No, but there are fees for late payments and other special situations.

Their main income is from the transaction fees that they charge the merchants.

The idea is that people who don’t have money can spend money and create a transaction fee on a sale that wouldn’t otherwise have happened if they didn’t lend the money. That way it’s the same as a credit card that you only pay monthly.

The difference is that the payments can be split, so that the customers can … uh … utilize their entire credit maximum every month…

Needless to say, this kind of credit maximum optimization can end really badly for people who have unstable incomes. The same kind of people who might be tempted to use it.

Yes, the kids will be alright.

Mine are that age, so I see a lot of them through their school and activities. They’re not that different from what we were at that age.

And then use the solar panels to power a water boiler.

I’ll have you know that I put my entire OS installation on a broken USB stick that I found on a parking lot.

The plastic case keeps falling off, but it works fine.

The internet is like that, yes.

At least there are no advertising here.

All the movies by Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill.

It doesn’t matter which one, because the plot is always the same.

I like the idea, but unfortunately most PCs don’t boot from USB out of the box. It requires a few easy steps, but this might just be enough for a lot of people not to try it.

Just like many other good distros, Friends ended when the larger one ate the smaller ones.

Pulled Winnie the Pooh.

It’s honey marinated and fat.

“not all cultures in the southern hemisphere named it because it is always either close to the horizon or invisible. For instance, the Brazilian Tucano people called it the Large Anus of the Snake and in Samoa it forms part of the Heirloom Warclub.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-trace-society-rsquo-s-myths-to-primordial-origins/

The thing is that native American didn’t get the name from Greek, yet, it is still reference to a bear.

Some constellations, including the Great Bear, were named long before our languages even existed.

Etymology wise we might say it comes from ancient Greek, but it’s also called Great Bear in languages that have no origin in Greek.

Wikipedia - Cosmic Hunt

I’m going out on a limb here, but I believe the Great Bear is actually named after a great bear.

Not all cultures though. In Brazil, the Big Dipper is also known as “large anus of the snake”.

Photo retouching as a physical trade. Colour photography and instant development killed the art of retouching black and white photos almost from one day to the next, because nobody could retouch colour photos and nobody wanted to pay for retouching black and white photos anymore, when Polaroids were easy to reshoot. My grandparents did it, but had to close the shop in the 1980s. I still have a few of their pens, but most of it ended up in a museum.

50 years ago was in the 1970s. I actually think more skills were lost just in the 20 years prior to that than after. This is due to mass production and plastic, which created the consumer products since the 1960s. Prior to that, you’d actually consider all products (except food) to be a purchase for life.

Sunvox is a masterpiece. Perfect for small size audio. It’s strange that it isn’t more widely used in game development or even webpages. Not just because of small sizes, but because it’s also possible to interact with the music, while it’s being generated. I have no idea of how to classify this as a piece of software but it’s mind boggling powerfull and it still runs perfectly on any potato.

It would be nice to have better recording options than using the sampler, but I guess that defies the purpose of it.

I play all the rock instruments and then some. I never got along with fretless strings or horns, because they require much more practice.

My main interests are in theory, composing and synthesizers, so I like instruments that are playable from a logic approach rather than muscle memory.

I’m still pretty technically decent with guitars and the djembe. Maybe blues harp too.

If I were to join a band, it’d probably be on bass though.

My daughter’s school did something similar. It was a project about future city development, where groups of kids could create their own visions of what the harbour in the city should be like.

Some went sciency and made robotic models and programmed led-strips and such, but most just painted the sides of cardboard boxes as a restaurant and printed a menu card, focusing on the business aspects.

The school then invited parents and the city council to come see the presentations and to vote on the best project.

They did all the work in school hours, so it’s not like the parents could assist if they wanted to. Of course some kids could potentially ask their parents for funding for expensive robots but I don’t think anyone did or what the point would be. It wasn’t a graded project and the winners got a bag of candy, so it’s hardly worth cheating for.

Go to the small concert venues and see them play.

The spectrum:

No doubt. I’m glad I had my 20s to roam around before getting kids, but I’m even more happy to still be young enough that I can travel the world and participate in physical activities with my kids as well. Having kids doesn’t have to mean giving up on experiencing life. They’re part of it, and they’re the best people to share it with. In hindsight, I probably could have cut my party years short by five years without missing a thing. Having kids was the best thing in my life. It might not be for everybody.

I’m in the late 40s now, and I feel it’s too late to have more by now. I know people who do in that age. Divorced couples going for the late common child or DINKs who finally made enough money. It looks really tough for them. It’s temporarily hard work for a couple of years. It’s hard if you’re young and don’t have money, but it’s also hard when you’re old and less agile and physical on top.