The thumb on the left is pointing the wrong way for this.

Did you know that you can just put “college student” on your resume instead of “sex worker”?

Finished “a death in Cornwall” by Daniel Silva, and now a little over half way through “an inside job”, the next and latest book in this series. While I think the previous was a decent enough book, it left me with the feeling that the author was tip-toeing around the whole Israel situation where the series was heavily Israel centered in the earlier books (and deliberately pointing at a different country in the process). The not adressing of the current state of affairs in Israel goes on in the latest book unfortunately. Also, the plot twists are too predictable,

They could be a day apart in a leap year!

Thanks, I didn’t need to know that.

Plot twist: Mr Web Dev is also in charge of the mailserver of this small company, and was the only one to actually see the invitation. The rest was misteriously undelivered. (source: stolen from a previous time I saw this meme)

Nice map, but if I remember it correctly, housing prices in 2019 were the same as in 2008 before the crisis. Houses are still too expensive here in the Netherlands, but this reeks of cherry picking.

I like your thinking, but he’s never going to be tried in the Hague. The US has made clear it will invade the Netherlands if a US citizen is going on trial here, and besides, he’s either mentally unfit or he won’t live that long.

Definitely not a heart.

I’m probably way older, I remember Microprose from their flight simulators like Gunship and F19 stealth fighter.

When the Germans invaded my country in 1940, someone in the street I currently live in was standing behind the window, looking at the approaching soldiers. (I live real close to the border). The Germans, upon seeing him, shot him and he died right there. There’s no memorial, no history book where this guy is mentioned. I only know about this through oral history, my grandfather told my dad and he told me. History is always about the leaders and the armies, never about the civilians.

I don’t know how it is elsewhere, but in the Netherlands (as per EU regulation) the limits of dangerous substances in food are determined according to the ALARA principle. For fish, the limits are a lot higher because otherwise fish would be blacklisted, there’s always more toxic substances in fish because they are caught in open water. The same open water where chemical corporations dump their waste streams containg mercury, PFAs etc. So according to our government eggs from your own chickens aren’t healthy because of PFAS*, but fish containing more PFAS is.

*Commercial eggs are fine, since these chickens don’t get to eat insects, snails or worms from the ground. These animals absorb PFAS from the soil.

The fifth horseman was Kaos, but he left before they got famous.

I’d say he was white, but some people like to see “Arabs” (is there a better word maybe?) as non-white.

thanks to a mix of fewer films being released and changing audience habits

I went to see project hail Mary with my wife, and it was the first time in years I went to the movies. We viewed the trailers of other stuff coming soon, and nothing appealed to us. Especially the trailer for the Oddysey was so wierd, we’re definitely not going there. So maybe the studios should concentrate on making nice movies, and not just on finance and hype.

Not gonna lie and say that I’ve never made a racist joke, but these days not anymore. Too many right wingers who think you’re serious.

Top right the green is aurora australis, and if you look closely you can see the coast of Brazil on the right. The equator would be like a smile across the globe from left to right.

The birds head is gone.

If you were a man living in America, people would call you a closeted homosexual, not bisexual. So I think it’s a combination of double standards and gatekeeping. My advice would be to block the negative people so you’ll never interact with them again.

On a road trip once, our first born called me a stinking swine for humming that song. He had had it in head most of the previous day, and I planted it right back.