North-East Netherlands. Besides the dialect, every sentence is ended with the word “ja”, which means yes/yeah. It’s like saying “It rains, yeah”, or “Let’s take a look, yeah”. It’s also drawn long, like jaaaa. Also, a lot of nouns are ended with “gie” in the dialect, making it a diminutive.
I read about a quarter of it. It was a lot of back story and history building. I personally like a more in your face story telling, where the back story is unveiled as you go along. I’m also not so concerned about the technology behind it all, though that wasn’t so much that it was distracting.
Sure thing, McGyver…
Me too, but I think that one was already done before…
Off topic: My wife’s work recieved flour in the mail. Unfortunately, she works in city hall, so it was quite a scare since it could have contained anthrax. It turned out to be promotional action from some hotel.
It’s the low countries because it’s the land around the river delta’s, not because of the height of the land. It’s originally meant as downriver.
Stopped reading “children of time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, it wasn’t the kind of book for me. I am now reading AE van Vogt’s “the universe maker”. Not his best book, but the fast pacing is nice. It’s also an old Dutch translation, so the archaic language use is… different. I started listening to Matt Dinniman’s “the bedlam bride” on my commute, I got fed up listening to the radio. I read the previous books in the series, but so far I think it lends itself better to listening. And I’ve read the short story “the marching morons” by Cyril Kornbluth during some down time this week, which I liked. Didn’t know this writer, so might check out some of his other work.
Yes, but we also had plenty of collaborators, some even got a nice state pension in Germany.
We do, but our government has decided in all wisdom to reinstate the border patrol because of Islamophobia. Germany did the same thing earlier, so we’re slowly going back to pre-1992 days.
I live in the Netherlands. Please don’t feel sorry for us, there’s a lot of assholes over here, and we’ve got a pretty good life going.
Seems a lot to be honest.
I haven’t seen them a long time either, but these days the six packs are completely wrapped in plastic. Another win for the packaging industry I guess.
Probably, since a few days I can’t skip through stories either, and after opening comments it scrolls back to the top. It’s getting to the point that I’ll probably delete my account, what’s the point of this website if you can’t use it.
The racism is in training on white patients only, not in the abilities of the AI in this case.
Thanks for taking my trolling in good stride. I actually loved the internet of 20 years ago. It was totally different from today, it’s actually a shame a lot of the way it was is gone forever. I vividly remember frequenting a few blogs, just slow chatting in the comments, making your own response images, hosting your own stuff like these images, sound clips and whatever else. Most ISP’s would give you some server space to host your own static html pages, and lot’s of people used this. The blogs would host photoshop contests, link to stuff they liked, reported on news or music or whatever their niche. The blogs I visited are mostly still around today, but they just don’t draw the engagement anymore.
I have a video on my phone of a guy playing the tune on guitar to prank his wife/girlfriend!
the initial intent of what the internet was supposed to be
A communication network for scientists and the military?
20+40*1-20. The first 20 you had already.
Reacher series is quite a nice read, except for a few. I’ve read the long earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter in the last two weeks. The books start slow, but are great page turners. Yesterday I started “Children of time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I had the book on my e-reader for some time, so I decided I should start reading it allready. Normally I’m more for the space opera type of books, so I’ll see what I make of it.
I wish I would have learned how to dance as a kid.