The Handmaid’s Tale

Brave New World (kind of dystopian…)

Fahrenheit 451

What’s an NPA?

Use gluetun, look up how to configure for your provider. Run a 2nd container for your torrent client, using network_mode: “service:gluetun” to run all your traffic though the vpn. Note that if you’re forwarding ports from your client to e.g. access the web UI, you’ll need to forward them from the gluetun container instead.

In the Netherlands there’s “Jan Modaal”, modaal (modal) referring the most commonly occurring value in or peak of a distribution. This name is used often when representing the experience of the most average Dutchman.

It’s especially often used in financial discussions and journalism, like “owning a house is getting further out of reach for Jan Modaal.”

Unemployment generally only measures the percentage of people who are seeking work but unable to find it. Those who don’t work because they are otherwise taken care of aren’t usually counted. That’s actually the source of the discrepancy in the article so the headline is bs imo.

I’m all for reducing our working hours as a population though. More productivity should equal less work, not more GDP

I had a browse through the issues but I couldn’t find a good example - would love a link if someone finds one!

Funny, but feels unfair to mastodon (as someone who doesn’t use mastodon), they are definitely not trying to destroy the world and could use donations too!

This is a pretty big surprise for a lot of people, immigration is not the thorniest issue this cabinet have dealt with… most likely a political move from at least one of the parties to break the coalition over this and try to snag more seats and a more favourable coalition next go around as opposed to a true vehement disagreement

it can be useful for tracking bad actors and blocking them from access.

What’s the most impactful 418-related incident you’ve witnessed? I remember a few years ago npm went down and was returning 418 which spawned jokes and chaos across the web

it’s important to keep in mind

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Implied where? All the coffee snobs I know drink lighter roasts and derogatorily call dark roasts “supermarket coffee”