RecursiveParadox 1 month ago • 100%
Eh, there are a few spots that it certainly feels like it, especially the Frisian islands.
RecursiveParadox 1 month ago • 88%
This is the second thread I've seen today with contentious talk about sharpening knives, and I have to ask both sides: do none of you live near a knife sharpening place? I pay EUR 5 per knife two to three times a year, and my knives are always sharp.
Dull knives are dangerous and make prep real chore.
RecursiveParadox 1 month ago • 100%
It's a website produced mainly for a female audience. You have a bit of the fallacy of the excluded middle problem going on there friend. It can be both, but some people may want to focus on the effect on a subset of the total population. And that's ok.
RecursiveParadox 1 month ago • 81%
You could get a decent e-bike?
RecursiveParadox 1 month ago • 100%
If you are skilled labor, yes: https://www.expatica.com/nl/finance/taxes/the-dutch-30-ruling-explained-101641/
But what @abbadon420 said is equally true. Housing market's fucked beyond belief. Now, if you want to WFH and live out in the sticks, you'd be set.
RecursiveParadox 1 month ago • 100%
I'm in this image, and I do not like it.
RecursiveParadox 2 months ago • 50%
This is a good list.
RecursiveParadox 2 months ago • 83%
Yet....
RecursiveParadox 2 months ago • 100%
How is this not downvoted into oblivion - I know it's a link to that instance, but still.
RecursiveParadox 2 months ago • 94%
False flag crossed my mind as well, but it would require an absolutely massive conspiracy between federal, local LE, and some very dumb hicks that simply could not happen unnoticed.
RecursiveParadox 2 months ago • 100%
They’re coming for you even then if you aren’t rich.
Yep. There's "rich" relative to most folks, then there is couldn't-spend-all-my-interest-income-in-a-thousand-lifetimes rich.
The real leopards know which is which.
RecursiveParadox 2 months ago • 95%
Unless you are white, male, CIS-het, and an evangelical Xian, they are coming for you to. You're just a bit further down the list.
RecursiveParadox 2 months ago • 100%
Name checks out.
RecursiveParadox 2 months ago • 71%
I never thought I'd miss mosquitoes but here we are.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 100%
Came here to write the very same thing.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 100%
Well said. And Fck AfD. You guys keep fighting the good fight.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 83%
I understand your sentiment internet friend. It made me insane too (and I have dual citizenship and have lived outside the States for a very long time).
But with the recent SCOTUS rulings + the planning that went into P25, this time is truly, uniquely different. If Trump wins this time, it is game over for any future ways to save democracy and anyone but cis, white, het Xian men and the women who remain subservient to them. There will be no "close your eyes and think of England" for four years then back to normal. There will be no way back to normal for generations.
So my thought is that anything, anything that gets the attention of even one more prospective Dem voter is ok.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 100%
You have to buy the book dummy - it's always a grift inside a grift. Here, spend some coin: https://www.project2025.org/policy/
I have not bought the book. Many, many scholars have. I suppose they are all lying though, you know, deep state this that or something?
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 100%
How would he "disagree with some of the things they're saying" when he "know(s) nothing about Project 2025?
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 96%
This is very real. You can read it here: https://www.project2025.org. You can google multiple right wing websites commenting on it for yourself.
Or you can watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s
Believe people when they tell you who they are.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 100%
While it’s all fine and good to just say “hire the right people”, that’s a gross oversimplification.
I'd say it's combination of chemistry and luck. I have one position that, thank god, it now filled with a really cool dude who took the job based on the flexibility it offers, but I've been here five years and had six people in that role before he came along. Then I have a lady who, on paper, didn't look very qualified, but she came across as confident and honest in her interview. I've promoted her three times in four years. All that was a combination of the interview chemistry plus a ton of luck.
And yes, they are all indeed smarter than me in multiple ways! The other managers are insanely jealous of my team. I guess I, for once in my life, got lucky!
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 100%
That's a fair point about SMART being exactly what some people may need to hear. I hadn't thought about it that way.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 100%
Yeah for sure, avoid big groups of British English speaking dudes for sure (and some of my best friends are English and they would agree!)
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 100%
Fair enough!
It's still possible, in my opinion, to visit as a "tourist" (I live in Haarlem now, so technically I'm a tourist when I go) and avoid all the trashy stuff. You can seek out the cool little neighborhoods like the Jordaan or de Pijp.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 83%
Digitalprimate
Oh simply be polite and most of all have a sense of your surroundings/situational awareness, i.e., don't get in the way. You probably want to spend as little time in the main "downtown" area (roughly central station to the Rokin) as possible.
Although everyone under 80 years old speak near-native English (I exaggerate), you'll endear yourself by learning to say good morning, good evening, thanks, and please in Dutch and to start conversations by asking "Is English ok?" in Dutch.
Basically just don't be a jerk and the native Amsterdamers will happily take your holiday money.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 94%
This bullshit just infuriations me. Nearly every country ALREADY HAS LAWS that prevent minors from buying vapes (and cigarettes, etc.) Just enforce the damn rules rather than turn two pack a day people back to two pack a day people and then have to pay for their cancer treatment.
Jesus these fucks are dumb.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 94%
Well, it's more like we don't want them to come here.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 100%
And this is the real cynic in me, but the dad will be enthusiastic about going to Little Timmy's games, and in the end, that's probably all Little Timmy wants: some time with dad where dad's happy to be with him.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 92%
It's good and kind of you to explain SMART ...but let me tell you as exec management it's bullshit designed fulfull some other HR exec management's last HR course they took, or some obscure ESG requirement.
I tell my people what needs doing, and then they *just do it *because they are far smarter than me at their own jobs and usually find a more efficient way, with better outcomes, than I could design. I set an overarching goal, they do the rest how they see fit.
Hire the right people and you don't need corporate schemes like this.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 100%
Learned that a less-hard-way when I killed my battery charging it overnight. Thank god the stupid did not remain with me long when I found out why this was a very bad (as like the article) expensive idea.
RecursiveParadox 3 months ago • 75%
I'm going to presume you just kind of phrased this badly and not downvote you.
RecursiveParadox 4 months ago • 100%
Can we use fire again to put down the rebellion, pretty please?
RecursiveParadox 4 months ago • 100%
I will sound like a shrill, but I love everything they make. Even though the City Pack Pro X-Pac became, accidentally and relative to initial cost, the single most expensive bag I own due to my stupid brother.
I live in Europe, and you have to pay big taxes on any imports by mail. So I asked my brother if I could mail to him and he’d mail it to me, like in the old days (20 years ago or so). Sure, he says no problem, when do you need it? I say not in a hurry but leaving for a trip in like three weeks, so if it made it here by then that would be nice.
Two weeks later he texts me saying I owe him USD 120 for shipping. I said WTF? He sent it express, like an idiot. The bag costs about USD 239. So, ok fine it least I’ll have it for my trip.
Nope. Three weeks later I call the UPS center. They got my bag, all right, but I owe EUR 135 in taxes and duties. My brother - who used to know how to do these things, insured it for USD 400 and wrote on the item description “brand new back pack.” That fuckwad (whom I love, but damn bro, you grew up stupid sometimes).
Anyway even at that price it’s worth it, and it too has all the features you mention above + in X-Pac + with a contrasting interior color. I may have gone to their flag ship “store” (a tiny, tiny little store front) in SF and fanboy’ed for an hour or so before buying a small inside bag. And I may or may not have ordered two of their computer peripheral storage bags, one for me and one as a bribe/tribute to our head of IT…
Anyway, ahem. It’s the ultimate combo between a carry on bag and an (largish) urban commuter bag. /Shrill, and if anyone from Aer is reading this, a discount code maybe?
RecursiveParadox 4 months ago • 100%
RecursiveParadox 4 months ago • 50%
Yeah, I use that sometimes, but it's really hit or miss. Thanks for the reminder though!
RecursiveParadox 4 months ago • 100%
Controversial take here: use filtered water, not the aquafaba. Yes, using the cooking water is more traditional in most cultures that make hummus. I made it that way for years.
But if the water's off for any reason, usually the chick peas are old, it can become "dirty" tasting. Moreover, using water allows you to have tune in the flavors much better.
Just my Rupee 0.50.
RecursiveParadox 4 months ago • 16%
It's all linked to Russian commodities, especially oil, and the dark fleet. No, I will not explain how I know this.
RecursiveParadox 4 months ago • 100%
I too am skeptical, but there have been so many of these the last few days... is it just a new meme?
RecursiveParadox 4 months ago • 100%
Laughs nervously in Dutch.
RecursiveParadox 4 months ago • 100%
Anyone have a non-Paywall link?
I am an Xer who manages a small but crucial team at my workplace (in an EU country). I had a lady resign last week, and I have another who may be about to resign or I may have to let go due to low engagement. They are both Gen Z. Today it hit me: the five years I've been managing this department, the only people I've lost have been from Gen Z. Clearly I do ***not*** know how to manage Gen Z so that they are happy working here. What can I do? I want them to be as happy as my Millennial team members. One detail that might matter is that my team is spread over three European cities. Happy to provide any clarification if anyone wants it. Edit. Thanks for all the answers even if a few of them are difficult to hear (and a few were oddly angry?) This has been very helpful for me, much more so than it probably would have been at the Old Place. Also the second lady I mentioned who might quit or I might have to let go? She quit the day after I posted this giving a week's notice yesterday. My team is fully supportive, but it's going to be a rough couple of months.
I'm not challenging the rule or anything, it just seems a little out of place here. Potential legal repercussions for our server's owner maybe?
Perhaps this is a dumb question, if so sorry! I don't want to move from here, but I do like the old-school layout over at mlmym.org