I’ve read about this tactic in effing up diplomatic relations 101

dumb uneducated.

Business Insider has a long running series called World Wide Waste, with some very interesting videos. One of them about this woman in Nigeria (!) who started a business recycling tires because her community literally got sick of the tires that where left behind everywhere around her. It really makes me sad rich western countries can make their trash disappear and have people in much worse conditions deal with the consequences. I really enjoy those videos by Business Insider because they shed a light on the people who do the right thing despite of the shit the worlds pulls on them.

https://www.businessinsider.com/one-nigerian-aims-to-recycle-millions-of-waste-tires-2023-10

In The Netherlands you can get an X in your passport if you identify as non-binary / 3rd gender person. Nobody knows how border security will treat you if you don’t have an F or M in your passport, guess aren’t many people willing to go find out either. Really wonder how this is gonna go in the following years when US hosts important diplomatic/technological/sports events. Also some scientists are calling out to boycott scientific conventions in support of lgbtqi+ persons.

I’m using Trading212 and am quite happy with them, although they’re from the UK. Anyone here thinks it’d be better to switch to a EU-based company?

The Netherlands also tightened their warning for citizens traveling to the us as of today.

If you open a Google Doc in a private browser you should be able to view it without giving them any data, right?

Endorsing is a strong word, but it is crazy there isn’t basically any leader of instute in Europe calling for Israel to stop killing civilians. Also barely anyone speaking up against US ‘plans’ for Gaza after ceasefire. Israel does things very similar to Russia, but officials don’t call Netanyahu out when he talks about ethic cleansing. It’s sad.

Too bad nobody saw this coming, they could have made a great movie about this 10 years ago.

Go hunt them orcs!

"On Sunday, the Gaza Health Ministry said the death toll from Israel’s 535-day assault on Gaza surpassed 50,000 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children. …

The ministry said that more than 113,000 others have been wounded since October 2023, and at least 14,000 more Palestinians are missing and presumed dead and buried beneath the rubble of hundreds of thousands of bombed-out buildings.

However, experts—including the authors of two peer-reviewed articles in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet—say the actual death toll is likely much higher."

Where is the international community? United Nations? They need to be stopped.

“If Starbucks is your go-to choice for coffee and you enjoy a Dunkin’ Donuts from time to time, it will not be difficult to find a replacement!” ghehehe

The more pro-putin posts you see, the less likely you are to doubt if its genuine of course.

sans paywall: http://archive.today/2025.03.23-234832/https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-wants-to-inspect-immigrants-social-media-prof

For anyone who’d like a more substantial argument: A Guide to Trump’s Fascist Presidency — From Ignoring Judge to Erasing History

It’s because there is not enough tariffs in place.

I have seen too many videos of small monkeys and big apes throwing their dong to agree with your paper ball theory. Also frogs don’t throw balls but are great at catching insects, a lot of other animals have great spatial awareness when it comes to hunting prey. But tbh, I doubt wether they could grasp the concept of a box going up and down like humans do.

Have seen too many videos of dogs trying to take long sticks through narrow doors to disagree with you there though. Personally I think dogs are just not that smart after all that (in)breeding we did. I’m not calling dogs stupid, don’t want the world to dislike me.

But only after it no longer was ‘allegedly’ if I understand correctly.

The biggest party in the Netherlands is called the freedom party, their mainly anti-immigrant and against the freedom of religion and the freedom of education. Totally agree they’re great at marketing (though it’s more about being loud and talking about social problems than it is about having ideas of how to solve them). They’re considered to be far-right populist, their leader (Geert Wilders) is aligned with Marine Le Pen and Georgia Meloni. The left has lost their working class-base traditional base to them because of them being more relatable (and less high-brow) than the labour party, the socialists and the greens.

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