Kéés (Texels Dutch, my wife’s home dialect)

Flikken Maastricht. Not because it’s so good but we always try to match the drum beats in the intro

A cop once asked me to shake my backpack to make sure there were no graffiti cans in there. Obviously there weren’t.

Now I’m involved a bit in activism get searched on the regular. It’s mostly procedural, I have the privilege of being not really considered a criminal.

No it isn’t, just checked my copy to be sure. I played it on my regular 3DS XL.

I did get the M30. It’s delightful but there’s one problem - it looks like The Lion King is one of the few games the Retro Receiver has a problem with. Any button presses while holding a direction on the D-pad interrupt the direction on the D-pad. So a roll becomes a crouch and a running jump becomes a standing jump. I’ve reached out to support, hopefully they can help, otherwise I’ll have to return it.

I ended up applying something called Liquiwire, which seems to work well so far! I can finally play The Lion King properly again ^_.

That looks interesting and worth trying. I’ll have a look to see if I can find anything like that locally

Is buying a used controller out of the question?

The backup plan is to do either that or get an 8bitdo M30 with a retro receiver!

To balance it out, they should have 1 Israeli patient for every 39 Gazan patients.

The sad irony of that site asking me to accept tracking by them and their 214 partners.

I used the last of my leave days for the work mandated time off between Christmas and New Years Day. We have plenty, but I used so much for holiday and activism. So I haven’t taken the customary full two weeks off and will be back at the office on 2 Jan. Don’t mind it, I like the quiet office.

But we make up for that with griekse y, korte ei and lange ij! All pronounced [ɛi], similar to ‘eye’.

Using their phone, e.g. trying to snap it into their phone holder, planning a route, that sort of thing.

I was of this conviction until Amsterdam riot cops hunted down protestors like animals and beat them relentlessly, without reason, after they were released from custody, and not a single other cop denounced it.

(Here’s a short compilation of videos taken while it happened, a journalistic video piece and a news article)

“Genocide is not about numbers, it requires genocidal intent”, I’ve been told by genocide deniers. Well, here it is. Again.

My Lemmy app didn’t link it, so here’s a URL: https://lemmy.world/c/thepoliceproblem

It’s funny that a hangover in Dutch is a kater, or, (male) Katze

tl;dr: things are bad, things will get worse, be angry at the criminals, not those sounding the alarm

We’ve known what we’re in for for half a century, meanwhile governments have kept catering to fossil industries. What’s being destroyed by governmental inaction dwarfs that what you accuse these groups of (art has not been destroyed) and at this point I’m not surprised that people are looking to more disruptive and direct action.

We’ve had scientists do the researching and informing, public interest groups do litigation, NGOs trying what they can themselves, etc, yet we’re still headed to a degree of climate destabilization where large ecosystem tipping points may well launch us into uncharted territory - and even if not, we’re already past the point of ‘dangerous’ climate change and that’s something we’ll have to bear the human, societal and economic costs for.

I got a teddy bird and a puzzle! Worth it.

I do in fact sit down for an hour once or twice a month to give plasma without compensation and many other people do so as well, given that it’s illegal to be paid for blood or plasma here in the Netherlands, but I can see why paying people a bit would help.

The reason people can’t get paid for it here is to avoid perverse incentives, mainly people donating when they shouldn’t, lying on the form or to the doctor to pass the pre-donation check.