Eggs now in different baskets.

@the_wub
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Well, I am here and have been for a while. I mean in the physical space I inhabit. And on Mastodon albeit on a different instance.

I have been known to practice the use of dry humour and irony. Making sharp contrasts and pointing out uncomfortable similarities can appear in my discussions with others.

Pro-European, left of centre in a society that is still intrinsically opposed to both.

debian Linux based digital life.

LanguagesFluent : English, Dutch, Norwegian Basic : German On Bucket List : Croatian
Pig wrestlingWhen I realise that I am toot wrestling with a pig then I reserve the right to delete my post(s) and I will block or mute the pig.
AvatarSomewhere in Norway taken on a cycletour
HeaderSunrise on the other side of the tracks.

Just so we're clear -- the law Israel just passed mandating death by hanging for Palestinians is apartheid.

It. Is. Apartheid.

Israel does not punish Israelis who kill Palestinians. Instead, Israel has illegally detained more than 10,000 Palestinians, including 1000 children, without charge or conviction. These are hostages held without access to counsel in concentration camps.

This. Is. Apartheid. Any politician or journalist who cannot acknowledge that is complicit. Period.

Sometimes I wonder if working from home for so long has turned me into a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird. Then I remember that I have always been a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird.
“we’re disrupting X” means we found a cheaper way to do X that externalises all the costs onto someone who can’t afford a lawyer
@randahl unfortunately, current developments in the EU are not that positive regarding freedom, democracy and human rights. CDU playing stupid games in Germany. For example, in Baden-Württemberg they might try to not form a government with the Greens and then cause reelections. Merz, Spahn and Reiche are playing the Project 2025 playbook. And despite a recent defeat in Italy, Meloni still is on with weakening the judiciary in Italy. More Trump might not be the best thing.

@randahl

- Replace VISA and Mastercard with other payment system

Everyone wants to get rid of Trump, but I am starting to think we should give him a third term and get

— Iceland in the EU
— Britain rejoining the EU
— Norway fully joining the EU
— All EU countries switching to European weapons systems
— Laws against US surveillance systems in Europe
— An end to European collaboration with American NSA
— More people switching to Mastodon to get away from Zuckerberg and Musk
— Rise of European streaming services
— Full bankruptcy of Tesla

(Joking, but still…)

I feel like I did in February and March 2020, only this time, it's about the war in Iran rather than a novel virus. Big things are coming, and too few care to acknowledge or believe it.

In February and March 2020, I was one of a few people warning what the “novel coronavirus” was about to do. People wouldn't (or couldn't) listen because no one could conceive of businesses closing, conferences canceled, or hospitals bursting.

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@danielsreichenbach I think that is very much the case for some of them. For some, he is everything they want to be. What a dark aspiration, right?