Are figs rare in central europe climates?

I live in Hungary and they seem to be relatively widespread, if not as much as in southern Europe.

The climate in Hungary is really not quite the same as in Stuttgart...

We have had figs in southern Germany for decades. Not all varieties grow well here of course but just having figs growing doesn't really tell you much.

People/companies are already testing avocado, banana, and coffee plantations in Italy at scale. Climate change really is insane.

This is true with basically every place and a proper guide.

I understand why people don't usually hire a person to walk then around when they're traveling solo or with their family, but if you're a mildly curious person it's a fantastic way to experience museums, archeology and nature.

Competitors run out of money and shut down, perhaps. Although I don't see how that happens for anyone but Google.

Do we all shift over to Chinese models.

Yes.

I used to unthinkingly put icons everywhere.

Then, once, a designer friend was doing some UI and I suggested using icons instead of edit/view text or something like that, and he replied "I don't believe in the thaumaturgic power of icons" and that somehow changed my perspective forever.

Nothing to do with you, but I wish I could just say "I don't believe in the thaumaturgic power of AI" to achieve a similar effect.

Say it five times into a mirror and Sam Altman will appear to deliver your pink slip.

I think icons are nice, but using icons instead of labels, is a terrible design decision in principle. It might be acceptable for your power users, or if you know your project is only used by you and your household or something like that. My company just did this for mobile to save space. It's so confusing even though I use our product every day. Humans can read short labels faster than they can decipher icons.

But this is about poetry, would Twain qualify as a poet?

My vote would go to Edgar Lee Masters because the spoon river anthology is one of the few poetry books I actually read, and it exemplifies a lot of the American spirit, IMVHO.

It's at least arguably about storytelling. You don't sit around the fire talking in verse for your entertainment.

For instance, one of Homer's works is in the news due to a film being made of it.

I suppose that suggests the Coen brothers.

Well, yes, the Coen brothers did do the best version of the Odyssey for screen after all.

The vast majority of Cervantes's work was not in poetry, either. I think the idea is more "emblematic national storyteller" than poet in the narrow sense.

Musk and Trump had a pretty public break up, I think this is one fuckup where we shouldn't blame him.

You're six months out of date. They're buds again.

Maybe Trump has money in it. Who needs friends when you have money. “It’s just business”. No idea, I don’t really follow this soap drama.

I think that's changing too, my son got some cheap radio controlled boat a few weeks ago, the remote uses AA and the boat has USB-C as input (interestingly enough, it has a weird USB-C cable with a built in light to signal when charging is done).

but with interrail the "useful" thing was to travel overnight, because that saves you one night of $$ for loding, so slow is actually fine.

I don't think fast trains (TGV, Frecciarossa etc) were ever covered by the interrail ticket anyway, were they?

They are covered, but you need a surcharge or a seat reservation, or both.

I don't think so, I lived the peak of budget airlines in the 00s and interrail was still quite popular.

I think young kids have just moved on culturally, I tried to convince a couple relatives to make use of the 18yo free trains opportunity and nobody wanted to pick it up, for various reasons.