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- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 1 day ago:
And a second one
- Comment on Mandatory programmer outfit :3 (First post) 1 day ago:
I rate 9 out of 7
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 1 day 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? 4 days ago:
Aaah before, not in. Why didn’t anyone tell me
- Comment on What's the deal with breakfast in bed? 5 days 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? 3 weeks ago:
Hitler.
- Comment on I've ordered bucket of lava but they keep delivering different product 4 weeks ago:
What did you get instead? Something fun?
- Comment on transformation 4 weeks ago:
People can change
- Comment on Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands? 4 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? 4 weeks ago:
You’re right :)
- Comment on Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands? 4 weeks ago:
Anyone who says how others should vote is against democracy 🙂
- Comment on Experts disagree 4 weeks ago:
It’s not slave labour if they’re elves!
- Comment on EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system 4 weeks ago:
Gotta protect the banks
- Comment on Can someone give me some primers/resources on understanding politics in the Netherlands? 4 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 4 weeks ago:
Trying to salvage their metaverse investments?
- Comment on Every action has a reaction 4 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? 4 weeks ago:
Same :)
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 4 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? 4 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? 4 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? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks :)
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 4 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? 4 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 4 weeks ago:
Don’t threaten me with a good time
- Comment on Every action has a reaction 4 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
The sister comments to this one is already calling the poster a fascist :)
- Comment on Political discourse 5 weeks ago:
Preferring discourse over violence
- Comment on Every action has a reaction 5 weeks ago:
No, I’m just honestly telling what you look like. You are making your own and everyone’s life worse.