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

  Hitler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've ordered bucket of lava but they keep delivering different product⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What did you get instead? Something fun?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨transformation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People can change

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who says how others should vote is against democracy 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experts disagree⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And mandatory identification/age-verification online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta protect the banks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to salvage their metaverse investments?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t threaten me with a good time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do I think anyone should be killed for their beliefs? No.

  Then why celebrate it? It’s about realizing that celebrating violence over discource creates an inhumane escalating cycle that hurts all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Political discourse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is that violence, including the threat to commit it, works more often than not.

  If your thinking is very short term. Long term it starts a cycle of increasing violence in which everyone loses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Political discourse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The sister comments to this one is already calling the poster a fascist :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Political discourse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Preferring discourse over violence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m just honestly telling what you look like. You are making your own and everyone’s life worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think that that’s what I’m doing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Far from the worst, why would you assume that? It’s just that the juxtaposition between the name and the behaviour was so large!

  look like an ass like you are now

  Far from it! I’m just genuinely giving my point of view. When we say the US is going crazy, we’re not solely talking about the trumpers. Everyone sees that, but the people in it. Living in dirt makes people forget how filthy they’ve become themselves, doesn’t it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody would choose to have your personality, so I assume you must carry a lot of pain 😟

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not crying. I’m just letting you know that I think you’re being an awful person. And that the constant pain you feel is self-inflicted, you’re making things worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, see the cycle? Are you dampening it or accelerating it?

  The terrible feeling of doom won’t get better by doing the latter.