vandivere.net
Ex American Dutch guy living in Amsterdam. Professionally, an enterprise architect. Recreationally, spends too much time making vegetarian food, playing jazz and classical trombone, and tending to the cats.
Posts mainly stuff about Amsterdam
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Really recommend Anne Appelbaum's "Autocracy, Inc." for some insights into this...
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My boy Vito, I just don't get that kid. He dabbles, he dabbles...lately he's been talking up some idea about artisanal pig butchering or some damn thing. Back in my day, you break a few arms, you get a nice suit, you try not to get on the front page of the Post. I ask you, what's wrong with that?
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For some reason, reddit decided I was interested in r/mensa. Ooh boy.
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I would bet even money that Stephen Miller's jaw unhinges.
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"If a black man falls in the forest" of wat dan ook hoorde gewoon nep in mijn amerikaanse oren.
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Deze? Ik ben skeptisch (geen lokatie, geen context, beetje te perfect).
(I do know Black folks in the US who have run into lots of prejudice - Black people have higher pain tolerances, if you're looking for medication you're probably just trying to score narcotics)
www.threads.net/@ipdaman/pos...
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That description doesn't show up on Prime here in NL.
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t.b?
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I mean, I used to hang out on the same newsfroup at Curtis Yarvin back in the 90s.
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1. You seem to think that having a basic understanding of Indian history is a MAGA thing?
2. You seem to think I'm American?
You can neither write not think coherently, apparently.
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I'm not sure you are ok. You're now making completely meaningless comments.
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*some
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Stop digging. Not that I'm want kind of an expert but you're clearly almost completely ignorant (and incurious) of the history of India.
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Try reading this. You won't sound so woefully ignorant.
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Oh, of course.
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Was it you who wrote that story about the woman who made dolls from rice straw in the South Asian SF anthology?
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That's a standard breakfast over here!
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So is mole sauce just sauce sauce?
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Just sent the apologetic text to the neighbor upstairs, and if course pointed out that to the piece, like him, is Russian...
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I've known Excel macros that make better arguments than you.
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Imane Khelif is not transgender, you absolute tool.
People like you make me embarrassed to have become Dutch. We're supposed to be better than this - both in terms of tolerance and not being totally gullible to obvious bullshit propaganda.
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Why couldn't those unimaginative dipshits have spent more time reading SF with 15-gendered species instead? What a missed opportunity?
Of course for most of them it would just mean 13 more dimensions of rejection.
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If you had the slightest bit of curiosity about the world around you and a search engine you could really easily find out how wrong that statement is.
Your bigotry is really just tedious.
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Thanks, good to know! Next challenge: learning how to make very low alcohol beer that tastes ok. New medication...
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Do they have gerstemout in stock? I usually go to the shop in Almere but they've had no malt for a few months...
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I like the fact that it's such a powerful modelling with really only two, maybe three principles: keep your diagrams clean and hierarchical, label your diagrams, and show one concept at a time. I'm trying to get our club to make an enterprise architecture framework that fits in well with C4.
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Bought a couple cases of beer.
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The best bit was when I called the police - they didn't care what I did with the coke, but they really really wanted me to call back if the kids broke curfew again.
A close second - plastic fishing after Queen's Day one year, we scooped both weed and Viagra out of the canal.
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The only exposure to cocaine I've had was during lockdown, when a bunch of kids were having a party on the sidewalk and left a baggie with some coke and €80 on our bench.
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(in other words, it's pronounced differently in Dutch than in English)
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@robxlii.bsky.social
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www.sail.nl/en
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...you can't get a little bit pregnant
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What a shame that the name "The X Factor" is already taken in the talent show space.
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And the tall ships attent supposed to come until this summer...
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A restorer at the Mauritshuis roped in her husband and daughter in law to recreate this almost a decade ago...
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*US
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It's the billionaires taking control - well, taking *explicit* control - of the country and destroying the credibility and framework of the IS federal government.
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Nah, just a fascist and a throwback to late 19th century expansionist American policy. Almost all the energy the US imports comes from Canada, and once it melts Greenland has a whole lot of rare earth metals.
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I've made myself the official skeptic - probably because both I and my paintings restorer wife Abbie (she's at the Mauritshuis - you might have heard of her) are involved in the arts.