Als iemand beweert
dat Madagascar
in de Atlantische
Oceaan ligt,
doe dan geen moeite
hem of haar terecht
te wijzen;
de ligging van
Madagascar
zal er niet door
veranderen.
(J.A. Deelder)
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Last Notes npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek I am wondering why it’s assumed all over the place that everyone drives fossil fuel cars to work. For me and many colleagues, commuting to work burns no oil or gas. “Everyone is noticing higher fuel prices at the pump.” No I’m not. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek I’m seeing Iranians demonstrating in the Hague and in Amsterdam, concerned for loved ones but generally very happy about what is happening to the regime and hopeful for the future. I don’t know how representative that is, but I also won’t pretend to know better than them. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek True, but what if he fumbles his way to a good outcome for the people of Iran? It would be hard to maintain that international law and national sovereignty should have prevailed if they got their freedom. I’m a bit torn on this. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek I’m withholding judgement until we see what the outcome is for the people of Iran. They really deserve freedom and prosperity & even if that happens as an accidental result of all this I think that’s worth a lot. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek it’s actually remarkable how little dissent there is npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek I was looking at my family tree online (an uncle put a lot of work into that) and if you go back 3 generations the amount of dead children is just horrifying. Also, many women dying along with a newborn. We are so lucky to live today rather than even one century ago, we have no idea. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek I have also noticed that large firms are actually fine with complicated regulations if these rules make it more difficult for newcomers to enter “their” market npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek We need to work to remove the reasons for people to risk their lives in small boats. Creating stable economies in Africa and the Middle-East is the only way. Wonder how long it will take us to finally accept that simple truth. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek they’re trying to legitimize it by designating drug traffickers as terrorists - if that would hold (seems a stretch, but just for the sake of argument), would that make it legal? npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek it’s not authoritarian to not always have juries, many democratic countries (like the Netherlands where I’m from) don’t have that system at all npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek I wonder how those investor groups would enjoy a destabilised country under a Farage government npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek he sure loves to play the victim npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek Reliable and free, and all you need are power lines to remote coastal areas probably? Seems a lot less expensive than nuclear. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek ik zou willen dat er niet zoveel splinterpartijtjes waren… hoe sympathiek ook, ik ga het niet doen want met 25% minifracties en 25% radicaal rechts is er bijna geen regering te vormen straks npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek They are mostly good to get people used to electric driving; a lot of people have cold feet about that npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek I admit I’m not aware of the details of this situation, but it seems like the left are taking a very big risk here, too. A grand coalition to urgently fix the country’s finances would be much better than these running battles between democratic forces, which, as you say, only helps the far right. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek and this is the only thing he flew them all in for? npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek Didn’t they break into a military base and caused millions in damage? Not terrorism of course, but not really non-violent either. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek just disconnected my Samsung TV from Wi-Fi (again, it apparently re-enabled it after I had disabled it earlier) npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek one of the best lines in Derry Girls is when the morning news reports that a bridge is closed because there’s an IRA bomb on it, and the granddad shakes his head and says “Health & safety gone mad!” npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek 300km on 30kWh is very impressive… I’m a little skeptical npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek are electricity prices still linked to the price of oil? npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek I once investigated a breach of a majorly critical UNIX system that could have killed a multinational company, and found that the guy typed "DIR C:" in the shell he got, tried some more MS DOS commands in vain, and gave up npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek Isn’t it simply logical that a majority of people receive more in “benefits” than they pay in taxes if you classify most government expenditure as benefits? A large chunk of tax revenue is not paid by people but by companies, so people receiving more than they pay would just be something that logically follows from their definition of benefits. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek Did a Red Team against a TCS-run SOC once. So easy it wasn’t even funny. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek Recently when I pointed out to some USian gun nut that we've had gun control here in the Netherlands since 1890 and the chance of getting shot here is now 20 times lower than in the US, he responded (seriously) that this was why the country was occupied by Germany in 1940. As if the population being armed with semi-automatic rifles and handguns would have stopped the Luftwaffe from destroying Rotterdam from the sky. 🙄 @npub15t7…08hr npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek every time he says something will be done in two weeks it’s never heard of again npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek only possible explanation is that he doesn’t care npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek we are under threat so an increase is needed - but 5% is huge and much more than necessary or even sustainable, I would think. They just have to say this ahead of the NATO summit to placate Trump npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek Pluto’s Revenge npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek you can’t literally translate that expression, it doesn’t work npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek thanks for the reminder that there are people who will believe absolutely anything :) npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek if they invested to be able to supply 20-30% more but sales are 30-40% below that capacity, they will have problems npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek it appears that the numbers he claims to be reciprocating is just the trade deficit of the USA with that country as a percentage of exports npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek that’s… insane npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek more shameless than deranged I think npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek So they didn’t just add any journalist to the group, they added one who is “well-known for his sensationalist spin”. Extra points I guess? npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek what is wrong with these people npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek Nobody wants to attack Moscow. We are defending. Please be serious. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek he has no “security concerns” - he wants the return of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek interesting but not really convincing that they’d attack a Russian company. I mean, that would be… not very smart of them. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek can you have dual Irish/UK citizenship? npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek haven’t heard that one before but it’s not really relevant to your false claim that the country, as a whole, refuses to do anything about it, i.e. that they want it to happen npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek and then there were official inquiries, trials, and many, many convictions - so claiming nothing was done is a lie, perpetuated by Elon Musk npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek Elon is that you?! npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek Make that under 60, I did my CompSci degree in the early 1990s and there was no Cobol. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek this just keeps getting weirder npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek proudly entering my 52nd year on this planet without buying a #Tesla 🙂 npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek An interesting attempt, hadn't seen it yet, thank you. But I'm highly skeptical that it is going to do anything to stop the "move fast and break stuff" crowd currently in control in the US. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek I'm afraid you're right. Things are not just hosted there, they are often built on proprietary features of the platforms. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek this page has an exact date of birth: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Morse-6221 npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek It’s not just Microsoft - links in e-mails will get visited by antivirus products too. We noticed when phishing tests started to produce 100% click rates. 🙂 npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek Agreed, much will depend on the EU’s willingness to use its power and whether it can stay unified. If we can use the power we have and stop being so squeamish about everything, a lot of good is possible. npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek it really isn’t hard, but thinking about ways to make it easier is always a good idea npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek interesting to know how that works - what does your server have to do to process a boost? Does everyone just get some kind of reference, and other instances connect to you to get the content? npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek nou nee, benoeming en ontslag van burgemeesters is helaas nog altijd een taak van de Kroon in Nederland - bij usance de laatste ±25 jaar op advies van de gemeenteraad, maar dat ligt nergens vast bij mijn weten npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek democracies have to effectively regulate social media to survive; so this fight with Musk is a must-win (well done, Brazil) npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek Would be a great contrast. But Shapiro would also easily defeat Vance in a debate, no concerns there npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek ik vraag me altijd af of die “grenzen dicht”-types wel eens ergens aan de grens zijn geweest: meer dan 1000km aan paadjes en landwegen waar mensen dagelijks de grens oversteken voor werk, boodschappen, etc etc, dat sluit je niet af zonder een enorme politie- en legeractie en enorme economische gevolgen npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek de marketingwereld is er vol van; ze zien tutoyeren en mensen bij de voornaam aanspreken als een “persoonlijke touch” npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek ik ben er ook helemaal niet van gediend om zo te worden aangesproken door een bedrijf, moet ik zeggen npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek the right now seems to work mostly by making up problems and blaming some minority group npub1xlap62yp8rzse6ydk0844905twlyrx8ngufvdsdcrut6y2wqxl9scqum67 Mark Koek non-expert guess: Ireland is not in Schengen, so to go from Ireland to e.g. Greece or Spain you’d still need to show a passport with all the entry requirements in order. Not a problem if you have an Irish (EU) passport, but the fact that you’re arriving from Ireland doesn’t make any difference.
