Those lazy ass trees just standing thur.

What would work better… Trees? Or a machine consisting of rare earth metals which need to be mined and processed and are only partially recyclable… A tree outlives a machine. Replacing old machines with new ones is good for the economy, so yeah, let’s do that! Wait, what was our goal exactly?

That’s for divorce, not death right?

Don’t give me false hope

Our future. Get used to it.

I wasn’t there during those attacks, I left service a while ago, I wa only there because of the Somali pirates.

Things aren’t black and white. There are no good sides, only different grades of bad when it comes to armed conflict in the middle east. People are driven to extremism due to oppression, hunger, misery, etc and become bad themselves by disbanding human dignity. Who is to blame?

I know I do not stand for fighting pirates in Somalia. Although I got PTSD due to what I saw them doing, which head horrible. The whole situation is fucked up, it’s not onto me to judge or intervene. We as the west are partially responsible, I don’t see fighting the problems we created with violence as a solution, only as fighting symptoms without focusing on the cause.

The Houthis attacks are also a product of a greater problem. Yemen is a giant mess for many years with countless victims. We don’t care so just leave everyone to deal with it themselves. We only start to care when it harms our trade routes. And we don’t help Yemen and it’s people to solve their war, we fight a symptom so our trade routes are secure.

It’s the dame with piracy in general. There’s piracy all over the world. The Somali pirates are mild compared to others, like on the African west coast or near Indonesia. But we only care about piracy when it harms us, like our trade routes.

You become super rich at a cost. Not by honesty. There are always others who suffer. We, the rich west (EU, Brittain, US, but also Russia, India, China etc.) enjoy enormous amounts of luxury, but developing countries are paying the cost for that.

We claim we have morals and are more civilized than others. We condemn Russia for their war crimes everywhere for example. Yet we show we are just as bad by supporting the worst war crimes of this century (by far) by continuing to support Israel.

I rolled into service due to a financial crisis and my own issues (autism, never recognized so never finished school, kicked out by my parents, nearly ended up on the streets because I couldn’t get work, so I enlisted) and becasue I couldn’t handle change that well (autism) I stayed and supported a system I oppose.

I now know better and fight for human rights, against mega corps, for LGBTQAI+ rights, against fascism, racism, nazism and against fake news and propaganda (and anything that goes against my believes). It kills me, as I feel helpless but doing nothing kills me even more.

Being a pirate means taking from assholes who do not deserve it. If you take from anyone you’re an asshole yourself.

I pirate AAA games because they do not deserve my money, as the poor gameplay vallue doesn’t exceed 2 hours. I pay for indie games because they deliver, it’s worth my money.

I used to be in the navy, went on deployment to Somalia several times to hunt pirates. I deeply regret it. Because althoug they have no choice and do what they do because of what us western countries did to them, they do horrible things to others who do not deserve it. But in the end we as a rich western society are the cause for their despair. So we are responsible for what they are forced to do to others. I ended up with PTSD.

You can be a pirate with principles. Especially when mega corps and billionaires are forcing society into submission, forcing people to work to just to survive and/or force people to be someone they are not.

Fight the oppression. Piracy isn’t a crime, it’s symptom of a crime. Also, these days you do not own the media you purchase. It’s not theft when you steal something which you cannot own it when you purchase it.

Friends of mine are expecting a child. They have an app to compare the current size of the baby. It has the weirdest choices:

• Wedding cake (they are always the same size? Depends on the budget right? So if you’re rich your child is bigger than when you’re poor, when it’s the wedding cake size?)
• flat box of chocolates (always the same size? Flat child?)
• small popcorn bucket
• small pinguin (there are so many differently sized small pinguïns)
• cotton candy (last one I had was huge, I feel sorry for the woman with a child that size in their womb)
• maki
• jackfruit
• rhubarb (so it’s a stick shaped child?)
• kitten (a grows the most as a kitten. They are kitten for the first year. It’s like saying the size of your baby is the size of a baby.)

I have no clue what these sizes are exactly. I do know what 10cm or 20cm is.

I’m confused. I read an article about the new 3310 getting the ability to install apps, a long time ago. I found an article on how to do so, but it doesn’t look like the 3310 screen in the screenshots but a general android OS. I thought it had a simplified OS, either their own or a stripped down android (unsure) as it has a tiny screen.

It’s the Nokia 3310 4G model according to this article. But it might be a generic article in which they have the phone model automatically generated by the one you search for?

While stealing and selling all the data from the passengers.

Example of the difference between Italians and the Dutch when it comes to coffee:

Schiphol airport: a “coffee” is 7,90, is basically water with a slight coffee taste. Not regular Dutch coffee (like americano) but more like tea.

Milan airport: 2,90 for a double espresso, actually really properly made espresso from high quality beans.

No one beats the Italians when it comes to coffee. At Schiphol airport they’re not even trying (who cares, no one is a returning customer anyway, fuck them, let’s cheap out on freaking coffee, something which barily costs anything to make)

It even runs WhatsApp and Signal now, or at least, that was the plan a while back. And it’s only like 60 euros or something. Perfect for multiple day festivals and camping trips at least.

Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

You’re not a fucking airport, Google!

I was wrong, Lavazza isn’t owned by Dr pepper but has a partnership. In the Dutch article it says Dr pepper already has other coffee brands including Lavazza. I assumed ownership, as that’s the usual meaning of wording it that way in Dutch (I’m Dutch myself).

Yeah sorry, based on assumption. Because the US (plus a few tiny islands) refuses to switch to metric even though imperial is obsolete and complicated. It’s also usual practice in the US to use weird things for measurements. Cars, dishwashers, etc.

So in this case it was a wrong assumption on my part.

I’m deeply sorry.

Wrong. Douwe Egberts also continues to produce in the Netherlands, but the profits go to the mother company, in this case in the US. Same with Lavazza. The only money that goes to Italy is to the wages of its workers. I doubt they pay much taxes as these giant corps usually find ways to avoid that.

Other people (me) hate it.

You mean wannabe US? (never truly accepted metric system, even discussed to change back to imperial)

Edit: fair point though. My bad.

I don’t get why Americans are doing their best to avoid the metric system. It’s always weird discriptions. Like dishwashers, or in this case, half a giraffe. Just use bananas if (cubic) meters are too complex.

This ruined my day