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Ew, that’s the slimy laugh.

Being the smartest person in the room means you have nothing new to learn from those in the room.

If that’s how you feel when you think you’re the smartest, you’re not that smart.

It was studied in the Netherlands a few years ago, and it turns out that for people from the same social economic background in the same city, the neighbourhood you grew up in made all the difference. Oeople who grew up in the “right” neighbourhood made on average 50% more pay.

Also in the Netherlands.

They are, but not mildly.

Isn’t this a known dark pattern? Not so mildly infuriating for me.

I agree. Just yesterday I was talking with my wife about this regarding the switch to ms teams our employers have made. Ever since, everything that could be done with one action now takes at least two. So I showed her the link where you can add shortcuts from teams to your onedrive, so you can at least work with explorer like a decent caveman.

This is actually a good tip! An uncle of mine always used scalpels for wood carving.

Normally I use a Kobo e-reader, but on my phone I use Readera for ebooks

Meh, I’ve met plenty of nice French people. I’ve had one French asshole as a coworker, but the other French coworkers agreed he was an asshole. Though honestly I’m Dutch, and the official motto here is “France is a great country except for the French!”.

This is because the “poor” can’t and won’t afford to make every interaction transactional.

A community for people from Venlo!

“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes” -Adolf Hitler

Can’t be the leaded gasoline, gen-x grew up on this stuff.

Isn’t MacOs based on BSD in the same vein?

Android?

It depends on the subject. For some things I use search engines, for some things I’ll just google for books or research on the subject matter and obtain pdf’s for those, some stuff on relevant internet fora, and it used to be that youtube had some good info, though lately it’s overrun by AI slop.

That’s the one!

I’m missing Betterhelp, that one really expensive safety razor, and Bambulab for makers.

At this point you should just tell us what message you’re trying to convey, and then we can simply say “you’re right” and be done with it.