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I had to look it up, but the “dwangwet” is a name the right gave to the “spreidingswet”, a law meant to force municipalities to provide shelter to asylum seekers. It’s far right framing, they wanted to (and succeeded) block this law from passing. Goal of the block is according to them something aking to “muh freedoms”, if you ask me it was meant to force problems with said asylum seekers. These problems didn’t materialize, with the ultimate effect of Geert Wilders’ PVV party leaving the coalition.

This is a very condensed version of two years of political scheming, so there’s a lot more to be said than this.

Mbt = “met betrekking tot”, basically means regarding. Dwangwet translates to Zwangsgesetz in German.

Everything in science is made up, including math. Then it is tested if it passes scrutiny.

I agree with you, but I’m afraid some people don’t care if everybody loses, including themselves, as long as no one has it better than them.

That makes sense, thanks for clarification.

I’m pretty much the same, but for the games of chance; As long as the prize isn’t monetary, I tend to do really good. Coin flip because two people asked the day off and only one can take it? Sorry for the other guy.

Another thing that I’m really good at is pushing a button. If for some reason something doesn’t work after pushing a button (either computers or machinery), just complain to me it isn’t working. I’ll ask if I can try, and somehow it always works. Actually a very usefull skill when I worked as an operator in various chemical plants. Coworkers had mixed feelings about it tough.

There are people who are always lucky, and those who are unlucky. The lucky ones tend to win more coin flips, have less accidents, and if they fail it will be upwards.

it might sound preachy to those who are ignorant

Am I reading it wrong, or are you saying that people who have a different point of view are ignorant?

You Suffer?

Pink Floyd

AC/DC especially has the same drum rythm for all songs.

Depends on the kind of stupid. I’ve met the kind of stupid who inspired the likes of Dunning and Kruger, and those people are dangerous. I’ve also met the kind who very well what their own capabilities were, and they could do better than some of the people that were considered “smarter”.

Current research states Neanderthals were generally as smart as us.

I just convince myself that I’m so efficient that I’ve actually done 8 hours of work load, and call it the day.

Darts.

How would you measure the time it takes to wake up without somehow monitoring brain activity externally? I mean, you start sleeping, so at best a dodgy perception of time, and at some point in time you’re awake. For me it would be impossible to tell the time it takes, might be a second, might be an hour.

The stupid thing is, there were already talks about moving away from the blackface. Of course the people at the television stations (who could make this happen) took their time, which caused the people of "kick out zwarte Piet’ to make a stir. So far nothing wrong, but they did this at the televized arrival of Sinterklaas, so now they had crying children on tv. This caused the “all brown people back to Morocco” crowd to scream outrage, and suddenly we are at the current stage with two very vocal groups screaming at each other.

My kids were still in the believing age when this started, and I never had a problem explaining the issues and the changes to them (Piet used to come through the chimney, when this wasn’t possible anymore he painted his face black to look the same, but now he realized this looks like blackface). The right wing voters had problems explaining, because they didn’t want to, and now they see it as a defeat by the “others”. Throw in some politicians who can only fare well if there’s disorder, and suddenly it takes over twenty years to phase out something that should have been gone a long time ago.

Come to the Netherlands, we have layers on this since Santa Claus is Coca Cola’s take on our Sinterklaas, who is usually acompanied by “six to eight black men” (more commonly known as “zwarte Piet”, black Pete). he was was taken to the US by Dutch immigrants, after which it evolved in the current Santa Claus. And it gets worse, because while it has alway been a bit of a battle between team Sinterklaas and team Santa Claus, the last twenty years or so there is a different battle going on between team “Dutch tradition” and team “kick out zwarte Piet”. Both of these last two teams are obnoxious, and would choose confrontation over dialogue every day of the week. This has resulted in a conflict with no end, where it would have been easy to phase out the blackface character with no fuss in a short time.

That’s a bit pessimistic, you could also say very good to see that nothing important goes down when Cloudflare has an outage!

That depends on the the view point. It is true that it was founded as a mosque, and became a teaching centre later. Since universities are considered a European invention by some, it is argued that it was a madrassa op until the 1960’s. However, madrassa is basically Arabic for place of study, which this mosque was since the eleventh century or earlier. It was in any case a place of study before the foundation of the university of Bologna.