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The reason all those websites are closed with a same/similar message is that they all belong to the same owner https://www.fthgroep.nl from Kesteren, happens to be in the Bible Belt in the Netherlands.

Baby and child products are a €212M market in the Netherlands.

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Some **websites** in the Netherlands are closed on Sunday. You cannot place an order. You cannot even add items to your cart on Sunday. I'm surprised website is shows up on Sundays.

Website reads:
> From our Christian faith we consider Sunday as a day of rest on which we do no commercial activities. For that reason it is not possible to place an order on Sundays.

I am looking for alternatives that does not enforce their beliefs in exchange for my money but they are pretty much monopoly now.

Google Calls In Larry Page and Sergey Brin to Tackle ChatGPT and A.I. Chatbots

A rival chatbot has shaken Google out of its routine, with the founders who left three years ago re-engaging and more than 20 A.I. projects in the works.

Who here remembers this disaster? LOL. #Y2K
Peter Yang on Twitter

“Our jobs are safe, fam.”

Twitter
This is beyond good. #kubernetes #cloud #aws

Gymnastics coach sexually abuses and kills 14 year old girl. Court sentences him to 12 years.

BUT, court does not ban him from his profession, even though psychiatrists state that he is pedophiliac. wat??

If you are wondering how Twitter is still operational, it's because excellent SRE culture. Insights from a Twitter SRE:

https://matthewtejo.substack.com/p/why-twitter-didnt-go-down-from-a

Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE

Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force. What ever the real number is, there are whole teams with out engineers on it now. Yet, the website goes on and the tweets keep coming. This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat. I’d like to explain my little corner of Twitter (though it wasn’t

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503 page of classic Dutch bike brand