Hangt af van waar je de grens trekt. Vrij Nederland bestaat nog en is een links opinieblad, wel een maandblad. Er is ook nog Joop van de VARA. Als je Duits kunt, heb je ND (Neues Deutschland, de oude SED-krant, weet eerlijk gezegd niet of ze tegenwoordig pro-Russisch zijn; wel gratis te lezen).

Er is ook nog nl.internationalism.org van de Internationale Kommunistische Stroming. Wel gericht op België, en verder toch gewoon vertalingen van de Franse en Engelse stukken. En alle stukjes hebben zo’n beetje dezelfde teneur.

Het internationaal recht geldt niet voor onze goede vrienden Amerika en Israël. Amerika bewijst dat nu voor de zoveelste keer (en echt niet pas sinds Trump), Israël is sowieso één grote misdaad.

Real connoiſſeurs uſe the long s.

Using humans like robots, what a wonderful idea!

Cadeautje.

Het ging me er vooral om dat het nogal bijzonder is een politieke beweging naar jezelf te vernoemen. Maar Mona Keijzer zie ik dat zeker doen!

Waar zal Mona nou weer heenwaaien? Ja21? FvD? Verbond Mona Keijzer (à la Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht)?

Maar op feddit.nl zie ik die van piefed inderdaad niet.

Op Peertube vond ik vooral veel eng-rechtse en „corona-skeptische” kanalen, dus het zou inderdaad mooi zijn als er ook nog wat anders bijkomt.

Hoewel ook Beeld en Geluid er al op zit met leuke filmpjes.

Bosschenaren hoeven niet bang te zijn dat deze Hollander daar in een bananenpak opduikt.

All monitors at the office I work at are in the #3 position, and everyone uses them like that. The first thing I do when I get there (there are no fixed desks, and I’m only there on Mondays) is move one screen to the left and one screen to the center. Then I use my laptop as a third screen, but pretty much only to display my todo list.

I also think it’s weird, but everyone here does it…

It’s still interesting to analyse them like the cultural products they are.

If this is the best that can be mustered, that’s just painful.

That’s not to say the Dutch position wasn’t even more pathetic. They wanted to wear a so-called rainbow captain’s armband which didn’t even actually depict a rainbow, but they were too afraid to do even this over potentially getting a yellow card.

This is so fucking painful. I hope they themselves didn’t believe they were actually making some ‘powerful statement’.

I have some room under my bed, feel free to PM me.

This doesn’t have anything to do with language acquisition by babies, though. Spelling is a completely different subject than natural, spoken, language, and obviously not something babies will come into contact with.

No language is easy to learn for people who never grew up with it (as in, it always takes effort), and every language has quirks. You’re arguing for it being hard to learn a language - this is true - not for English being uniquely hard.

But relatively speaking, whether a language is easy or hard to learn largely depends on the languages you know already, especially as your mother tongue. Dutch is very close to English, and English has borrowed a lot of French vocabulary, so if you know those languages you will not have too hard of a time learning English. To someone who only knows Mandarin, English (and French, and Dutch) will obviously be completely foreign, in everything: grammar, vocabulary and syntax.

Never. I live in a city with proper public transport, and I live close enough to the city center that I can easily walk there, or go by bike if I prefer.

I am considering getting my driving license, though. It’s useful for certain jobs, but it’s really expensive.

I’d have guessed emperor Wilhelm II, but it seems to just be a German officer.

Nah, I’m being snarky. It’s a comparison of a couple of games (like Settlers and Banished) to what’s actually known about life in medieval times. Notable differences are that in reality people didn’t have much to eat, also due to tithes by the church, whereas in games your entire goal is achieving huge (food) surpluses.

Also, in games you often build a town center and then start building further buildings quite organically, whereas in actuality towns were planned based on the surroundings.

The article is actually pretty interesting, not at all ‘stop having fun’ as another commenter’s meme here is saying. Though it doesn’t discuss Manor Lords.