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rumschlumpel

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  • Belgium plans to nationalise nuclear power plants

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  • I assume "nationalizing" doesn't mean "seize with minimal compensation (if any)". Have fun paying Putin for those uranium rods and maintaining your severely outdated nuclear plants.

  • Trump orders withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Germany amid feud with Merz

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  • Nice.

  • Trump says he'll place 25% tariff on autos from the EU, accusing it of not complying with trade deal

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  • Can we have a counter tariff pretty please? US-style pickup trucks are starting to become a thing here and it fucking sucks. Or just straight-up ban that type of car.

  • how I actually feel though

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  • I hope Bandcamp doesn't get enshittified to hell for a while. I love supporting indie artists by buying their music, going to concerts isn't really possible for me and buying merch is super inconvenient for shit I generally don't need or want.

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  • You don't have to be one of the greatest painters ever to be a professional painter, or one of the greatest composers ever to be a professional composer. Same way not every business owner is a billionaire.

    Either way, even for creative geniuses, painting, composing etc. is still hard work that is often not well-rewarded in their lifetimes.

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  • Creativity is not innate, though, it's mostly about being motivated to put in the work to learn it (i.e. it's a "learned skill") and professional creative workers very often do trade their physical health for success - it's high stress, the market is usually very competitive which forces long hours, several creative professions do include direct physical hazards (e.g. dancing is all about physical exercise and might involve risky stuff on the stage like pyrotechnics, visual artists often have to deal with chemical fumes).

    Also, most creative workers don't get rich and famous, they make barely enough to get by.

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  • I hate it when people insist that creative work isn't "real" work. With a standard job, you do your thing for 8 or so hours and just go home. Creative work tends to be an all day, every day thing because you're constantly thinking about it, it's usually longer hours than a standard job because of deadlines, the non-deterministic structure of the work and the competitiveness of most creative fields and you're probably self-employed anyway. And you often have to put in the work even when you don't feel inspired or motivated - turning your hobby into a job is a great way to suck the fun out of it. Same way many people have fun doing handyman stuff at home, but being a professional handyman is one of those stereotypical "real jobs".

  • Print your work, frame it, and take pride in it because it's beautiful.

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  • Hm. Certainly the most tactile experience and it's great for showing off because it's much bigger than CDs or cassettes, but if you want to actually use it it's kinda meh IMO. But CDs are utterly boring and it's actually pretty hard to find a decent tapedeck (if you buy an old one it's very likely to have issues with playing at the correct and constant speed, and new ones are kinda expensive plus it's not actually possible to get new parts and licenses for the old Dolby B/C noise reduction technologies).

  • Print your work, frame it, and take pride in it because it's beautiful.

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  • Great advice that probably applies to other forms of art, too. I wonder what's the most satisfying way to do this for music ...

  • Visual guide to types of tea

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  • That coffee bean tea sounds mighty good right about now ...

    Though once in a while I like a high quality black tea as a break from coffee. Good palate cleanser.

  • Saw this new plaque on the way to the shop

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  • Apparently they got him in France when he was part of the (Spanish?) Republican forces. Interesting. Important reminder that the Nazis didn't just murder Jews, they also murdered a lot of political activists, POWs, LGBT+ people, disabled, Roma and so on.

    I hate that so many people in Germany and the US see and know this, and yet think that we need more of it. Propaganda works ...

  • Visual guide to types of tea

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  • Actual tea purists typically insist that it has to be tea leaves, as opposed to all the herbal "teas" that are often made from boiled leaves, too ...

  • Wheeeee

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  • Downside being that astronauts are typically in the prime of their lives. If I was to go explosively, I'd want to be a few decades older than that.

  • Trump threatens to reduce US troop numbers in Germany after clash with Merz

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  • Don't threaten me with a good time!

  • Please god no!

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  • Do you want arguments about activities day-of? Because that's how you get arguments about activities day-of.

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  • There's a reason why I wrote "not (fully) open source". Some drivers that get shipped with the Linux kernel aren't open source and it's very hard to completely avoid proprietary drivers.

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  • Some important drivers are not FOSS, thus making the standard Linux kernel not FOSS if you use Stallman's definition.

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  • No one said they can't be. But in the real world, drivers for some classes of devices only come in closed-source. I'm using the GNU project's/RMS's definition of FOSS here.

  • Digital euro moves closer as EU seeks independence from Visa and Mastercard

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  • I don't trust the EU when it comes to privacy protection, TBH. Maybe it's going to offer better privacy than systems owned by US banks, but anywhere near equivalent to physical money? No way.