It’ll be interesting to see what Swiss and European universities do when the prices for their “Dependency365”subscription skyrocket, which they will very soon, as many of them are also confronted with shrinking budgets. And how they will respond when the “services” will be used for extortion.

Sometimes you just need a little push

So tomorrow there are national elections in The Netherlands and I need to acquaint you with two oddities. For one, we take our democracy entirely for granted so we mostly vote in.. garbage bins. Secondly, our ballots are HUGE as they list 28 parties and 1128 candidates (no joke). So we need to make good use of the space in the garbage bin. For this purpose, polling stations are equipped with the STEMBUSSTAMPER, specially designed to tamp down wayward ballots:

Because these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!