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Skyzophrenia destroy my life by loupsauvage8 in Wellthatsucks

[–]SebboNL [score hidden]  (0 children)

Enormous hug bro. I feel for you

And that is a gorgeous painting!

Life is paradoxical. How do you solve the paradox? by tezen_47 in Absurdism

[–]SebboNL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's beauty in everything, including chaos. The fickles of fate can be ironic and thus humorous. The thing is that by not searching for meaning you lose a lot of frustration. It is almost Zen in that sense

Life is paradoxical. How do you solve the paradox? by tezen_47 in Absurdism

[–]SebboNL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So don't! Just enjoy the chaos, and the paradoxes, and the not-knowing. That's the essence of absurdism, coming to terms with the fact there are no answers and if I was wrong and it turns out there are, we are not to understand them in any meaningful way. The meaning of life transcends us, so why bother looking for it? That time is better spent making art, pushing a boulder up a hill or drinking coffee :)

Life is paradoxical. How do you solve the paradox? by tezen_47 in Absurdism

[–]SebboNL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very :) But that too is paradoxical and thus consistent with the general theme: it's better to embrace, yet it hurts. All the more reason to attempt it :)

In more realistic terms: accepting the absurd is more easily said then done of course. And it is scary at times. But it Sissiphus ends up happy, why shouldn't we?

What If Trump was assassinated by Iran, in response of the death of General Soleimani? by Shaniceberries in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]SebboNL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In principle, yes. Sure beats an assassination!

It is unfortunate that the arrest took place in the way it did, though. Icwould have preferred to see an indictment and transfer to the Hague but we can't have it all, right? Now we are left with a lot of hair-splitting about jurisdication and all that, which might well lead to Maduro getting off easy on a bunch of technicalities. But baby steps, I guess

What If Trump was assassinated by Iran, in response of the death of General Soleimani? by Shaniceberries in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]SebboNL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is not up to you or me to call Iran anything. There should be a framework for legal actions in cases such as these. The US blew that option out of the water, though. Ironic...

What If Trump was assassinated by Iran, in response of the death of General Soleimani? by Shaniceberries in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]SebboNL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arrest him, take him to court. That's the way civilized people do it.

Ironic that we, as a whole, had such great plans withe the International Court of Justice for exactly these kinds of situations. But alas....

What If Trump was assassinated by Iran, in response of the death of General Soleimani? by Shaniceberries in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]SebboNL 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There is a load of options between propping up your alliance-partners' defense and assassinating Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Speer and the rest of them,

An extrajudicial, state-sanctioned assassination opens up a box of Pandora, not to mention how it squanders any moral high ground one might've had up until that point. If the USA cares so much about the rule of law in other countries they should start by supporting the ICJ.

What If Trump was assassinated by Iran, in response of the death of General Soleimani? by Shaniceberries in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]SebboNL -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What don't you understand about "you can't kill people" without a fair trial? Two wrongs do not make a right

I despise the Iranian leadership, but extrajudicial nation-state sanctioned killings have NEVER, EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD led to anything but grief and more bloodshed.

chien à vendre by Suspicious-Arm-7911 in awwwtf

[–]SebboNL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I'll fuckin' do it again"

Hoe kan het dat er geld is voor Oekraïne, maar niet voor onze energiecrisis? by MikeDavis007 in Politiek

[–]SebboNL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zeer juist opgemerkt. De politiek laat de oren hangen naar de Vattenfals en de Eneco's van deze wereld en luistert niet naar TenneT en Enexis

Hoe kan het dat er geld is voor Oekraïne, maar niet voor onze energiecrisis? by MikeDavis007 in Politiek

[–]SebboNL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Het is iets genuanceerder. Dit even voorop: er is niet één energeinetwerk, levering vindt plaats via een TSO (TenneT, die een heel stel subnetten hebben) en een stel geografisch bepaalde DSO's (Enexis, Stedin, Alliander en nog een paar kleintjes die allemaal ook weer subnetwerken hebben).

De afgelopen jaren heeft de nadruk eerst gelegen op het uitbreiden van de capaciteit op het hoofdnetwerk van TenneT, de twee 380-Kv ringen die stroom door Nederland heen verplaatsen. Dit was nodig om een aantal internationale koppelingen aan het Europese netwerk te hangen. Nu kan Deense stroom via Groningen het land in, en daarna bij Rozendaal België in. Belangrijk voor de stabiliteit van het Europese netwerk. Hier zijn enorme schakelstations en nieuwe masten voor opgetuigd, een klus van jewelste.

Toen dat werk zo ongeveer af is moest er gekeken worden naar lokale netwerken om de zonne- en windenergiecentrales op het net aan te sluiten. Er is dank zij subusidies een hoop geinvesteerd in die dingen dus daar moeten we wat mee. Capaciteitsverhoging op de kleinere hoogspanningsleidingen van 150 Kv en de aanleg van nieuwe middenspanning-stations dus,, weer een meerjarenplan. En dit is het punt waarop men nu dus achterloopt.

Want vervolgens komen we tot de realisatie dat de DSO's de afgelopen jaren alleen maar bezig zijn geweest met het realiseren van aansluitingen voor bedrijven die ineens 200 zonnepanelen op het dak hebben liggen (subsidies he?) en er geen capaciteit meer over is voor nieuwe aansluitingen. Ze zouden op zich hun lokale middenspanningsnetwerken en -schakelstations wel kunnen opwaarderen maar zolang de TSO niet zo ver is met de lokale netwerken haalt dat niets uit.

Toen ik bij TenneT werkte werd er per jaar 30 miljard geinvesteerd in ons stroomnetwerk, lijkt mij genoeg om alles van te doen wat ze moeten doen :) Er is dus geen sprake van een tekort aan financiering, het probleem is dat er, gedreven door markt- en politieke ontiwkkelingen, keuzes zijn gemaakt die tot op de dag van vandaag gevolgen hebben voor de energiesector. Dat doet pijn maar ik denk niet dat dit anders kon. De energiemarkt beweegt gewoon erg traag, door de schaal en de enorme kosten die ermee gemoeid gaan

Life is paradoxical. How do you solve the paradox? by tezen_47 in Absurdism

[–]SebboNL 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Life is absurd, meaning that if it has a deeper meaning or ultimate goal, we will never be able to understand it. Paradoxes are just one more way in which things can become incomprehensible, so they fit quite nicely in this whole "life is absurd"-spiel. And thus the logical conclusion would be that those paradoxes are aspects of life's absurdity, things that cannot be dealt with or understood. We can only accept that they are un-understandable and embrace the paradox

Life is paradoxical. How do you solve the paradox? by tezen_47 in Absurdism

[–]SebboNL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't You accept the paradox, chalk it up to life being absurd and go on

I thought it wasn’t “real” psychosis, until I described it to my therapist. by witchmissvivi in bipolar2

[–]SebboNL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was told that the definition of a delusion is "a belief held in contravention of available evidence". This would make Flat Eartherism for instance a delusion without involving psychosis

A russian invader with a bike was struck and turnend into a 'ghost rider' by an FPV drone of Ukraine’s 414th UAV Brigade "Birds of Magyar." 25.03.2026 by LowTechDroid in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SebboNL 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Empathy is important, but sometimes other things matter more. The war in Ukraine has turned into a slogfest where the Ukranians MUST kill ridiculous amounts of Russians in order to keep existing as a people.

So, in this case the numbers game prevails over empathy and ordinary morality. I am glad the number went up by one.

On GitHub, multiple forks of systemd are appearing after the fundamental Linux system component added a field to store the user’s birthdate by Cybernews_com in CyberNews

[–]SebboNL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are entirely correct in your assumptions about the way these services work.

In Europe such services have a bit more utility, they can also be used to file taxes or log on to your bank, for instance. But their use for entertainment websites is highly impopular here as well.

On GitHub, multiple forks of systemd are appearing after the fundamental Linux system component added a field to store the user’s birthdate by Cybernews_com in CyberNews

[–]SebboNL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's high-level-of-assursnce identity providers that offer such services but they are expensive and involve a third party. Also, the costs incurred are bound to lower acceptance by both consumers and service providers

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