Notices by Rob van Kan (edgeofeurope@mastodon.social)

@zleap The 14th is not his favourite amendment.

Section 3

No person shall ... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, ... who, ... shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

@zleap @kimlockhartga @ItsThatDeafGuy it all depends on what you want. A high standard of living is not the be-all and end-all of happiness I think.
But then I left high-standard Holland to go to southern Italy.

In Streetview, if you go to the Franco-Italian border at Ventimiglia, there's a guy coming out of the first shop on Italian soil with a T-Shirt saying GET OUT

@Brad_Rosenheim @aral The collective has decided to attack art and resistance to that only proves the collective is always right.

Morons, the lot of you.

@Brad_Rosenheim Because everyone who is against destroying art to draw attention to an issue which is not related to art is a climate denier?

@selzero as in never directly quote it, or screenshot it. Notice how they never do that. Because they refuse to spread their adversaries' points of view for them.

At the very least put it behind a content warning. I don't want to have that feeling of impending doom every fucking day for the rest of my miserable life.

@selzero can we PLEASE stop repeating everything that piece of shit says everywhere?

Maybe we could just ignore Musk, how is that? He has his own platform to crybaby in, no need to run to Mastodon with every brainfart of that car salesman.

@Lana @jstogdill @benroyce It doesn't sit well with me that the shooting doesn't cause more uproar. It's still someone acting as judge and executioner on his own, like a god, and we do not know exactly why, and we do not know if there's anyone else on their list, and who that might be.

@sabrinaweb71 @benroyce @Myerman @Lana @jstogdill Give it 5 years and it's the same here.

If you ask me... #bluesky #blsky

@balglaas @liilliil @kaia Austria 🇦🇹 or, as some call it , Gouda with hills.

@clintruin @QasimRashid Religion doesn't enter into it at all. I know I shouldn't even be starting this argument because it's utterly pointless, but calling this a religious war is like calling the Troubles a religious war.

It has nothing to do with gods. Many Israelis are not religious. Many Palestinians are not Muslim. These crude oversimplifications only serve to stoke up hatred in the rest of the world, against the Jews or the Muslims, or religion in general.

@selzero @kaia if you like your (red) wines with a stronger flavour, choose wines from more southern regions. Doesn't always work that way, there's some great wine from northern Italy with strong flavour like Lagrein, but in general it's a good rule of thumb.

@ParanoidFactoid Mediaite has it that he took it down himself, and that his was a "conspiracy theory". No explanation for the remarkably pristine ear.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/look-closely-at-his-ear-former-obama-wh-photog-appears-to-delete-x-account-after-implying-trump-wasnt-shot/

@finche @Daojoan "Rude language" is raw emotion. You don't win people over talking like an insensitive bureaucrat.

Funny how those who condemn Biden for his stance on Israel, never talk about the other guy. They seem to like him a lot more in the Apartheid state. One wonders why.

@Miro_Collas @palestine Whereas in the Netherlands a proposal has been voted in Parliament to criminalize the slogan 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free'.

https://nltimes.nl/2024/05/21/single-mp-majority-asks-cabinet-criminalize-river-sea-statement

@UnconventionalEmma Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose has a monastery's library and scriptorium at the center of the story. And it's very famous, having been made into a big Hollywood movie and all.

"When Coca-Cola publicly released the report in September 2010, it revealed that it takes 35 liters of water to make every half-liter of Coke in Holland."

https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2018/05/31/coke-spun-public-water-use/