Amsterdam pride is basically just a commercial for companies as well. And we also had a boat for the ministry of defense, another boat for the police and another boat for political parties with GroenLinks, PvdA, CDA and VVD

As a language learner I have some alternatives: Use HelloChinese for Chinese. And for flashcards you can use Anki where you can add your own flashcards. You can download flashcards made by others as well. There’s a great Chinese flashcard map I use, which also has sound. Quizlet is also good, but not as good as Anki, but it lets you see flashcards made by others more easily.

And there are a ton of websites for each language that let you see the dictionary, grammar rules, and other stuff. Even for obscure languages like Greenlandic

Wales should have their own professional league

For real, I can remember like three other incidents in the past ten years that looked like they were going to lead to war

This is part of the reason why I downloaded an extension that hides recommended videos

Interesting, I would like to know more about this

It’s not a free day in the Netherlands, so I’m gonna take the day off to join the parade. But almost no one celebrates it here unless you’re very involved with a left wing political party or a union.

I hadn’t used it before! It was through asking Deepseek that I found a solution for my problem. And yeah I like extensions as well. They make browsing the web fun again.

Just downloaded Ublock Origin so I could filter out the Reddit search bar. When I procrastinate I type in stuff on Reddit a lot, so I’m happy I could find a solution for this.

‘rare’

It was a small meeting for Worker Memorial Day, and a lunch afterwards. There was not much discussion on their ideology but one person did call herself leftist, and another person talked about discrimination women and LGBT people face in Amsterdam, and others were in agreement about what was said. I heard nothing bad.

FNV. The Dutch federation of unions

I just went to my first union meeting. It was on a thursday morning so there were a lot of retirees. But there were some younger people. I was very nervous since it was my first time and I didn’t know anybody. But eventually I could connect to some people.

There needs to be a rewilding push in the Benelux

Beautiful country. When I was there, I was only in the southwestern part of the highlands. I’d love to see the rest.

I wholeheartely agree. They are near irrelevant but they don’t even want to work together with organisations they deem to be authoritarian.

Don’t worry, I plan on unleashing a discussion about it, where I will make my stance clear. Apparently there was also a vote at the last national meetings to denounce stalinism and maoism and to allow checking if future resolutions aren’t due to authoritarian influences. A lot of people in the party that I vibe with approved the vote.

Remember the post I made a couple of days ago about wanting to leave my party? Well now they want to hold an event about authoritarian leftism

The same happened with the Netherlands in our colonies of Suriname and the Antilles. Part of the compensation was that slaves still had to work for ten years after the “abolition” of slavery

Then authors shouldn’t base their worlds on medieval life