Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@tastytea@very.tastytea.de Also fuck Klarna with a rake

@tastytea@very.tastytea.de If you have a copy in writing of having proposed that (ideally letter, e-mail would probably also be fine in NL but idk about there) then that *should* serve as pretty strong evidence to make debt collectors fuck off, but it's never a guarantee unfortunately :( If there's some kind of free legal help thing where you are, it may be worth asking them for better advice on the legal angle

@tastytea@very.tastytea.de If I remember correctly, Klarna is a predatory business and they literally get their money from fees tacked onto late payments and defaults, so they have every reason not to cooperate, unfortunately - the only strategy I know of that has sometimes worked for people is to offer them a clearly reasonable payment schedule and have it in writing, so that when they reject or ignore it you can fight any attempts at debt/fee collection later by showing that it was Klarna who did not take their responsibilities - "look, I did all I could, but they did not let me pay"

@eniko I feel like it's probably subject to the same issue as almost every other "how to be successful at anything" guide; people have difficulty recognizing the role that luck and other factors like privilege played in their success and would much rather believe that it somehow entirely resulted from their own competence and actions, than to acknowledge that really the "common" (read: capitalist) notion of "success" is ultimately just a lottery no matter what you do

@delroth @hazelnot lmfao

@hazelnot @delroth The adjacency does typically exist here as well, and it does often historically center around larger places (at least larger at the time) but at a certain scale and certain amount of municipality merges, that doesn't have very much relevance or resemblance left :p

@hazelnot @delroth (Which means that some municipalities are comically large and aren't necessarily named after any one of the towns or cities therein, because they tend to get scaled by "population count at which government and admin can be efficiently conducted" rather than anything else, so many small mostly-unrelated towns are likely to group together into a municipality for example)

@hazelnot @delroth It falls under the *municipality* of Rotterdam, yes, but that is absolutely *not* the same thing as being part of Rotterdam's metro/urban area. Municipalities are primarily government-administrative boundaries, not planning or cultural boundaries.

@zvava Ah yes, the reactionary fork that has *checks notes* made 0 of their own commits so far, just a merge to try and keep up with upstream

@delroth The only way I could see that someone might consider Hook of Holland to be part of Rotterdam's urban area is because there's a metro line running there, and the only reason for that is cost-cutting of the train line that that previously was... so yeah, that's a bizarre classification.

@jonny (Heads up, both alt texts seem to be for the first one)

@aetios @whreq Als ik de achterliggende paper goed begrijp (die het overigens niet over weersomstandigheden heeft...) is dat specifieke effect volgens hen sterk afhankelijk van hoge density en zou het dus juist moeten *verminderen* als de effectieve veiligheidsafstand groter is, zoals hierboven gesuggereerd wordt bij slecht weer (want: voorzichtiger rijden en meer afstand dan "nodig" voor de snelheid).

De reden dat een verklaring o.b.v. menselijk gedrag niet genoeg is, is omdat dit soort "dat kun je zelf toch ook wel beredeneren" dingen precies is waar de meeste verkeerde aannames doorgaans huizen, en ik het onderwerp graag zo volledig mogelijk begrijp voordat ik definitieve conclusies trek.

Ik kan nog wel een heel verhaal afsteken over waarom ik specifiek bij dit onderwerp extra "skeptisch"/voorzichtig ben, maar dan zitten we hier morgen nog en daar heb ik nu echt de energie gewoon niet voor.