working on a new game called "Hegel or Warhammer 40k" in which i give people quotations full of proper nouns and make them guess whether it originates from The Phenomenology of Spirit or from The Hortus Heresy

the average dutch GP is part of a collective white woman hive mind that's woke enough to gender the dolls correctly but not woke enough to give them blood tests

i love the extent to which microsoft apps just Do Not Work. had to change my school outlook login and now I can't access my email in the app anymore because outlook for android won't render the login screen for whatever reason

youtube inserting an algorithmic timeline at the top of the chronological subscriptions tab is gonna turn me into the joker. that's the tab i navigated to because i wanted to see the videos channels i follow have uploaded. chronologically. why do websites hate to be good so much.

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi... "He [Epstein] also generously funded the work of George Church, the Harvard geneticist and Edge superstar who developed a dating app to match people based on the fitness of their genes."

international law has been such a tedious class. venezuela keeps coming up as a paradigmatic example of a violation of state sovereignty, but the implications of it are left up in the air

chat gpt is turning me into a rabid pen and paper truther

had to explain what "esports" is while interviewing for an internship position bc i forgot i'd put my experience with fgc tournament organising on my cv

the internet is finding out that the roomfie can break into a perfect homer simpson impression at basically any time

intelligence is an extension of the body! thought does not exist independently of a material substratum! this substratum conditions all operations of "the mind" and anything with a meaningfully different substratum seems unlikely to develop intelligence in the way that term is generally used! okay!!

I wish this kind of toggle existed for the rest of my life. Would very much like to press a button to never have to hear classmates say they cheat chatgpt as a friend to ask when they're stuck studying ever again blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/a...

where can a girl in the year 2026 find a copy of Max Havelaar that leaves the weird antiquated spelling in tact rather than modernising it

after i told my two friends with the same first name the tale of mario 64 ryan (i.e. not wittgenstein ryan) consulting me about the dubai esports washing tetris event, one of them was like why does mario 64 ryan get a cool epithet while i get called "smaller"? so we redubbed her "portable" instead

i met with a professor in post colonial studies who's studying saudi arabia investing money in fighting games, he said if i ever wanted to get a job researching street fighter he could probably find me a position. this is probably easier to get funding for than philosophy, tbh

it's so funny how much effort the dutch royal family puts into seeming useful. the queen is joining her oldest daughter by joining the army, which will most likely lead to a boost in recruitment lol nos.nl/artikel/2600...

i can't help but feel a little bit vindicated in my exam prep approach of taking notes in class and then making a practice exam or two, given that I've so far passed everything with middling grades while people who spent more time cramming didn't pass

making trans women pay you on crypto for estrogen is one of these security measures that exposes literally all your customers to the hundreds of ways in which you can get hacked or scammed in the crypto space. seems like a really poor trade-off frankly

i'm adapting to the cognitive revolution of artificial intelligence by printing my school readings on paper and taking notes with a pen bc honestly i'd be pretty upset if my thoughts and my writing turned into boilerplate slop

a reference for the subsection of my followers that watched belgian children's programming on public television circa 2005

our doorbell broke the other day and I'm very disappointed that nobody who's been at our door has used this opportunity to say "sorry ik moest kloppen want de bel deed het niet"

in hindsight it's silly that i was worried there wouldn't be a fansub of the new kamen rider girls remix special within 4 days of its release

the hardest part of my exams this block was not making disgusted faces at my classmates for using chatgpt to prepare. i think I'm morally I'm the right but it's imprudent when part of your grade depends on a group project

the suspect appears to have left all the signs of debugging a printer at the scene of the crime

the new visa system for the UK is just such a waste of time man. what are they gonna do if i ticked the box that said i've done war crimes in the past? invite me to become prime minister? also extremism isn't a fucking crime man. you can't be convicted of that.

if we take it as a given that the pen is mightier than the sword, and a picture can say more than a thousand words do we think a picture is mightier than the sword or is this a fire emblem weapon triangle type thing

i like that the microsoft corporation scanner application has a PEGI 3 age rating on it

my housemate informed me that a great moral weight has fallen off her shoulders because she realised that she doesn't have a video essayist

it's so hard to explain Inherit the Wind (1960) to people who haven't seen the same moves as i have, like what am i even to say when talking to someone who hasn't seen twelve angry men or kamen rider x ooo & fourze movie wars mega max director's cut

it feels so decadent that we get our own purpose built search engine that's specifically for finding legal scholarship and jurisprudence

am i the only one that finds the amazon bus stop ads that promised "endless entertainment" a little ominous sounding? entertainment seems like one of those things that shouldn't be endless

i was going through all the logical fallacies in a bad political science paper i read but then the roomfie took away my Ps and Qs :(

yes writing my paper involved extensive research, during which i asked hard-hitting questions such as > how to install times new roman linux > how to type ümlauts linux > how to type ümlauts without compose key linux > keyboard shortcut switching languages linux

law school has substantially changed my understanding of democracy in the netherlands. i learned that the people must have a say in the laws that govern how they use their electrical bikes. the legitimacy of the municipal electrical bike ordenances depends on democracy.

i know that it's annoying that you can't cheaply purchase RAM or gas generators anymore due to the AI bubble, but i don't think we should be too worried until they start acquiring things we actually need in daily life, such as big cans of sheep cheese

i wish i liked kamen rider revice better bc the yuri arc goes really hard

i like this graphic that the chinese state broadcaster made

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

do dutch kids these days still know what Elfstedentochtkoorts is?

sorry, couldn't come to class today (and yesterday) on account of the snow. an act of god prevented trains traveling to and from amsterdam (Real legal terminology used by Real jurists) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_...

roomfie is currently eating a "man in the shed sandwich" famous from the Viper bit "man in the shed"

the roomfie is like an mlm recruiter but if the mlm was trying to sell you on the concept of the viper (sit down, john. i was thinking of going to TK Maxx to get shoes. for the funeral. I ate all the popcorn. i'm so sorry john, first your father and now this.)

Happy Christmas to bollard fans across the world! #WorldBollardAssociation

roomfie came down with some kind of plague so we've been in all day and she's coaching me on how to do a cork accent

leonardo da vinci themed monster

few movies brave enough to ask: what if the fruit themed samurai was a car, and what if the car themed samurai was an orange

android making it impossible on a system level to modify the app data folder is so fucking irritating man. the usb port on my smartphone is fucked to the point it won't show up on my pc anymore so i guess i just won't be able to access my files forever?

evergreen thing to say but i really don't like the latest pocket casts update. they renamed the filters to "smart playlists" which sure whatever, but also removed the ability to put custom colours and icons on them so you can easily distinguish them from the menu

explaining to my friend how i learnt to use an FTP client to transfer ISOs to my ps3

to the "old" allegations i say: did you know you might be able to get some "loonheffingskorting" money back if you're a student and report your income to the dutch tax office? also your municipality might pay your Eigen Risico, and the rent limit for huurtoeslag recently changed,,

a thing about "the danger of algorithms" that drives me up a wall is that people forget that algorithms can only manipulate numbers? everything that isn't already a number (e.g. watchtime) is tracked by proxies that are often crude and unreliable, like how often people use positive or negative words