It depends on your plumbing. If your sink’s waste pipe is large enough, and has enough slope, and you put enough water down the drain to wash all the solids through the pipe, then you can certainly put food down the sink drain.

In my house the kitchen sink’s waste pipe is smaller than what the toilets use. And it makes a long, minimally-sloped run to the main sewer connection. That pipe will clog in a hurry if I put food down the kitchen sink drain.

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I think that goes to my point about simple comparisons being difficult. Norway has a high GDP relative to its size, so 4% might be more than enough for their situation. You also have to account for things like the labor cost of teachers, which varies by country.

Comparing things like this between countries is not straightforward. For example, Australia spends $14.1k per student while New Zealand spends $8.6k. That’s about 5.2% of GDP for both countries. From those numbers, would we conclude that Australia is overpaying, or New Zealand is underpaying, or that the two countries are comparable?

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education-spending-by-country

If the mountain contains valuable minerals then the cost will be negative; you can make money by removing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining

Though, depending on the geology, you might not want to build a town on the resulting site. Sometimes heavy metals leach out of the disturbed rock, resulting in polluted surface water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_mine_drainage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit

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While not being exactly what you are proposing, you could consider mastodon.social and lemmy.world the de facto front page for each service. They are by far the largest and best-known instances in their respective networks. Many new users start at those instances, get their toes wet, and then branch out.

I’m not arguing that’s how the network should be structured, though.

Well-meaning people: We are requiring the city to install X miles of bicycle infrastructure!

City: Slaps some paint in the right lane of a busy road and calls it a bike path. Done!

Unintended discharges aren’t a bug; they are a feature to keep life exciting!

Not so much eating, but having to choose what to eat, prepare/order it, and clean up afterwards. Sometimes, after a full day, it’s one chore too many.

Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/dec/20/rage-against-machine-christmas-number-1

TIL. This is awesome.

That’s awesome work!

Mom unplugged the router as punishment for not washing your own laundry.

That looks… uncomfortable.

It’s wild how many episodes have been edited or removed from circulation due to their content.

https://renandstimpy.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_banned/censored_episodes

“O-hi-o-hi-o!
Round on the end, hi in the middle”

It’s a joke from his first album.

https://youtu.be/c2_3P4jJNxw

Jesus, that came out in 1999. I feel really old all of a sudden.

The same article could be written about many things China produces, not just solar panels and batteries. China spent decades learning to dominate in high-volume, low-margin manufacturing. They developed massive economies of scale, and lots of manufacturing expertise, both of which translate to labor efficiency that other countries can’t match.

The article also quietly mentions the fact that China has an abundance of cheap coal to power all those factories. That’s a big part of its advantage in “Processing $” in the third figure.

“If it wasn’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.”
– Lewis Black

I would start by contacting the nearest Ukrainian embassy.

https://mfa.gov.ua/en/diplomatic-missions/foreign-diplomatic-institutions-ukraine

Also, check whether your home country will have an issue with you serving a foreign military.