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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • It is “insane” over here in the Netherlands also;

    • MC donalds “standard” menu; ±/ 15 Euros (used to be around 8-10 euros)
    • Dominos Pizza medium “special”; 15+ Euros (used to be around 10 euros for the same pizza)

    It’s already close to a price hike of 50+ percent.

    Went out to dinner with a few friends to a Korean BBQ place; 40 euros for all you can eat per person. It was nice but the amount of food that one should eat to get to the 40 euro treshhold is insane. I think I ate for a maximum of 15 euros of food.

    Other places also aggressively jacked up their prices for the exact same menu and quality (or lack of). I just cannot be arsed anymore to eat out.

    The new fastfood prices are getting closer to the restaurant prices pre inflation. I don’t see any incentive to actually pay those prices for the lack of quality of the food.

    I also see that the same fastfood chains ‘quietly’ implemented shrinkflation in regards of toppings or portion sizes so one gets screwed over double.

    I liked to get some fastfood once or twice every 2 weeks, but I just cannot be bothered anymore.

    the kicker is that for that 15 euros worth of fastfood I can get close to a weeks of selfcooked dinner.

    I already see some grocery stores actually lowering the prices of certain items and aggressively put items on huge discounts.





  • I had a Z Fold 2 for 2+ years before selling it and it was a great phone overall. Didn’t feel like the technology “wasn’t there yet” but it felt like a full fledged product and the built quality was really top notch.

    What i agree with is that indeed the inner screen is a gimmick or the foldable idea itself. I found myself using the inner screen mostly for streaming and using the outer screen for literally anything else. Which meant that for 95% of the time I used the outer screen.

    I think the Flip series has a way better usecase for a foldable because the fold Idea reduces the size of the “normal way of use” product.

    I think the Fold expands on the “normal way of use” so it is easier put it in the gimmick territory.

    I still think it is better to just get an Phone + Tablet overall if you want the best of both worlds.

    But to be clear, this has been my experience as having had the Z fold 2 as a daily driver for 2+ years.





  • “The dismissal of tankies really bothers me”

    I am gonna make it easy.

    If you are a holocaust denier, Stalin/Mao/Hitler/lenin fetishist or “defend” how they ruled their people then you are purposely keeping your eyes shut.

    There is so so much literature to read and material to watch about these people that you actually have to actively dodge it to not know what they have done and some of the regimes that came from them are still doing.

    Just because you are right about 1 thing doesn’t mean that it validates every single believe that you have.

    There are also enough people who are not the above who were against the invasion of Iraq and already foresaw why the US went there.

    But this is the thing; It is your choice to believe the above. It literally is a choice, the truth is different. It is literally a choice to close your eyes towards history and the crimes authoritarian rulers and regimes are still commiting towards their citizens.

    The western world is not perfect but there is a reason people are fleeing towards western nations and not the other way around.