I don't think this is semantics. It reminds me of the Elon Musk nazi salute thing: maybe we are all tired of leftist nitpicking but it's making people prone to misidentify it.
Specifically a tool, like a Werkzeug for example.
Edit: that's what I get for commenting after only reading the first panel then, haha.
I disagree. Having some kind of grievance with capitalism an sich is central to being leftwing.
I imagine a lot has changed in that regard anyway, especially with the way mainstream politics has gone in the intervening years, but it does indeed sound like you lived in a bit of a bubble at the time too!
I’m probably falling into the habits I caught when living in Britain and using the word “excellent” to mean what people in other countries think of as “good”
I'm British, and I know the British tendency is to understate rather than overstate, so I don't know how you've landed there!
for areas with less demand...
That's why I expressly mentioned that it was because they don't learn Dutch: so you don't have to wonder if there were any confounding factors at play.
Dutch is easy (a relative term, admittedly) if your mother tongue's English because they're so closely related. Many basic words are either very similar or spelt the same but pronounced differently. Bit like what Spanish is to Portuguese. I think it's quite obvious that native speakers don't learn Dutch quickly, if at all, because they have no one to practise with, and perhaps the idea of switching languages being rude plays a part too. I've met a couple of people who think it's not worth it to learn and none of them were from the Anglosphere.
I distinctly remember liberal messages rising to the top on Reddit, stuff like that you should just accept that you have to go out and work for a living. That's not left!
It's actually the second or third thing I mention about Lemmy if it ever comes up in conversation. Sometimes I feel like just dropping it because of it.
That said, most Dutch speak excellent English
That's not true, not excellent English. Many speak enough to get by, except the elderly and the young, and some of them speak it well, fewer still excellently. Over four years, I've met probably a handful at most who could express their deepest thoughts and desires while pronouncing "th" correctly and their As not as Es.
Many banks won't take you in if you don't speak Dutch and it's harder to find a job (this was in the news just recently, as it happens: nearly all international students are struggling in the job market because they generally don't learn Dutch, despite there being so many vacancies). You can definitely get by with English, and I've heard of many people living here decades without learning Dutch too, but if you want to live well, that's another thing altogether.
The good news is Dutch is easy if your mother tongue's English or German but there is indeed a problem in the Randstad of it being hard to convince anyone to let you speak it with them, in part because they often overestimate how well they speak it. There's a relatively famous quote from colonial Indonesia about how the Dutch colonisers would rather speak bad Indonesian than Dutch, which the Indonesians spoke fluently. I think it's like a feedback effect with the reputation they have for knowing second languages.
Anyway, details details.
You're not all too far from Hebden Bridge if you settle up them ways anyway. She'll be sound. Best of luck to yous.
Haha, what a fucking plonker. England is nowhere near Australia.
We all know there's a barrier, albeit fairly low, to the fediverse proper, but on the other hand, I remember seeing a video once about how people's attention span is so fucked by Instagram and all that that they comment with questions already answered in the post, for example (obviously I can't find it now in the sea of opinion-piece video essays about it). In a way the barrier to entry is a boon to the fediverse proper in all arenas bar financing.
Well, wouldn't you know, I've just given it another go and it was easy peasy.
Ik zou het ook vet vinden, maar zou dat niet de vaste lasten hoger maken? Nou als je dat kan financiëren is het al prima, maar ik vraag me af hoe "officieel" feddit.nl dient te zijn. Ik weet toevallig dat mastodon.nl door een stichting beheerd wordt; misschien bij hen vragen als je dat nog niet hebt gedaan?
That's not the problem because you can just cuddle to warm up. The problem is when one of yous likes the water hotter than the other.
I learnt it to work in a call centre ten years ago and can still remember them all with a bit of effort, but I still don't know the Dutch one, which is more likely to come in handy now and is all people's names.
Seeing one of those posts is what made me wonder, hehe.
Certainly enough to keep the instance afloat I assume!
What's everyone's teuteuf.fr gotos?


For me, in order of appearance: Worldle, Travle, Flagle, sometimes GeoGrid if the questions are normie enough.
I imagine feddit.nl is nowhere near the top but I sort of like it that way.
Wiktionary uses an erotic excerpt as a source for at least one of its definitions.
> 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
> She jacked with authority, knowing how to slick the glair over the glans with her thumb when it began to flow, how to pace a shaftlength voluptuous stroke with a whole slide from meatus to os pubis, how to work with a loving will.
This Youtube channel analysing music reminds me so much of Patrick Bateman
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Youtube and Android 5.1.1.
I've almost completely removed Google products from my life now, having recently decided to change the OS on my phone, delete Gmail, etc. etc. but only two things remain:
I've looked at Invidious and at Piped and I just can't seem to get the same experience as on Youtube. It's fine if Google knows nothing about me except what I watch on Youtube and what dates I'd put the bins out in 2013, no? (Can't seem to delete that from the calendar) Or if anyone's managed to emulate the same kind of experience Youtube gives on one of the two, please share. I quite like the recommendations but I think it's only possible on the abovementioned by watching a video then looking at the side of the page?
I've got a tablet (Samsung SM-T335) from ten years ago running on Android 5.1.1. I've decided to root it to delete all the bollocks that came installed with it (I've recently factory reset it and only use it for ebooks and Firefox Focus), including the Google stuff. I have to wait a week or something apparently before it'll let me check the OEM-unlocking box but I was wondering if anyone's had any success with this (I've seen people saying you can change the date, you can fiddle with it in xyz manner, but I'm looking to hear people's experiences).
The plan then is to root it, delete the shovelware, and sideload the two apps I want to use. Also curious to hear people's experiences with sideloading, because most of the articles I find on the internet were written by a robot or in the year dot. I've also read that it's impossible to install a custom OS on such an old tablet but I'd like to hear whether it's worth trying at the risk of bricking the thing.
Edit: After waiting a week, the OEM-unlocking never became available, so after searching and searching and having no joy, I decided to just log out of Google on the tablet and it just let me without deleting the apps I'd downloaded. It turns out, too, that this particular version of Android 5 lets you just hide the apps in the list, so I've just hidden all the shovelware and that's good enough for me. I've ended up subscribing to those I was subscribed to on Youtube on Invidious and in doing so I've discovered that a load of videos just have never been recommended to me by Youtube, so I'll see how I go and if the subscriptions thing works, I just have to delete my Youtube account then I'm free of Google!
I'm mildly proud of how I categorise my games on Steam and interested to see others' methods


They're in order of likelihood of being played. Craig is a mate of mine who I play with when time permits.
Vegan Horeca & Food NL
We hebben een groepsappje aangemaakt voor mensen die in plantaardige keukens, bars, bakkerijen, productiekeukens enz. in Nederland werken. Stuur ff een privébericht als je wil meedoen!
We've set up a Whatsapp group for people who work in plant-based kitchens, bakeries, production kitchens, etc. in the Netherlands. DM if you want to join!
Two amateurish questions
- Is it possible to use a hosting service I'm already paying for (strato.nl) and a domain I've already bought to host a Mastodon/Pixelfed instance? All the websites that encourage me to selfhost advertise a new hosting service to me with the price in dollars.
- Furthermore, is it possible to start an account on this instance that can be followed via either Mastodon or Pixelfed and vice versa, or are they just unrelated? I can see accounts from pixey.org on my Mastodon Android app and I know you can post to Lemmy via Mastodon but I'm unsure on how it goes the other way.
Sorry if I've made your eyes roll but we all shat green once.
Edit: very happy with the responses, thanks all.
To those with English as a second language: are people actively being taught that a short A should be pronounced as a short E?
Just wondering because I hear a lot of non-native speakers say things like "bend" instead of "band" and I find it a bit puzzling since native speakers don't say it that way (except in New Zealand and maybe London I suppose? Not sure) and many languages have the usual A-sound that I and many others use (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_front_unrounded_vowel) so it's not like it's difficult to pronounce. I've also seen it mentioned on onzetaal.nl that a particular word with an A is pronounced with an E "like in English" ("Bovendien spreek je app in het Nederlands nog enigszins op z’n Engels uit: als ‘ep’.": https://onzetaal.nl/taalloket/appen-whatsappen-vervoeging). Actually I find myself quite often not understanding Dutch people speaking English if they do it.
The other explanations would be that people can't get their mouths around the short A in standard American and learnèd English Englishes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_front_unrounded_vowel) or that people have just sort of collectively, subconsciously decided to start saying it that way, or something else I haven't thought of. Maybe because the name of the letter A in English is more or less the same as the letter E in others?
Ruben Bolling's comic strip from 12th Sept 2001
Attached: 1 image Here is that first comic I did after the attacks. I had a job in the World Financial Center and had to escape the financial district on that day. It's hard to convey my emotions as I reluctantly and resentfully cast about for comic ideas and came up with this.

It sort of reads like a surrealist antijoke through modern eyes.
What to do if you don't feel listened to at work?
I'm a man myself, but I'm a foreigner where I live and work, so I sometimes get the impression that my intelligence is a bit underestimated by employers and coworkers. I'm a sous chef, so in a management position, and I often get this feeling like the chef de cuisine, the owner, and sometimes some of the cooks aren't listening to me. Like I'll have to reiterate my point two or even three times at a meeting before I get a relevant answer, or I'll send a memo out and the changes I've instated aren't being adopted after the fact, or someone I'm talking to might vacantly say "yes" as if they're occupied with something else.
Yesterday I asked the chef a question about a recipe that only he could answer and he said I could google it. I'd already googled it just to be sure, wouldn't you know. The day before, the owner told a cook, who then told me, that we all together were planning to put all delivery receipts in a neat little box and adopt a system to check they're correct, but I'd already done it alone a week earlier, and told them all about it, with photos and everything. I feel like I'm going mad.
I hear that this is a (more) common experience for women, so I wonder if any of you have any tips or tricks or whatever to make yourself heard, or to at least cope with not being heard, or even just a bit of commiseration is fine. Cheers!