Decisions have to be binding in some form. You can’t just do 5 and then randomly discard 4 and go with the one result you like.

Funny how that works though. As long as something doesn’t pass, you can try again as many times as you want but the moment something passes its a “done thing” and can’t be undone. Brexit is the example of the latter. Obviously a stupid and damaging decision that cannot be voted on again because “we already voted once.”

I had 7 anxiety attacks watching this video.

Where do these people get the energy. I don’t understand.

Anyway, yay for good cheap fun and taking things apart and putting them together again.

Who is wasting resources on this? Seems a bit pointless.

Also, I think its rather perverted that if someone makes it clear they want to be left alone/anonymous, the society/media declares “NO!” and goes to insane lengths to figure out who they are.

Same thing happened with Lordi, the Finnish metal band. When they won eurovision, the main guy said “I would appreciate if we could stay anonymous, or at least not have our real faces plastered all over.” So of course the largest gossip magazine in Finland felt the need to plaster his face on the cover of their stupid magazine.

Though that did lead to a funny thing… There was a “campaign” to boycott the magazine called “käännä Seiska” - “turn Seiska.” My friend didn’t get the full idea, since “käännä” is a slang for stealing. So he stole a bunch of those magazines from a shop, only realized he was supposed to turn them upside down not steal them, after he got home with a pile of Seiska magazines.

Ah, that does warm my European heart.

The world is on fire, climate change looks to be a thing that will just happen, wars, everything getting more expensive with no hope in sight… but at least the US has less bombings!

I get that things have been shitty all the time, but generally the direction has been towards better things. I dunno if we reached a point where things are as good as it gets and getting better is more and more difficult, but I personally feel that things are in some sort of a turning point. I know I’m a grumpy fuck, but I’ve really tried to always look on the bright side of life (whistle) but I haven’t really found anything worth looking forwards to. Plaargh.

lol thanks for reminding me. Gotta go delete that lemmy.world account =D

I have no qualms about banning negative, bad-faith or douchy losers to save people from blocking them. And if a community is bad enough, I’ll ban the whole community.

This is excellent. I’ve never understood the attitude that people should tolerate arseholes, because of what, free speech? Nah, bugger off with that silliness. I’ve moderated some places over the years and I’ve been told that I ban people too easily, but I’ve also been told how nice and wholesome the places were. Its pretty clear to me that having a low tolerance to arseholes is positive for the community.

What credibility?

Mostly stuff relating to Ukraine. Though I do have some complaints about him with that as well. But on the whole he’s handled Ukraine related things agreeable.

Look up “brief aan de Nederlanders” ffom 2017.

I don’t speak Dutch so I’ll skip, I’ll take your word for it. I don’t respect him at all anymore, so there’s really not much to gain to go through translating that stuff.

Rutte has been burning his credibility in my eyes at a alarming rate.

I get that he needs to do at least some level of ass kissing towards the US but he does it with his tongue very far up in there and with a weird eagerness. I don’t understand what his strategy is with trump.

Your headlight level adjuster might be stuck or broken. Have your mechanic check that it works.

I support the Americans giving their money to the waiters and whatnot, I’d even encourage them to give their money to everyone they come across here.

I do not support normalizing tipping and cutting the pay of people.

I don’t have experience about that. Every time I’ve been invited to a group, I’ve removed myself immediately lol

I’d be depressed if I had to endure the darkness of a Finnish winter

Funnily enough, winter is my favorite time. I love going for winter hikes etc. Its so peaceful and quiet.

TBH in principle I’m ready to give up on the Whatsapp boycott, it’s just so costly socially

I just use good ol’ SMS with the people who don’t have Signal. Though thats like one SMS message per year or so…

It is quite funny how I refreshed the page, saw this:

https://piefed.social/c/europe/p/1903466/its-stupid-why-western-carmakers-retreat-from-electric-risks-dooming-them-to-irrelevanc

and then saw a notification to your comment :D

Anyways, sorry that I ended the conversation abruptly and like a dick, I haven’t slept very well and having some other issues. I’ll see if I can make more sense tomorrow, I do have more to say about this, but not enough energy etc lol

Like I said, I was perhaps a bit too harsh with the original comment. I take back the dropping the ball part. I guess things are going well and good.

Perhaps my original comment was too doom, gloom and harsh. But you can’t really say the Euro car industry is doing well. VAG having factories running on minimum or not at all, lay offs, BMW shooting themself in the foot with all the subscription nonsense… And the price. That’s the big one. Obviously the cheaper chinese things are nastier than a high end BMW, obviously the chinese makers are subsidized by the government… but perhaps the Euro car makers should have lobbied their governments/EU to subsidize their EV production lines, instead of wasting time and effort on moving the 0 Carbon goalposts further away. Though I’ll admit that the EU was moronic with deciding that we should do that in the time window that they did, that whole thing was done ass backwards and on a too tight schedule.

I like to think I’m not bitter and miserable but I suspect you’re not either - just introverted or on the spectrum

Perhaps I’m not bitter. I don’t know what I am. Tired, frustrated to the point of being done with everything and everyone. I’m not sure what to call it, depression is a major part of it. Introverted, for sure. I’m a introvert even in Finnish standards lol.

The only way to “win” here is by playing the ethics card. But alas that argument is just not well understood by most people.

That’s how I decided to drop Whatsapp. i explained to the people I felt I owed a explanation, that I’m not comfortable with the privacy issues and being a play button for big American corporations. They understood it, didn’t care. Meh. Fuck them, I guess lol.

Oh, no not those. Those were just spotted by happenstance

That would be a nice option too. Too bad those are not nearly as awful as oil/gas infra. They don’t even smell that badly.

My dad used to work in one, got to visit it a few times. Pretty interesting what people consider as “general rubbish”… Everything from false teeth to propane tanks… Luckily the system has a big magnet that pulls that shit out of there

Hear hear.

Its the only website in my adblocker whitelist.

My electricity comes from hydro, wind, solar and nuclear. I do have a petrol engine car but luckily its a Peugeot so the engine is broken and I have no plans of fixing it. My city has excellent public transportation. I have a bicycle. Also my grocery shop is 2 minute walk away.

I’m pretty lucky.