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Is it just me, or does the page now repeatedly scroll up while creating a thread?
It’s an HTML bug, I’ve encountered it on other websites. I forget what causes it, but I assume it’ll be fixed with the next update.
A similar thing has happened with me. It's usually when there's a picture. When I scroll down the picture shrinks, takes up less space and the page slides upwards to fill in the space.
Does it happen more with threads where you've opened some screenshots, etc?
The screenshots don’t make any difference. I tested this out on the create post page without inserting any images or URLs in it and I still got the glitch.
As I get older, I became less religious. I lost my trust in the Catholic Church due to multiple crimes committed by some priests.
US imperialism must be abolished.
I was given a box full of books today and among them were Animal Farm and literally 1984. Should I read them?
1984 is honestly a really good book. It is solid literature. The world it creates is also a perfect fascist/capitalist dystopia, and if the CIA propaganda behind the whole 1984 Gommunism meme didn’t exist, it would be an excellent piece of pro-communist literature.
Animal farm is literal drivel though.
Why not? First time I read it was last year when I bought it through a vending machine at a Chinese train station. At this point it's just a meme, and won't give you any insight to the oppositions psyche.
Reading books to understand the liberal psych is impossible today, I don't think they read books
Book vending machines are so cool.Contrast that with the reddit vending machines elsewhere.
Nahh, it still cost a multiple of the initial asking price.
China does have smart libraries strewn about the place, especially in cities with low income, that are located along city streets and parks, which provide free Wi-Fi, charging and air conditioning. You can borrow books with an app for almost free (albeit with a required deposit that gets charged if you don't return it)
That's awesome. I just wanted to take a swipe at the creep machines tbh.
Those two would be better used as toilet paper.
This election two of the youngest members of parliament got elected.
One is for the socdem party, the other one is for our party.
Members of parliament can get up to 11k a month over here, and the local newspaper (they're both from Antwerp) asked them how they handled that much money at such a young age. (the socdem is 25 years old, our elected official Amina is 22 years old, the youngest woman ever to be in Parliament).
The socdem reply is something along the line of: yeah it's a lot but I didn't go into politics for the money blah blah blah
Amina gives most of it away to the party to keep an average Belgian wage as to not lose touch with the people
I think that highlights an important difference between socdems and us
you love to see it folks, one of the people representing the people
The other day I saw a ukro-nazi in the wild. Wearing nazi-inspired apparel like we often see in the supposedly photoshopped images of Ukrainian nazis. Dude was many countries away from the frontline. Surreal to see them live here
I saw some of them in my city as well, carrying around fascist flags on an electric scooter. Absolute wild how it is allowed even. Meanwhile every slightly controversial thing happening at Palestine protests get several news outlets writing about it.
I was awakened by a loud bang today. I figured it was probably some random drug war in which a grenade was thrown, as that happens often around here so I went back to sleep.
Apparently a building several kilometers away in the city exploded. So far 1 person is dead and several people are heavily injured. A freak incident, you would say, if it weren't the fifth or so place that randomly exploded in the few years that I have lived here. This is a city that is notorious for the bad upkeep of buildings, so I wonder how many mine fields our citizens are living in.
A second dead person has been recovered now. It apparently is the sixth explosion in which people die in six years in this city.
Three died so far. Absolute tragedy.
if it weren't the fifth or so place that randomly exploded in the few years
That's really troubling. Are most of these from failing gas infrastructure or similar? The only buildings that have blown up where I've lived were meth labs.
The last few incidents were from gas leaks yes. This one probably too though there is no confirmation yet. They called in the governments special explosive forces halfway through the rescue operation but there's not further news about them.
I sometimes imagine what life would be like after the end of capitalism and what the future would look like.
Probably a few good years of prosperity and peace until some mad lad digs up Stalin's spoon. Then it's a toss-up. We may be sharing toothbrushes or we may be progressing as a society. Preferably both if I'm being honest. I wouldn't mind a more intimate relationship with my neighbors.
I bet that war in Ukraine is secretly a struggle for control over the spoon...
In all seriousness though, I do the same thing. I wonder how different my life would be or my life so far would have been in such circumstances.
As I get older and older, I get unfathomably uncomfortable seeing kids and teenagers online. Just a moment ago I discovered a whole section of DeviantArt where 13-14 year olds post their names, faces, and houses all voer their accounts with no thought to cyber safety. First of all, I'm shocked people still use that site and in that manner and secondly none of these kids seem to grasp the amount of danger they put themselves in.
As a former kid, kids are idiots. They do their best of course but with the lack of life experience, and floods of hormones, decision making isn't really easy to do. Don't get me wrong, a lot of kids have really good ideas, and great takes on things, but making decisions? It's just hard to make good ones.
Can you do an AMA as a former kid?
Let me check with my parents
I would love to incorporate local Dutch elements in my clothing, but Dutch traditional clothing is so ugly, impractical, and region-specific so don't want to do that. Don't know what else I can do. If only there was a contemporary Dutch style of clothing I could use.
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Excuse me, what about this looks impractical to you?
On a more serious note, but maybe not typical Dutch: many of my friends are into like 40s-50s style fashion. Oftentimes it's great quality, looks traditional and I guess you can add Dutch things to it.
17-18th century Dutch Calvinist Burgher Drip. Just dress as the last (successful) revolutionaries in Dutch history.
Ew, drippy burghers are gross, way too much sauce, and probably not a good idea if they want to dress in nice clothes, it'll stain them.