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by mpol 5y ago
Can I mention that I found that the most horrible book I have read in years? The first 50 pages were doable when scrolling through. But soon it dived into how introvert people can be successful, while that success is measured in extravert w
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by mpol 5y ago
> is there another good more FOSSy phone I can turn to? I have been using Sailfish OS from Jolla since 2014 as daily driver and only phone. It is usable as a daily driver but you can notice it doesn't have the billions of developmen
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by mpol 5y ago
Car drivers get trained when doing driving lessons. There are so many roundabouts that you have to cooperate as a car driver. Also, it is well-known that when an accident happens, the car driver gets the financial damage, and yes, the insur
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by mpol 5y ago
Ouch, that is a lot. There is something like Serotonin Irritation Syndrome which can cause aggressive feelings and thoughts. Personally I tried to increase my serotonin twice, once with Tryptophan a few years ago and recently with Inositol.
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by mpol 5y ago
Could it be you wrote about this some weeks ago? It seems Sweden didn't really copy Dutch planning. We do have some furniture boulevards on the edge of cities, also other bigger stores, like hardware stores and IKEA. But supermarkets a
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by mpol 5y ago
It seems there is a misconception I see here more often. For daily shopping, you can stay in your neighbourhood. Every neighbourhood of 10,000 people has a supermarket and some additional shops. Many primary schools as well. Going to the in
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by mpol 5y ago
This will be about Highschool. Or better, "middelbare school" which is for everyone between 12 and 16 (or 18). There is also MBO, which is between 16 and 20 and can be a follow-up, depending on context. Younger children will go to
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by mpol 5y ago
No no, these cities are for everybody. Yes, the inner cities and in big cities the next ring of neighbourhoods are often expensive, prices drive out less wealthy people. But even if you live in a neighbourhood on the edge of a big city, or
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by mpol 5y ago
> "Families and seniors suck up tons of the city's social services budget and don't engage in much taxable activity per capita. The incentives are there for the city to want them gone and there is no incentive for the city
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by mpol 5y ago
It was the new way of thinking. Concrete buildings were modern, old stuff was just old stuff. There was no real insight in what highways would mean, it was all new. In Zwolle similar stuff happened. They tore down an old church for a square
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by mpol 5y ago
Agreed with all your points, but to be fair, when starting on this it can easily feel as a burden, at least it did for me. I also sense some insecurity, which is a very human trait. And not in the least, it can be good to understand where y
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by mpol 5y ago
> Don't work on FOSS you aren't using yourself anymore. I think there is still some middleground possible. It can still be enjoyable doing small support stuff for it and to keep it running and fixing small bugs, without any big
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by mpol 5y ago
If you allow me to throw in an idea, and please correct me if you see fit. In earlier times the Confucian pacifist ways of China were not up to the aggression of Western Europe, the US and Japan. In more recent times they learned to deal be
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by mpol 5y ago
Any love for Hackles? I have read them twice now from start to end: http://hackles.org/index.html
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by mpol 5y ago
Two decades, sure, but two centuries? If sea level is about to rise 1 or 2 or 3 meters, things will surely change more than what we see now. I live in the Netherlands, I am not worried about myself. But the world for our children might look
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by mpol 5y ago
> [...] enough humans to run an advanced society. [...] I think generational change is a major driver of innovation [...] That is a good point, and I would like to add that currently most young people on this planet are not part of innov
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by mpol 5y ago
The dark horse in this race will be climate changes. These predictions look natural, as extrapolation from the current situation with decreasing growth in population. I hope we (the politicians) don't hold tight to a strict plan, becau
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by mpol 5y ago
"[...]The behavior of the pro-Zwarte Piet hooligans you're defending [...]" How am I defending them? I am calling them out as scum. These are the same people turning violent on the police in Rotterdam a month ago because foot
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by mpol 5y ago
"[...] are much more violent [...]" You want to argue that one extremist group is less or more violent than the other? Well, you just made my point :) Both extremist groups are scum. In the Netherlands we don't solve things w
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by mpol 5y ago
In both extremist sides there are people calling for violence. That way they disturb normal conversation. Even the Dutch NCTV, the government anti-terrorism organisation, labeled them as extremists, with the mention that they had not used v
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by mpol 5y ago
"Ironically Sinterklass and his cringe-worthy blackfaced Zwarte Piet servants would have sided with the racist pro-slavery Confederacy, not the Union." No, just no. They are freed slaves, freed by St. Nicolas. The discussion in th
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by mpol 5y ago
Not an answer, mostly a hint :) But could it be that the folklore of Odin / Wodan came there through the Vikings? The Dutch Sinterklaas is partly based on the Wild Hunt of Odin. Odin might have inspired more civilisations with the same
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by mpol 5y ago
if this variant is more contagious than Delta Plus, we will see it spreading in the UK. The UK seems to be the hub for corona variants. Alpha and Delta variants went haywire, if this one spreads in the UK we should be on alert.
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by mpol 5y ago
I used it with 2x 466Mhz Celerons on stock speed. It was my first experience with SMP. When compiling something with 'make -j1' on one CPU, Netscape 4.5 would run smooth on the other CPU. It did crumble under load though. Compilin
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by mpol 5y ago
There is not only loyalty in that situation. There is also lying to your partner and the children, and the example and values that you give to your children. Apparently the children are important to you, otherwise you would be gone from a b
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by mpol 5y ago
So tell us, how does the real world work? I can understand it if someone ends up in a relationship that has no life in it anymore, but they are loyal to the children. Still, that still raises questions about trustworthiness.
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by mpol 5y ago
If prices are increasing faster than the maintenance that is needed :) Hoarding used cars for a slightly long time will have them deteriorate somewhat. Some will have small issues, some might have bigger. Theoretical value might be higher,
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Suomenlinna (Sailfish OS 4.3 released, Linux for mobile phones)(blog.jolla.com)
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by mpol 5y ago
Thank you, seems interesting. Down into a rabbit hole again :)
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by mpol 5y ago
Some more info is in an article of mine. I do need to update it, because I am using a low dose of antispychotics again. https://timelord.nl/gezondheid/biologische-hefbomen.html?lan... Histamine apparently caused a lot

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