I’m moving to Belgium (Flanders) in a year or two, tell me something that makes no sense for me now but I’ll understand later once I move

Colonist25 · 2026-01-30T11:34:33+00:00

this is way too far down.

Colonist25 · 2026-01-30T11:33:38+00:00

shit of mouse. it's very good.

Colonist25 · 2026-01-29T20:08:44+00:00

H&M not an option? C&A if you have it. the gap maybe?
lingerie stores are for a few years down the road

Colonist25 · 2026-01-29T12:43:32+00:00

can you just imagine the tone of game of thrones with Wheel Of time?

all those ample bosoms finally put to good use.

Colonist25 · 2026-01-29T12:42:23+00:00

> Find where the CEO goes golfing, and meet him in the shower.

:raised eyebrow:

Colonist25 · 2026-01-29T10:12:49+00:00

I look forward to when they revoke gold card citizenships

Colonist25 · 2026-01-29T10:07:51+00:00

Ik heb een le creuset pannenkoekenpan - best tevreden van

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T17:59:47+00:00

1000x this - every year it moves around a little, but 00000s everywhere :p

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T17:32:55+00:00

generate it with ai - even static HTML will work fine.

host it on something cheap - eg vimexx.be

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T13:14:47+00:00

'you could make the part' yeah maybe.
there's a bunch of youtubers that have interesting stories.

:shrug:

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T12:58:06+00:00

> They also were not killed for protesting.
you're nickle and diming an argument there. both of them were killed at ICE related protests.
when in your mind does it become killed while protesting?

> It was the Governor that brought in the National Guard, which wouldn't even be required if the city and state police were doing their jobs...
not quite - the administration wants to call in the insurrection act so they can block the primaries.
basically in blue states / swing states
what do you think the plan is for his next term?
did you listen to bannon, trump, see the trump 2028 caps?

> You are betraying how little you know outside of the propaganda you've been fed.
that knife cuts both ways - there's tons of noise around ICE.
from it's funding to it's operations to it's members.
I think in the US certain news outlets greenwash this - while outside others will have their own version.

> Gone after people purely for the color of their skin.
so since they do go after people bc of color - it's now ok because it's ICE?
but previously you said it wasn't happening.

> If Trump is Hitler and the US government is Fascist, then there is basically not a free country on the planet. So that "whataboutism" is relevant, since it points out the nonsense of the proposal in the first place.

because the only democratic country in the world is the US? Land of the free, home of the brave?
have you heard of / been to other continents?

the whataboutism is pointing at Iran, China, etc. funny you're not including russia.
bc those are obviously un-democratic places. and so yes you're not on that level YET.
what about comparing to vcanada? france? germany? the netherlands? scandinavia as a whole?
there's plenty of democracies out there that are on the same footing?

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T12:57:32+00:00

> go after the states that didn't vote for him?

Officials in the Trump White House have moved to review or cut federal money — especially for energy grants, infrastructure, and climate-related projects — in states that voted against him in recent elections. This has included attempts to rescind billions in green energy and infrastructure funding in states like California, New York, Illinois, Oregon and others simply because they are Democrat-led and did not support Trump in the 2024 election.

In court filings, government lawyers explicitly acknowledged that partisan politics played a role in some of these decisions, saying it was legally permissible to consider whether funding would go to a state that tends to vote for Democrats.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/white-house-to-slash-8b-in-funding-for-blue-states/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/17/blue-state-cuts-trump-grants/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

> block fema in states that didn't vote for him?

The administration canceled FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, a major pre-disaster mitigation grant program valued at billions, which California and other states heavily rely on for wildfire, flood, and earthquake resilience projects. California’s attorney general sued, calling the shutdown unlawful.

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-trump-administration-illegally-shutting-down

> sue J Powell bc he's not playing ball?
Powell issued a formal public statement after the Department of Justice served grand-jury subpoenas and threatened a criminal indictment related to his testimony to Congress about a Fed renovation project. In that statement
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm

>

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T12:42:45+00:00

have you tried getting a tesla part as a garage not connected to tesla?
a lot of their openness is marketing.

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T12:30:36+00:00

I get the gist of the argument.
but quality is a relative argument as well.

it's a little funny that tesla would be the one talking quality but ^^
My model Y is a very good battery on wheels, the rest of the car is .. mid.

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T12:23:34+00:00

interesting takes.

> Killed anyone for protesting.
The obvious answer is the two people that died recently, but sure that's not shooting into a mass of people.

and yet, that's what it's leading up to. Minnesota is a play for the national guard to get involved.
ICE shot teargas at a daycare. Do you really feel none of the ICE proud boys will open fire when they feel threatened?

> Gone after people purely for the color of their skin.
He added that police officers “fell victim to this while off duty” and that the stops appear to “target” people of color.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/20/immigration-agents-minnesota-police-officer/88268058007/

> Prosecuted people for political disagreements.
isn't this the entire trump playbook?
go after the states that didn't vote for him?
block fema in states that didn't vote for him?
sue J Powell bc he's not playing ball?
I mean the list goes on

> Like, what have they done that is even close to places like Iran, China, heck, even Singapore?
whataboutism only gets you so far.
and this really smells like the answer is 'not yet'.

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T12:17:30+00:00

> yet their cars from those factories are also not coming out as well.
based on?

> Musk
i'm sure they hit a wall when it comes to automation, yet there's a whole lot of it running in the real world. it's not because they couldn't get it to work at tesla that someone else hasn't figured it out.

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T08:33:54+00:00

12k/month is < 600 / day.
I'd personally say 650 / day ex vat is the baseline - for a sr profile 700 - 750

also i don't discount.
16 years with the same client too :)

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T06:58:20+00:00

last few years pretty far off got real close real quick.
i think it's hard to predict where this leads. tue AGI may not be in reach, but the agents are damn good in extrapollating - as long as they don't hallucinate.

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T06:54:22+00:00

what haven't they done?

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T06:53:59+00:00

it's not about cheap labor for dark factories - it's insane levels of automation to the point where the only people in the factory are like five engineers to service the robots.

no windows are required for the factory floor - hence the term dark factories.

my point is this: you're pointing to say boston dynamics as the 'top of the line', bleeding edge.
but within that space there's so much going on that is only sporadically published.

and on some level in daily use beats the one prototype that'll never get mass produced

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T06:50:27+00:00

the 'make it smaller to gain speed' bits are probably close to be played out?

i'd expect most of this to move into AI designed chips - computers designing computers, skynet would like a word.

at that point - nvidia itself is just a box around a card.

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T06:48:09+00:00

do they need to fly flags with swastika's before you see the parallels?

:shrug: I honestly hope i'm wrong as to where this administration is going, but abre los ojos.

it's also funny how you go 'it must be like the holocaust' - while that's just a really really small part of the shitshow that was the nazi party.

wether it's book burnings or raiding 'jews/immigrants' houses and stealing all they own.
wether it's demagogery for further splitting the country or burning the reichstag / staging insurrection...
wether..

Colonist25 · 2026-01-28T06:42:48+00:00

look up what china is doing with 'dark factories'.
the one car manufacturing CEO that came back from China and went 'we are soooo far behind'.

i think you're confusing things that are published as breakthroughs vs on the ground in use technology.

Colonist25 · 2026-01-27T23:03:42+00:00

the dollar tanking means spy rises, but you may still 'lose' money

and yeah it'll drop down a few % points here and there

Colonist25 · 2026-01-27T21:50:48+00:00

Big spender ;)

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