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Bike-loving Dutch grapple with illegal electric 'fatbike' craze gripping the Netherlands
  • Technically you are right.

    The fat bike is considered to be a normal electric 25km/h bike (here in NL).

    What changed (our view) on it was that some Chinese brands made it possible to raise the speed by doing a trivial change (either hardware or software) allowing speeds upto 45km/h.

    In some extreme cases even higher.

    Combine this with 12 year olds with soft skulls and you have the reason why the legal age is going to be raised to 16 years old and wearing a helmet.

    And the old man in me screams: also require some training and a license for it.

    And yes, I hate those things with a vengeance and have an opinion on everyone on such a vehicle. They are noisy, tent to break the speed limits and attract a certain type of people.

    Old man signing off.

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    “Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X
  • Speaking for myself ofcourse but I am glad the EU has regulations for the use of personal data for targeting consumers, voters and for example patients.

    You might translate this as "censorship" but I think of it as "responsible use".

    Over the past years (and certainly in the case of Xitter) it has become blatantly clear that people like Musk wipe their #ss with responsibility.

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    Installed Debian on 2010 Mac Pro
  • Not to pretend I know it all, but have actively been using Linux on desktops and normal laptops for years now and I do have to agree.

    Those old Macs are actually quite hard to get working right (fans, touchpad etc).

    It is not impossible, but it takes quite an investment.

    But Macs aside, nowadays a lot of desktops ánd laptops install flawlessly though.

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  • Although I can understand the feeling, let's hope that it does not get there. It might end ugly for all... 🤔

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    Is this for real? (Please see text)
  • The "star construct" you mention and hang an entire theory on is just a German language construct. It has to do with gender but not the way you imagine it to be. Just gender as a language construct (German is full of gender constructs).

    Maybe I made the error of explaining your post with the typical US "there is only one gender" stance which is so irritatingly omni present on youtube nowadays.

    But if that was not your intention, it might also be an error to call me nationalist. I am not. I am all for gender inclusivity. If you are as well we have no beef.

    And PS: yes, you are still an asshole.

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    Is this for real? (Please see text)
  • And why would you care? You are obviously not German (otherwise you would know that the shit you post is BS) and obviously scared about inclusivity (because you worry about how other people call themselves).

    Get a life.

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    I feel relief after pulling off my toenails, whats wrong with me?
  • Provided this is not a joke, have you considered that this might be a coping mechanism? Almost the same way that people cutting themselves is a way of coping with stress or depression.

    I would recommend talking to your GP or a psychologist.

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    Hostages were holding white cloth on stick when Israeli forces shot them, army says
  • The innocent people getting killed in attacks on churches (even Catholic ones) and refugee camps and whole suburban areas are awful.

    Even if 10% actively supports Hamas (which is not the case) it does not warrant the genocidal reaction of Israel. Hamas has just given them the excuse to clear out their "problem areas" of every living spul who happens to be there.

    An award winning journalist who compared this to the pogroms of ww2 is maybe not that far off.

    Even ventilating an opinion about the actions of the IDF is branded as "antisemitism".

    I am not pro Hamas, but what happens over there has nothing to do with self defense.

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  • Voyager is my daily driver sofar. ~The only thing that bothers me is that blocking a community is quite the number of clicks away. ~

    ~When scrolling through "all" and seeing some community I am not interested in, i'd have to click the community name, see all the posts (which I am almost certain they will not interest me as they are a part of the community I want to block) then open the menu, click "block" then "community". And then retrace my steps back.~

    ~Subscribing is the same.~

    Or is there a better way?

    Got the tip of long-pressing the community name and then selecting "block community".

    As there might be other pearls of uses to be found in Voyager, please post your tip below!

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