Digitalprimate

I think you lack context. This behavior goes back a long time (at least until 1998-99 when my wife and I did our backpacking trip around the world).

Not only are they mostly gungho and rude, they tend to take over entire hostels or hotels, and threaten anyone who asks them not to do karaoke at 3:00 in the morning.

Many nations have a “type” of traveler: Canadians consistency considered the best, Dutch too stingy, British atavistic, Aussies/Kiwis friendly and fun loving, etc. It’s been like this for literally decades.

I thought the central problem was telemore degeneration, not anything to do with stem cells per se.

Happy to be corrected if wrong; I never worked anywhere near this category in my very long ago now pharma/biotech phase.

That was fascinating, thanks!

Sorry missed this, been mostly on Piefed the last week or so.

Sauce: https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20260312_33

In NO way defending that orange shitstain, but people keep reporting he lifted oil sanctions on Russia (and Iran).

This is not true: he only said it was ok to buy the dark fleet’s barrels that are at sea now. Fun fact, no one is actually doing this that wasn’t already buying from the dark fleet (well, technically from the people who hire the dark feet).

Lovely. Next you’re going to tell me Proton mail went evil. (Thanks for the explanation though! I’ll have a look at Kagi).

What happened to magicearth? I haven’t used it much, just one of the google alternatives in my “maps” folder.

All true, but it generally shows you search results in a reasonable order and including reliable sources. Like a fine-tuner for Google that doesn’t feed them your data. At least not that we know of…

Looks at Brent over the last 24 months, looks at massive oil tankers offshore everywhere with unsold crude.

Yep, 'bout that time.

Not in NL. If you have any high demand skill, you can be eligible for the 30% ruling.

EU owns twice as many treasuries as anyone else in the world…it’s be mutual suicide, but their economy would die in a fire.

Guys this is horrible and widely reported here, but pls keep in mind we have a “lame-duck” caretaker government atm before the new ruling coalition forms (it’s taking a hell of a long time and is difficult).

This caretaker government was a coalition with the PVV, who are our modern fascist party, and other “normal” conservatives, so it’s sad but not surprising.

You can track them: https://globalfishingwatch.org/our-map/

You have to sign up for a free account to get the good data. It’s actually not a bad sub for Marine Traffic, Lloyd’s, Seaweb, etc. It has all ships not just fishing ships, and it has satellite not just terrestrial data.

How to search effectively gets a bit of getting used to.

You can only really see it once.

Kinda? The Finns seized a Russian dark fleet vessel with their military and if I remember correctly held her for several days.

There is a LOT of discussion about “safe passage” going on in the EU right now regarding this kind of ship. They are very dangerous because they have no P&I insurance if they have a spill (and you bet your ass they are not maintained to any remotely reasonable standard).

Again, I am not personally in favor of this stuff. Dangerous and irresponsible in multiple ways.

This comment is meant in no way whatsoever to justify this seizure.

That tanker has been dark fleet since at least 2022, and she’s been actively and obviously spoofing since then, e.g., more or less daring the Americas to sanction her, although in a normal world it should have been OFAC doing the sanctioning, not armed marines seizing the ship and cargo.

(Not that I think the sanctions, as they are now constituted, are necessary justified either.)

Yes! Startpage rocks hard. I wish Safari would let it be the default search engine (FF does with a simple plug in).

Thanks!

Anyone have a non AMP link?

That was a good read, well done! I’d be interested if you ever reconsider Startpage. I’ve had good success with that on my work computer.