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Yesterday I went to my brother who bought a house to help renovate some stuff. Afterwards I visited my parents who live nearby and we talked about home ownership and how difficult it can be for our generation. They talked about their own financial situation and it became clearer to me how insane the current situation is.
They bought a house in a time where it was still pretty cheap to buy one. Got a good mortgage deal and everything. Their home value tripled in the last few years. They have now nearly paid of their mortgage over the course of 25 years and are basically sitting on top of 600k of their own money. The only thing they had to do for it was paying off their mortgage and not selling. For my brother to get the same percentage of return on his investment his house would have to be valued at 1.2 million euro within the next 25 years. For a simple terraced roof house. There is no way that will happen.
It seems like Somalia is kinda collasping now (again). Al-Shabaab has taken another town in central somalia. Both Jubaland and Puntland have become de-facto independent, Puntland has even arranged a meeting with clan elders of the disputed Khatumo state.
Shit, hopefully they don’t go the way of Syria.
I am going to be honest. They will likely. I know Trump (and Turkey) have both been flirting with Puntland and Somaliland (since they both border the Gulf of Aden), it seems that they are prepared to basically salvage the “important” parts and let the rest fall. Ethiopia and Kenya are will definitely feel it. Especially since their border regions are majority somali.
Laith Marouf has been released from detention.
Funny how the media attention for Bob Vylan just turned “death, death to the IDF” into a popular slogan. It wasn’t common before, but I was at a Palestine demonstration yesterday and we chanted it a couple of times. It felt so good to chant.
Why are so many people just dickheads online? Like, you can have a fun talk with someone about a topic you enjoy only for people to show up and be dicks. I had talk about the city development from my home town like I did in this thread with someone on a different outlet only for someone to show up and say: ‘ugliest city I visited’. Like, okay? That’s not what we were talking about you psycho lol. Who behaves like that? Imagine joining a conversation between, idk, coworkers with the sole intention of being a dick.
Picked up a nasty stomach bug for the second time in a few months. Wondering if it’s something in the soil or somesuch since I harvest a lot of fresh vegetables. Either way, went like thirty six hours without eating and just ate a strawberry and a few miracle fruit (called thusly because they coat your tongue in an enzyme that makes sour things taste sweet) and am already regretting it. Either way, eurgh.
Getting a stomach bug once can hurt your stomach permanently to some degree, making you more susceptible for new infections or more sensitive for certain foods.
Ough. I didn’t know that, thanks. Would explain why I got sick again so quickly. :/
make sure you wash your vegetables, fruit flies eggs may be on vegetables even if they look fine, along many other bugs.
Yeah, that’s always good advice. I do try and wash everything I use before cooking.
also unforunely if you contracted a fever, its very likely that its gonna keep popping up frequently unless you undergo a treatment. should prob try a blood exam that tests these fevers, i struggled a lot with a bug i caught some years ago and it popped every time i ate outside home.
Ooh, thanks. I’ll keep that in mind. Idk I’m not too worried yet because it’s only been the two times, but if it comes back again after this I’ll definitely try and get tested.
Still fighting my sticker war with the local Nazi. I keep removing his stickers and placing my own antifa and commie stickers. Today I found that he placed his stickers on top of mine.
But the way he did it was telling me the guy is just a little chicken shit lol. They were half assed and you could peel them off easily. Some of them even had the paper back still partially on it. I just hope one day I can catch him in the act.
Be careful peeling them because nazis often put razor blades under their stickers
Seeing how much of a pussy this one is, that is probably not a problem here
Out of curiosity, what are his stickers?
Stuff like: Hand in Hand, back to your own land (made by neonazi org Voorpost)
‘Culture dies where multiculturality begins’
Pictures of Filip Dewinter, Belgian nationalist.
I counter it with a cat accompanied by a hamsic and text: ‘there used to be a racist sticker here but not anymore’ and a sticker with ‘Forever antifascist’ and a sticker with Tinky Winky of the Teletubbies holding a socialist flag. Oh and one of Mark Rutte, nato leader, with clown make up and the text ‘we live in a society’
‘Culture dies where multiculturality begins’
Pictures of Filip Dewinter, Belgian nationalist.
One would think people would not be so dense, but alas.
My parents are in a Basque village, and they told me there are a lot of Basque and Palestinian flags hanging from the windows. Gotta love the Basques.
Basque country is amazing and you should go there if you haven’t been already. Great food, great beaches, great nature and above all great people. The place is plastered with left wing grafitti lol.
I’ve been there a lot when I was a child. I really want to go back there one day. Especially Donostia is amazing.
lol kinda crazy how awful the internet is without pihole + browser adblock (ublock origin).
using a friend computer i went to website i normally use on my home setup without any problems for streaming sports, got like a billion popups and shit, didn’t realize how protected from this crap i am on my home network.
It really is wild. I don’t know if I could deal with using much of the internet regularly without a thing like ublock. Especially like youtube, I’m pretty sure I’d just stop using youtube if I could not block ads. And like, I understand there would be less videos made if people were not making money off of the platform, but it doesn’t change how awful of an experience ads are inherently, having distracting crap shoved into your brain so that you’ll buy shit you don’t need and never wanted. In general, I think it’s bad for society how much of capitalist mode of things depends on ads and the way they abuse knowledge of human psychology. Organic in-video “sponsorships” are almost worse in this way because the personable figure who you might enjoy as an audience member now becomes the sales person and they get to abuse that liking of them to get you to buy something, not unlike how multi level marketing schemes work.
Even through multiple layers of abstraction, it all boils down to commodity production.
I was running both pihole & ub0 for the last two years, A few weeks ago I disconnected from the pihole and it made no difference. Turns out it was redundant.
Pihole covers all devices on the network tho.
You know at first I was kinda whatever about a porn ban but now it’s starting to affect me personally and I’m concerned.
These things are always preloaded with the more “agreeable” aspects. This will be used to censor pro-palestinian, anti-west, pro-lqbtq+ and many many other things in the west.
I like to believe I don’t need the things they get rid of, but I’m always shocked how quickly it escalates.
I think that Jack Dorsey shouldn’t be trusted with meshtastic technology.
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Sunshine spills over the streets, tracing this city’s edges with warmth 🇰🇵
Idk if that like mint green the DPRK uses in it’s buildings is a certain material, or just a paint but it looks so good. Reminds me of how looking at green can reduce headaches and stuff. Probably because in nature we are meant to see a lot of green when in lush, and plentiful areas. So much nicer than the typical glass/cement coloring you see.
I believe it is a polyurethane coating that is better resistant against Korean weather
132 Palestinians killed yesterday, of which 18 starved to death.
The only thing Elias Rodriguez did wrong was not holding those two hostage and demanding aid to be let in.
They were randos, nobody would stop genocide over some whacko dime a dozen staffers.
I think it’d be extremely bad publicity if you valued your own cruel intentions of starving a population to death over a couple of your embassy employee’s lives though
Due to two public holidays I have had two consecutive weekends of three days and I gotta say it is a superior work-life balance. I had time to visit fam one day, one day to clean the house and now one day to relax. There is just so much more time to relax after a week of working. It should at least be the standard everywhere.
