It’s a hooded crow. In western Europe the all-black carrion crow is prevalent. The more you travel to the east, the more hooded crows you see. In Germany and Czech republic you have both in equal numbers in some areas. If you go to Poland and further: more and more of these hooded crows.

I think they can even interbreed.

Both have free trials, I think. You can try them both for a month and decide after that.

I had tidal for about a year and was happy with it. Sound quality is nice, app is clean, tidal connect is nice. Recommendations were not great and discovering new music I liked was a bit of a chore.

I have qobuz now (had it in the past too, for a while). App is more to my taste, very little clutter. Qobuz connect is now here and it works, so I can stream music over wifi to my stereo system. Finding new music is a lot better than spotify or tidal (imho) Recommendations are better, the magazine and editorial stuff is super nice and they have one simple feature that makes a world of difference to me: you can click on the record label of albums and see what else is on that label. So simple, but it’s by far my favourite way of finding new stuff.

I used to get two of these bad boys for christmas from my grandfather every year. Top tier!

Portraits were often made beforehand, save for the face. It cut down the time needed for posing drastically. And often the faces were done by the master, the rest by students in his workshop. Perhaps this is what happened here, they just never got round to the posing part.

Reminds me of this painting in Bruges: https://www.museabrugge.be/collection/work/id/0000_gro0401_i The face of the guy next to Napoleon was painted well before the rest of the work and then literally cut and pasted in to the new painting. You can still see the square.

Policies that are too welcoming to expats with high incomes and foreign remote workers that like sunny weather and cheap everything.

Also: air b&b’s and cheap ryanair flights

Ah, a proper name for a true barbarian.

Maybe the economy is transforming their choice on whether to have children or not. 🤔

Not really into hiphop. But that record … Gives me the shivers every time.

Been there and there’s a nice path for walking that goes along the tracks for a long way. And it has viewpoints. It’s actually even cooler than being in the little wagons, because you see them all pass by and get to stop at all the scenic bits.

Stretched out over a couple of years, with about 10% of game time actually spent on progressing the main story, it’s not that bad ☺️

I loved loafing around, really.

Absolutely loved rdr2. It’s a gem. I played story mode three times and I love it to death.

If only rdr2 online wasn’t the pvp obnoxious pay-to-win microtransaction-riddled cesspit that it is, I’d still be playing that now.

I started to really feel I was doing alright in my late twenties. Got less selfish, learned to accept my flaws, own my mistakes and be less of a dick. I learned to just bluntly admit that I don’t know certain things. Got even less competitive. And started to enjoy just listening to people. Worked wonders for my self-esteem. And it made me A LOT more likeable to be around.

The holes in the ones in the picture are not like those in a risotto spoon. And those shapes are rather exotic, even when you ignore all the perforations. It’s an abstract expressionist’s interpretation of cooking utensils.

I guess AI doesn’t concern itself with practicality. What’s up with the weird shaped spoons and spoonhandles?

I can’t do any of the stuff you mentioned. I’m here because I hate traditional social media that are not social at all. And I hate ads. And have an interest in community driven stuff and DIY.

And I don’t feel like I am alone here.

Employer branding. To attract skilled laborers, engineers, any type of profile that is not easy to find.

That’s not even a nice way to get salmonella poisoning.

I live in Flanders, Belgium and we have an opt-out system of sorts. Everyone is a donor, unless official objections were made. That sounds great, but doctors need to ascertain if there are no objections, even informal ones.

So it kind of boils down to doctors still having to ask your next of kin. But - according to data from UZ Leuven, one of our biggest hospitals - asking ‘are there any objections to the normal course of events’ works better than ‘do you wish to donate you loved ones organs’. Especially during a time of grief. It says Belgium has about 30 donors per million, whereas Germany and The Netherlands have about 15. (Data from 2024)

Because of this system you can still also officially state that your organs are to be donated if possible. And apparently you can do so from the age of 12 onwards. If you do so, no questions are asked and no one is able to object.

Tl;dr In Belgium we have an opt-out system, but it’s not bulletproof. And it doesn’t result in an enormous amount of donations. There are still waiting lists, though there are more donations than in some of our neighbouring countries. Reality is messy!

The numbers four and five (quatre, cinq) are pronounced like ‘cat’ and ‘sank’ in informal spoken French.