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Yesterday I went to my brother who bought a house to help renovate some stuff. Afterwards I visited my parents who live nearby and we talked about home ownership and how difficult it can be for our generation. They talked about their own financial situation and it became clearer to me how insane the current situation is.
They bought a house in a time where it was still pretty cheap to buy one. Got a good mortgage deal and everything. Their home value tripled in the last few years. They have now nearly paid of their mortgage over the course of 25 years and are basically sitting on top of 600k of their own money. The only thing they had to do for it was paying off their mortgage and not selling. For my brother to get the same percentage of return on his investment his house would have to be valued at 1.2 million euro within the next 25 years. For a simple terraced roof house. There is no way that will happen.
You know at first I was kinda whatever about a porn ban but now it’s starting to affect me personally and I’m concerned.
Laith Marouf has been released from detention.
Picked up a nasty stomach bug for the second time in a few months. Wondering if it’s something in the soil or somesuch since I harvest a lot of fresh vegetables. Either way, went like thirty six hours without eating and just ate a strawberry and a few miracle fruit (called thusly because they coat your tongue in an enzyme that makes sour things taste sweet) and am already regretting it. Either way, eurgh.
Getting a stomach bug once can hurt your stomach permanently to some degree, making you more susceptible for new infections or more sensitive for certain foods.
Ough. I didn’t know that, thanks. Would explain why I got sick again so quickly. :/
make sure you wash your vegetables, fruit flies eggs may be on vegetables even if they look fine, along many other bugs.
Yeah, that’s always good advice. I do try and wash everything I use before cooking.
also unforunely if you contracted a fever, its very likely that its gonna keep popping up frequently unless you undergo a treatment. should prob try a blood exam that tests these fevers, i struggled a lot with a bug i caught some years ago and it popped every time i ate outside home.
Ooh, thanks. I’ll keep that in mind. Idk I’m not too worried yet because it’s only been the two times, but if it comes back again after this I’ll definitely try and get tested.
Why are so many people just dickheads online? Like, you can have a fun talk with someone about a topic you enjoy only for people to show up and be dicks. I had talk about the city development from my home town like I did in this thread with someone on a different outlet only for someone to show up and say: ‘ugliest city I visited’. Like, okay? That’s not what we were talking about you psycho lol. Who behaves like that? Imagine joining a conversation between, idk, coworkers with the sole intention of being a dick.
My parents are in a Basque village, and they told me there are a lot of Basque and Palestinian flags hanging from the windows. Gotta love the Basques.
Basque country is amazing and you should go there if you haven’t been already. Great food, great beaches, great nature and above all great people. The place is plastered with left wing grafitti lol.
I’ve been there a lot when I was a child. I really want to go back there one day. Especially Donostia is amazing.
Funny how the media attention for Bob Vylan just turned “death, death to the IDF” into a popular slogan. It wasn’t common before, but I was at a Palestine demonstration yesterday and we chanted it a couple of times. It felt so good to chant.
Still fighting my sticker war with the local Nazi. I keep removing his stickers and placing my own antifa and commie stickers. Today I found that he placed his stickers on top of mine.
But the way he did it was telling me the guy is just a little chicken shit lol. They were half assed and you could peel them off easily. Some of them even had the paper back still partially on it. I just hope one day I can catch him in the act.
Be careful peeling them because nazis often put razor blades under their stickers
Seeing how much of a pussy this one is, that is probably not a problem here
Out of curiosity, what are his stickers?
Stuff like: Hand in Hand, back to your own land (made by neonazi org Voorpost)
‘Culture dies where multiculturality begins’
Pictures of Filip Dewinter, Belgian nationalist.
I counter it with a cat accompanied by a hamsic and text: ‘there used to be a racist sticker here but not anymore’ and a sticker with ‘Forever antifascist’ and a sticker with Tinky Winky of the Teletubbies holding a socialist flag. Oh and one of Mark Rutte, nato leader, with clown make up and the text ‘we live in a society’
‘Culture dies where multiculturality begins’
Pictures of Filip Dewinter, Belgian nationalist.
One would think people would not be so dense, but alas.
lol kinda crazy how awful the internet is without pihole + browser adblock (ublock origin).
using a friend computer i went to website i normally use on my home setup without any problems for streaming sports, got like a billion popups and shit, didn’t realize how protected from this crap i am on my home network.
It really is wild. I don’t know if I could deal with using much of the internet regularly without a thing like ublock. Especially like youtube, I’m pretty sure I’d just stop using youtube if I could not block ads. And like, I understand there would be less videos made if people were not making money off of the platform, but it doesn’t change how awful of an experience ads are inherently, having distracting crap shoved into your brain so that you’ll buy shit you don’t need and never wanted. In general, I think it’s bad for society how much of capitalist mode of things depends on ads and the way they abuse knowledge of human psychology. Organic in-video “sponsorships” are almost worse in this way because the personable figure who you might enjoy as an audience member now becomes the sales person and they get to abuse that liking of them to get you to buy something, not unlike how multi level marketing schemes work.
Even through multiple layers of abstraction, it all boils down to commodity production.
I was running both pihole & ub0 for the last two years, A few weeks ago I disconnected from the pihole and it made no difference. Turns out it was redundant.
Pihole covers all devices on the network tho.
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I think that Jack Dorsey shouldn’t be trusted with meshtastic technology.
Decided to be bold and apply for my dream job of gardener without any of the necessary papers lol
Shoot for the moon y’all don’t let nobody hold you down
You got this
I used to get see a post or 2 on my social media feed about Gaza but suddenly it is flooded with politicians and news organizations saying that Gaza is a genocide and we need to end it. Is this a sign of the beginning of the end?
It’s only a matter of time before the big ideological break between the rulers of our countries and the people in them. The question is whether or not they want Israel to be that breaking point. I think serious debates are going behind closed doors.
I hope so. But I’m sure there’s no resolution the U.S. or Israel agree to that doesn’t involve some kind of two-state solution. So it really won’t end I don’t think. Unless the U.S. cuts funding but that won’t happen
A 2 state situation is not a resolution. The zionist entity is expansionist racist and genocidal in its very nature. There is no peace while it exists and thus no resolution. Even if they left the Palestinians alone they would attack the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Iraqis, the Egyptians because they are rabid fascists.
Agreed. That’s why I highly doubt an actual resolution comes any time soon. But you are correct, the Zionist project is continued colonialist expansion
How true is this? The “996” thing in China?
Lets just say that i wish my chinese suppliers worked “996”, them mfers have vacations every other week. Still China is just way to big, i bet there are many places working under that schedule. That’s thr thing with China, it’s scale is so big that you can find literally cases about anything.
That’s a very good point, and I trust your experience as well. Yeah, any Western journo can find a case study somewhere.
as of what i was told a few years ago:
- used to be quite common
- rare now in almost every sector
- steadily disappearing from the few sectors it’s still common in
- it’s mostly tech
Thank you!
Yeah, I expected this.
My Chinese WeChat friends don’t work this long.
It was officially made illegal in 2021, but yes many Chinese people still do it especially in tech like Horse said above.
Seems like mainly a company thing that did this, but yeah.
To be clear, I’m not saying China is perfect and I don’t expect it to be, just wondering if this is an issue in China and in what sectors.
One of the advantages of my home region of Eindhoven is that until the founding of Philips it had no historical relevance whatsoever. So there is no protest against building upwards. This has caused the city to go from this in 2007:
To this now:
With 19 70+ meter high buildings on their way. 5 of which will be 100m+, adding to the already 5 100m+ buildings in the city.
Not only does this result in a great skyline, it is also a far more efficient use of space. Only criticism is that living there is expensive.
It has been cool to see the city develop from a provincial town vibe to a more proper city. Especially once the larger building reaching up to 150m will be finished.
I don’t know if this is true or not, just an anecdote I’ve heard from Dutch friends in the past, but it’s it true that there was some sort of archaic rule that only very recently stopped being enforced, where buildings could not be built taller than the church spire of their town?
archaic rule that only very recently stopped being enforced, where buildings could not be built taller than the church spire of their town?
That is something common in most of continental western and central europe.
Some cities have rules like that for famous landmarks. In Utrecht for example it is a sort of unwritten rule to not build any higher than the Dom. Antwerp, where I live now, has the same rule for their Cathedral at a little over 100m.
I sort of understand rules like that. You want to preserve landmarks in a way. But honestly at the same time it limits your city. Antwerp is incredibly dense and crowded in the center and a few giant skyscrapers could really solve some housing issues we have.
I’m glad Eindhoven didn’t cave to such narrow minded stuff. But that also leads to stuff like Eindhoven with 250k will have the largest building in the former duchy of Brabant soon, and that includes 2 million pop city Brussels and 560k pop city Antwerp, who are restricting their limits.
Amsterdam has a similar rule but here it’s about not building too high too close to Schiphol. But we’re starting to build more skyscrapers in areas that are further away
Brussels has the same issue with Zaventem, which is why Zuidertoren tops out at 150m just like Rembrandttoren in Amsterdam. Which is pretty small for cities these sizes lol
