belgium Belgium Help me pick out locations to visit with a foreign friend
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 6 days ago 100%

    Bruges for the (somewhat cliché and touristy, but for good reason) medieval vibe. Ghent or Antwerp for hipster cities. Don't underestimate Brussels too, it's a bit tougher to love but there's loads of stuff to do.

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions Why 🤷‍♂️ do users 👨‍💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 3 weeks ago 100%

    Overuse of emojis can also really be annoying for people using screen readers. They clapping hands get clapping hand to clapping hands hear clapping hands something clapping hands like clapping hands this. So it's also an accessibility issue.

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  • listentothis Listen To This Another View - Throw It Away [new wave] (1980)
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 4 weeks ago 100%

    I mean, where to start? Try a new wave playlist somewhere - there's lots of well known songs that you'll recognize and start branching out from there.

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  • listentothis Listen To This Saâda Bonaire - More Women [new wave] (1984)
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 1 month ago 100%

    You're welcome! Happy I shared it then

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  • belgium Belgium Airport in Deurne gets new environmental permit despite nearly 6,000 objections
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 2 months ago 100%

    Despite loads of protest actions (including one of the largest civil disobedient actions in our country in december with Code Rouge-Rood), multiple negative opinions, a possible building infraction still tied up in court, promises since the seventies, lying in the middle of a living area, a huge financial burden and much more... they get a non-expiring (!) license.

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  • belgium Belgium 2dehands ublock origin filters
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 5 months ago 100%

    Is dat sinds een paar jaar niet dezelfde site? Of toch eigenaar. Probeer 's en zie of het werkt ;)

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  • belgium Belgium 2dehands ublock origin filters
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 5 months ago 100%

    Oh this is great and helpful! Thanks!

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  • belgium Belgium Former Socialist Party leader to make a comeback
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 5 months ago 100%

    The cynicism of centrist politics is just astounding.

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  • paradoxgames Paradox Games Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #110 - Building Ownership & Foreign Investment
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 6 months ago 100%

    It's nice that they don't shy away from overhauling existing systems completely (instead of tacking on new systems).

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  • belgium Belgium Dries Van Langenhove given 1-year prison sentence
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 6 months ago 100%

    Unfortunately, it's the same conundrum as with the Pano report: should we expose them or not? Should we give them attention that they can use or not? Not exactly sure if there's a good answer to that actually. The effects are a result of the way society thinks of these types: in a healthy, democratic society this wouldn't boost his popularity, on the contrary...

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  • belgium Belgium Dries Van Langenhove given 1-year prison sentence
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 6 months ago 100%

    I'm quite content with the verdict, especially his revocation of his civil rights, which seems apt and proportionate because of his contempt of democracy.

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  • belgium Belgium Flemish Digimeter report: Young people spend almost an hour and a half a day on TikTok
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 7 months ago 100%

    There's enough posts on Lemmy to spend 4 hours a day at? Or do you just stare into the void while on Lemmy?

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  • belgium Belgium New (Flemish) poll: Vlaams Belang quietly drains N-VA
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 7 months ago 100%

    Niet alleen de N-VA, maar quasi alle andere centrumpartijen lopen elkaar overhoop een antwoord te bieden op de issues die VB aan draagt, terwijl ze zelf natuurlijk de agenda kan bepalen.

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  • meta Meta (slrpnk.net) SLRPNK community discussion - March 2024
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 7 months ago 87%

    I don't see why it wouldn't fit here. There's significant overlap between anarchism and solarpunk. Maybe there's some other leftwing instance where this community would also fit (or maybe better), but that doesn't matter that much due to the federated character. All this regardless of what my stance on voting is btw.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Meta tests cross-posting from Facebook to its Twitter/X competitor, Threads
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 7 months ago 81%

    Many people have purposefully moved away from Big Tech platforms, often because they cause them harm. Who are you to judge their defederation - which is a core feature of the Fediverse btw - as laughable? Every instance is free to decide their own policies, that's the whole point.

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  • belgium Belgium Rally Ukraine 24 February
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 7 months ago 100%

    Last year there was something in the European quarter, I think?

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  • climate Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 9 months ago 100%

    Never too late to limit the impact as much as we can.

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  • world World News Berlin says EU should prepare for war by end of decade
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 9 months ago 71%

    I don't have nor do I want shares in the arms industry. I'm not a fucking ghoul.

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  • world World News Berlin says EU should prepare for war by end of decade
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 9 months ago 20%

    More money for the death-machine and profits for the shareholders, hurray!

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  • technology Technology Threads Launches in the European Union
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 9 months ago 100%

    I'm afraid it's mostly that last one.

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  • technology Technology Threads Launches in the European Union
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 9 months ago 100%

    Watch people flock to yet another corporate social media honeypot instead of going for something less dystopian.

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  • belgium Belgium Belgian government and Engie sign contract to extend the life of nuclear reactors and secure energy supplies
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 9 months ago 75%

    Nope, since electricity from nuclear is not priced at its production cost. Just extra profits for Engie.

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  • belgium Belgium Belgian government and Engie sign contract to extend the life of nuclear reactors and secure energy supplies
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 9 months ago 66%

    Yet another broken promise. To me, this looks more like a complete political failure then some sort of victory for the climate. And we're going to have to pay for it through the nose.

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  • belgium Belgium Climate activists win their case: court imposes CO2 reduction targets on governments
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 10 months ago 85%

    Flemish minister Demir immediately announced she will appeal the verdict of course.

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  • belgium Belgium Jan Jambon is a ministerial candidate again and sees 'shifts in the right direction' with Vlaams Belang
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 10 months ago 100%

    The masks are starting to fall off.

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  • belgium Belgium Conner Rousseau steps down as chairman of Vooruit
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 10 months ago 100%

    Instead, the party bureau wanted to keep him on. Says a lot of what has become of the party...

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  • europe Europe *Permanently Deleted*
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 11 months ago 100%

    Are you referring to the Digital Markets Act that would force some large tech players to allow interoperability?

    I think it's a great step forward, although I think it's only in 2024 that those changes will actually happen.

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  • belgium Belgium The PS will not vote in favour of the 'anti-casseurs' law
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 11 months ago 100%

    Good move - the law was framed as being against vandalism but opened the door to future (ab)use against protesters. It fits within a wider European move in the direction of more repression against protest movements, so it's a good thing it got canned.

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  • linux_gaming Linux Gaming Does steam ui restart in the background while playing games for anybody else?
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 11 months ago 100%

    I have similar issues running Gnome on AMD.

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  • belgium Belgium Vooruit fired employee and asked to keep quiet about sexual harassment
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 11 months ago 100%

    Maybe it tells us something about who those harassers are...?

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  • world World News Ministers warn English councils not to adopt four-day working weeks
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 11 months ago 98%

    The English peasantry has to be reminded of their place in society!

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  • belgium Belgium Dutch politician Thierry Baudet receives a blow to the head just before a lecture at Ghent University
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 11 months ago 100%

    Waste of food. Just use fisticuffs!

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  • world World News Israel shows footage of Hamas killings ‘to counter denial of atrocities'
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 11 months ago 86%

    I think you'll find that the conflict is quite a bit older than Hamas is.

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  • belgium Belgium Free newspaper Metro will stop from Friday
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 11 months ago 100%

    Not really a reader myself, but It's been a fixture during my commutes.

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  • paradoxgames Paradox Games Question for the people who play Victoria 3.
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 12 months ago 100%

    Vic3 is a great sandbox right now, but still feels a bit empty. With the warfare patch and some more specific flavors packs, it'll be top-notch I think.

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  • belgium Belgium Flemish socialist leader apologises for “drunken talk” during rant about the Roma community
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 12 months ago 100%

    He never was. It was clear from the beginning for those willing to see. Which the party itself wasn't, since he was so popular.

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  • climate Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. Slow route to net zero will worsen global climate crisis, IPCC chief warns
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 12 months ago 100%

    No shit!

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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 12 months ago 93%

    On the carpet you mean?

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  • belgium Belgium Catholic Church must answer for keeping names de-baptised
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 12 months ago 100%

    Good thing they're following up on it. I tried myself on the basis of this article and got conveniently ignored (and was a bit too lazy to follow up on it), but I know others who got sidelined with the same bullshit arguments that are now, finally, being questioned.

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  • climate Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. US launches $1bn tree-planting scheme to mitigate effects of climate crisis | Trees and forests
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  • Mysteriarch Mysteriarch 1 year ago 100%

    We also can't plant enough trees to mitigate climate change.

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