zout

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[–] zout@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

Me too, but I think that one was already done before...

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] zout@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

For a second I tought that was Ozzy.

[–] zout@fedia.io 9 points 5 days ago

Yes, but we also had plenty of collaborators, some even got a nice state pension in Germany.

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have a wallet anymore, just a flipbook cover on my phone with bank cards and a little cash stashed inside.

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago
[–] zout@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

Seems a lot to be honest.

[–] zout@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 toilet seat in the bathroom upstairs has two part hinges, where you mount two pins on the toilet and snap the seat and lid on. Something broke in the snapping part this week. Fixed it by removing some plastic from the clamping mechanism, put some epoxy putty in there and around the pins, then placed the seat back. It's still on there today, so it worked I guess.

 
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