bier

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[–] bier@feddit.nl 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm not from the US but I would describe myself a a left leaning centrist. The parties I voted for in the last 5 elections where all center left.

If you map the parties based on left/right and progressive/conservative my vote is definitely center left and high progressive.

The US has a political system that sucks, where you only have 2 real options. A system where multiple parties have to form a coalition gives you the voter many options.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's interesting because this also happens in other languages. In Dutch we only use couple (koppel) for people in a relationship.

If you are talking about other things we use "pair" if you have two. But over time people also started using pair wrong, so someone saying "ik heb een paar knikkers" I have a pair of marbles, can still mean he has 5 marbles.

In practice people usually just say I have two marbles when they mean exactly 2.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 6 points 3 weeks ago

To add to this, jealous is for example when you are afraid your partner will dump you for someone else.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

Let say the ticket is 100 dollars thats like a millisecond of profit for Google. So what's the point, threaten them with revoking the robot taxi license.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If this would also mean I can drive at the max allowed speed and can't get fines I would actually like this. I don't really feel the need for speed anyway, the maximum allowed speed usually is fine for me. But some countries like France switch a lot between 130 and 110, so most of my speeding tickets are because I didn't see the 110 sign immediately and there is a speed camera.

If this solution let's you go a max speed with zero tickets I would use it.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

I like 'm like my asshole, bleeding edge

[–] bier@feddit.nl 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are right but that does work both ways.

Whatever fucked things Hamas has done, is not a blank cheque for Israel to murder innocent people.

While at the same time

Whatever fucked things Israel has done, is not a blank cheque for Hamas to murder innocent people.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 10 points 3 months ago

Do you have any credible sources where Hamas made that promise? Because from what have read they never wanted to agree to releasing them

[–] bier@feddit.nl 51 points 4 months ago (18 children)

Where do you live to be able to buy a house in cash after 3 years of working? Where I live the average appartment is about 400K euros and the average house is closer to 500K euros.

Maybe you can find something for 250K if you really buy something small that needs lots of work. But you still need over 80K a year excluding taxes, probably closer to 120K before taxes.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That is true, but my smart TV and smart scale both got something like 5 years of updates. Who buys a new scale every 5 years? My parents still have a scale from the 90s that works fine.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 11 points 5 months ago

I'm fairly sure Microsoft is actively trying to screw Firefox. Outlook has always sucked in Firefox, teams is a shit show. When you use a useragent switcher somehow a lot of features seem to work magically in Firefox (which tells me MS is doing this on purpose).

For Outlook (exchange) I use Thunderbird with a paid plug-in (to make the 2FA stuff work). It's pretty cheap and totally worth it for me at least.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Keep running it for a while and after some time 5 or 10 years you will struggle when people ask you about (basic) Windows stuff.

 
 
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