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Ligt het aan mij, of kom je steeds vaker op bagger websites wanneer je iets zoekt? Websites met slechte content en waarbij er voor 600 partners cookies verzameld worden die bijna niet uit te zetten zijn.

Ik word er de laatste tijd zo saggo van dat ik bijna het hele internet (behalve Mastodon) de prullenbak in wil gooien.

En nee: ik hoef geen tips over cookie-blokkers, browsers en zoekmachines (ik doe al veel). Ik wil gewoon dat er niet steeds meer bagger op het internet komt. Grom.

@joepie91 ultimately one has to wonder where the myth of government/civil-service inefficiency started. Quite possibly with officials taking bribes from same industries who stood to benefit from privatisation.

rapid deenumeration (pulling the USB cord)

It still baffles me that some people actually *believe* the fairy tale that "privatization lowers costs".

Like, how could this ever possibly work?! The equipment, people etc. you need for the task don't change, so those costs are essentially fixed. But now you *also* need to pay a for-profit intermediary on top of that.

You don't exactly need a PhD to understand why this doesn't make an ounce of sense...

The Met Office (UK) invites you to suggest names for future storms. Make your own suggestions at metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-ou

Here are mine.

@vlrny In this situation I do still interact with specific people; like family at home, and I have a separate Matrix account for talking privately to a few low-stress people, that I keep open, but I don't use that account for anything else

@vlrny This is more or less what I've started doing. I don't have the typical 'shutdowns' but I do get overwhelmed at times, and now when I recognize this happening, I close all my chat and social media things, and I remove all clutter (digital and physical) from my environment, and open some kind of project or activity that doesn't require interaction with anyone else.

Especially closing down anything with public/group conversations has helped immensely for regaining my focus and thoughts. Sometimes just for a few hours, sometimes for a literal month.

(Digital clutter is stuff like unused browser tabs, open application windows I'm not currently using, and so on)

subtooting Dutch culture 

@Ember Interestingly, the framing of airco as 'wasteful' has historically mainly been made in the context of the US using so much of it

subtooting Dutch culture 

@shine This is almost literally how you pitch approval for an a/c to your landlord: you ask whether you can install a "heat pump with cooling function"

re: subtooting Dutch culture 

@bananas Given that it's been decades since we know that typical Dutch ventilation is unhealthy, and this still hasn't changed, I'm not holding my breath

(... or should I)

subtooting Dutch culture 

"heat pumps" are the fancy new sustainable green heating tech. whereas "airco" is the wasteful energy-intensive cooling system that we "don't need in our kikkerlandje".

racial profiling, Schengen violations 

They looked at me as if my European passport must have been fake. Racist assholes.

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racial profiling, Schengen violations 

Yeah, sure, I'm the only one wearing a headscarf and thus looking foreign and for sure I'm the only one they check during the illegal border check.

"Stay safe" nah fam I'm tired of safety. Like most privileges, safety leaves me with a bitter aftertaste in the throat. Stay angry. Stay ungovernable. Give them hell.

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