I was at one of the best schools in Turkey for a week on exchange.

The cafeteria food i got to try was good but probably nothing special for Turkey in terms of dish selection and such. I really mostly remember eating sucuc scrambled eggs and sipping tea every morning.

We only had one dinner at the school while I was there which was very nice and fancy, but it also was separate from the normal boarding school dinner. So quite a bit nicer for just our group of 60 especially I’d guess in terms of presentation. The chefs running the show were the same tho so the taste should be quite good even for regular dinner.

The rest of the evenings as far as I can remember we were eating out and getting hammered in downtown Istanbul so the host students at least had some allowance to burn and so did the rest of us.

I don’t think I really ate anything that was close to bad or unappealing that entire week, but im also not that picky and Turkish food obviously slaps.

German (no menu unfortunately): https://www.istanbullisesi.net/ Turkish (with menu) : https://istanbulerkeklisesi.meb.k12.tr/

Need For Speed Most wanted (2005), Need for speed music of that time period was kinda goated in general.

There are a few factors that stand in the way of this setup, but a milder version of this where we are generally trying to tie power grids together to transmit solar and wind power from places with favorable conditions to users is underway. I know for example of at least one large project where Singapore is installing large scale solar in Australia and building undersea cables for transmission (1). So we are going in this direction despite difficulty.

The main issues are:

• Transmission is difficult and expensive. High voltage power lines especially undersea or very long ones are expensive things to construct, and still relatively uncommon and therefore specialized compared to regular grid infrastructure.
• Oftentimes solar in the dessert is actually not that favorable in price especially if you factor in the transmission which is not 100% efficient. The site in the dessert might require security especially in places which are perceived as insecure or unstable and regular cleaning if the dessert is dusty. And solar obviously benefits from more sun hours and no cloud cover, but high temperature eats into that advantage somewhat, as solar cells are less efficient at high temperatures (2).
• The management and bureaucratic overhead rises for larger projects and projects involving several countries which is an issue for both regular grid interconnection but also purpose specific generation and transmission involving 2 or more countries.

There are probably other issues but work is being pursued nonetheless.

(1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link

Other examples I could find with a quick google:

China: https://www.renewable-ei.org/pdfdownload/activities/GEIDCO_191126.pdf

EU: https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/breaking-borders-europe-electricity-interconnectors/

US: https://www.gridunited.com/projects/

(2):https://8msolar.com/solar-panel-efficiency-vs-temperature/

I wouldn’t think so, mostly because it’s long and not straightforward to read/pronounce.

I find my parents approach to naming to be quite reasonable : Give a short and easy to pronounce/understand first name, and a more creative/interesting and longer second name.

Short names generally make things easier, and about half of the people I know that have long first names (3 or more syllables) have adopted a shortened version of their name or an unrelated nickname for everyday use.

Steffie instead of Stephanie, tini instead of christine, Ulli instead of ulrich, johan for Johannes, max for Maximilian…