jjpamsterdam

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the next stop on the authoritarianism express?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I dread the elections in France in 2027. France is one of the last bastions of Freedom that is capable of standing up to the authoritarian states if push comes to shove. The last few presidential elections have moved France closer and closer to having a Kremlin sock puppet in charge. While they have managed to pull back from the brink a few times, it only needs to go wrong once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point in getting married?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing! Concerning logistics when travelling I can also share my experience.

  I travel on a Dutch passport and my children, while also having Dutch citizenship, travel on German passports because that is where we live and where my wife is from. They also use my wife’s German last name. Therefore, when travelling, my kids and I have different names and nationalities. For some reason nobody ever questioned any of that. I keep a copy of the birth certificate just in case though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point in getting married?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer will likely depend on the place in the world and even on the cultural background of individuals getting married. I’ll just share my experience.

  We got married out of convenience. While it’s technically possible to arrange the bulk of the legal stuff with various contracts, it is just easier to use the “default contract” that already covers the most common use case. Some legal arrangements, for example cuts to inheritance tax or the right to remain silent when asked about your spouse in legal proceedings, are only available for “real” marriages.

  Once we decided to have children we looked into the various arrangements needed to make that work and quickly found out that marriage is the easiest way to sort everything out. In our day to day life nothing really changed. In legal terms quite a lot is now different.

  By the way, as others have mentioned, getting married isn’t expensive. All we paid was the administrative fee which was something like 50 Euros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately this seems all to plausible. Despite Firefox and ad blocking in general, there’s very few services that rival Google’s Android and (in my opinion) none that can honestly rival Maps at present.

• How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Multilingual people all must have experienced YouTube's f**kery with auto translation. Still no workaround?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is such an annoyance. As someone who regularly reads and watches media in several times different languages, the scourge of auto translate has only become worse. With the advent of more capable translation tools this will probably only get worse. I’ve already switched my OS language to English on all of my devices and found that it helped a little.