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kubok

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  • Living paycheck to paycheck doesn't necessarily have to FEEL miserable. Capital just encourages that.

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  • If you live paycheck to paycheck, that means that you can eat cheap food and ideally pay your bills. If something breaks, it will stay broken. If food prices go up, you'll get hungry. If you cannot pay rent, you'll become homeless in certain parts of the world. It gets worse if you have kids.

    The result: constant stress which will remain with you for the rest of your life, even if your situation gets better.

    If you can read Dutch, try to find the book by the Flemish journalist Tim 's-Jongers (apologies if I spelled his name wrong). He wrote a very poignant book on how it is to be poor and what it did to his mental state, even if he has a stable income at the moment. I am not sure whether that book was translated into English.

  • My neighbor threw it away and now it lives again

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  • This post is in the wrong community. It should be on /c/wholesome.

    Well done sir.

  • NATO boss Rutte slaps down calls for European army prompted by Trump fears

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  • PSA for non-Dutch people: Rutte has been prime minister for ~14 years and has done irreparable damage to the Dutch housinng market, environment and general standard of living. Under his PM-ship, our country has shifted to the far right. He is famed for stating that he has no vision.

    That man is a menace in his crurrent position.

  • Reproducible alternatives to nextcloud?

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  • You could look into Group-Office. Their community edition is open source and free. Looking a your list, it ticks all the boxes. It is also in active development; the Docker image is updated almost weekly.

  • Best rock/punk/similar music from your country? (preferably non-English)

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  • From the Netherlands: HANGYOUTH . One of their big hits is translated as "You don't hate mondays, you hate capitalism".

  • Where are the marketing volunteers?

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  • Here's a somewhat cynical take: marketeers do it for the money. Period. Back when I a student myself, I met many types of students. Marketing students could roughly be classified as 'in here for the money' and 'I do not know what to do otherwise'. There was no real sense of activism or any desire to make the world a better place (except for themselves that is).

    Throughout my career I met with many marketeers. They were nice to work with, but I never met anybody in marketing who was inclined to use their skills for a good cause.

  • How different are the generational divides where you're from?

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  • It is not mostly American. The world is bigger, you know. Roughly the same divide is prevalent along Western Europe and possibly other regions as well were involved in World War 2. Many people had died, so many new ones had to be made.

  • We have all seen the video by now, how come the ICE agent step aside from the car when it was visablly turning away? Even my brother a cop said if he did that he would be fired? Why shoot her?

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  • He is a little man, was on a power trip and as others already stated, he wanted to shoot.

    May he rot in prison.

  • Laptop recommendations?

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  • Those are US brands, tariffs and all. As OP specifically mentions Euros, they would be better off buying a European brand.

    I have a 2022 Tuxedo model that has served me very well so far. It has Linux out of the box (a spin of Ubuntu with a customized kernel and some open source hardware tools) and the price is decent.

    Slimbook is apparently good as well, but I have no personal experience with those.

  • Just ate my 7th oliebol of this evening

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  • Seven? You were staying near a defibrillator, right? If I were to eat any fried pastries, I would eat apple beignets. When my grandmother was still alive, she used to make them herself. Those were delicious.

  • Which gift from a past Christmas do you still use regularly and enjoy?

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  • The first thing that springs to mind is a Moka coffee maker which I use almost daily. I got it around 2021 IIRC and expect to be able to use it for a long time.

  • At what point is liking childrens toys sad?

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  • I do not really judge people for enjoying their childhood toys, but back when my son was a lot younger, he really enjoyed watching youtube movies of adults playing with Thomas the Tank Engine toys. Now that was creepy. Also, the fact that people are actively monetizing this felt a bit dystopian.

  • Does anyone actually like... talk to extended family/relatives? Like an active effort to maintain relations and not just because of forced family gatherings?

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  • You can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends. Make sure to choose wisely.

    Also: depression is no joke. Hang in there and don't let the bad thoughts win.

  • Does anyone actually like... talk to extended family/relatives? Like an active effort to maintain relations and not just because of forced family gatherings?

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  • No. Up until a few years ago, I considered my extended familiy to be important. My parents and their siblings had had their fair share of drama and infighting, but 'my' generation (I am almost 50 years old), seemed to get along, even if me rarely met up. However, when my mother's oldest living sister died, I went to her funeral, as I considered it natural to pay my respect and support my mother and living aunts. It was clear that my presence (and my other cousins who showed up) was not appreciated by her children. That day, I lost more than just one aunt.

  • What 'bad' movie could you fix with a simple casting change?

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  • There were actually few characters that were not jarring. Jar Jar doubly so. Well-chosen name.

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    TIL children in Australia leave out beer for Santa.

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  • This is the real TIL for me. :-)

  • We're having a kid, any dull advice to make it easier for my wife during pregnancy or for both of us once the beb is here?

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  • First of all, congratulations!

    Here's an advice from a Gen X-er: do NOT listen to the Boomers. Not their fault. They had their education by Dr. Spock.

    Also, when the kid is there, both you and the lady should get some me-time at regular intervals. Having kids is hard. Take some time off now and then.

  • My pixelfed has more followers than my Instagram.

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  • Good on you, sir! I love small victories like this one. Also, the fediverse crowd is normally small, but loyal with actual nice and polite conversations.

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  • A good Scotch single malt, preferably from the Islay region.