Posts in category society
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Good news
January 01, 2025
Let's start with some good news
83 words.
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I'm calling for a DST strike
November 14, 2024
As long as our government won’t take care of this, I propose that everyone in my country stops using daylight saving time.
599 words.
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When football supporters pick a fight with taxi drivers
November 11, 2024
Large shouting crowds with drums easily intimidate me, especially when I'm with a kid.
542 words.
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You are not entitled to anything
November 04, 2024
I’m fed up with people complaining about the state of some open source project without contributing anything at all.
387 words.
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When projects stop
October 31, 2024
GNU pass and Syncthing stop development of their Android apps.
735 words.
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We need to talk about Agile
October 28, 2024
Agile is a gift from employees to their employers, but not just the one intended.
872 words.
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Mozilla's last stand
October 07, 2024
Suddenly, Firefox took some room out of our shortcut lists for sponsored links.
1,279 words.
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This is not the time for utopias
September 30, 2024
Considering how well my book is doing, it appears this is not the time for utopias.
569 words.
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Stop Destroying Videogames
July 04, 2024
A new EU citizens initiative aims to prevent the remote disabling of video games by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue playing them.
538 words.
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Firefox
June 10, 2024
In 1995, when I first went to university, I was required to request an email address. I had heard about this strange phenomenon and was barely aware of what it was.
502 words.
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On migration, freedom and wokeism: is the right all that's left?
May 02, 2024
How come protecting workers from migration is right-wing, and wokeism is left-wing?
820 words.
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To fill the void
February 19, 2024
Not too long ago, the radical right won our national elections with a landslide. It was horrifying. So many people who are justly and understandably tired of neoliberalism, believing that radical right-wing politicians will care about them and repair their social security.
596 words.
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Youth news programme undermines itself
February 09, 2024
Growing up in rural Netherlands in the eighties, we used to have a newspaper subscription at home. From the age of about eight I watched the “Jeugdjournaal” (Youth news programme), together with my brothers and parents and slowly but steadily a social and political awareness grew among us kids.
639 words.
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Women in MSX games
May 18, 2021
Nothing says you’re not welcome as you can’t play as someone who is like you.
149 words.
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NASA is moving on. Finally.
April 14, 2011
A few days ago I had a nice discussion in a commenting thread on Wired, in response to an article about how uncertain the future of space flight is, now that the Space Shuttles are being mothballed.
427 words.
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The consumer’s responsibility
May 02, 2010
As I understand it, lots of Greeks seem to be under the impression that they are not to blame for their country’s current problems.
92 words.
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Let’s give away some more civil rights
December 30, 2009
We give up irresponsible amounts or our civil rights into the hands of those we put in charge of our safety, because they deem it necessary, and when they screw up, the solution is to give up more privacy?
310 words.
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Samurai cow
December 11, 2009
A cow has been born with some shape resembling a cross on its forehead. To its Christian owners, the cross has obvious religious meaning.
271 words.
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DEception
September 27, 2009
For the first decade of this century and the better part of the last, once or twice a week, three generations of my family have been going through an utterly pointless ritual.
333 words.
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Apartheid state Israel persists in making occupation a fait accompli
September 18, 2009
Someone once told me that Israel is more civilised (he actually said “a way better country”, but I suppose that’s what he meant) than its neighbouring Arab states, simply because Israel is a democracy, and its neighbours are not.
144 words.
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Epic fail
May 20, 2009
Dutch PM Balkenende, a conservative Christian right wing man, apparently still clings to Milton Friedman, but without understanding one bit of it.
71 words.
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Politicians focused too much on market, says politician
April 08, 2009
Mr. Tjeenk Willink, chairman of the Dutch government’s primary advisory board, the Raad van State, says that politicians have been focusing too much on market mechanisms in the past.
143 words.
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50 Dutch quacks spread nonsense (surprise!)
April 07, 2009
Yesterday, many Dutch news sources reported that a group of fifty physicians recommended further study into the harmful effects of radiation from cell phones and other wireless devices and a moderation in the usage of such devices.
174 words.
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Watch out: frightened people are taking over Europe, and they don't mean well
July 18, 2005
Negative mass would allow him to travel back in time.
112 words.
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What the internet should have been like
April 12, 2005
A LOT more powerful and convenient than it is today
139 words.
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How not to automate government services
March 18, 2005
I really want to pay taxes! What am I to do?
182 words.