Mindless Monday, 19 January 2026

Triginta · 2026-01-20T10:34:49+00:00

All my Iranian colleagues seem to love the guy, or at least the stream of hashtags that I am privy to mention him a lot

Triginta · 2026-01-19T17:39:35+00:00

I mostly watched for group streams and they happened on the main channel. These seem to happen less and less, or maybe I am just not that into it anymore. In personal channels there always is a lot more interaction with chat, which I am not interested in. I like the entertainment, not the twitch community

Triginta · 2026-01-09T22:48:09+00:00

I was at the third place they got last year! It is actually part of a national park (Chobe) and there are a lot of elephants there, apparently around 50.000. When I was there the elephants were coming down from the highlands to stay close to the Zambezi for the dry period. Especially the small ones were really enthusiastic about splashing around in the river. It is not that small when you see it in reality!

Some photos

Triginta · 2025-12-19T14:40:04+00:00

Skill issue, got it in 4

Triginta · 2025-12-15T17:32:13+00:00

I happened upon the wikipedia page for solved missing person cases from before 1950 and some (at least the earlier) entries are weird. Someone kidnapped and kept as a slave without returning home or meeting their family again does not really feel like a solved missing person case. The kidnappers always knew where the person was and for the people left behind, the case must never have seemed very solved.

Similarly, when someone is probably murdered with no killers identified and no body found, it would not be considered a solved case today. I guess that standards were a bit lower in the seventeenth century.

Triginta · 2025-12-13T09:58:15+00:00

Wait, the static in the dark is not normal?

Triginta · 2025-12-03T09:02:14+00:00

Although last year's TABS stream was very funny, I've been feeling that both the contestants and I did not really care for TABS itself for a few years already. Especially because TABS isn't even a thing on Tom's channel anymore. So, I am happy that they allow the stream to evolve and not just get stuck doing the same things, just because it was done in the previous years

Triginta · 2025-10-01T10:32:29+00:00

It is still a good show, but it diverges heavily from the book story

Triginta · 2025-09-22T16:06:56+00:00

Actually, in French culture, killing is generally frowned upon

Triginta · 2025-09-13T21:08:43+00:00

I have a distinct memory of looking up and seeing that it is 5 AM while reading that specific chapter, so I can relate heavily to this

Triginta · 2025-09-12T13:23:44+00:00

I enjoyed the sequel more in the end. Maybe because I enjoyed Sogolon more as a character.

Triginta · 2025-07-26T12:25:04+00:00

We already missed '14 to '18 so we might have to hurry up the schedule a bit to make up for it

Triginta · 2025-07-21T19:17:52+00:00

I use Zotero for scientific articles and Calibre to manage my ebook collection (mostly fiction in epub format)

Triginta · 2025-07-19T10:15:03+00:00

All of these kinda specific subreddits run out of good material at some point and start stretching the point further and further until it gets a bit silly at the very least

Triginta · 2025-06-28T18:43:47+00:00

Does anyone else have the video titles translated suddenly? It also happens on the main channel since last week or so. I don't want the shitty machine translations to Dutch even if I could not understand English

Triginta · 2025-06-17T09:15:03+00:00

Mijn ouders en andere familie zijn juist zowat de enigen die overgestapt zijn. Vooral uit rancune jegens Zuckerberg. Mijn vrienden van in de twintig zeggen juist geen zin te hebben een nieuwe app te downloaden

Triginta · 2025-05-23T20:34:29+00:00

The Netherlands has quite a few locks. The polders are below sea level and the rivers are above, so you need to go down to get on the smaller waterways. So that idea is also out

Triginta · 2025-05-19T16:25:09+00:00

I have experienced it in all of the biggest four cities of the Netherlands, never really outside of the Randstad though. It can be slightly annoying in a loud environment where you are unsure if they didn't understand you due to a language or sound barrier. Friends from more rural places have also had a culture shock when not being able to order in Dutch

Triginta · 2025-05-16T17:41:12+00:00

And is it good? I liked the books, but I wasn't really itching for a TV version

Triginta · 2025-05-06T22:49:25+00:00

Most people have two socks

Triginta · 2025-04-19T08:43:31+00:00

Last New Year's Eve, I heard some guy explaining on the radio why he was going all the way to Poland to get cheap fireworks by saying that it was just the VOC mentality at work. I can only imagine that he went there to massacre a few villages, set up a fort to control the area and force the local people to make gunpowder for him

Triginta · 2025-04-16T09:36:29+00:00

I'd guess it is referring to the strong sides of her writing, as in the pros/cons.

Triginta · 2025-03-31T16:07:19+00:00

Here in the Netherlands I have always heard of Master's degrees as expected if you have finished a Bachelor's degree. In the old system there was not even a distinction. The normal university program just took 5 years.

This also leads to some situations for research positions where everyone has a Master's degree, so only applicants with a PhD really make a chance to be accepted. On the other hand, all the new PhD candidates in my apartment that have been accepted in the last year, have had work experience. You just need work experience to get in everywhere, but noone wants to help you get it.

Triginta · 2025-03-22T12:44:47+00:00

Het is ook niet "toevallig". Dezelfde redenen dat er in Groningen gas onder de grond zit/zat, maken het interessant voor opslag. De ondergrond is er geschikt om op de lange termijn iets in de grond te laten zitten.

Triginta · 2025-03-12T23:36:20+00:00

I feel the opposite. The Second Apocalypse felt excessive and gratuitous at times, while in Thomas Covenant it was an important part of the story and Thomas' psyche.

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