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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to quit quitting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. Should be the other way around?

  Can just send your family to work. If you’re alone that option isn’t available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a month that's relevant to me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Enjoy your special month!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You try to save them all by tackling the guy on the second track

  Or ask the train driver to stop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Close!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And a second one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mandatory programmer outfit :3 (First post)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I rate 9 out of 7

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started an affair with a married woman that has a 2 year old. Boy it’s a rollercoaster!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aaah before, not in. Why didn’t anyone tell me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s the other way around. After eating I want to clean my teeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hitler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've ordered bucket of lava but they keep delivering different product⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What did you get instead? Something fun?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨transformation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People can change

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Sea has been shaping NL and it’s society for ages. Keeping it at bay (which is one of the tasks of waterschap I guess) is a life-or-death task.

  Indeed. I like that they decided that politicians shouldn’t meddle with important engineering. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who says how others should vote is against democracy 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experts disagree⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not slave labour if they’re elves!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And mandatory identification/age-verification online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta protect the banks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of the most democratic countries on earth (1).

  There’s the national, provincial and municipal levels. With some weird stuff like water management (waterschap) being it’s own electable agency outside of the typical political system.

  On the national level there’s the executive (cabinet), and a 2 tier legislative (parliament and senate).

  It has a very low electoral threshold, so new parties can come (and go) quite fast. Last elections BBB (Boer Burger Beweging/“Farmer Citizen Action”) was such a surprise winner. So governance is almost always through a coalition of parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to salvage their metaverse investments?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m saying the empathic are the good guys.

  That just doesn’t include you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  enough of the local language to buy stuff and ask for directions

  You convinced me on that one. Perhaps they should enough of the language for day-to-day niceties. The particular problem with Belgium is that this means they should learn both basic French and Dutch :-p Most french speaking Belgians don’t even do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it a bit strange that people choose to move to Norway and work in Norway, but don’t learn the language

  Depens on if they intend to move permanently, no? Most of my non-belgian colleagues don’t intend to stay in belgium long-term. Can’t fault them for that :)

  When they do intend on moving permanently, I share your point of view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do drug cartels let the US and other countries "catch" their shipments? Like the US caught 1 billion of drugs over here while we ship 6 billion worth of drugs over there?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t extort, but they did ask to essentially look the other way and in turn they will handle any hostilities of other groups.

  Maybe not clear as daylight extortion. But I imagine it’s a precarious position nonetheless? Had your father not been as “easy going”, he could be the problem they’d take out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I work at a place where halve of the people speak dutch, the other halve come from all over the world.

  It helps when everyone speaks the same language, and can jump in and out of conversation whenever.

  It’s illegal for them to actually ban the use of Dutch, as this is in Belgium. But it’s also just a dick move to exclude halve of the people from conversation, just because it’s convenient to some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do drug cartels let the US and other countries "catch" their shipments? Like the US caught 1 billion of drugs over here while we ship 6 billion worth of drugs over there?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s some info on this from Belgium. The Antwerp harbour is known to be one of the major drug ports of EU. A couple of gangs operating through it used a breached “secure” messaging service called Sky-ECC.

  The messages showed that there were severe punishments whenever a shipment got caught in the harbor. Like kidnapping and torture of those “responsible”. With the henchmen providing video proof to the gang leaders, often hiding in Dubai and other countries with lesser diplomatic ties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Natural selection at work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t threaten me with a good time