RecursiveParadox

“The West” is still doing business with Russia, but be patient. I have it on fairly good authority the 21st EU sanctions package will contain a full services ban. This will effectively end all European involvement in transporting Russian crude/products, other commodities, etc. Probably in the Autumn.

What I think they meant to say was not that they were getting their news from social media. They clearly knew what had happened from actual news and were commenting that social media wasn’t really reporting things accurately.

Yes!

Thank you for the explanation.

Getting downvotes (and bots were here etc) but this is essentially true, if delivered a bit mean.

Don’t buy ceramic knives; they dangerous as hell and will fail catastrophically at the wrong time. And never put your cutting knives in the dishwasher, as you amended your post to say.

Good knives don’t have to be expensive, but you’ll have to so some research or buy second and learn how to sharpen them. They will burn me as a witch, but there are other methods than a whetstone that are just as effective and that do not significantly damage your blade.

Can you elaborate on the social security thing? I have lived most of my life outside the States and hope to never need SS, but, well, best to know what’s going on just in case.

Double plus good talking to your boss. One of my people had this exact same thing happen to her. I went to the other dude and told him any requests for my people to do work outside my department had to come though me, end of story.

Nobody pulls that shit on my people.

Battery density and transmission loss, that’s the name of the game. Materials science for sure.

I was also pointing out that, as long as people want to fly planes or ship good across oceans, we have nothing close to the energy density of the various fuels used.

But everything else need to be going as green as possible as soon as possible.

We had 400-500 people gather at the park just south of the centrum. They all marched off, but we are not really sure where they were going (there was more than one group than ours involved).

It’s possible they were headed for the centraal station, where the AZC protesters would be coming from…

The VVD did this to us. And their neoliberal bullshit led directly to the PVV and the other far right garbage.

Big protest coming to my city tomorrow against the AZC, not even people from here. We will counterprotest and not le them near the AZC, that’s the plan anyway.

The thing is we still need carbon heavy fuel for fertilizers, medical plastics, chip making etc.

Not to mention oceangoing ships and airplanes. There is no battery on the horizon nearly energy dense enough to make that kind of transport work.

Well that’s fucked. Is there anything left to do to stop this bullshit?

Also I read it was the damn VVD who made this deal in the last cabinet. Figures.

I read this weekend there was a new court challenge though?

Updoot for calm approach, but it does appear that, at least in one case on the cruise ship herself, one passenger transmitted it to another.

NO claim it was airborne though. Could have been clothing, shared food, a zillion different vectors.

Thanks for the very detailed reply! I’ll check into it.

But I hate how much metadata that Wire leaks.

This is the first I have heard of this - can you point me to any sites?

Very cool, thanks.

You’re getting a lot of downvotes - I think it might be helpful if you explain you are using a different sort of AI rather than LLMs or gen AI.

If there are any fellow Dutch people here do not bring Gevulde speculaas. It looks like bombs to them. Ask me how I found out at Schiphol…

Ok, so I am considered somewhat of an “expert” in my rather narrow field. Fine, but anyone my age who’s worked in this field as long as I have would equally be an “expert.”

Somehow two years ago I got onto some kind of list. I had five or six “expert” panel companies pay me* to talk their consultants for an hour. I’ve been offered about 30 of these and done about half.

But here’s the kicker: none of them ever vetted me beyond looking at my seldom to never updated LinkedIn profile. I could be making all this shit up and no one would know. No references checked, not even a cursory background check.

So I guess you could say someone is an expert if someone else calls them that?

• I have the companies donate the payment to charity, but not because I’m a good person but because I do not want any additional USD nexus.