Countries need to reduce their dependency on the US first:

• The US is the strongest force within NATO, so with Russia getting more aggressive, Europe and Canada need to quickly build up a stronger army.
• The US is NATO’s largest supplier of weapons, so Europe and Canada need to invest in their weapons industry.
• The US is the worlds largest manufacturer of CPU’s and GPU’s. While there are non-US alternatives, these are not as good and are designed for custom build electronics rather than desktops, laptops and servers.
• Most international payments go via the US (even a lot of international payments within Europe). Countries need to persuade their banks to find new ways to do international payments, but the current system is pretty advantages for the banks, so they are reluctant to agree.
• Most cloud infrastructure is in the US. Other countries will need to move their data out of the US.
• The US is a large provider of humanitarian aid, and the largest exporter of food. Poor countries will have to find a new way to get those resources.

It depends on (sub)culture, but mainly yes.

Bars were often cheap too, so going to the bar multiple times per week was not expensive. The reason these bars were cheap:

• Outside of touristic areas ground is cheap.
• If the local government allows it, the bar can on the owners property.
• The owner and customers were often friends, so friend pricing would be standard.
• Health and safety regulations used to be less strict. Allowing for lower prices.
• The bar was open whenever the owner wanted, instead of on a fixed schedule, making it more easy to combine with a second job.
• Bars rarely had a menu, they just sold whatever they had in stock. Today customers would be upset if an item on the menu was not in stock.

Also,

• Parks used to be less safe and less well maintained, so buying drinks in the supermarket and consuming them in the park wasn’t really an option.
• The internet wasn’t a thing, so people who wanted to spend the evening gaming had to do so in the bar.

If you’re not a biologist you probably don’t care, but the fact is

#A carpet is not actually a pet at all

Telling a carpet from a pet:

• carpets spend very little time begging for food
• carpets don’t scream when you step on them
• there is no such thing as a teacher’s carpet

If you’re using lighter cheaper materials No, I’m using the same materials. sloped roofs are simply a stronger geometry, allowing roofs to be cheaper and lighter by using less material.

No, for the same amount of occupiable space the shorter flat roof blocks less light than a standard 10:12 or 12:12 roof Incorrect. While the highest point of a sloped roof is higher than the highest point of a flat roof, the lowest point is lower. This means that for medium high sun angles sloped roofs provide won’t block the sunlight, while flat roofs do, and for low sun angles it is the other way around. However, there is not much sunlight anyway at low angles.

The greater surface area of a pitched roof means this is absolutely not true. The hypotenuse is always longer than either leg. That’s a basic math fail. The highest volume-to-surface-area-ratio is achieved in a spherical design, A slope roof that has a less than 45 degree angle is closer to a sphere.

Do you have any real disadvantages of sloped roofs?

It’s besically android without the Google parts.

I just bought the Fairphone 6 with /e/os. I am pleasantly surprised with how many apps work just fine.

I have a similar thing with flat roofs. They are terrible. When you are 5 years old, you already learn to draw houses with a pointy roof. The pointy roof has been invented about a 100 times in history, as people were looking for the best shape. The wave shaped roof tile with 2 waves per tile has been invented about 3 times in history as people were looking for the best shape. The advantages of a pointy roof over a flat roof:

• Rain flows off. Yes, you can give a flat roof a small inclination, but rain will not flow as well, and if your roof tilts a small bit during the decades, it can become horizontal again.
• Snow falls off, reducing the chance that the roof collapses under the weight of heavy snow.
• It is lighter and cheaper, as you can use thinner materials. This is because pointy is a stronger shape than flat.
• It gives more interior space.
• It allows more sunlight to reach the street.
• It has a smaller area-to-vloume-ratio through with heat can escape.
• Solar panels get a higher efficiency.
• It allows the roof to be made out of wavy roof tiles which provide the following advantages:
• Roofs designed with wavy roof tiles can be constructed when it rains.
• When a tile breaks, you can easily replace it, without having to cut it loose from the tiles next to it.
• Roof tiles do not fracture upon an uneven heat distribution. Meanwhile, the advantages of flat roofs are:
• If you design an apartment building, you can copy and paste the interior. (Thus less work for the architect.)
• A horizontal line is one segment less to draw compared to two diagonals. (Thus less work for the architect.)
• If a city has the same height restrictions for flat roofed buildings as for pointy roofed buildings, and the architect is too lazy to go to the city council to explain to them that that doesn’t make sense, the architect can design a building with more volume by making the roof flat. In other words: the only reason any architect would design a building with a flat roof is because they are either lazy or they have no idea what they are doing.