Niet op de desktop. Je hebt alleen een browser nodig. Je verbindt jouw telefoon aan de webpagina.

https://web.whatsapp.com/

Ik wil geen andere app installeren. Ik heb er te veel.

Een webportal heeft geen applicatie nodig. Die kan op elk apparaat met een webbrowser werken. Dit geldt ook voor tablets. Mobiele telefoons zijn te klein voor lange berichten.

Met WA kun je ook apparaten zoals tablets verbinden aan je telefoonnummer.

Je kunt apparaten (tablets, andere telefoons) niet koppelen zoals je dat met WA kunt.

Signal heeft geen webportal, hoewel dat vroeger wel het geval was. WA heeft wel een webportal.

Het ontbreken van deze functies beperkt het nut van Signal voor mij.

Libraries in the Netherlands, or at least Utrecht, have a yearly fee. About 48 euro? So late fees would just discourage people from continuing their membership. The Utrecht library is pretty amazing.

This is a conspiracy theory, not unlike the theories you will hear on the right. I’ve never heard anyone on the right equate soy with Asian or other cultures.

Well, in American there was Bernie Sanders.

It’s a confounding thing, that so many people will vote for leaders who straight-up tell them that they will make the world a worse place for them (Reagan, Trump, Thatcher).

Nobody’s head is going to explode. Most conservatives are well aware that soybeans are an American croup and are even proud of the fact. They just think that the soybeans should be served to cows.

Vilifying people you don’t like is no way to establish understanding or communication.

This itself is a conspiracy theory. I’ve known a lot of right-wing people, and none of them made a connection between Soy and Asian cuisine. They don’t like tofu, in particular, because they didn’t grow up with it and see it as some weird, hippy thing.

Hi (Waving from left bubble) !

I agree. I don’t think anyone is thinking that hard about the “Asian” roots of soybeans. And people on the left are just as hung up on their identity politics as people on the right.

There is a strong association between Tofu with hippy culture, even though there really isn’t such a thing anymore. I guess if you don’t want heart disease by the time you’re 40, you must be a hippy.

No. Smoking is way more personally dangerous than alcohol, except for auto accidents. Tobacco hurts you in so many different ways – with sagging skin, lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, stained teeth, strokes, hypertension. Also, alcohol addicts only represent about 10% of the drinking public, whereas about 90% of smokers become chain-smoking addicts.

And, as I mentioned, smoking often kills people a decade short of retirement. Drinkers, on the other hand, often reach old age.

Not justifying alcohol, but there are so many downsides to smoking. But you can’t explain that to an addict.

I have a folding bike that was originally meant to be part of a Marlsboro rewards program. Apparently smokers weren’t all that interested in exercise. Who knew?

The U.S. basically has no plan for storage of nuclear waste. All but one of the “swimming pools” have been filled to the brim. Some sites are starting to move the waste into concrete vaults. Some have been seen leaking.

The first step is to figure out what happens to the waste.

Yes, where I worked they generously gave you a 10 minute mid-morning break. Unless you were a smoker, and “needed” to slip out 5 minutes every hour. I often wondered if I could get away with just “smoking” a straw.

Most of the smokers I’ve known don’t even get close to 80, and are often very sickly when they do. Two family members that didn’t make it to 60. A healthy looking co-worker who dropped dead in the parking lot. A former boss who didn’t get to enjoy more than two years retirement.

Cigarettes are the only consumer product that, when used as directed, kill their consumers.

Can you add to a koopzegel with purchase of a kadobon ?

Be the traffic you want to become.

As long as the temperature is below 451F/233C, there should be no danger of fire.

Pro Tip: Keep masking tape in the kitchen. If you do something weird like storing a pizza in the oven, put a piece of masking tape over the oven dial as a reminder. Masking tape is good for putting a date on things going into the fridge too.

How are they for coming off ? The various reinforced tires I’ve tried (randoneur, gator, 25mm) are really hard to put back on. Like you peel the skin off your hands trying. I’ve notice that most tires, even cheaper ones, don’t give you trouble for the first 500 miles. So have gone back to a medium grade tire that doesn’t require special tools to replace.

Space Flower Moon Micro Reactor, a conceptual car-sized fusion reactor

Wait, what? I don’t think we’re anywhere close to build a car-sized fusion reactor. Fission, sure.

You only needed a slim 50% to split? Not like a 2/3rds majority?