Vinny_93
@Vinny_93@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 3 weeks ago:
It’s funny that the Dutch version is pretty close to what the English one should be: bemoei je met je eigen zaken, literally mind your own business.
- Comment on Women come, women go 3 weeks ago:
I’ll be glad if the orange man go
- Comment on Those Thanksgiving Debates 4 weeks ago:
But if it’s the same disinfo would they not agree with one another?
Us millennials really got the raw end of the deal though
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 4 weeks ago:
Clearly you mean 525413
- Comment on Are display sizes always measured in inches? 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t realise
- Comment on Not for me, tho 5 weeks ago:
Ah no I started at one. You can transpose my list by one and set zeven as 12.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 weeks ago:
I enjoyed the Star Wars Jedi games.
- Comment on Not for me, tho 5 weeks ago:
Dutch is an Anglo-Saxon language so that makes sense.
- Comment on Not for me, tho 5 weeks ago:
Acht, drie, een, elf, negen, tien, twaalf, twee, vier, vijf, zes, zeven.
8, 3, 1, 11, 9, 10, 12, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 5 weeks ago:
I take an injection every four weeks, they cost 600 each. Add up a few visits to the dentist, GP and a check up at an academic hospital and I’d pay about a third of the actual cost.
Then again my dad never has any ailments, lives a healthy lifestyle with a lot of exercise and he pays the same.
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 5 weeks ago:
Yep the issue with our system is that people who never see a doctor or a hospital pay for the ones that have been dealt a rough hand or live unhealthy. The idea is that being ill is not the standard. You should be able to do a Pareto analysis of costs and it might check out.
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 5 weeks ago:
It varies per country. If you would go to the Netherlands, you’d still need health insurance. You can only get it if you are a Dutch citizen in some way. The costs of this are about 180/month. Plus you have what we call your own risk. If you need healthcare you pay 385 maximum yourself. If you can’t pay that, there are installment plans. And if the 180 a month is too steep for you, there is support from the Belastingdienst (IRS) that is dependent on your income.
So example: if you need an operation that is covered in basic Dutch health insurance and you would live here for a year on work visum, you might pay 2400 a year in insurance costs and 385 own risk, totaling to 2785. If the operation would cost more than that in the US, you’re in luck.
This is all provided you can get health insurance in the Netherlands.
In the Netherlands, as a Dutch citizen, health insurance is mandatory.
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 5 weeks ago:
I just get a notification stating I don’t allow them to track me so they have no garbage to stuff down my throat
- Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars, 5 weeks ago:
To the point of the one above you, Belgium is technically younger than the United States.
But honestly, the only reason we really know how messed up a lot of these things are, is because of people digging into these things and finding out that power corrupts. We need transparency, integrity and honesty if we are to get to a point where we don’t read the news with existential dread.
I think most of governing at this point is cleaning up messes from before and creating new messes along the way because we are incapable of solving problems sustainably.
Take immigration, which has become a widespread issue all throughout the west. Rather than figuring out how to stop people from wanting to run away to our countries, we prefer to exile these people, separate them from our society and, if at all possible, just make them not come into our countries at all. I’m not saying there’s a simple solution, I’m just saying we are so focused on combating symptoms, we completely ignore the actual cause of issues.
- Comment on hell yea, brother 5 weeks ago:
How the fuck do you accidentally create a fish hybrid
- Comment on Borderlands 4 - Official Story Trailer 1 month ago:
It looks good! I’m gonna play the shit outta this game
- Comment on Have you noticed 1 month ago:
Pretty much yeah
- Comment on Have you noticed 1 month ago:
It’s interesting because a form of therapy I’m currently in is all about noticing bad thoughts and defusing from them
- Comment on How is spontaneous betting (as portrayed by comics and movies) supposed to work? 1 month ago:
There’s loads of things in tv shows that just skip the boring, logistical parts. Nobody wants to see a bookkeeper painstakingly taking leaflets and bets in orderly fashion.
Besides, if there’s no record whatsoever, what’s to stop a bookie from taking money from the losers, and telling the winners ‘prove it’? Besides a knuckle sandwich, that is.
Another one is basically any desk job, but particularly IT jobs in TV and movies. Even the most elite hackers don’t just insert a thumb drive in a laptop, hammer the keyboard and yell ‘I’m in’. Mr. Robot is the only show so far where hacking is portrayed somewhat believable, and it’s still mostly social engineering.
As for programming, the only show I’ve ever seen who do a realistic way of describing VC funding and agile project development is Silicon Valley, but even there you’ll find the most boring things are just omitted.
Point is, it’s just difficult to make administrative tasks interesting enough to keep the attention of viewers.
- Comment on Rematch | Official Launch Trailer 1 month ago:
Except you have the added fun to pay for this
- Comment on Lost money 1 month ago:
How do you drop a ten, twice?
And how’s Porto? It’s on my to-do list, I’ve been to Lisbon and Lagos. Gotta say I love Portugal.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 month ago:
We are still a long ways away from AI being able to replace programmers. The amount of sheer bullshit code and wrong stuff it writes currently will cripple any information system currently keeping economies up and running.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 month ago:
In the Netherlands, by law there is a minimum of one month’s notice. If the employers fire you, the notice time is doubled. So if a company would require three months notice it means you can still work there for 6 more months after you’re fired.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
A third option is that there is a third pizza eater who also ate 4/6th of their pizza and gave 2/6th up Marty in exchange for the 2/6th Marty didn’t eat.
Or yeah maybe it was a larger pizza.
- Comment on Explains crossfit 2 months ago:
Again?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Content Filters. There’s are lot of communities dedicated to lemmy how to’s and it’s kinda dependent on the app you use where to click specifically.
- Comment on i broke 2 months ago:
He said ‘I’ll see you next week’
- Comment on What is the most "Indie Feeling" game that is definitely NOT from an Indie Studio? 2 months ago:
Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps?
Made by a smaller studio but published by Microsoft
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 months ago:
Green shit on your terrace, leaves fucking everywhere, looming threat of bird shit on your head, seeds everywhere, roots growing through everything, blocking the sun at every step, tough lessons in gravity for things kids climbing them, lot of damage when it’s stormy out.
But nah trees are great, really.
- Comment on Half Life 3 2 months ago:
Yeah they did. But at this point Half Life 3 has a mythical status they will never be able to measure up to.