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[–] keesrif 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

While as a Dutchman i find your statement hilarious, they're talking about Danish here ;)

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96 in c/upliftingnews

[–] keesrif 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It might be a positive to a lot of people, but I don't think it belongs in uplifting news. It's a place (at least for me) to get away from all the news about death and terror across the globe

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96 in c/upliftingnews

NONO in c/world

[–] keesrif 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Huge row erupts" [...] "However, this is no surprise as we knew they had XY chromosomes already" is quite a 180, especially for such a short text. Also, is their body really our collective business?

CEO 'Brought To Tears' And Praises Employee For Returning To Work Two Days After Giving Birth; Gets Slammed Online in c/world

[–] keesrif 189 points 6 months ago (20 children)

I am surprised it's called "America's celebrated work ethic" - from my (Dutch) perspective, it's notoriously terribly exploitative and bordering on dystopian for many. Is it true that people celebrate American work practices?!

A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too in c/technology

[–] keesrif 1 points 7 months ago

Thank you kind person!

Woman killed by her two XL bully dogs at home in east London in c/world

[–] keesrif 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The article did mention them as "registered", so I don't think this applies.

Goatse, like Michelangelo's David, should be an exception to normal rules of censorship, due to its status as part of our shared cultural heritage. in c/showerthoughts

[–] keesrif 1 points 9 months ago

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Goatse, like Michelangelo's David, should be an exception to normal rules of censorship, due to its status as part of our shared cultural heritage. in c/showerthoughts

[–] keesrif 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

According to Wikipedia it's not, so you're safe

Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic in c/technology

[–] keesrif 0 points 1 year ago

I'm loving the puns quoted in the article haha

Nvidia CEO aims to set up a base in Vietnam in c/world

[–] keesrif 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Setting up a base in Vietnam" for a US company sounds like slightly painful wording to me..

Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem in c/technology

[–] keesrif 4 points 1 year ago

I'm wondering if it's tied to how status symbols differ per culture. Its been 20 years, but I don't remember status symbols mattering much to my environment when I was a teenager in the Netherlands. I wonder how that is now.