I was thirteen, visiting Ireland with my parents. We were staying in a hostel somewhere in the area of the cliffs of Moher.
My parents went out for a drink in the pub and met another Dutch couple. They were staying at the same hostel. At breakfast they joined our table and my parents introduced me.
Now I do have a very uncommon first name (the only way I’m part of the 1%). This guy says 'i once met a bit by that name before, it was in Croatia, some ten years ago.
Turns out that was me. The guy had helped dive up one of my swimming shoes that had sank to the bottom of the bay, an act of heroism for the very young me.
So we met this bloke twice, in two very different parts of Europe. The bizarre thing though: if I had a slightly more common name we might never even have known.
Uncannyly I have a similar story. When I was in the African country of Benin, I met a Dutch couple, one of which was an architect who studied African architecture.
My home town has a museum on that exact subject, so I asked him if he knew that, he was like ‘of course, we live in that town’
Turned out he lived around the corner of where I lived.
Yeah litigation is no joke. It’s wonderous to see the lengths people go to to get one up over somebody else. I think it has to do with the lack of social security or something.
You thought the “We don’t know when GTA 6 will come out, we can only guess” articles were bad? Here come the 1000s of “articles” saying “EvErY DeTAiL BroKEn DoWN”....
Je sais bien que selon Darmanin (ou était-ce Hortefeux) expliquer c’est pardonner mais je me suis amusé un peu ce matin à regarder comment la société a évolué au cours de la vie “boomers” et comment certains trucs qui vont de soit aujourd’hui sont arrivé tard (et même certaine de notre vivant)...
L’advantage des Boomer plus grand c’est ses largeur démographique. Ils pourrait changer les choses quand ils etait jeune et progressive et maintenant ils ont encore la majeurité, mais beaucoup devient conservantives.
Ils savont pas un monde ou leur voix etait pas le plus fort. Et les jeunes d’aujord-hui ont pas l’inertie votive pour battre leur parents conservatieves comme ils pouvaient en epoque. Et c’est ca q’ils comprenons pas.
You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.
But as I said it’s a nitpick. Usually us historians keep to when language became involved. The rest would be prehistorical, but the distinction is not that clean cut (is it ever?).
Yup. It’s really effective. I’ve paid my share of lung ruining tax in my lifetime. And for most of that time I’d be happy to defend my right to soil my airways to something close to the death.
I’ve been clean for over a year. But that addiction is so fucking emotional that you let them squeeze you dry and you almost applaud it. The perfect capitalist drug.
Kinda. He’s a lot smarter and less megalomanic. He is a very single issue populist, his only point is migration and islamophobia.
He needs a coalition to be able to govern and the libereal party just said they won’t do bussiness with him. However I think that they will eventually turn around.
The vvd members are mad at Dylan because she’s putting on the breaks, they really want to go right, and I think they would be disappointed if she keeps refusing.
Yes I was there, however I find the beans thing more silly, whilst they poop thing a bit distasteful, however quirky it was.
The good thing is that the entire user base gets to experience these, which was much the same in early Reddit. Present day reddit had few emergent, site wide memes anymore as it’s too splintered and too farmy imho.
This is a plugin I found recently and really enjoy. It gives you the opportunity to redirect several webpages to alternatives. For example Youtube to FreeTube or Piped. If I search for youtube in Firefox, FreeTube automatically opens and shows me my feed. I like it, I use it, I can recommend it.
I’d like for connect to redirect links of a certain kind. I don’t always want stuff to end up in my YouTube app, would rather that it opened in piped or something instead.
What is your best story when you were in a foreign country? (kbin.social)
It can be anything: Scary, funny, confusing or embarrassing. What happened that stands out most in your mind?
Brie (beehaw.org)
If you ever feel useless (lemmy.today)
What is the weirdest food your cat wants to eat? (lemmy.world)
By weird I mean outside of regular cat diet, things like cornflakes, ketchup or banana bread (these are real examples from my and my friends’ cats).
ich_iel (i.imgflip.com) German
Fuck Subscriptions. Setup Streamio like a pro
Credit: u/No-Refrigerator9154...
Indian Food is praised worldwide and celebrated in countries like the UK and Germany. Americans, why do all your comedy shows rag on Indian food?
Émissions de CO2 : connaître les ordres de grandeur (lemmy.world) French
Les gens confondent souvent tout, alors je trouve qu’une bonne infographie est utile....
Now that the trailer is out (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
You thought the “We don’t know when GTA 6 will come out, we can only guess” articles were bad? Here come the 1000s of “articles” saying “EvErY DeTAiL BroKEn DoWN”....
Two minutes of DuckDuckGo rearranging & dropping results for the same search; Bing, Startpage, & DDG all unreliable vs. Google :( (files.catbox.moe)
Try it with this search:...
La douce France des boomers (70 ans de progrès social) French
Je sais bien que selon Darmanin (ou était-ce Hortefeux) expliquer c’est pardonner mais je me suis amusé un peu ce matin à regarder comment la société a évolué au cours de la vie “boomers” et comment certains trucs qui vont de soit aujourd’hui sont arrivé tard (et même certaine de notre vivant)...
You must pick a point in human history before the 1950s to be spend the rest of your life in. What era and place would you choose?
You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.
Ornithologists are assholes. (lemmy.world)
A bit of a flawed comic strip due to some taxonomic inaccuracies, but the punchline makes it a favorite for herpetologists....
Western leaders must choose: Arm Ukraine or enable Putin's genocide (www.atlanticcouncil.org)
Life’s never been better (lemmyf.uk)
What event or experience haunts you to this day?
Another Russian Mavic was defeated in aerial battle. (streamable.com)
Mirror:...
Where's my cooking show already? (startrek.website)
UK should rejoin EU to ‘fix’ Brexit, says Ursula von der Leyen (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Literally dinosaurs (lemmy.world)
Which is the best part of winter: the sun setting at 5pm every day, or it literally hurting when you go outside?
Sunak cancels Greek PM meeting in Elgin Marbles row - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
How do you know if a tree that fell in the forest made a sound?
You check the crash logs
Russia's Crimea defense line washed away in brutal storm: Ukrainian report (www.newsweek.com) Ukrainian
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
Net migration to UK hit record 745,000 in 2022, revised figures show (www.theguardian.com)
Frontline report: Ukrainian advances in Kherson Oblast create a tactical dilemma for Russian military (euromaidanpress.com) Ukrainian
Outgoing Netherlands PM’s party rules out Geert Wilders coalition (www.theguardian.com)
Talks begin with liberal leader warning people not to be fooled by Wilders’ ‘Mother Teresa’ act
Honey, are you okay? You've barely touched your breakfast flour... (lemmy.today)
Lemmy memes (lemmy.world)
You want peace? Get out of Ukraine, Meloni tells Putin (decode39.com) Ukrainian
Wanted to share the libredirect Firefox plugin, for abandoning Youtube. (libredirect.github.io)
This is a plugin I found recently and really enjoy. It gives you the opportunity to redirect several webpages to alternatives. For example Youtube to FreeTube or Piped. If I search for youtube in Firefox, FreeTube automatically opens and shows me my feed. I like it, I use it, I can recommend it.
Denmark's Novo Nordisk invests €2.1 billion in France (www.euronews.com)