I would imagine it’s the pain for locals where housing costs a fortune and the city becomes a ghost town out of season.

You had McDonalds? That was just a farm in my day. Eee-eye-eee-eye-oh!

They’re raising it because of RAM needs of browsers and GNOME.

If you’re a shell nerd like me, you’ll still be fine running it on a potato.

Macrohard Window

The use of weasel words to shirk clarity on commitment is a bit of an indicator that they don’t mean what you said.

I get the vibe that Europe isn’t interested in participation in another Afghanistan or Iraq war.

We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait.

Nothing about safeguarding. Contributions to “appropriate efforts” could be anything from providing SIGINT, teaching someone how to use an anti-drone capability, to tutting loudly.

Appropriate is quite the weasel word in this context.

And whatever “appropriate” is, the group will only be contributing towards “appropriate”, not doing “appropriate” directly.