Or “why we cannot just open small stores even if they spread Covid less than supermarkets.” A lot of people are confused as to why we cannot just open small businesses when we can have large super markets open. Surely, small stores/services could be just as clean and impose just as good distancing? Consider we […]
Covid Vaccine Mortality
One of the headlines in Dutch papers today is that 15 people have died after receiving the Covid vaccine. That sounds bad, but is it? According to the RIVM, a total of 571361 vaccinations have been given (with a certain 414858). Since the Dutch government has decided to ignore the recommendation to give people the […]
Why are Keyboards so Difficult?
So, I have a laptop with an Apple butterfly keyboard (gen 2, IIRC). Aside from the lack of travel, some shit virtual reality escape button it’s ok. Except it’s now shedding keys, making it useless for exotic applications such as typing on it. I could get it repaired, but aside from a few keys, it’s […]
Bitstonks
Look at me, timely and in on the new trends of one week ago. In case it isn’t painfully obvious, you should not take investment advice from me. Stronger yet, you should probably not take financial advice from anybody from the internet. I’m just here to laugh at people behaving trying their best to cement […]
Temptation Bundling
Temptation bundling is the idea that in order to motivate you to do something you would like to do more, bundle it with something you would like to do less so you only ever do the two together. The thing you would like to do more it typically something you want to do “tomorrow” or […]
Why Do I Know and They Believe?
According to a tired cliche, the victors write history. Similarly, classifying an event as a protest, a coup, or a riot also depends on one’s perspective. But why don’t we try walking a mile in somebody else’s shoes for once… Last night, tens or hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Congress and interrupted […]