It’s funny that a hangover in Dutch is a kater, or, (male) Katze

tl;dr: things are bad, things will get worse, be angry at the criminals, not those sounding the alarm

We've known what we're in for for half a century, meanwhile governments have kept catering to fossil industries. What's being destroyed by governmental inaction dwarfs that what you accuse these groups of (art has not been destroyed) and at this point I'm not surprised that people are looking to more disruptive and direct action.

We've had scientists do the researching and informing, public interest groups do litigation, NGOs trying what they can themselves, etc, yet we're still headed to a degree of climate destabilization where large ecosystem tipping points may well launch us into uncharted territory - and even if not, we're already past the point of 'dangerous' climate change and that's something we'll have to bear the human, societal and economic costs for.

“I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, 'cause you guys paid for all this. So seriously, for every Amazon customer out there, and every Amazon employee, thank you from the bottom of my heart, very much. It's very appreciated.”

~ Jeff Bezos, July 2021, as he departs for space tourism

It did happen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

Okami! Please, more!

Windows 2.1 in a VM on Linux viewed over Spice in an SSH-forwarded X11 session running on WSL2 with XWayland forwarded over RDP to a Windows 11 desktop: https://deskto.ps/u/sjmulder/d/fztjse

It’s silly and sad that Diablo even requires a Battle.net connection 😞

“So!”

I like Void, it feels a little more like a BSD. But I’ve only really used it for experimentation, no idea what it’s like as a daily driver.

You could also try an actual BSD. OpenBSD has a very clear style and direction which I like but be careful when partitioning, they have their own ‘disklabel’ system. Updates are really streamlined with syspatch and sysupgrade.

NetBSD had a nice TUI installer. It may appear a bit less focussed on its aims but has a lot going for it: many supporter platforms, a friendly community, etc.

There’s also FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, possibly more but I don’t have much experience with those.

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Why do they have one at all if they’re going to blatantly not comply

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Loved cheese but not having it any more. Not my milk not my cheese. My pleasure can’t come at the expense of another sentient, innocent being, especially not if that involves forced impregnation, being caged up, and having your children be taken almost right away who then often end up being killed because there’s no use.

I donate plasma regularly - at least once per month. It’s illegal to pay people for blood or plasma here in the Netherlands so I’m just in it for the good feels. I also like the downtime and relaxed chatting and joking with the people who work there.

It’s absolutely acceptable. Driving isn’t some untouchable human right that goes above everything else and can’t yield to something else for a little bit.

“U bent verkeerd verbonden” (for calls)

“U heeft het verkeerde nummer” (generic)

Run them over?!

I live in a small city of about 90k and I love it. We have the important amnesties, eg shopping and a hospital, but in a few minutes you’re out in the open fields. Meanwhile buses to nearby large city depart every 6 to 30 min from my street.

Haha don’t need to treat socialism like a taboo, there’s more to the world than the US and laissez-faire capitalism.

I did indeed misread the first sentence of comment, apologies.

Took on a bit too much recently and this week it peaks with an event/lecture I helped organise, wrapping up a fundraising drive for an NGO, and then there's piano lesson, German class and sports.

Like I said it's too much so it's time to take a break from volunteer work for a bit and I've cancelled my piano classes - playing is fun but having to practice consistently is not.

I wouldn’t mind it for that reason. The Red Cross do good work that need to be financed.

Here in the Netherlands they do that by contracting out volunteers for first aid services to events like fairs and runs. The volunteer donates their time, gets trained for free, the Red Cross gets paid by the organiser and makes money for their mission and an small army of experienced first aid people and EMTs to help out when disaster strikes.

I’m such a volunteer and it’s a great distraction from my normal job. I also get to use my skills outside of the Red Cross, e.g. as an action medic at protests.

Cool sidenote: there’s this network any CPR certified person can join to get alerted by emergency dispatch when CPR is needed close to your home or work. This has helped massively to get CPR started within 6 minutes mostly anywhere in the country, even when ambulances can’t get there that quickly.

We usually go to a small holiday home my dad owns for a week or two in summer - we need to book that early in the year.

Then we do maybe one or two long shorter train trips to other European cities. More often than not that’s to see a musical theatre production, so we book those when they are announced, maybe half a year in advance. Otherwise it could be just days or weeks out!

Iain Banks, such a brilliant author. Good sense of humour too.

It’s all in the suspended chords

When you try to call the Red Cross to ask why you failed the first aid exam 😄

This is very exciting! I’ve played and enjoyed each of these games a bunch and will certainly get this when it comes out. Don’t care much for creative stuff but more Bit Trip is always better 😁

Caught a virus or something. Working from home so not a big deal but uncomfortable.

Hopefully the workday won’t be like yesterday, a flurry of “fix it now” situations pre-empting each other 😣

Two of my favourite tools!

Thanks! And for CMR 2 it turns out it was working fine, the PS2 analog stick is just a bit more primitive to what we're used to now. But much better than digital in any case!

Thanks, that's it for the PS3!

Yes! I got it again on PS1 a while back and still like to play it.

I didn’t mind 3 but 2 will be my first and greatest love in this series! The first was also fun but a bit more difficult to parse visually imo.

That’s a planning problem imo, from small towns to metropolises groceries, health clinic, some entertainment can be in walking distance.

Fantastic 🙏 thanks again!

Living in a small Dutch city (~90k) near a major city, where I work.

• Walking to local square with supermarkets/hairdressers/cafe's/etc. Just a few minutes.
• Cycling pretty much everywhere else in the city, mostly visiting family and friends.
• Public transport everywhere else (which makes up the bulk). Two bus stops in ~5 min walk, railway station <10 min bike ride.

Only in the last few years have I come to appreciate how lucky I am to live in such a well designed place. What my hometown does especially well is traffic segregation - there's a good network of carfree/lite routes throughout the city. Not just great for cycling but also running.

It's not perfect though. For example, public transport is focussed on going to and from nearby cities, for getting around within our own city it's quite terrible. Until my wife got an ebike it was hard for her to get to the other side of town.

I do in fact sit down for an hour once or twice a month to give plasma without compensation and many other people do so as well, given that it’s illegal to be paid for blood or plasma here in the Netherlands, but I can see why paying people a bit would help.

The reason people can’t get paid for it here is to avoid perverse incentives, mainly people donating when they shouldn’t, lying on the form or to the doctor to pass the pre-donation check.

Awesome, thank you!

Lots, mostly due to a gaming weekend with a friend! Mainly;

• Super Mario Wonder (Switch). Finished it way back but was stuck on the completion road. Got all but one of the medals now!

• Okami (PS3, 4). Gifted it to that friend after finishing it after a 10 year hiatus. What a gem! We played a bit more of it together.

• Final Fantasy XII (Switch). Just a few hours in, not sure what to think of it yet. I’m not a big RPG fan, she is. I certainly like the setting and style.

• Train Valley 1 and 2 (Linux). Completed the first. It was good but also addictive in a bad way to me.

I got a teddy bird and a puzzle! Worth it.