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I worked shifts as an operator in a chemical plant. Took the opportunity to work days about 15 years ago (was about 35 years old then), never had a problem with it. I didn’t make any less money because of it, because the 9-5 job was a somewhat promotion. Pro’s were for me being all weekends off, like all the people I know. cons were less off time between. Biggest pro; get to be around my kids at more regular times. But it really depends on the jobs.

Ten opzichte van welke andere hoofdsteden?

I hardly watch TV. I’ve seen some episodes over the years, and it’s not for me. I don’t hate it, but it just feels like someone trying to be edgy. It might be that I’m from Europe, so I can’t really relate to a lot of stuff going on.

I think that for a technological civilization to rise, you need some things to line up. First, life has to be evolved enough to have animals, beings with a brain. Then, a species has to evolve intellence to become a tool making species. This species also has to become the dominating species on the planet. Meanwhile, extinction events, ice ages, climate change and population bottlenecks are always influencing the evolution process.

This is for me the great filter, to have all these conditions line up perfectly for an intelligent, tool making species to evolve and thrive.

True, but also if you go to Amsterdam as a tourist, you’ll end up in the tourist trap places. Shady coffee shops, tours of the red light district, and over priced bars where you have to pay for toilet usage. And you can be rushed through the Anne Frank house for a price.

Don’t go to Amsterdam.

In Europe, big oil companies are teaming up with waste companies to source waste plastics. Traditional mechanical recyclers are already doing bad, because the same big oil is flooding the market with cheap virgin plastics. Chemical recycling is basically a big (marketing big, not actual big) green washing scam.

CBD oil. It doesn’t matter which exotic ailment you’re talking about, someone will ask you if you’ve tried it and that they think it might help.

It’s probably a great hobby, with pleasantly little potential to turn into a side hustle.

The change for an individual of getting it randomly may be pretty small, but also doesn’t matter. The change the OMV/DMV gives out this plate is all that matters.

The easiest to learn is the kazoo in my experience.

More serious: reading music isn’t nessecary to learn how to play an instrument. For instance, guitar can be played using tabs or even chord progressions.

The site kissthisguy.com used to be a great source for this, but unfortunately today it’s mostly a place for lyrics which may also fit the song.

If you mean the Dutch, they also have a lot trouble locally with flooding.

There are already organisms which can digest certain plastics. The problem (AFAIK) is they can digest other stuff more easily. So maybe in landfills ill work, not so much in nature were there’s other organic matter for the taking.

This article gives the impression that most people who studied English literature are now considered to be doing some equivalent of flipping burgers.

Flossing is basically the same thing.

A small stick from the toothbrush tree (no kidding). You could also use other types of wood, like apple, pear or lemon tree. Or even licorice root.

Duolingo is not so much about teaching, but more about (here it comes again) building engagement with the users. It didn’t start out like this, but somewhere the MBA’s probably took over.

I really hate these really long videos. They don’t have to be all sub-10 minutes for me, but lately I have seen some previously pretty solid Youtubers post 1.5 hour long videos, consisting for at least one third of rehashed older videos. The rest isn’t all that much content either, and could be half shorter with some good editing.

I had a Wordpress blog set up like that once, and it should still be possible. Although you might get a lot of spammers that way. I did this 15-20 years ago, on Wordpress 2.0. Edit: just checked on my test install, it still works.