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Toch bijzonder hoeveel aandacht er ineens is voor die paar opzeggingen binnen GL/PvdA.

Dat gebeurt nou nooit wanneer mensen opzeggen omdat de partijen zich ruggengraatloos opstellen en kwetsbare groepen voor de bus gooien.

Je zou bijna denken dat sommige leden niet zo van verandering en maatschappijverbetering houden.

terrorism meta 

Nuclear scientists eliminated in car bombings

Nuclear scientists? Civilians?
eliminated? Murdered?

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grumbling about environmental discussions 

@joepie91 you just know they're beginning to wind up on their ecofacism "the world is overpopulated" trip

For the curious: my editor theme (in VS Code) is now Omni Owl (github.com/guilhermerodz/omni-), and my font is Annotation Mono (qwerasd205.github.io/Annotatio) with font weight 500. It's *really* satisfying to type stuff in that!

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Changing the theme and font in my editor has done *so much* for my motivation to work on projects, it's kind of ridiculous...

Now to figure out a way to have different presets for work vs. personal projects

I think I'll start going on OSM mapping trips again soon

The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".

Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!

Dude goes to a registered, peaceful protest in Frankfurt a.M. with a makeshift plastic eye visor with the words "smash capitalism", gets a criminal charge for Schutzwaffen.

Carried all the way to the EU which rejected Germany's decision.

verfassungsblog.de/the-questio

Do you remember when scientists were trying to create the thinnest material in the world, just one atom thick? It's great that technology has finally been put to use in #Travelodge toilet roll. #MaterialScience

i have trust issues with:
- ctrl+c
- mentioned users only
- delete permanently

grumbling about environmental discussions 

If you bring up India or China right away in a conversation about the environment and sustainability, you are automatically disqualified from the conversation and get reassigned to janitorial duty

It's redistribution of wealth, it doesn't rely on the government being a good steward of the money (like it would if it were put into a government fund), and unlike wealth taxes any argument of "it makes it not worth it to invest into anything" is automatically and obviously bullshit (not that it wasn't already, but now it's harder to claim). What's not to love?

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Proposal: every million dollars in wealth gets you a ticket in the anti-lottery. Every month, there's a draw, and whoever's ticket is drawn has all of their wealth except 800k confiscated, and redistributed evenly across all citizens.

Garbage Danish journalism 

It seriously has to be illegal to be this complicit. Denmarks radio has a breaking story on the US attacks on Iran nuclear facilities and it doesn't mention any of the words "illegal", "international", or "law".

It was fucking illegal you can't just skip that part.

The Palestinian protest camp in #Witten-#NRW (Lutherpark) is currently under threat by Nazis. The camp is small so people are feeling intimidated. If you're in the area or can reach it, more people spending the night would help with collective security.

auf-witten.de/56-aufs-themen/w

#noNazisWit

YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures

Over the past few months, YouTube has been trying another round of anti-adblock measures. Currently the anti-adblock stuff is being A/B tested, and one of my accounts is in the experimental group. I wrote a filter that partially avoids one of the anti-adblock measures, fake buffering, on uBlock Origin (and Brave browser, since it uses the same filter rules). (It’s

osnews.com/story/142624/youtub

#Google

@osnews lol I had this buffering thing and my first thought was "is YouTube doing a fake buffering thing to fuck with people with adblock" and now here we are with confirmation

a moment from a conversation i had 

- hey T, is everything gucci with you?
- my man, it's h&m at best

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