smeg

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[–] smeg 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe he should say, "let them eat cake"

[–] smeg 4 points 5 months ago
[–] smeg 25 points 5 months ago

Hold strong, Democrats. Nothing you authorize will be respected by this administration, so you might as well let Republicans rewrite Senate rules (which they have in the past and can do on a whim) and pass their own priorities, instead of handing them legitimacy by signing onto the Trump agenda of not following the law.

[–] smeg 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I don't accept the premise of the question.

[–] smeg 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Coalition options are complicated.

D66 + GL/PvdA + VVD + CDA is ideally what they want, very broad and centrist, but VVD said they won't partner with anyone left, and especially not PvdA. Since VVD had better than expected results, they're keeping their leader, so I expect that promise to stick.

Another route is D66 + all of the left wing parties combined, but getting them all to agree on an agenda led by a centre-left party seems fraught. Also, some of these small left parties have never been in government before and probably don't have the chops for compromise.

A possibility is D66 + CDA + VVD + JA21, centrists partnering with the right to keep out the left. A tale as old as time! JA21 makes me nervous, basically a more polite version of FvD.

The most likely outcome is a centrist minority government of D66 + CDA + GL/PvdA, and then relying on the left parties or right parties separately to pass the legislation they want based on the topic.

Of course, trying to address the far right with centrism is how basically every county eventually falls to fascism. This election outcome isn't great.

I'm a little scared of D66 leadership, too, because they want the Netherlands to have more direct democracy and first past the post - basically emulating the American system; we see where that leads. And they want to solve the housing problem with massive deregulation and hand-outs to developers, basically leading to rampant suburban sprawl and car dependence.

[–] smeg 2 points 5 months ago

GigSky allows you to buy data on Egypt in 10GB intervals. You can continuously top up your plan once it runs out.

€52.49 for 10GB so it's fairly expensive.

I used GigSky for work in the EU, and at least one day used 10GB+ without a problem.

[–] smeg 36 points 5 months ago

There's a huge difference between a piece of data being recorded in a SIEM somewhere and the data being displayed up front all of the time for micro managers to pounce on.

[–] smeg 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

They aren't sending their best.

[–] smeg 12 points 5 months ago

My Mastodon instance is working just fine.

[–] smeg 32 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Unfortunately, this strategy didn't work to prevent my kid from having the same milk allergy that I do. In fact, it's worse.

Not fatal or anything. His lips become bright red, swelling slightly and peel later, he obviously gets days of the shits, and if it's repeated exposure he will get rashes all over. And we're talking some small amount of milk powder or unexpected butter deep in the ingredients of a baked good - if he actually consumed something like real milk, butter, or cheese, it would be much worse.

Goat cheese seems fine. It's something about the cow milk proteins.

For me, it's just a serious case of the shits when it's the real deal. I guess my millennial upbringing of a glass of milk daily conditioned some small amount of tolerance.

[–] smeg 16 points 5 months ago

"Don't discourage our highly addictive product"

[–] smeg 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ideally located in Germany, subject to German law and regulation, German taxes, and German national security interests, right?

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