I think what will hurt them much more is the EU realizing the danger in dependence on American tech like Microsoft, and slowly replacing it with (open source) alternatives.

Worked with a guy that would always say I’m refactoring X and it would usually give us weird issues and bugs. So after a while the team started calling it refucktoring

Yeah I mostly learned English watching Cartoon Network, when it wasn’t with subtitles or dubbed. They basically started airing in the Netherlands and an entire generation learned English by watching cartoons after school.

This is now repeating with YouTube and teens watching a lot of English youtubers.

I miss those days, Dexter’s laboratory, Dragonball Z, two stupid dogs…

With a system like .beat (or internet time as it was also called), there are no timezones and there is no daylight savings time.

If we would use a system like that, I’m pretty sure stores in Barcelona would open at a different time than stores in Amsterdam, because the sunrise at different moments. Now we have the same timezone, because it works wel for trade, not because its the best local time.

Using the exact same time globally could fix that. We use the same time for meetings with people abroad but choose the time that fits when the sun rises

TIL https://www.quora.com/Which-is-correct-Ive-ran-out-of-or-Ive-run-out-of

I remember that at some point in the 90s or 2000s you could buy watches with beats time. A day was divided in 1000 beats and there where no timezones. So 300 beats could be breakfast for me and bedtime for you.

I think I would actually really like a global system like that.

On the other hand, if we had not saved daylight we would have probably ran out by now.

Yeah it works more like how cracks used to work back in the day.

Also delete the apps and use live chat to get them to delete your account.

What? I’m not sure how it is in the US but in many countries zoomers (men) are very right wing. These are the guys that watch rogan and Andrew Tate.

Did that but also removed my account, I was not an active subscriber, but after logging in they push you towards subscribing. AFAIK you can only delelte your account via live chat, be sure to mention Art. 17 GDPR Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’).

In ICE’s defense the Irish guy also spoke with a funny accent

Phillips is still a Dutch brand right? I use a sonicare it’s pretty good actually.

EU: We are not going to read your chats or look at your photos, we just stop the CP.

People: so how will you know what chats and photos contain CP?

EU: Just trust me bro…

Yeah this is where the EU has a problem, because our intelligence agencies don’t really have great alternatives. For police we can probably just go without palantir

I wouldn’t buy an American car because I don’t want to support the current regime (and mileage).

But having said that, those minivans look like they would be awesome for family road trips. I hate trucks but wouldn’t mind seeing more minivans in Europe. I saw a review of a minivans that came with a vacuum cleaner build into to car (just pull out the hose).

Yeah we (Europeans) should also constantly keep fighting for our privacy and freedom. Thanks for sharing the link I’m glad the Netherlands is against it.

Americans when you talk about gun control: NOOO mah freedom, I need it to protect myself from the government.

Americans when you tell them a private company is going to monitor and track every citizen, basically making a dystopian police state: I have nothing to hide so it’s fine.

I feel Europe is basically the other way around, less guns, but more privacy.

We clash! While we try to squeeze every last bit out of our hardware and tools, you are trying to keep us in check and not installing random shit because it might make us 0.1% faster

I never had a blackberry, but my HTC Desire Z was peak typing. You slide the keyboard out and have a full keyboard. I typed very fast on that thing, every phone I got after that sucked at typing.

This phone https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/HTC_Desire_Z_overview.jpg