Marius Borg Hoiby, Mette-Marit’s 29-year-old son from a relationship before she married Crown Prince Haakon, has been charged with a total of 38 counts, some of which date back to 2018.

Inbreeding I don’t know, but not royal inbreeding in this case.

The tables are foldable, the glasses moved up to avoid being pinched between the ears and the skull and the quality is probably due to an old compact camera/phone combined with low light and heavy compression.

I assume that the percentages refer to the number of respondents that have voted for that world leader as the biggest threat, so these numbers don’t tell anything about the relative perceived threat amongst them. The only thing you can conclude is that more people ranked Kim Jong Un the highest than Jinping or Putin.

This was in 2019 and if my memory serves me right, Kim Jong Un had been testing an intercontinental missile around that time and was threatening the world with nuclear weapons much more than usual. Putin had already annexed regions in Ukraine, but apparently more people found Kim Jong Un to be the highest threat to world peace with how things were developing back then. The full scale invasion started a few years later.

By default Tailscale devices prefer the local DNS server for any hostname that’s not part of your Tailscale network, unless you’ve configured a global DNS server. There’s also the option to configure split DNS and have a different DNS server for certain domains (for example your own domain). You can also add search domains to allow short hostnames to be resolved to FQDNs of your choice.

No, that was someone else. This is one that has been spreading disinformation about the Netherlands with Tucker Carlson, in particular during the farmers’ protests.

“As part of the Danish commonwealth, Greenland is a member of NATO and the defence of Greenland must therefore be through NATO,” the government said.

They’re not saying that Greenland should be defended by NATO against the US, they’re saying Greenland should be defended by NATO as opposed to being occupied by and defended by only the US.

Because of an agreement from 1951. There are US army bases all over the world.

This is the official explanation of the sanctions against Hüseyin Doğru:

Hüseyin Doğru is the founder and representative of AFA Medya A.Ş. which isa media company based in Istanbul. AFA Medya A.Ş. operates “RED”, which comprises a number of media platforms, and which has close financial and organisational connections with Russian state propaganda entities and actors, and shares deep structural ties, including interlinkages between, and rotation of, individual personnel with Russian state media organisations.

RED has used its media platforms – often publishing under “redstreamnet” or “thered.stream” – to systematically spread false information on politically controversial subjects with the intent of creating ethnic, political and religious discord amongst its predominantly German target audience, including by disseminating the narratives of radical Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas.

During a violent occupation of a German university by anti-Israel rioters, RED personnel coordinated with the occupiers to disseminate images of their vandalism – which included the use of Hamas symbols – through their online channels, thus providing them with an exclusive media platform, facilitating the violent nature of the protest.

Through AFA Medya, Hüseyin Doğru thus supports actions by the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability and security in the Union and in one or several of its Member States, including by indirectly supporting and facilitating violent demonstrations and engaging in coordinated information manipulation.

Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ%3AL_202500966

I have not researched this individual and therefore I’m not taking a standpoint on the correctness of this information, but I felt like this information was missing from the news article.

Some additional sources:

• https://data.europa.eu/apps/eusanctionstracker/subjects/175657
• https://www.opensanctions.org/programs/EU-RUSDA/

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I definitely agree about the big companies. They have style guides for this and it’s definitely about perception. However, the formal you sounds very stiff and official to me coming from people who are very friendly and informal on the phone and who are in many cases older than me. At the same time I realize that some of their clients might appreciate the formal form and they’re just using it by default instead of overthinking it.

In my experience many small businesses use it in written communication. Even if you just had an informal phone conversation with them, they will follow up with a formal email. GPs do it too in online written consults. I find it slightly annoying, because it forces me to consider doing the same, which I rarely do otherwise.

Sometimes younger people (strangers) address me in the formal form, even though I’m in my 30s.

Big companies usually use the informal form in their communication.

Het staat op de pagina van NOS uitgelegd in het uitklapmenu:

IPSOS heeft in opdracht van de NOS een representatieve groep van ruim 3500 Nederlanders gevraagd naar hun stemgedrag bij deze en vorige verkiezingen. Op basis daarvan zijn deze grafieken gemaakt. Bij voldoende respons tonen we uitslagen van partijen. Als een partij er niet bij staat, waren er te weinig gegevens. Selecteer bij ‘kies een partij’ van welke partij je de bewegingen wil bekijken. Bij het verversen van de pagina wordt een willekeurig gekozen partij getoond.

What I meant was not so much to keep it from happening, but rather to recognize that it’s happening and to give up and move on. Don’t even try to finish the sentence, just start over and explain it in a different way. Yes, you will still have the awkward gap, but at least you can recover from it and keep the conversation flowing.

Actually this is also something that language learners need to cope with to reach fluency. Language learners often have a lot of gaps in their vocabulary that they need to circumvent in realtime. To do so, they instinctively learn to use filler words and to rephrase.

Yes, this happens to me too. I don’t know about you, but for me there might be a component of slight social anxiety that makes my brain go blank in that situation.

A long pause mid-sentence is awkward, so you feel time pressure, but at the same time you realize that the word isn’t close to the surface and you can’t seem to detach from the situation and start digging. You end up waiting for the word to magically appear, but at the same time you’ve already given up looking for it.

I think the key is to recognize this situation and start rephrasing way sooner. Just accept that you won’t be able to be as precise in your phrasing. You can always fix that later.

This is a specific type of chili pepper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_piri.

I’m not sure about that, but it does have motion blur in the background, so unless it’s a fancy setup that tracks the movement of the subject, it was not an automatically triggered shot.

The Netherlands:

• minimum of 20 days of paid leave
• public holidays are up to the employers to decide, but in practice most public holidays are additional paid leave in most cases
• public holidays during the weekend are not moved to weekdays like they are in some other countries

The way I read your post, I interpret it as saying that you can’t have diabetes type 2 if you’re eating such that your blood glucose levels are maintained within acceptable levels. However, I’d argue that you have type 2 diabetes if your body is incapable of regulating your blood sugar without dietary adjustments. It might very well be the case that eating low carbs, apart from treating the symptoms type 2 diabetes, might protect you against developing type 2 diabetes, but that doesn’t mean that the reverse is true: that carbs are the direct cause of type 2 diabetes. It might be true that low carb diets are one way to avoid becoming obese and therefore protect you against the effects of obesity on your organs, or that it might increase insuline sensitivity, but we can’t conclude from this information that carbs are the primary cause of developing diabetes type 2, even though it can (indirectly) contribute to it.

The chronically elevated blood sugar is mainly caused by insulin resistance. Insuline resistance isn’t necessarily caused by eating too many carbs. One of the known risk factors is obesity, and seems to stem from the fat tissue itself and not from the food that has caused the obesity. I’m not saying that eating too many carbs is harmless, but I’m just pointing that it’s more complicated than that.

Some people just like to complain. If they’re really bothered by it, they can easily rip it off and screw it back on when they’re done instead of whining about it. The net effect is still positive.