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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • There are very different rules. Like worlds different.

    Comparing just Belgium and the Netherlands right next to each other. The Netherlands is quite doable if you find a job. Some automatic work visas and then residence based on that depending on origin country

    In Belgium literally no company in the country outside of IMEC and Deloitte will go through the extremely long visa sponsorship program (only digitalized in 2022 IIRC). It is pretty much only possible if you have family or a partner that already lives there. Even people studying there for 3-8 years have a few months to find a job or they are kicked out (in a bad job market compared to other countries also).






  • Yes, they likely brought on a PR person after their last major fuck up. It directly contradicts what those youtubers said about the sponsorship. Who knows who is telling the truth.

    That AI-generated apology is better than doubling down like the last time, but they shouldn’t be treated as this “oh they are clean and haven’t been caught doing anything”.

    Though they didn’t apologize for the Brazilian fascist support because that didn’t go viral like the French one. They might still be paying him.







  • Why do so many “important” people die in plane crashes in the past couple of decades?

    • Andy Cecere (2026 - US Bank)

    • Joshua Base (2026 - Capital Factory)

    • Christophe de Margerie (2014 - Total energies)

    • Petr Kelner (2021 - PPF Group)

    • Kobe Bryant (2020)

    • Glen de Vries (2021 - Medidata Solutions)

    • Gary Knopp ( 2020 - politician)

    • Steve Appleton (2012 - Micron CEO)

    • Cheryl heinze ( 2012 - politician)

    • Alison Des Forges ( 2009 - human right investigator)

    • Beverly Eckert (2009 - activist on 9/11 committee)

    • wilhemson executives in 2012

    • Now the CEO of Ubisoft in 2026

    That is just in the US, so many other rich businessmen have also died in plane crashes in other countries. Romania, Italy, Brazil, Russia, etc… Are aircraft crashes just way more common than the companies want us to believe? I was always told that airplanes were statistically safer than cars.

    Also why are plane crashes so often surrounded in suspicious circumstances like the IBM plane crash where a ton of executives were killed and immediately following the other IBM execs pivoted the company focus (which kind of led to their downfall in the consumer market).


  • Well to be fair, the US declaration of independence is quite explicit about the right to revolution being one of the inalienable rights. They spent I think around 20 written lines talking about it.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

    Of course, it doesn’t mean their causes were just or their intentions were good or even that they were much more than an angry mob, but America was literally founded on the idea that a corrupt government should be overthrown by force. What is bad, how it is bad, blah blah blah depends on where you sit and if you value human life or human hierarchy.