So wait, bit-shifting some integers is now considered being malicious? Is that really the defense here? Using that definition just about all software in existence is malicious.

My grandparent’s desktop computer. I didn’t break the hardware, but i set the default font size in windows 98 to some ludicrously high value. That made it so large the OS became unusable and the dialog to change it back was also unusable. Probably a quick terminal command would have fixed it within a couple seconds but I wasn’t old enough to understand that and my parents weren’t very tech-savvy.

Dried grasshopper does really taste like prawn crackers.

I think 5 or 6. I’d get to experience living in different cultures without having to abandon friends and family in my current location.

The mammoth one is uncanny valley for me.

I laughed a lot reading that series. Lots of profanity, but really fun.

Some suggestions

• Saturn Returns by Sean Williams
• the Uplift universe by David Brin (Sundiver, Uplift war, Uplift trilogy etc)
• Existence by David Brin
• Helix and Helix Wars by Eric Brown
• the Shoal Sequence by Gary Gibson

As a Dutch resident, I seriously disagree here. We are just coming out of a 15 year long neoliberal period that has caused the following:

• public transport costs just went up 12% in January, whereas they are going down in surrounding countries
• the total amount of minutes of disruptions with the largest rail company has gone up by five-fold over the last 10 years, and no sign of abating
• the high speed rail line was taken out of service completely at the beginning of this month.
• peripheral areas have increasingly less access to public transport and other services. Everything gets centralized to Amsterdam.
• the local tram network in The Hague is downsizing in March due to lack of personnel. And the trams are already completely full in rush hour.

All these things are having the effect of pushing people IN cars, because the alternative is getting more expensive for reduced service. Heck, road congestion is significantly up from pre-pandemic levels and that’s with the neoliberals investing billions upon billions in new asphalt.

Not Just Bikes is in a bubble, and it’s seriously irritating to have foreigners believe we’re this utopia.

And nearly all of that is usually prefilled correctly to the euro by the Belastingdienst.

Why did this take the IRS so long where other nations have been doing this for decades?

For decades I pronounced albeit like “al-bayt”, instead of “all-be-it”. I only ever saw it in writing, and never hears anyone say it. Meaning made also so much more sense when I finally heard it being said out loud. Eye opener.

Traditioneel links heeft de eigen achterban decennia verloochend.

En het klimaatbeleid treft met name de gewone burger in plaats van de echte vervuiler. Dat voelt oneerlijk voor veel mensen.

Ik ben waarschijnlijk wat rechtser dan de doorsnee Lemmyer - ooit nog een keer een blauwe maandag lid geweest van de VVD (we zijn allemaal wel jong en dom geweest) en deze keer heel lang getwijfeld tussen NSC en Timmermans.

Ik snap de beweegredenen van mensen, maar dat maakt de uitkomst er niet minder schrikbarend onder.

Voor welk ministerie werk je als ik vragen mag? En hoe snel is nieuw beleid überhaupt doorgevoerd doorgaans?

PVV trekt traditioneel redelijk wat van de PvdA. De arbeidersstem: economisch links, sociaal conservatief.

Dankje.

Wat je in de VS en het VK na respectievelijk Trump en Brexit zag was daarna ook in de algemene maatschappij het hek van de dam was voor allerlei haat. Het was nu immers politiek goedgekeurd. Dat zou nu ook wel eens in Nederland kunnen gebeuren.

Als lid van de lhbti gemeenschap maak ik me echt zorgen over wat er nu komen gaat. Een hard-rechtse coalitie zou wel eens het Trump-moment van Nederland kunnen zijn.

RIP Nederlandse democratie 1920-2023.

This somehow reminds me Altered Carbon

With your username, you’d do great in the Netherlands

Interestingly this phone number complaint only shows up among techies and especially Americans. You guys don’t get to keep your phone number? I’ve had the same number now for 20 years here in Europe, it may as well be synonymous with my identity.

In fact, I’d say the phone number requirement, or at least option, actually promotes adoption in parts of the world. I wouldn’t have been able to get my mother to use Signal if it didn’t work with a phone number, for instance. She’s not gonna make an account just for a chat app. Phone number she already has.