Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 90

"In 2023, the government proposed to cut the direct elect seats of district councilors from 452 to 88 seats while the total seats cut from 479 to 470 seats. Besides, all district councilors candidate who opt for election must be vetted and passed by the new District Council Eligibility Review Committee. The proposal has been approved by Legislative Council in July 2023."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District…

Never seen a District Council election promoted as hard as this one.

Probably because the new "better governance" election it's the most useless and pointless district election since the District Boards were established 40 years ago.

#hongkong #antiELAB

Thinking about ST PIC S1,2,3 it all blends together. I liked bits and pieces of a lot of it, but it was quite incoherent. S3 was confusing because I feel like I'm mixing up two seasons, but it's the writers that mixed up two Big Bads.

I appreciate a lot of what they were trying to do and all the elements were in place, but the ending of each season was quite, I don't know, abrupt and a fizzle at the same time. The S2 ending was a bit more satisfying than the other two.

@Kermode "Mainly Eurasian" and the furthest west explicitly mentioned is Iceland:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry

You *may* be right that you have them wild.

Wording and connotations mean so much.

Millennials: Spoiled brats who live entirely off quinoa avocado smoothies and can't tie their sholaces or hold a job

People born in the late Second Millennium: Ancient sages

@Borup I've learned "Genosse", don't know from where. Herr Lehmann, perhaps. Or Good Bye, Lenin. Or Das Leben der Anderen. So many good Wende-films. =)

@Thomas

@Borup Yeah, but I used to keep my top 3 safe. Not so anymore.

Maybe I need to start watching some Kommissar Rex or something. 😃

@Desikner My Swedish is deteriorating and anglifying. 😔

I used to speak only Swedish to my son, but in the last two years I've been increasingly responding in English when he starts conversation in English.

I think I've found a lower plateau of Swedish level for now though. I have several people I IM with in Swedish and sometimes call, which helps me not drop any further.

I also overcompensate a bit when writing or speaking Swedish with people who are not my son, so I'm probably using fewer English words and Anglicisms than some people in Sweden. 😁

My brain has usually had four shelves for languages:

- Swedish
- English
- German
- Other

When I started learning Japanese, Spanish words started falling out, and my brain would give me "kedo" when I was looking for "pero" ("but").

When I started learning Cantonese it pushed out my Japanese and I could no longer make simple sentences in Japanese.

But the other day when I was trying to think something in German, Cantonese words intruded on my German shelf. This is new and worrying. I'm not really better at Cantonese than a few years ago, just worse at German. 😟

It feels silly to order basic food items online, but that's what I do for popcorn kernels and red lentils too. Ordered three bottled of Maggi now.

Free shipping! 😄

Why do none of the supermarkets have my favorite chili tomato sauce any more?!

maggi.co.uk/products/maggi-aut…

"Hahn's experiments inspired others to attempt similar feats, particularly Taylor Wilson, who at age 14 became the youngest person to produce nuclear fusion."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ha…