So weird. At every eucharistie I’ve been to in Belgium they’re just white circles.

I’ve never seen a communion wafer with a cross or other symbol on it. Is this a common thing somewhere?

Over here in Belgium we do, I thought that’s how it’s done in most countries. It makes more sense to me too, you get your salary monthly (or maybe fortnightly like you) and you talk about your rent, debt payments, … also on a monthly basis.

Do Brits also tell their salary on annual instead of monthly basis? I thought that was just an American thing

I truly don’t understand qwertz. That being said, in Flanders we use azerty, while the Dutch use qwerty, despite us speaking the same language.

This seems really cool for tiling windows managers (even Windows has tiling options, although I’m not familiar with those). That being said, I still prefer a multimonitor setup on my tiling WM of choice.

I’m from in Belgium, and have colleagues from countries from both sides of the second world war. The carpet bombing of cities is still talked about every now and then. It’s still remembered as one of the worst tragedies during that war (apart from the obvious), and the scars it left in many family trees still pain the people to this day.

Hearing stories from Gaza and the Donbas always remind me of the stories I used to hear from my grandfather, and I believed we left those war tactics behind in the last century. It’s absolutely insane hearing an allied country to ours debating using those tactics again.

Wieso kannst du Kartoffeln hassen?

Whenever I’m in Germany, I’m surprised to see ads for tobacco in the street

Brouwerij Van Steenberge > brouwerij Huyghe

The term fascism stems from that period, from the Italian Fascist Party. It just was a slow roll during the Weimar Republic, in which violence and politics became more and more entangled until they were indistinguishable from each other.

There of course were a lot of people standing up against fascism and nazism, but it wasn’t unilaterally seen as something really bad until after the second world war.

I’m glad I never have to deal with safety stuff for my own dev work, but this decision truly goes beyond me.

I’m Belgian. I definitely agree that our pils isn’t the best, but when I think about our beer culture I don’t think about pils. I’m planning to go to Czechia some time, I’ve only ever had Belgian and German pils.

Apparently they did, but after a failed close, it will for whatever reason close more forcefully the next time

Not an American, but I really don’t get these stories. It has to be legal to enter somebody’s driveway, right? How else are you supposed to ring someone’s doorbell?

Very high level: it’s a program to quickly find files within files and it runs on pretty much any OS that exists

Another fun use for ffmpeg!

Yeah, I think it’s a good idea to try ffplay if VLC (or mpv) fail.

Best beer