment. I completed my first marathon on Sunday in Rotterdam; the last 4k was jam-packed with people and they absolutely would not let you stop. They yell and scream encouragement, shoulder pats, hand you water and food (or beer in the case of hashers), you name it. And bring…

I rewatched that recently. It’s actually worse than I remembered, and I didn’t remember it as being good.

What can I tell you? I have bad impulse control. Plus I live in Bike Nirvana, which doesn’t help in the slightest.

Cycling looks relatively inexpensive at the outset and then you get into it and discover it’s a total moneypit. An enjoyable one, but my god does your money disappear fast.

I completely understand. I’ve been living here for 2 years now and my Dutch is still terrible. And yeah, they’ll switch to English. Slowing down when speaking just isn’t a thing for pretty much everybody.

It generally works in the germanic areas as well. The Dutch will respond just fine to “pardon”, “het spijt me”, or “sorry” (with an odd accent). Or you can just apologize in English since 95% of them speak it fluently.

I’m a little weird, but I like the 1- and 2-star reviews because they give me a good baseline. If all the poor reviews are complaining about things that I think are ridiculous, then I can give a lot more weight to the good reviews. If the bad reviews are making valid points, then I get more wary.

What I’m saying is that the term “disturb” may mean something else in another culture. Because yes, knocking to see if you’re in does not necessarily count as a disturbance in a country like Georgia, especially if you’re out in the countryside.

The DND sign can also have a range of meanings. I’ve had some places where I’ve had the sign up and they just come in while I’m out, do a quick refresh of the bed, grab the dirty towels from the bathroom and put new ones on the bed for me. In others, it means they don’t even knock on the door.

Apparently, yes:

Considering the policy will apply to all visa-exempt non-EU citizens, I’m inclined to think it’s not #2.

I’ve got to be honest, having a pseudo-military group of women with neon pink guns (because gunmetal grey is a tool of the patriarchy) drag me to go see Captain Marvel sounds like a pretty good day to me.

I don’t think so. At least for me, getting in to a bed that’s made actually feels different. Maybe it’s just a sense of cleanliness or completion, but I will literally make my bed just so I can get in. I may be strange though...

I don’t think so. At least for me, getting in to a bed that’s made actually feels different. Maybe it’s just a sense…

I usually go with “A guy once told his friends ten puns in the hopes that one of them would make them laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.”

Let’s just say that your question didn’t come across as an honest interrogatory so much as it came across as a rhetorical device.

To be fair, I never read the book in class, I just read it for pleasure. And while the external information can be valuable, you should not be expecting that people are going to read it when reading it for pleasure. It’s just not a reasonable expectation.