If you have to go three towns over in rural NL the car may be the best option, but going by bike is a very close second.

The busses in the NL are often mainly for transporting you to and from the city, though some provinces also offer halfway decent local connections.

I can’t point out where it went wrong without breaking rule 2

The dumbphones being released now should all work on modern networks. The connection being 4G / 5G doesn’t mean the phone must have an internet browser and an app store.

It’s not that there is a shortage of sand in general. There is a shortage for the correct kind of sand needed to make a sufficiently strong concrete mix, in the places where that concrete is needed

At least if the styrofoam falls down it can’t kill someone by hitting them on the head. Maybe it was for safety reasons? /s

Which, if it works well, is a big deal as the headline claims.

The world is slowly but surely running out of sand which has the right consistency and courseness to be used as an ingredient for concrete. Manufacturing that sand artificially so that it is suitable for concrete is rather tricky, from what I understand.

That said… I’ve seen the weak-ass concrete mixes used in some Chinese tofu-dreg buildings. Let’s hope that the artificial sand is not the culprit there.

We know the US basically depleted their stockpile in the war with Iran.
This is a promise the US made to Ukraine after that to allow them to manufacture the missiles domestically, which Trump is now seemingly reneging on.

Both Qwant and Ecosia have been working on this European Search Index together, but thusfar I’ve only seen Ecosia say that they went live with the search index in Germany.

Hoping that they will release it in the Netherlands soon as well.

That’s when you acknowledge that you are both walking in the same direction and that it’s a bit silly. And then you say goodbye again when you split ways

That’s why he’s starting now, so that he can actually ride his work elephant by the time he is able to get his elephant licence.

Luckily software like Teams has noise cancellation, so keyboard sounds generally get filtered out.

While I somewhat get the decision from a security standpoint, doesn’t cancelling the pride event give these lowlifes exactly what they want?

What are the odds that a second attack like this happens on the same event?

Pride is a protest as much as it is a celebration.
Attacks like this ruin the celebration, but in my view they also increase the need to protest.

If they take issue with you disliking Musk (since I presume that is the political belief you are talking about) then maybe they are not great company to keep.

Walled slop shop

He has nothing to say about the International Criminal Court.
The US isn’t even party to the ICC.

Cities Skylines and Paralives

The prospects for China are not looking particularly good. Decades of a one-child policy seems to have helped normalize one child per couple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate

China has a fertility rate of 1.02 children per woman.
For comparison, in the US that rate is 1.62 children per woman and in Germany 1.46.

A “healthy” fertility rate, where the population remains more or less stable (not accounting for immigration), is roughly at 2.1 children per woman.

The West is going to have issues with their low birthrates, but the looming Chinese demographics crisis is looking to be much worse than what the West is going to be dealing with.

10 Mbps up in the year of our lord 2026?..
I swear to god, I’m not convinced the US is a first-world country.

I’m on my phone which runs Android, so technically I am also using Linux

The first time I saw a black person as a kid, I was staring… as young kids do… The guy notices and engages by showing the palms of his hands and saying something along along the lines of “Look. Not all of my skin is black.”

Apparently that scared the crap out of young me

My mom still likes to tell that story sometimes