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I blame the school grading system for it. 70% and below is already a failing grade in many courses. So by extension anything that gets rated 7 or below is asscoiated with failure.

I am not from the US, so I don't know how long this grading system has been in use there but here in Central Eruope that's a rather new thing. That's why a 5/10 didn't feel as bad 20 years ago while today a 7/10 feels worse.

France banned basically all religious symbols in public schools. This includes crosses or the Jewish kippah. It's now expanded to include the abaya dresses. Veils and headscarves were already banned.

I think it's stupid since the dress isn't necessarily religious. It's just commonly worn by Muslims. Might as well ban white buttoning down shirts at this point because that's what some christians wear, especially to church.

MapTools is the only FOSS virtual table top software I am aware of. It has all the features one would need, extensive dice rolling commands, a shared map and tokens, it even has fog of war options. But out of the box it's very barren. You can download user created libraries and frameworks. Since 5e is very popular there are tons of resources available. And only the host has to download and install them manually, connecting players will download them automatically when joining.

But don't expect it to be as neat and tidy as the paid options. It gets the job done and you can do a ton of stuff with it but it isn't anywhere nearly as intuitive as some of the other tools. Especially the host/gm will need to invest some serious time into the software.

You can find it here https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/maptool/ since it's free just take a look if it's "good enough" for you.

iPhones aren't the only products that can use iMessage. You have apple watches and iPads on top of it. Which puts the potential uses way up.

While iPhones might have a market share below 30% in the EU as a whole, the share varies a lot in individual countries. In Poland it's just 10% while in Denmark it's above 60%.

And iPhones tend to appear in clusters. In my experience they aren't evenly distributed. I know of families where everyone uses iPhones while in my family no one has. So any kind of personal experience is rather pointless.

Until numbers are publicized, I still find it hard to believe that fewer than 45 million people use iMessage a month. I fully believe that fewer than 45 million people use it daily. So it comes down to how you define active users. And Apple will almost certainly use a strict definition of what counts as an active users to reduce the number.

Apple has the exact number. They could have released it to give the claim more weight.

As it stands I find it hard to believe that less than 45 million people in the EU use the service monthly. I assume they use a definition of "active users" that pushes the number artificially down. Whether or not that definition is inline with the definition by the EU is something we will have to find out.

The European Travel Information and Authorisation System - ETIAS. I thought it went online in 2023 but apparantly it was delayed to 2024. So for now it's not needed for British citizen but will be mandatory once it goes online.

Depending on the airport/country you are stuck in, you can take a trip to the nearby city. I was once stuck in Singapore Airport for 13 hours and just took a day trip to Singapore. It's a bit risky in your scenario because they might move your flight forward but depending on the circumstances of the delay it might be fine.

Almost all airports have a spa or some kind of wellness offers. Would be a great time to try it out. Maybe you discover something new you like, worst case scenario you wasted 1-2 hours. In general look up entertainment offers at the airport. Most have at least an internet cafe that would allow you to play "proper" games since mobile games aren't yours.

People just underestimate how traveling changed in the past few decades. Especially the refugee crisis made the borders way tighter for Non-EU members.

Before the EU even was a thing, as long as you had a strong passport traveling was super easy within Europe. Only when traveling by car you sometimes had long waiting times, they disappeared since the EU. But very few UK citizens would travel by car. And since the UK wasn't part of the Schengen area, they still had to go through passport control when entering mainland EU. A process that was basically the same as before the EU.

But while the UK was part of the EU they had access to the fast track lanes for EU-citizens. Now they have to stand in line with the rest. And they have to go through the online registration form before traveling. And the number of people traveling has increased and again the control has become way tighter.

I totally understand Piastri trying to put himself in front in the situation. F1 is so unfrogiving towards rookies and drivers in general. If Piastri would let Norris pass everytime just because Norris is the #1 driver, many teams would dismiss him as potential #1 driver in the future because "he lacks the fighting spirit". Given his recent performance there is no doubt he will get a new contract somewhere even if he were to fall out with McLaren. So he only stands to lose by staying too passive.

If McLaren followed their own philosphy of "The Team above all" they would have pitted Piastri first. There was no reason to pit Norris first. They didn't have to protect against an undercut from someone else. And if Norris actually were faster and held up by Piastri the undercut would have worked.

Die Liste betrifft ja hauptsächlich Personen deren Asylantrag abgelehnt wurde. Wenn diese Person aus einem unsicheren Land stammt, dann erhalten diese Personen oft diesen seltsamen "Geduldet" Status. Wenn sie aus nem sicheren Land stammen werden die Personen halt relativ schnell abgeschoben. Die Liste gibts ja schon und genauso gibts Ländern in denen gewisse Gruppen ausgenommen sind.

Für Marokko und besoders Indien kann man wohl darüber Reden dass es für einen großteil der Bevölkerung keinen Grund gibt den "Geduldet" Status zuerhalten. Dementsprechend kann man die wohl als "Sicher" mit nem Asterix einstufen. Welche Gruppen den Asterix erhalten ist schwer zu sagen. Gibt wohl ein paar offensichtlice Gruppen, wie homosexuelle Menschen in Marokko aber auch einige andere Gruppen wo ich nicht weiß ob der Geduldet-Status erforderlich ist oder nicht. Ideal würde Personen die in diese Gruppen fallen ja der Asylantrag nichtmal abgelehnt aber das ist ein anderes Thema.

Alle EU-Staaten un die USA zählen zum Beispiel als sicher. Und ich glaub da muss man nicht wirklich drüber reden, dass es für sehr wenige Personen die nen abgelehnten Asylantrag erhalten haben nen Grund gibt ihnen nen "Geduldet" Stauts zu geben. Entweder wird der Asylantrag akzeptiert weil es ne gefahr gibt oder halt nicht.

Über Marokko und Indien kann man wohl reden. Besonders wenn man ne vernünftige Liste von Gruppen hat die davon ausgenommen sind. Marokko ist eindeutig nicht sicher für homosexuelle Personen. Und würde sogar soweit gehen beide Länder als unsicher für Frauen und Mädchen zu bezeichnen. Mag wohl Länder geben wo es schlimmer ist aber das sollte keine Rolle spielen.

Aber bei Tunesien und Algerien kann ichs selbst beim größten Gutwillen nicht sehen wie man die als sicher bezeichnen kann.

Firefox loss in market share is more complicated. It's mostly due to growth in areas Firefox never had a foothold. Mainly the mobile browser and the Asian market (which mostly is mobile on top of it). On the desktop front in US and especially Europe the situation isn't nearly as dire as the global stats imply.

Firefox Android recently implemented extension support, so perhaps we will see some increased use there. But the majority of mobile users simply don't care and considering how interlocked Google and Android is, there is little hope for a third party browser gaining a foothold.

Brave had a lot of controversies and that's because their aggressive marketing strategy is so expensive. That's why they did shady stuff like hijacking links and insering their own affiliate codes. Something I don't want Mozilla doing with Firefox. Also Brave uses Chromium and the future of Chromium seems bleek. If it actually starts disabling support for adblock extensions then Brave has no future at all.

If you are playing a shape shifting druid your character can easily tank. Especially if you pick up a few levels in Barbarian. Rage stays active after shape shifting and a raging bear is one of the tankiest builds available.

Without knowing how far you are it's difficulty to say if any companion are still available. Except for Shadowheart and Asterion I found all other companions fairly easy to miss in a blind playthrough. So you might want to read up on who they are and where to find them.

Was Lewis statement due to a question by a "journalist" or did it come unprompted? It felt super weird. The response is not much but feels like an answer to a question.

Mozilla can't compete against Google. Any attempts of growing their marketshare by advertising is going to fail. Google will just outspend them. Then Mozilla will either go bankrupt or have to recoup their investment by jumping on the data collection train. I much prefer they stay sensible with their business modell and focus on being sustainable. Firefox will naturally grow as people start caring more and more about their online-privacy.

Same with any kind of new innovations or projects. I don't want to outright discourage them but I much prefer their current pace of doing things slow and safely. Because if we lose Firefox due to Mozilla taking some kind of gamble the alternative browsers remaing don't really seem appealing.

Grundsätzlich sind Visawechsel kein Problem und in der Regel musst du Deutschland dafür auch nicht verlassen. Es spielen nur die Anforderungen des gewüschnten Aufenthaltstitel eine Rolle. Die Ausnahme davon sind Touristen/Schengenvisa und für Personen die im Asylverfahren sind. Für die ist ein Wechsel oft schwerer und müssen eventuell Deutschland verlassen.

Sprich, in deinem Fall sollte es kein Problem sein solange du die Voraussetzungen für ein Ausbildungsvisa erfüllst. Allerdings hilft dir dein Studentenvisa auch nicht. Höchstens Vorstellungsgespräche in Person halten zu können wäre ein Vorteil.

I am surprised it led to only 99 days fewer in homelessness compared to the control group that didn't receive money. But I suppose it just shows how fucked the current housing market is.

It's not really a good comparison. Most of the fields you spoke off people can make a decent living off even without reaching the top.

But the people they talk about in the article already made it to the top. And they still can't make a living.

More public funding would be the only option. But that's hard to sell, many people don't think it's a worthwhile usage of funding. And it's also very hard to measure the impact this kind of funding actually has. So it's difficult to argue in favor of it. If the overall living situation of people would be better, I don't think people would argue against it.

And there are plenty of other fields and industries that receive public funding (directly or indirectly) that deserve it even less.

That doesn't fix the underlying issue of the potential dmg that GWM gives you. I am not a full on min maxer but having a feat that is objectively so much better than basically all other options makes it hard to ignore it. The only true choice is between GWM and Sharpshooter. But they are the same, just one uses two-handed weapons while the other uses ranged (and you will end up with heavy crossbows). An extra feat won't make a dual wielding fighter outperform a great weapon master.

And I am not necessarily just talking about BG3, I don't find the game particualry hard even on Tactician, so there isn't a need to cheat to make it easier. And I am not using any broken builds either. Mostly sticking to builds that fit the theme of the companions.