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I don’t know what part of the world you live in, but the late 1980’s and early 90’s were wild, the whole eastern bloc fell in 1989, there were revolutions in the Philipines, South Korea, South Africa, and dictatorships in Argentina, Paraguay and Suriname elected democratic governments.

Whomever made that map has never met someone from Amsterdam.

I was born in 1975, and during the eighties a nuclear war was always just about to happen. I can’t tell you what you should be doing, for the most we just lived with it. What helped was there was no 24/7 news cycle back then, so maybe try to block out the news to maintain a healthy consumption level?

Beginners mistake, you should always wield a semi when doing this.

You don’t like your butt tongued?

In my view and understanding, genes define the potential, environment defines the realization. I mean environment in a broader sense though, I read some time ago that for teens the friend group has a bigger influence than the parents, who’s impact on development is close to zero at that point.

I guess it’s more a question of whether they have the space to install panels in places where electricity infrastructure is already present.

Which is a good question, because I remember talking to an engineer from an Irish (waste to energy) power plant a few years ago, and he specifically was looking for ways to convert energy (like hydrogen production) because there was too little capacity on the grid.

I’ve seen them all on the fediverse, so they are here?

If the Dutch had designed it, the protestants would have been on top, in 1848 we just lost half the country to the catholics in the south during a civil war AKA the Belgian revolution. If the Germans had designed it, I don’t think Germany was united as a country jet in 1848?

Nederland and Netherlands both mean low country? Low as in Lower Rhine. It has an origin in the Roman name “Germania Inferior”.

I agree, I would actually consider this BP as normal-ish, wearing a too tight belt makes your BP rise higher.

I’m about the same age os OP, and before I got medicated I usually had 160/100 without any of these symptoms. My physician told me not to worry about it, which was bad advice in hindsight. My BP ultimately got to 190/110 which did cause problems and made very clear there was an underlying problem.

Publisher’s reaction looks like corporate bullshit to me to be honest.

It’s called objective tinnitus. Tinnitus can have different causes, the damaged hair cells one is the most common.

It’s actually based on the novel by Asimov and Robert Silverberg, which is based on the short story. I don’t remember seeing the movie, definitely read the book and short story.

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.

190 in 36 g.

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.

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

What does that even mean?

I guess the visit by Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, who was on the terrorist list just days before, and is suspected of being involved in the 9/11 attacks as a member of Al Qaida.