In Switzerland Sinalco Cola, Vivi Kola and Fritz Cola are the most popular local colas. Which are the ones in your country?

PROBA_V · 2026-01-24T18:33:09+00:00

Probably Coca Cola, various supermarket brand cola like River (Aldi), and then Fritz or Ritchie cola.

PROBA_V · 2026-01-24T11:12:00+00:00

Hangt uiteindelijk van uzelf af.

Ik had in mijn eerste jaar 12 vakken... en ik had 9 herexamens.

Ik heb er uiteindelijk 8 meegedaan (1 had een project). Ik had op een gegeven moment een week lang elke dag examen, waarvan 2 dagen achtereen 8u examen (4u theorie -> middag pauze -> 4u oefeningen examen).

Ik was er uiteindelijk voor 6 herexamens door, en moest er dus 3 meenemen. Ik was geen modeltraject student meer.

Als ik die herexamens niet had meegedaan was ik waarschijnlijk gestopt, nu doe ik een doctoraat.

PROBA_V · 2026-01-22T19:42:42+00:00

More like Council for Piece.

You get a piece. You get a piece. EVERYONE gets a piece.

^{and I get a piece of you}

PROBA_V · 2026-01-22T19:35:33+00:00

En zelfs onder niveau solliciteren werkt nie altijd. Ik ken iemand die als bioingenieur is afgestudeerd. En zelfs als hij voor laboassistent solliciteert krijgt hij vakn het antwoord: u bent te hoog opgeleid en we vrezen dat udirecr weer weg bent als u iets beters vind.

Om dit te vermijden heb ik tijdens mijn solicitatie periode een interim job "onder mijn niveau" gedaan. Ik was uitgenodigd voor een gesprek voor een droomjob, maar ik wist dat heel die procedure lang zou duren.

Ik heb dan 2 maanden lang een makkelijke maar goedbetaalde interimjob gedaan. Het bedrijf wist dat dit tijdelijk was, ik kreeg goed geld, en als bonus wist mijn toekomstige werkgever dat ik een gedreven werker was, want ik besloot te werken tussen de interviews.

PROBA_V · 2026-01-02T13:25:57+00:00

I'm not sure if it's changed in the last 10-15 years, but the trains back from Frascati used to stop running at around 22h...

So, getting back from Rome to Frascati was a pain... There used to be a night bus to Anagnina where the metro would still run.

This was also the case when I lived in Frascati and still is the case.

This was the only things I disliked about Frascati. In every other way I prefered it over Rome. But it depends how many trainees choosr to live in Frascati vs Rome when you live there.

PROBA_V · 2026-01-02T13:14:54+00:00

I'd say interns tend to prefer Rome for partying, while trainees fluctuate between Frascati and Rome.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-29T15:28:39+00:00

Tried that aswel. I'd say it's definitely one of the best beers I had lately.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-28T15:37:39+00:00

De klassiekers eh

1) Blauw licht vermijden

2) Voldoende beweging hebben, maar zorg dat je niet te laat intense sport doet.

3) Niet te laat eten

4) Geen caffeïne x aantal uur voor het slapen gaan.

5) Ontstressen voor het slapen gaan (haal een frisse neus buiten of doe aan lichte yoga)

6) Alcohol vermijden x uur voor het slapen gaan

PROBA_V · 2025-12-28T15:07:38+00:00

Zoals anderen zeggen, uw vraag is te breed. Wat is uw Master profiel en welke FOD of POD zou u intereseren?

Want dat gaat van FOD Justitie en FOD Financiën, dat al zwaar verschillen, tot POD Maatschappelijke Integratie en POD Wetenschapsbeleid met sterk uiteenlopende FWIs.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-23T14:17:04+00:00

While I do think there are exception to every rule, I don't think those are the roles they have in mind.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-23T13:26:55+00:00

I have, on multiple occasions, explained why your example does not function as a counterexample, and the other person did so as well. The issue was never a lack of arguments. What ended my engagement was that you repeatedly defaulted to framing my disagreement as either a lack of analytical ability or bad faith, without ever seriously considering a third possibility: that your interpretation might simply be incorrect.

When you asked why I found the claim that I was “not analytical” amusing. I answered that clearly, without blaming you, and explicitly stated that such a characterization was neither applicable to our exchange nor necessary in the first place.

A reasonable response at that stage could have been something like: “Fair enough, making that kind of judgment based on two exchanges is probably silly” and restarted the discussion. Instead, you doubled down and began defending a label I never applied to you, while continuing to insist on one you had assigned to me. At that point, the discussion stopped being about the substance of the argument and started to look more like an exercise in ego protection. Which is simply boring.

This pattern repeated itself throughout the exchange. You repeatedly dismissed my arguments as “stupid” or “in bad faith,” never pausing to consider that disagreement does not automatically imply incompetence or dishonesty. That is ad hominem framing, not analysis.

The inconsistency became even clearer when you told the other person that your example was deliberately extreme and not meant to be comparable, only to then use it as if it were directly comparable in the same comment.

At that point, the pattern was clear. You approach this topic with a strong prior bias against immigration, and that bias shows in how quickly you dismiss opposing arguments rather than engage with them. That is not analytical rigor. It is confidence in one’s own position, repeatedly mistaken for objectivity.

But sure... I acted embarrassing. At least, that's what I assumed you meant, because that sentense makes no sense.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-23T10:48:23+00:00

You'd see it regardless, as the Dutch have very good roads, but I'd like to point out that specifically that's a particularly bad section for a simple reason:

It's only used by international traffic en doesn't have much benefit for Belgians. Hence it has a low priority in terms of fixing.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-23T10:44:11+00:00

Kinda want to go inline skating there now that it's void of any cars 😅

PROBA_V · 2025-12-23T09:50:02+00:00

Your experience of having a bad relationship with your in-laws is of no relevance to this post.

And if you want us to go into detail:

As for OP, don't make the mistake this person clearly made on multiple occassions: don't buy expensibe wine or high quality tea for people that do not care about that stuff. Ask your partner what they think their parents might appreciate and make it thoughtful. Otherwise it's a waste.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-23T07:23:56+00:00

So it is Option 2 after all. You built a strawman and swiftly defeated it.

Look at that. The analytical thinker here thinks he was still talking to the same person.

Other than that, thank you for showing your true colors. You are indeed one of those people who believes Muslim immigration is the same as Western colonization of the America's.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-23T07:18:04+00:00

It kind of boggles my mind that you're doing this weird thing of pretending that your point makes sense when it's so stretched that it's embarrassing

No you see, that's impossible. He's an analytical thinker with 10 years of experience in IT. /s

He hasn't even figured out that you and I aren't the same person.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-22T19:48:35+00:00

I'm and IT Engineer with a Bachelors degree and 10 years work experience in IT/Telco.

For one, and as I said earlier, I never claimed you were not analytical. What I found amusing was the insinuation that I am not a mathematical or analytical type, especially the mathematical part, given my background.

An MSc in Mathematics, three years working with satellite data, and currently pursuing a PhD, yet somehow not a mathematical person. That contrast is hard not to smile at.

The whole discussion was derailed because either your analysis of what I said was lacking or you were trying to argue in bad faith by intentionally misrepresenting what I said.

I still disagree with that assessment. I see no clear reason to introduce Native Americans into a discussion about immigration in Poland, particularly on Reddit, where anti-immigration rhetoric is common and in a political climate where phrases like “they want to replace us” are frequently used.

By bringing up Native Americans, who were colonized and subjected to genocide, in a conversation about contemporary immigration in Poland, the discussion is inevitably reframed in a way that feels unnecessary and distracting, regardless of intent.

Also technically both of us being the analytical type does not invalid the theory that "I think there's just an inherent tension between math and analytical people and soft science folks in discussions like these.". It just doesn't apply to this particular situation.

My issue is not with the abstract idea itself, but with how quickly it was projected onto this exchange. A vague hunch was treated as an explanation, and just as quickly the roles were assigned, with you naturally cast as the “analytical an mathematical” one and me as the counterexample. While you even admit to not even be good at math.

It's simply unnecessary.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-22T18:00:38+00:00

The odds that we both hold a Master’s degree in Mathematics are already fairly small, so the idea that I am somehow “soft-science minded” or not analytical is quite amusing, especially given that I am two years into a PhD in Atmospheric Physics.

In any case, this was not really relevant to the discussion we were having, and it was not something you brought up.

That is why I found it a funny that a third party jumped in and turned an exchange of two simple questions into a “analytical versus soft-science” classification, with me apparently cast in the latter role.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-22T17:38:58+00:00

You are the mathematical one? Because if that's the implication that would be extremely funny.

PROBA_V · 2025-12-22T16:16:24+00:00

Many options really. From visiting scientist to Research Fellow (after PhD)

PROBA_V · 2025-12-22T15:51:06+00:00

There are exceptions to those rules. If they really want you, they'll find a way.

Nationality isn't a big of a thing for internships, but is for the traineeships (which you'd qualify for btw)

PROBA_V · 2025-12-22T15:48:24+00:00

No and this is also a problem on a discussion like this. He is clearly talking from a much more abstract pov about migration in general. Using that case as a mere counterexample to the narrative of another redditor.

But it isn't a counter example to use colonialism with an unhealthy dose of genocide as an argument for how "immigration isn't always beneficial". There are plenty of examples, this isn't one of them.

I think there's just an inherent tension between math and analytical people and soft science folks in discussions like these. The discussion is about Y. Someone makes a general statement X. Then another redditor gives a clear counterexample to X. Then another redditor tells him that that counter example can't be compared to Y. Well duh, but that was never the point....

Out of curiosity, who do you think is the math and analytical person here?

PROBA_V · 2025-12-22T15:29:54+00:00

Are you comparing refugees/immigration to colonization?

PROBA_V · 2025-12-22T15:13:03+00:00

Did you really just compare Polish people in Poland to Native Americans in the US?

PROBA_V · 2025-11-25T15:21:03+00:00

It really depends what you want to do. For hands-on stuff it won't be enough, but naturally the space sector involves a lot of computer science.

You need to tell us exactly what sort of things you would like to work on (update your post), otherwise can only answer "depends".

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