The sad irony of that site asking me to accept tracking by them and their 214 partners.
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sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?2·8 months agoIt’s funny that a hangover in Dutch is a kater, or, (male) Katze
sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you think of environmental protest groups?352·8 months agotl;dr: things are bad, things will get worse, be angry at the criminals, not those sounding the alarm
We’ve known what we’re in for for half a century, meanwhile governments have kept catering to fossil industries. What’s being destroyed by governmental inaction dwarfs that what you accuse these groups of (art has not been destroyed) and at this point I’m not surprised that people are looking to more disruptive and direct action.
We’ve had scientists do the researching and informing, public interest groups do litigation, NGOs trying what they can themselves, etc, yet we’re still headed to a degree of climate destabilization where large ecosystem tipping points may well launch us into uncharted territory - and even if not, we’re already past the point of ‘dangerous’ climate change and that’s something we’ll have to bear the human, societal and economic costs for.
sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your stance on "donating" blood plasma?1·9 months agoI got a teddy bird and a puzzle! Worth it.
sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your stance on "donating" blood plasma?2·9 months agoI do in fact sit down for an hour once or twice a month to give plasma without compensation and many other people do so as well, given that it’s illegal to be paid for blood or plasma here in the Netherlands, but I can see why paying people a bit would help.
The reason people can’t get paid for it here is to avoid perverse incentives, mainly people donating when they shouldn’t, lying on the form or to the doctor to pass the pre-donation check.
sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your stance on "donating" blood plasma?5·9 months agoI wouldn’t mind it for that reason. The Red Cross do good work that need to be financed.
Here in the Netherlands they do that by contracting out volunteers for first aid services to events like fairs and runs. The volunteer donates their time, gets trained for free, the Red Cross gets paid by the organiser and makes money for their mission and an small army of experienced first aid people and EMTs to help out when disaster strikes.
I’m such a volunteer and it’s a great distraction from my normal job. I also get to use my skills outside of the Red Cross, e.g. as an action medic at protests.
Cool sidenote: there’s this network any CPR certified person can join to get alerted by emergency dispatch when CPR is needed close to your home or work. This has helped massively to get CPR started within 6 minutes mostly anywhere in the country, even when ambulances can’t get there that quickly.
sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your stance on "donating" blood plasma?9·9 months agoI donate plasma regularly - at least once per month. It’s illegal to pay people for blood or plasma here in the Netherlands so I’m just in it for the good feels. I also like the downtime and relaxed chatting and joking with the people who work there.
sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you say "[you have the] wrong number" in your language?3·9 months agoWhen you try to call the Red Cross to ask why you failed the first aid exam 😄
sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you say "[you have the] wrong number" in your language?7·9 months ago“U bent verkeerd verbonden” (for calls)
“U heeft het verkeerde nummer” (generic)
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Fantastic 🙏 thanks again!
sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Would you rather live in a big city or a small town?2·1 year agoThat’s a planning problem imo, from small towns to metropolises groceries, health clinic, some entertainment can be in walking distance.
sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Would you rather live in a big city or a small town?5·1 year agoI live in a small city of about 90k and I love it. We have the important amnesties, eg shopping and a hospital, but in a few minutes you’re out in the open fields. Meanwhile buses to nearby large city depart every 6 to 30 min from my street.
sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.orgto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•Conveniently enter your phone number with a single input12·1 year ago2-Factor authentication
Click Continue when your authenticator app shows a code with two leading zeroes.
We don’t even have that rule with CVS. Sometimes you have a merge conflict after cvs up, well then you fix it. That’s how it’s supposed to work.
The world turned upside dooooowwwwn 🎵
Two of my favourite tools!
Flikken Maastricht. Not because it’s so good but we always try to match the drum beats in the intro