Vinny_93 @ Vinny_93 @lemmy.world

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Sinkin' Park

Ik ben wel eens gaan nadenken en ik kom tot de conclusie dat ik helemaal niet zoveel Amerikaanse dingen gebruik. Het gros van de tech hier is Samsung (Zuid-Korea), ik gebruik geen sociale media anders dan Lemmy, mijn huis wordt geregeld door Ikea en Home Assistant, allemaal niet in de cloud. Vaatwasser is zelfs Nederlands (Inventum). Koffiezetapparaat is Philips.

Ik kijk natuurlijk wel naar Hollywoodseries en zo maar dat gaat via de Zeven Zeeën.

Frisdranken en dergelijke is bij ons overwegend Lidl huismerk.

Er staat hier wel een Xbox maar wordt weinig gebruikt. We hebben ook wel Windows op de pc, ik heb wel Office 365, maar ik ben me wel bewust van alternatieven en dat zal steeds serieuzer worden.

Ik vind het voorbeeld van Coca-Cola echt schrijnend. Uiteraard leven we in een vrij land en je moet vooral niet stoppen met genieten van dingen, maar om nou te zeggen dat je alleen Coca-Cola echt lekker vindt en dat je leven saai is als je geen streaming services hebt...

Daarnaast raakt een boycot op dat soort producten niet de werkgelegenheid, hij wordt alleen verplaatst. Deze mensen werken al in Europa, alleen wat ze maken is elders bedacht. Als er vraag is, kan een investeerder prima een concurrerende partij beginnen en dan zijn de ervaren medewerkers weer hard nodig. Ze zullen dan ineens wel meer loon willen, want tja, ze hebben toch bij Coca-Cola gewerkt.

Het enige wat er nodig is, is Europese trots en het willen inleveren om lokaal te prefereren boven buiten Europa.

My house costs less than that and now I'm in debt for the next 30 years. And I do quite okay.

Polarising of two or more subservient groups is excellent for people in power. If you create the us-them narrative they'll be so busy arguing amongst themselves, they'll have no eye for the ones affecting their misery and changing it.

Now I'm not saying everyone should take to the streets and fight the government immediately, but bashing in your neighbours's skulls because they drive Teslas and/or voted for Trump is not productive at all. Rather find some middle ground with them and see how to survive the coming four years.

I feel like he doesn't really understand most of what is happening but he just says the first thing that comes to mind when he hears stuff.

This is something happening in Europe as well though, you've probably noticed it if you follow Dutch politics. There are these people who just yell out stuff that sounds pretty good but once action has to be taken, they find out it's never as simple as they'd imagined it to be. The end result is they get nothing done and their disillusioned voters are too stubborn to admit that they were susceptible to populism.

Black bishop takes rook before it can take pawn or king though

Edit whoa I was looking at the wrong rook for the first one even though you specified it. I need weekend.

Mijn vrouw heeft allemaal plannen dus ik kan gewoon zien wat het weekend ons brengt.

Ah well my house is not that big. It's my wife and me and three cats but we have rather large furniture so it kinda feels cramped.

Definitely house, preferably owned. I rented my previous apartment and had to run a lot of jobs through the landlord. Now, if something goes wrong or if I want to hang something with screws, I can just go ahead. And I love having a back yard. Front yard meh, just work, no joy.

Downside is that my house is not exactly well maintained and it was built in the sixties. So I'll need to invest in some stuff in the next 5 to 10 years.

Oh that's fine then.

The thing is that currently they are actively going against western democracy so now, of course, it needs mentioning.

I'm currently going though the books and from what I can tell, Harry especially takes issues with some teachers. He hates history and doesn't understand divination but he's fine with charms, defense against the dark arts and even potions once Snape no longer teaches it.

It's just that during the lessons she describes, they usually have stuff like Quidditch or Voldemort stuff going on so they don't really pay attention. They also don't like doing homework so they let Hermione do it for them. And they still did pretty well on the OWLs so all in all, I think they were fine with class but by and large, she just doesn't really write about classes that went their regular course.

The Bad Lip Sync version of Gotye (Kicked Your Monkey And I Used Your Goat) kinda always comes to mind

I wonder if he realises at all that this will just make the US's position worse and worse for the entire world, not just Canada.

Boost notifies me when someone responds to my comments. It might be able to push from certain communities.

Edit: I checked and it seems not

... But not on Android.

Could do with a lil Tuesday catering today

Om the colour wheel I'd say it's greenish cyan, possibly bluish green.

Source

So. Both.

I see your awake tortie and raise you a sleepy kitty

It irks me that you have to read two full paragraphs before the name of the EU foreign chief is mentioned while Trump and Vance get mentioned a lot.