Well, at least I was right about me being wrong. I guess it’s Friday again.

Sorry, and thanks for the correction! Today I learned.

Definitely for at least decades, if not for eons. Obviously there are exceptions, but on average the countryside is just not as open and accepting as the average large city dweller.

Yes. This is what my topmost comment was about. It’s never explained clearly.

Haha, lol, I didn’t even notice that : ). TBF it’s been a topic for a few years already, but in that case it might have been a different reason just as well.

A tiny bit of context:

Hungary just had national elections about 2 months ago, finally pulling the handbrake and getting rid of the previous government’s 16 year old reign. The previous PM (Orbán) had been inching closer to Russia every year, and this year the elections were (among many other things) basically about showing loyalty to Europe instead of taking the final step on the slippery slope and becoming a Russian lapdog again. Since the opposition was the strongest in the capital city, chances are the (only?) red colour on the map represents this, and not Budapest’s all-time excitement over the EU.

EDIT: Heh, I didn’t realise the map is from 2021. While the situation has been the case for a while (Orbán announced the opening toward the East way back in the 2010’s), there is a good chance I have completely missed the point.

Also, historical Hungary used to be larger at one point in history, which could (partially?) explain the regional colours in Western Romania and Eastern Austria. Not even necessarily because of the nationality in mind, but it certainly had an influence over culture and politics.

I’m not an expert on Germany, but their regional divide might be in part due to the East-West divide after WW2 EDIT: I’m indeed not an expert on Germany. Please correct me if I’m wrong, since there’s a good chance.

(also, OP, I think you wanted to spell ‘feel’ in the title)

As always, Switzerland being radically neutral.

When you click Manage Settings, you get this panel:

If you Save Settings, then you allow 148-666 of their partners to access your data. Unless you untick every single “legitimate interest” box, as well.

I’m aware of that - I’ve gone through these way too many times. For example, if you go to kukuklok.com (just a timer with an alarm site), you’ll see what I’m talking about, and it’s just a few brackets. Some sites have way more of those.

I’m also aware I can save it, but
1: cookies can expire, and
2: whenever you open it on a new device, you can start over

Great, I didn’t notice that, thanks. While it doesn’t solve my problem with the android apps, it can make my life less annoying on the Web. I’m using FF already, just haven’t installed everything I should yet.

Then these sites start playing Bill Wurtz’s “How about I do it anyway?”.

I mean, apart from simply getting your digital fingerprint via other means, quite a lot of them hide the options so that you would have to painstakingly click/tap through a mountain of toggles.

I have had to do this with several Android games: You can kind of disable most cookie types with one toggle, EXCEPT the one that says “legitimate interest”. Since I wanted to know what exactly they might mean by that, I tapped the tiny question mark circle thing. Guess what: the tooltip just simply said something like ‘data that falls under our partner’s legitimate interest’. And then, if you want to disable it, the only way to do it is tap something like ‘Vendor options’, and then see about 117 vendors, and ~85 of those have a toggle next to their name. You have to click each and every one of those.

…until the next update, when this window comes up again, waiting for you to give up.

Just for context: during the previous Pride he stayed away and went abroad, and deliberatery had been avoiding the topic of LBGT stuff until the elections.

You bang bang backwards after passing.

Imagine looking for a Philip screwdriver.

I used to go to this secondary school where there were four classes (4x~35 students) each year: two for economics, one for marketing and one for IT. I chose the IT one. They taught basic typing for all four, but speed typing was only required in three. Guess where it wasn’t…

I guess the problem starts when two other cameras are watching the same area the first camera is in.

What kind of knob has 1.3076744e+12 notches?

That’s where they direct all the high BP from everywhere else 🧠

My immediate reaction was “High BP?”.

That’s totally true. I just thought of the possibility because I grew up where not every toilet was civilised.

Not necessarily in the defense of single sex toilets, but I imagine not all men are gentle, and women (maybe even anyone else) would choose not to get peeked at from above by a nasty weirdo. I know, I know, not like only one gender could do it, but if I had to find a reason why one would want to have single sex toilets, this would be the reason that makes the most sense to me.

Or, you know, people being religious fanatics stuck in the 18th century, but who would be like that in 2026? /s