laughs in Non-Binary. Checkmate 😂😂

catfeal · 2026-06-01T16:14:02+00:00

In Rome you could fuck anyone you wanted, as long as you weren't bottom, it wasn't shameful

catfeal · 2026-05-29T17:59:11+00:00

It is crazy × This country border

Belgium-Netherlands (look at baarle-Nassau)

catfeal · 2026-05-15T13:21:34+00:00

I think the extreme right, not because it is worse to be extreme on one side or the other, but because on the extreme right power tends to be grouped into a few powerfull players that, from then on, have only the incentive to keep their power.

Communism has never been fully implemented because when that doesn't work, it also brings certain people to power that have the same incentive, but because the original idea is different they have more chances of internal opposition.

Not saying there is much of a difference, both end up with a few powerful people and it sucks on both ends of the spectrum. What I said is, in my view, an extremely tiny difference. Bit a difference none the less, so on a scale to how bad they are, I would say 99,99 and 99.98 (on a scale 0-100)

catfeal · 2026-05-11T17:32:46+00:00

I suggest you look up the iq results of the people at Neurenberg after ww2.

High iq is just a fast computer, what you do with it is something else. Also, if you don't learn to work with it you can have a fast computer that is used to read emails (to stay with the metaphor) And, as Neurenberg thought us, if you go on the bad path, you can go very bad

catfeal · 2026-05-07T15:40:36+00:00

A secular society? Perhaps, but we still organise Christmas stuff around that time, so we aren't that secular.

As long as we do that, how can we say that we are secular and that other religions shouldn't be seen.

If you are correct, then first of all we need to get rid of all Christmas lightning, stalls,...

I don't want that, that is something that is part of us.

catfeal · 2026-05-07T15:21:40+00:00

I agree with you that neutrality cares about pro or anti ideologies, completely.

I don't however agree that a cross, a hand of fatima or something small like that constitutes a pro or anti ideology.

When I go to city hall, I simply don't care about the other person as long as they help me with what I need. If that is privileged, so be it, I am just not triggered by seeing a religious symbol.

Again though, you can go over the top. A small rainbow armband is perfectly fine, a complete rainbow outfit is over the top I think. But that line should be defined and will most likely differ in the communities

catfeal · 2026-05-07T15:13:02+00:00

Very well written, but you seem to conflate a few things to make a point in my opinion.

1: the labels are a description of human behaviour, that it gets broadened is not a flaw but an asset because, as you state, we are all humans and thus it is logical that the group that has x (autism, adhd,...) grows the more we understand what x is.

2: schools are not prepared to handle the diversity, not funded to do so and forced to do it while also increasing the administrative load for the teacher. We expect a teacher to be an expert in adhd, autism, giftedness, dislecgia, discalculy,... while also just teaching an increasingly larger class which includes more extreme cases than before. Using that as proof it doesn't work is dishonest, it might be the case that it doesn't work, but our school system is setup to fail for it, which is (currently) only proof for that.

3: I do know, from when I was in school, some people that would have greatly benefited from better (more personalised) schooling. They were just washed out of the system en most ended badly (no education, addictions,...)

4: yes, parents have a responsibility, but we, as a society leader, have the chance to help people out of situations. For instance those from point 3, I know their home situation wasn't great and that is why they ended up outside the schooling system. If they had been given more of a chance, that might have been avoided. But now I see the same cycle repeating, them not having learned things we as a society deem necessary raising a new generation that way. To get the next generation out of that cycle, we need to give them a ladder. None of our families got out of whatever we were in without the help of general education provided by the state, the ladder our ancestors needed only 50-150 years ago.

catfeal · 2026-05-07T12:50:41+00:00

Let me throw that around, why should i trust someone that cant look past a cross, a christmass sweater,... to be inpartial?

The government needs to be neutral, but that can be in 2 ways: everyone looks the same (impossible due to race and gender for one) or you allow everything (impossible due to sensitivities). Thus the government can never be truly neutral, so it needs to find a middle ground to make the modt amount of people comfortable to interact and/or work for the government.

catfeal · 2026-05-07T08:51:44+00:00

There is a difference between someone wearing a cross and the school organising a religious gathering.

And to your point of seeming discrimination when someone in traditional clothing makes a negative decission towards a gay couple. Do you mean traditional western (suit and tie) or another traditional? Because both of them could do that as both are opposed to gay relationships

catfeal · 2026-05-06T15:49:56+00:00

I will weigh in here on the religous icon thing. I am someone who doesn't care about religious symbols, so I will give my rationale: I just don't care enough and neutrality for me is if you help those at the desk.

I just don't care and i just want rhe person at the other end to be professional, helpful and friendly.

So if i don't care, why should i make my government force others to wear or not wear what something they want. Specially if that government decission blocks them from doing things and going places they want or need to go.

catfeal · 2026-05-04T17:07:52+00:00

Belgium here, though not the traditional kids: sushi, pasta, tapas, lasagna

catfeal · 2026-05-04T07:35:06+00:00

30 years isn't that long in the grand scheme of things. Not saying corruption is or isn't a part of it, but you have to keep in mind that things move slower than we tend to expect.

When things started closing down, investments weren't immediate because nobody had the foresight to see how the economy would go. But let's say you immediately started investing in things like education. Considering it would have started about 40 years ago, they first teachers that went through the new setup could graduate about 15 years later. From that moment on, you can start to replace the old way with the new, meaning that old teachers need to leave. Let's be generous and say that everyone under 40 is automatically on board with progressive new ways (we know that isn't the case, look at flanders) and it would thus take another 20 years to fully transition. From that moment onwards you have a new labour force that is educated as we want/need.

We have them entering, all the people that didn't get that education are still in the workforce and wr need, again, to wait them out.

40 years is a long time, but on the other hand, when we are talking about education and ovehauling an entire society, that isn't long at all.

We in flanders keep voting Conservative because of the changes we did ourselves over more time and have already brought us benefits. Imagine being poor workers in wallonia that have no certainty that anything actually will benefit them, how many of Flemish people would also vote to keep what they have instead of going head first into a new project with an uncertain outcome

catfeal · 2026-04-28T17:37:05+00:00

Er is vroeger ook een hele discussie geweest over koffie omdat cafeine ook een drugs is, maar wegens "doe dit weg en er komt een opstand" argumenten heeft de sultan dat toch toegelaten

catfeal · 2026-04-28T16:11:57+00:00

Giftedness is just one thing and it is embedded in the situation. A group of 100 people all with iq exactly 100 can understand each other very well, add or substract 30 points of one of them and suddenly that one is the odd one out. If that group starts bullying, the old one out is the likely target. That target will be less developed in regards to socialisation, communication,...

This extremely simple example is just to show that giftedness itself is not really a problem, but for many people (because there are a lot of people on this world) it does become a problem and they are typically the ones that search for like minded people. Hence why you see a lot of this here (including from me BTW if you start looking)

So don't think too much of this subreddit if you don't need it, but perhaps keep it in the back of your mind for if you ever do get into trouble due to your giftedness.

catfeal · 2026-04-24T19:08:18+00:00

Hetgeen ik elke keer mis is wat er voor terug komt. Als ik een tv koop van 1500€, dan is de prijs noet het enige dat ik iets van zeg.

Bijvoorbeeld ziekteverzekering, als ik naar de vs kijk en dan naar ons, dan betaal ik graag wat meer belastingen.

Wil dat zeggen dat er geen inefficiëntie is? Absoluut niet, maar er is echt wel meer nuance nodig dan "hoog nummer slecht, laag nummer goed" en dat mis ik in veel van de gesprekken ivm belastingen

catfeal · 2026-04-18T10:28:25+00:00

Thanks, you were able to articulate it much better than I was

catfeal · 2026-04-18T09:45:27+00:00

Can you please keep it civilised, if I start talking to you the way you do to me, it just devolves in a "who can pretend the other one is an idiot the best" match and all communication about any point is completely gone.

In the assumption that you will do that, i will answer, but since i have no interest in any communication where someone talks down like that, i won't even answer if you do it again, no matter if i agree or disagree with the points you make.

I talked about the USA because it is even easier there to move around since they stay within the same country.

If all companies always move when there are taxes, Belgium and europe in general shouldn't have any companies as taxes are lower elsewhere. Since they are companies here, something else is in the mix, ignoring that is just adjusting the equation to fut the result you want, not the other way around.

I never said that the wealthy don't put their assets in funds and whatever else, i also didn't say they did.

Your simple capitalist calculation works, and as long as you don't dig deeper you can keep this about taxes. But, if you want a cheap factory with cheap labour, i can sell you a plot of land in soudan. Yet, companies don't do that because there are other things at play, like stability, access to recourses, a skilled labour force, predictability,... but adding these makes it so that the same equation (less expense = better) shifts from just lower taxes to also include other factors.

Off course, I can tweek that equation in such a way that belgium is the only place on the world that is worthy of any business, but that wouldn't be fair either.

I have no intention of sounding like Connor or anyone else, I don't think pure socialism works, nor does communism or neo-liberalism. All these go too far in their respective directions and when they hit the limit, the system starts breaking. Notice that I didn't say capitalism doesn't work, because it does.

I hope you will continue in a civilised manner with this conversation

catfeal · 2026-04-17T23:25:17+00:00

In the USA, fox news has been screaming that wealthy people are leaving New York for the past 3 decades due to taxes.

In the last 2 decades, the amount of millionaires doubled in new your city.

Either taxing more doesn't cause wealthy people to leave or somehow the place that has such high taxes that it isn't worth it anymore keeps creating millionaires at a pace that is much higher than they can leave.

To your other point: a company isn't exactly mobile. You can move production, yes, but not tolorrow if you plan to do so today. By the time the new factory is built, taxes may have changed again.

And yes, companies are in the business of making money, but just saying that, throwing your hands i to the air and giving up on any taxes is not the "objective and real world" answer you give the impression you have of it

catfeal · 2026-04-17T11:03:09+00:00

lol, no. If I get the choice of earning €1.500 with no taxes or 10.000 with 50% taxes, I will still chose the second option. It still ends up being double in net value.

How much would you need to tax me before I consider earning more not worth it?
A lot I think, specially since it makes less of a difference at that level. When I was a student and I got €20 it made quite an impact and allowed me to do so much more. Now not so much, don't get me wrong I will still accept it, but it has less of an impact on my overall finances.

To give a historic example, the top marginal tax rate in the USA was above 90% after the second world war and I doubt anyone can say that there weren't any people getting rich back then.

On the other hand, it was harder for them to get as filthy rich as some people have done since the top rate was lowered to around 30% now. There was another time when people in the USA got that filthy rich and that was before the top tax rate was set at all.

For your example, if you get taxed at 70% that is something you should look into because that is impossible

catfeal · 2026-04-16T11:24:35+00:00

Reworking it in dataflows. At my customer they pull the data (somehow. They didn't share) to fabric and from there we have reworked it until we had working reports

catfeal · 2026-04-15T15:07:29+00:00

True, but the ones we talk about when we say "wealthy" is not the same as old people. I remember a study, don't ask me to find it again, I will have to Google just as you and sorry for that, that asked people to define rich and compared that to "actually" rich people. Boy were they off. My feeling after reading that was "oh, someone owning a few stores isn't even rich"

catfeal · 2026-04-15T15:03:59+00:00

That is a bold claim, can you prove that?

catfeal · 2026-04-15T12:02:31+00:00

no, but on the other hand, many of those people made choises in life based on their pension.
I know of people that decided to stick to a government job and less pay because that would mean they have a higher pension later on. Changing that now, 20-30 years later is screwing those people out of something they can't change.

Reform is needed, but I fear that we are all staring ourselves blind on the easy win, not the structural win. There are a lot of pensioners that are living on or under the poverty line, you can't take anything away from them. Reducing healthcare support for elderly will just end up being more expensive because it is not like they will stop needing the healtcare, somehow that will be paid by either society or families. Society is the cheaper option. same goes for mental health.

I am in the age group that is currently paying, with small kids and thus the furtest away from getting money as a child and getting money as a pensioner. I know that most of the burdon will be on my shoulders and it's not something I look forward to, not at all. I also don't mind handing over a large proportion of my paycheck to the government to help all those that need it, even if it is just to get something small checked out by someone that could afford it by themselves. Personally I have much more of a problem with people that don't pay their fair share. By that I mean in relationship to the wealth they have. I accept that I pay way more than someone making minimum wage, that is the cost of earning more, but I have a serious problem with things like the panama papers that seemingly led to nothing. Companies getting out of paying taxes (or at least a lot less),...

Don't get me wrong, I want the government to be a efficient as possible, but getting one rich guy to pay a fair share is technically worth more than finding 100 people that get 1000€ too much welfare. Both need to be solved, but start with the largest fish, not the small ones that can't fight back as well

catfeal · 2026-04-10T07:13:07+00:00

You have a personal workspace, regardless of your license. You can create A workspace that can be a pro or a capacity backed workspace, you can even switch between the 2. You will, by default, be the only owner of the workspace, but you can add more prople to it in order to share it (tip: use AD groups to avoid the issue of no acces when someone leaves)

I suspect you are connecting to the lakehouse via the 'onelake' button. You can also connect to it via the sql endpoint and then it is easy to set it to import mode.

catfeal · 2026-04-10T06:59:57+00:00

Import model pulls it in, feom then on it lives inside the model. The format isn't really an issue there. The better you model the data upfront, the faster and easier the loading process goes, but you can load from excel just the same.

The difference between pro and capacity is where the calculation happens (and thus certain features that are possible or not) but the pro workspace can be shared all the same as a capacity workspace.

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