I recommend you take a look at Breeze. It is a dating app in the Netherlands (and expanding).

When you match, you get a date planner (after paying for the date). No chatting allowed. A real date or nothing. That is the premise. You pay per date, and you get your money back if the date is cancelled or they don’t show up. So the app earns money from sending people on real dates. People that don’t show up or cancel dates are penalized by the algorithn and they loose badges on their profile. This is good for Breeze, who wants people to go on dates, and good for the users, who want to go on dates.

Chatting is allowed a couple of hours before the date, but this is not intended for conversations, only for practical purposes.

As a result, profiles also matter much more. For both sides. You litterally need to sell yourself, because if someone swippes on you, they may need to pay 10 euro for the date if you also swipe on them.

You also get only a handful of profiles each day. Which makes sense, because you can limit the number of concurrent matches/dates, hence the app is better off distributing the matches, rather than piling them onto the 10% hotest accounts.

This also means you can’t spend more than 15 to 30 minutes a day going over 5 tot 10 profiles.

Meanwhile, the app can provide free accounts, where people only need to pay for actual dates, hence the entry barier is lower than Tinder, where men won’t get seen without paying. Meaning it is easy to get a userbase going.

I suspect the hard part is the logistics of setting up the dates. A spot in a bar or coffee place needs to be organized for each date. If that is no option, the users are asked to choose a meeting spot (talking to eachother via an intermediate person.

And so does the Netherlands. It ain’t magic.

Better stick to space. Much more happening there.

The reason it is deemed a security risk, is because the USA government can demand any data from any American company. Hence the USA would be able to demand some of the most personal data of all Dutch citizens.

I am unaware of the defence contract, but there is a good chance that this same risk is not a factor there. For example: hosting NATO data, or providing software solutions can both be done without this risk being a factor.

I’m not saying that the defence contracts are smart or devoid of corruption. Just that the risk that was introduced here may not be a factor.

When talking about the alot of accidental poisonings, accidental drops from very high buildings, and suicides by two bullets to the back of the head, I always imagine an alot with the face of Putin.

Reference, with image of standard alot: https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html?m=1

OP literally asks like 10 relevant questions for this place, and names their reasons for not naming specific instances. And all you focus on, is the question: who did it?

To me that is proof that OP did the right thing here.

Lets first figure out how to approach this without knowing the pupotrator.

No, but Leonardo is a pretty big defence company. For example, the deck gun on the Isearli corvettes is a Leonardo gun. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa'ar_6-class_corvette (Oto Melara is part of Leonardo).

Why take pill, when you can install schnapps?

I remember using mumble in a time when smartphones weren’t even a thing yet. Love to see the open source tool outlive everything else!

I fully agree. I also think it is a terrible way of improving the number of children. And they should focus on improving conditions for the poorest half of the population a lot more.

But that doesn’t mean I think the idea is so abhorent that I would be insulted by receiving the letter. (Ok, I personally would, but that is because I’m not a woman.) I’m fine with them sending the letter. Heck, pointing out free healthcare options is great! By all means: let women know what their options are.

Do you not want to be notified about free healthcare options available to you? Because if you ignore the ragebait headline and filter the article for its rage potential, the following quote explains it pretty nicely:

"The letter is being sent to 29-year-olds because women are able to have their eggs frozen at that age without a medical certificate. Women will also be reminded that social security in France covers the cost of freezing eggs for women between 29 and 37. "

So woman are being told how to keep the option for kids open for longer. That is quite the opposite of pressuring them into anything if you ask me.

Don’t forget to slow blink at the kitty and look away for a bit every now and then.

Fortunately your heating pad has brough a laptop for you to work on!

While catsitting I made the grave error of putting sardines (cat food) in the bowl of the cat. She sniffed it, turned around and sat down with her back to me. If I was going to put THAT into her bowl, I wasn’t even worth acknowledgement anymore.

Before Microsoft demanded TPM 2.0, you could install the latest version of Windows on extremely old hardware. Easily reaching that 15 years. We had this already. And Windows 11 can easily run without TPM 2.0. Microsoft just has business reasons to demand it. So I don’t see how innovation is slowed down by this.

Kitty is just following instructions by bathing Amster.

Might be a sound and temperature insulation solution. Although, if so, I recommend adding some insulation material inbetween the layers.

Sleepy cats can be quite derpy. I once had an unannounced visitor come in via the catflap. The catflap was there from the previous homeowner. What neither I nor this cat knew, was that the catflap was set to entry-only mode. Poor guy got locked up in my kitchen overnight.

So when I strolled into my kitchen in the morning we looked at eachother, both with the question in our eyes: who the hell are you? So I offered my finger for sniffing, and when approved I slowly petted the sleepyhead. But when I turned around for 5 second to grab my phone, his brain woke up, and suddenly he remembered the trouble he was in, and pannicked. I was suddenly super scary. It took some convincing that the kitchen door was opened to outside, that I wasn’t going to harm him, and that he was free to leave.

You married a small child that is now grown up?

Reddit was a decent solution, till it enshitified to make money. Before then, it was already flooded by the masses. Clearly their method worked fine. Not perfect, but at least fine. So I don’t see why the masses are the problem. I personaly put all the blame on the need to make money of a vital piece of digital infrastructure.

The tricky part, is that we also cannot put it in the hands of a government, since it can become a tool for propaganda. So the EU hosting something like reddit, would also create a conflict of interrests. I’m curious if we can find a good solution to this problem.