Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Quality replies are much appreciated! I think that narrative, as you put it, is generally a good thing as it helps us to remember information and make sense of the world. I work in research so I didn’t think twice about the distinction between the and a scientists. Not so sure that scientism is in my top 10 problems list, but it it is still good to be aware of such biases.

Skype is still out there! The Dutch MoD host their own Skype servers.

Thanks for making me aware of scientism. I am a little unsure how it applies here through.

Authenticators work fine for me, banking works fine, I’ve had a VPN working. Have had some issues with whatsapp backup because it only wanted to backup to google drive. But after circumventing that, no other issues. This is on e/os

Yeah no I knew someone that had that happen, he managed to park on the emergency lane and it took a while for someone to figure out that he was dead.

Yes, many don’t know this but you can give out appreciation and compliment for free.

Is this a theater reference?

Women™ (patent pending)

Makker houd een even heel gouw je grote mond.

I’ll forward your complaint to the person I stole it from.

Houd eens even heel snel je mond

Yes is the best answer. They got a lot of votes from the Jury, because the song is musically one of the more impressive ones (subjective ofc). But, the audience also gets to vote, and can vote for whatever reason. Like: best song, nationalistic reasons, most catchy song?, identity reasons, Song of an artist that makes a statement. Similarly the jury is not immune to these thing so there is no such thing as a subjective vote for best song. So… Yes

Scrämble!

Yeah that is a little painful

Ah my bad, first time for me

I tried to read it like 5 times and was like “damn guess my german isn’t as good as I thought” but that was apparently the point lol 😅

Noita, but you just suffer along instead of growing

Visigoths are my favorite. What about yours?

I used messageease for a month or so but was unable to improve :/ https://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php

no rule, bannered