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Nederland and Netherlands both mean low country? Low as in Lower Rhine. It has an origin in the Roman name “Germania Inferior”.

If the problems started 5 years in the relationship, it sounds more that you guys grew apart. Your ADHD might be a factor in that, but it can’t be the only thing, since no one suddenly develops ADHD at the age of 38. Doing the math it also seems the problems started during Covid, so maybe that’s another factor? It was a rough time for everyone. Anyway, I wish you all the best and don’t beat yourself up too much.

I just convince myself that I’m so efficient that I’ve actually done 8 hours of work load, and call it the day.

I know, but since my company pushes the update like this with the help of a big supporting firm, I’d wager that it’s done like this at a lot of other firms too.

How would you measure the time it takes to wake up without somehow monitoring brain activity externally? I mean, you start sleeping, so at best a dodgy perception of time, and at some point in time you’re awake. For me it would be impossible to tell the time it takes, might be a second, might be an hour.

Probably sooner than later. My work laptop was updated to W11 yesterday, and buy did they screw up the group policy. Every time I open a new tab in Edge I get distracted from what I try to do, since I can’t disable background image, MSN news and all the other shit. Every time I lock the computer the screen stays on, no way to turn it off. And copilot is just everywhere.

Call me a fool, but Macbooks are 300-500 euros more than a decent windows laptop.

Did you write this post deliberately to trigger us? Some examples; The phone died when it should have 7% left, spilling soup at a store, smelly euro village and of course the main question.

If I search for Dutch gilded age, the first result is the Wikipedia page for the Dutch golden age. If I google only gilded age I get a lot of results for a TV series, and this Wikipedia page.

unfortunately, not yet.

I just stir it regularly and eyeball when it’s presumably done.

I never watched the last episode of Good Omens S2. And this was before the Gaiman controversy.

“I can’t pee with an audience…”

Rosetta stone maybe?

I once had a girl in a bar tell me (after some flirting and kissing) that she was wearing white panties with pink hearts, to which I responded “That’s nice”.

He doesn’t get the power to shut down the internet. The internet is shut down wether he likes it or not. And this guy might post that he would love it, but let’s be honest, he craves the attention.

Big difference; the internet would be shut down for them too.

I try to keep the private data to a minimum where possible. I remove the apps I don’t use, and I disable those that can’t be removed. I also use NetGuard to limit internet acces for a lot of apps.

You can even vary within a dimension depending on the topic, for instance globalist on environmental topics but otherwise nationalist.

I’m Dutch, so we are tough about the Dutch golden age, which spans about the seventeenth century. Trade science and art were at a high point back then, but looking deeper it turns out the life expectancy for common people was lower than in the surrounding countries. The wealth was all concentrated in the Holland province(s), which explains why the Netherlands is commonly referred as Holland in other countries. Another thing was the schism between catholics and Calvinists, which meant Catholic cities didn’t benefit at all from the golden age. It also wasn’t benificial to the 1.7 million people who were enslaved by the Dutch.

So all in all, the Dutch golden age was very much golden for the merchants and aristocrats of cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Leiden or Haarlem, and for the protestant ministers. For the rest, of you didn’t live near these cities you probably were dirt poor.