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Most credit cards charge fat fees for foreign transactions (3% is common) and make some extra money on the exchange rate as well.

"Very happy" is a bit of a stretch, since a significant proportion of Taiwan would prefer to jettison the current pretence of being "One China" and become fully independent.

But I agree that pretty much everybody will happily take the status quo over armed invasion.

This is hardly unique to Islam, many of the more hard-line Christian sects (Jehovahs, Christian Brethren, etc) as well as Haredi Jews also shun apostates.

The main difference is that in countries with shariah, apostasy is not just a sin, it's a criminal offense.

Well, it's hard to invalidate.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, since your statement is true:

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RS22497

Although obviously not all US laws apply and enforcement is a whole other kettle of fish.

Or you could just install the Pyanodon mods and micromanage thousands of things like crystallised sodium aluminate.

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/12w2w3i/the_full_...

Today's your lucky day: it already exists!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources...

Not quite, IMHO a katsu dish still has to have meat in there somewhere. For your examples:

肉巻きカツ is a meat roll katsu wrapped around an egg.

串かつケーキ is not a kushi(katsu cake), it's a (kushikatsu) cake. While it doesn't contain any meat, it's named after kushikatsu, an Osakan dish of deep fried stuff on a stick.

Such as?

There are more granular controls, but the details are OS/phone specific and the selected threat level is ultimately at the discretion of the government bureaucrat pressing the SPAM button.

> But it is easy to see why some people feel this might open the gateway to messages which, at best, are irrelevant

If you're in South Korea, you can expect to get around half a dozen emergency notifications every day. Typical contents include "it's cold, so dress warmly", "roads are icy, so drive carefully", and "Mrs Kim, 79, suffers from dementia and was last seen in Seoul wearing a black coat".

You can set your phone to filter these out, but then you'll also miss the notification about North Korea commencing artillery bombardment.

Because it would then be pronounced IKE-Oh.

Also, the A is short for Agunnaryd, the founder's hometown. (IK is his initials, Ingvar Kamprad, and E is for Elmtaryd, his family farm.)

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_branding (especially the Foreign Orthography section)

Thanks to French, who came up with the current writing system.

Funnily enough, there are quite a few IKEA products with Finnish names. (Most are place names from northern Sweden, where there's a significant Finnish minority.)

Why would you go for a masala dosa with filter kaapi with your colleagues when you could order a hamburger from room service? Why would you hail an auto when you could just charter a helicopter instead?

> In what situation were you as a foreign traveler where you needed to pay UPI?

All the time? Credit cards are only accepted by fancy places and cash is increasingly a hassle, especially in a tech-forward place like BLR.

The final straw was when I bought some biryani at a shopping mall food court and tried to pay cash. They had no change, the neighboring stalls had no change, and this wasn't some plot to extract money from the gora, they genuinely didn't have and couldn't find small bills.

In the end they tried to wave it off and discount my meal by 40 rupees or something, and I rounded up by 60 instead. And I remember thinking I probably just created another problem, because now they need to balance the books and parcel out the cash tip without change.

Visa debit, maybe, but they're way higher for Visa credit.

Not being able to pay for things is a pretty fundamental problem even for a business traveler to Bangalore.

Last time I bit the bullet and set up Mony, which at least got me access to UPI, but it's limited mostly by government policy: you can't complete the KYC process until you've physically landed in India, can't transfer to personal accounts, fees on adding money, fees on keeping money (they charge "unused balance" fees!), etc.

Nothing Tokyo specific about that, biking in the rain is dangerous and generally sucky. I have good all weather gear, but I still end up with wet shoes/socks and muddy spray up my back and legs (yes, I have a mudguard, but it's not 100% effective).

There's some fan fiction that treats the characters as names of ghosts and comes up with back stories and visualizations for them (the article links to a compilation, but it's 403ing for me). Nothing mainstream though.

Looks similar to my trusty Kensington Expert, only with more buttons:

https://www.kensington.com/p/products/electronic-control-sol...

Even the wrist rest, which I've never seen on another trackball, seems to have been copied from here. Anybody tested out both?

They really need to find a better name than "Ploopy" though.

A ferry in the open ocean is one of the safer places to be during a tsunami. Remember, it's not a surf-style wave, but a gradual increase in water level.

Japan has sen (銭) as well, the coins were just inflated into oblivion years ago. Still used for eg stock prices though.

Fun fact: the Japanese yen and Korean won are both cognates of "yuan". The character 圆 simply means "round" as in circular.

The yuan will never become a reserve currency as long as China maintain tight currency controls around importing and exporting it. It's very difficult to (legally) send CNY out or China.

The euro is in a much better position to be adopted as an alternative, but its share of global reserves has been flat at around 20% for years.

https://data.imf.org/en/news/imf%20data%20brief%20march%2027

The hallucinations here involve not dwarfs, but tiny people only a few inches tall.

Amanita muscaria is iconic because it's the shroomiest looking shroom that ever shroomed, but by all accounts A. muscaria intoxication is not particularly pleasant:

> effects can range from mild nausea and twitching to drowsiness, cholinergic crisis-like effects (low blood pressure, sweating and salivation), auditory and visual distortions, mood changes, euphoria, relaxation, ataxia, and loss of equilibrium (like with tetanus)

> In cases of serious poisoning the mushroom causes delirium, somewhat similar in effect to anticholinergic poisoning (such as that caused by Datura stramonium), characterised by bouts of marked agitation with confusion, hallucinations, and irritability followed by periods of central nervous system depression. Seizures and coma may also occur in severe poisonings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria#Symptoms

The favicon spec is a mess these days. The OG was 16x16 pixels, but now you're supposed to provide a whole slew of resolutions up to 192x192 and you can do SVG as well. And browsers have no consistency in how they pick the one to actually display.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon#How_to_use

Aviation comes to mind. Most aviation regulations exist because people died.

It's hardly a perfect system, but the problem is mostly that it's too conservative and risk aware, making it difficult to impossible to innovate and ignoring the risk this creates. (The world's most popular light aircraft is the 1950s-vintage Cessna 172, mostly because it's impossibly slow and costly to get a reasonably priced modern competitor certified.)