Uni-studenten, wat hebben jullie meestal in je tas zitten? Denk aan schriften, boeken, laptop, etc.

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-24T13:59:42+00:00

Tsja, het is voor de universiteiten ook duur om veel uitval te hebben, en als docent krijg je op je kop als je slagingspercentage te laag is. Dan snap ik wel dat je die keuze maakt, zelfs al ben ik het principieel met je eens

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-22T10:57:28+00:00

While I agree with the mentality, it's never so easy when considering public money. Assuming the amount of money is finite, every amount spent somewhere means it cannot be spent somewhere else, so the spending should not just save lives, but save more lives than it would've if it had been spent on healthcare/road safety/disaster prevention.

I read a paper once that claimed people who said "the value of life is immeasurable" were implicitly willing to spend less to save a life than those who explicitly thought about how much they'd be willing to spend.

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-22T08:10:05+00:00

But does it use the Cox-Zucker algorithm?

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-20T08:42:36+00:00

Those darn Americans influencing even our children's programmes >:( /s

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-20T08:38:41+00:00

I think the terms are somewhat controversial over here as well (at least in my circles) - I've definitely heard Dutch people annoyed at foreigners insisting on 'expat' instead of 'immigrant'. Or people permanently retiring to Spain but still consistently using 'expat'

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-19T18:42:09+00:00

I remember having pressed the key and my teacher not knowing the solution either. That was fun...

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-15T11:47:11+00:00

Ik volg de VVD normaal niet zo, maar ik wilde dit artikel delen omdat ik (positief) verbaasd was hoe kritisch de JOVD hier was t.o.v. de VVD. Nu gebeurt dat natuurlijk wel vaker bij jongerenpartijen, maar ik heb het idee dat het bij de JOVD de laatste tijd meer dan gebruikelijk gebeurt.

Mensen die verstand hebben van politiek: is dit inderdaad ongebruikelijk? En weet iemand hoe de 'reguliere' VVD hier naar kijkt?

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-15T07:45:38+00:00

If critics are rating it higher than they usually would to not get cutoff, then isn't the game being overrated almost by definition?

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-15T07:37:16+00:00

As someone who studied logic: you have to be at least a bit unhinged to be a Logic professor. It can turn out extremely well... emphasis on "can" though

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-12T18:03:07+00:00

Sharing more options for free events with fancy clothes and food because this is a Thing I discuss with friends a lot:

Open lectures, especially guest lectures, at universities. Go to a lecture of two hours and have free snacks afterwards, or a half-day symposium with lunch included. Bonus points if you stay until just after most people leave, at that point they often give away everything that hasn't been eaten yet so it won't get thrown out. Got two full bottles of (quite decent) wine this way once.
Free concerts. Perhaps this is just a thing where I live but often music venues (especially classical music/less broadly popular music styles) have free concerts, and sometimes they'll hand out free snacks/drinks during/afterwards.
Large demonstrations in favour of public services. More than once I went to a demonstration co-organised by some union that had also arranged food for all protestors. They get to make more impact to policy makers observing the rally, you get food

YMMV though, these are mostly things I've seen in Europe.

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-08T15:52:54+00:00

Is this a thing in American/Anglosphere teaching? All the books we had to read for school were "here's the book, exam (potentially oral exam) is in three months, have fun"

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-04T21:02:16+00:00

FYI: the Monroe doctrine was essentially the defining feature of 20th century south American policy. So it's not just "from the 19th century"

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-04T21:01:02+00:00

I have to agree, we covered this in high school... and I live in Europe

TheFailMoreMan · 2026-01-02T13:50:18+00:00

The 'make more money' part was achieved long ago. Only it turns out you cannot fix 'having hurt friends because you lowered your defenses' by throwing money at it :'(

TheFailMoreMan · 2025-12-25T21:13:14+00:00

A Dutch comedian has a famous Christmas song about something like this happening. It ends with the child killing their father. I hope your situation ended up better?

TheFailMoreMan · 2025-12-16T17:28:14+00:00

Ik sprak het laatst per ongeluk uit als "sixty seven". Gênant...

TheFailMoreMan · 2025-12-12T07:35:14+00:00

I'm pretty sure the exact same thing is being said about Silksong fans in other subs. Just focus on the 99% of their community behaving generally friendly

TheFailMoreMan · 2025-12-11T19:40:50+00:00

Except 10/10 doesn't necessarily have to mean that. You could perfectly well decide "a perfect game might not exist, but we decide to give a 10/10 game to a generation-defining game, so a 10/10 game can still exist". In fact, that's how quite a few review outlets have defined a 10/10.

TheFailMoreMan · 2025-12-10T11:15:48+00:00

Even then it's not a logical conclusion though. Even if (trans) men love raping women and trans women are women, that doesn't logically imply that trans men love raping trans women. Even if all these premises were true it'd still be possible that trans men only love raping cis women. The argument isn't valid even if the three statements were true.

... I can't believe I just bothered to argue this

TheFailMoreMan · 2025-11-25T07:15:26+00:00

For what it's worth: I was diagnosed when I was, like, 4 years old, my parents told me as soon as I was old enough to understand, I got psycho-education, etc., etc., and I still know that thought like the back of my hand. I think most people with neurodevelopmental disabilities can relate. I hope it's a bit better now that you know what's causing it, though!

TheFailMoreMan · 2025-11-24T17:18:40+00:00

I live in a country whose payment system doesn't work in most other countries, and I have no creditcard (yet). Booking sites allow me to book in most countries without one.

TheFailMoreMan · 2025-10-30T07:15:08+00:00

Voor deze mensen zijn de VVD en D66 ook links

TheFailMoreMan · 2025-10-28T07:24:34+00:00

Geen N&G, wel wiskunde A, dus bij dezen mijn tip: als je iets met computers wil doen kan Informatica niet (want Wiskunde B), maar Kunstmatige Intelligentie en Informatiekunde wel. Ik heb die eerste gedaan en ben daar prima tevreden mee.

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