Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:50:53 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

I sure hope the Russian people will solve Russia's problems by ousting the madman.

Reuters World News wrote the following post Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:43:58 +0100

Putin says Russia will solve its problems, calls sanctions illegitimate http://reut.rs/34xb0jR

[:tw: https://tweets.newsbots.eu/ReutersWorld/status/1501976250679808009 — #bot]

Reuters World News wrote the following post Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:43:58 +0100

Putin says Russia will solve its problems, calls sanctions illegitimate http://reut.rs/34xb0jR

[:tw: https://tweets.newsbots.eu/ReutersWorld/status/1501976250679808009 — #bot]

#Ukraine

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:48:38 +0100

Martijn Vos

mcv@pluspora.com

It's going to be incredibly hard, and if it happens, he will most likely be replaced by an insider, because he has a massive security apparatus designed to keep him in power. Whoever controls that will probably end up controlling Russia.

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:12:38 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

LittleAlex wrote the following post Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:09:45 +0100

Remember: Since the Russian invasion of the Ukraine the costs to produce wind and solar energy has gone up by 0€.

#renewable #energy

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:47:36 +0100

Martijn Vos

mcv@pluspora.com

Absolutely. I'm sure everybody who got solar panels in recent years is extremely pleased with that decision.

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:14:53 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

I wish I had them, but I can't afford the investment atm.

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:46:49 +0100

Martijn Vos

mcv@pluspora.com

I don't have a roof, so that makes it a bit complicated. But friends recently had their entire roof fixed, and immediately put solar panels on it, and even in February they were selling power back to the network, so rising energy costs are good for them.

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:34:40 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

#Ukraine

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:45:39 +0100

Wilco Roos

wroos@diasp.org

Ik kan het geen 'like' geven, maar accuraat is ie zeker.

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:31:16 +0100 last edited: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:41:54 +0100

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hub.hubzilla.de

Now, where is that Stinger missile again...?

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:07:51 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Amen!

GroenLinks wrote the following post Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:34:23 +0100

“Ik roep het kabinet op: boycot Russisch gas per direct! We moeten alles doen om Poetin te stoppen en iedere euro die niet naar de oorlogsmachine van Poetin gaat is een euro gewonnen.”

- @JesseKlaver #GoedemorgenNL

https://groenlinks.nl/nieuws/groenlinks-roept-kabinet-op-tot-directe-boycot-van-russisch-gas

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Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:16:24 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

De Correspondent wrote the following post Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:49:16 +0100

Jelmer Mommers: Er zijn ook groene manieren om van het Russische gas af te komen - https://decorrespondent.nl/13192/er-zijn-ook-groene-manieren-om-van-het-russische-gas-af-te-komen/1453877128-0bfa160d

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Tue, 08 Mar 2022 23:09:51 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Joerg Fliege (Glass Wings) wrote the following post Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:48:02 +0100

Comedy gold, via Bellingcat:

Ukraine just killed Gen. Maj. Vitaly Gerassimov, chief of staff of the 41 Army. At Kharkiv.

This is not the worst part. In the phone call in which the FSB officer assigned to the 41st Army reports the death to his boss in Tula, he says they've lost all secure communications. Thus the phone call using a local sim card. Thus the intercept.

MUHAHAHA. The Russians are using local sim cards.

In the call, you hear the Ukraine-based FSB officer ask his boss if he can talk via the secure Era system. The boss says Era is not working. Era is a super expensive cryptophone system that @mod_russia introduced in 2021 with great fanfare. It guaranteed work "in all conditions"

The idiots tried to use the Era cryptophones in Kharkiv, after destroying many 3g cell towers and also replacing others with stingrays. Era needs 3g/4g to communicate. The Russian army is equipped with secure phones that can't work in areas where the Russian army operates.

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Wed, 09 Mar 2022 23:14:55 +0100

Hans

hans@federate.hopto.org

Might not be a comedy but it is damn funny. They simply did not grasp what happened?

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 23:17:02 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Oh come on guys, you have to admit that it's hilarious that they can't use their super duper cryptophone system because they blew up the G3 systems?

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 23:19:48 +0100

Hans

hans@federate.hopto.org

Stupid things happen Hans, we all know

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:07:44 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Mijn god, als domheid pijn zou doen, zou deze figuur het uitschreeuwen...

€106 miljoen euro voor 44 miljoen inwoners in Oekraïne betekent ...tromgeroffel... 2 miljoen euro per Oekraïener :facepalm

https://nitter.net/freemindL241/status/1500970233426759684

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:17:11 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

En ook zulke mensen hebben stemrecht... :rolling_eyes:

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:52:32 +0100

Wilco Roos

wroos@diasp.org

Goh, maar 53 mensen die in Oekraïne leven, en dan zoveel Russische troepen het leven zuur maken, dat moeten wel heel goede vechters zijn! /end sarcasm

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 23:15:37 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Dutch fundraiser for #Ukraine is at €106 million so far, expectations are that this is going to increase some more in the next few days.

NOS Nieuws wrote the following post Mon, 07 Mar 2022 23:11:10 +0100

**Eindstand Giro555-actiedag voor Oekraïne: ruim 106 miljoen euro**

"De landelijke actiedag van Giro555 voor slachtoffers van de oorlog in Oekraïne is afgesloten met een eindstand van ruim 106 miljoen euro. Dat is bekendgemaakt in het tv-programma Samen in actie voor Oekraïne, een uitzending die tegelijk te zien was op NPO 1, RTL 4 en SBS 6.
Het gaat om een voorlopig bedrag. De verwachting is dat het de…"

https://nos.nl/l/2420273

#nieuws #bot

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:48:37 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

To quote Danny Zuko: "too bad his brains are in his biceps."

The Guardian wrote the following post Mon, 07 Mar 2022 04:20:02 +0100

‘Shocking behaviour’: Russian gymnast shows ‘Z’ symbol on podium next to Ukrainian winner

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/07/shocking-behaviour-russian-gymnast-shows-z-symbol-on-podium-next-to-ukrainian-winner

#TheGuardian #RSS #News #Bot #Gymnastics #Worldnews #Ukraine #Russia #Sport

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Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:17:42 +0100

Martijn Vos

mcv@pluspora.com

Any idea what the meaning of that Z is? Why is it suddenly everywhere?

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:31:04 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Martijn Vos Seems to be a kind of logo:

The “Z”, a letter that does not exist in the Cyrillic Russian alphabet, is regarded as particularly incendiary given it has been seen daubed on Russian tanks and vehicles in Ukraine and has come to symbolise support for president Vladimir Putin and the invasion.

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:32:14 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Szymon Sokół Nice one. I thought of the "Z" being half a swastika, nice to see I'm not the only one.

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 19:24:40 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

The stable genius is at it again. Injecting yourself with bleach against covid suddenly doesn't sound so stupid anymore...

https://nitter.net/jdawsey1/status/1500325620789743622

#Ukraine

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Sun, 06 Mar 2022 19:36:36 +0100

Michael Fenichel

psych@diasp.org

Sad, sick, and affirmation of his lifelong playbook - be clueless, act irrationally and bigly, then lie, distract, project, repeat...

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:11:59 +0100

V. T. Eric Layton

vtel57@diasp.org

Meh... typical Trump shit. Doesn't surprise me a bit.

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:14:58 +0100

V. T. Eric Layton

vtel57@diasp.org

You know, this is no bullshit now... for years, I flew an American flag on my front porch. When Trump got elected in 2016. I permanently took that flag down. I've had difficulties being "proud" of my country since I was very young (Vietnam Era kid). That a man like Trump could even get nominated, never mind elected, blew my mind and incinerated my last particle of patriotism that I might have had.

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:35:36 +0100

Michael Fenichel

psych@diasp.org

+45

I hear that. Driving about in many neighborhoods, with jumbo flags on many houses (cars too), and seeing 2 Confederate flags too... and having many conversations with life-long residents and some transplants, I feef for those who are "woke" (living in reality) and are intentionally limited in political comments knowing they're in a big majority. (Everyone seems to hate DeSantis among those in that small. observant group; And many say their father/spouse whatever are big Trump fans still...)

I guess variety is the spice of life. And/Or as Frank Zappa put it:

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life."

That nitter feed reassures me there are all stripes of "woken to reality" folk around.

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:59:57 +0100

V. T. Eric Layton

vtel57@diasp.org

Well, folks support and vote in a way that they think will be beneficial to them and theirs. Sadly, we can't do much about it when they are just so ignorant and misguided in their beliefs. Some are definitely not easily "woken" up from their slumbers.

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 21:51:36 +0100

Khurram Wadee

mkwadee@diasp.eu

That former president is an embarrassment for the human species.

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 22:07:59 +0100

V. T. Eric Layton

vtel57@diasp.org

#Truth

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 22:31:17 +0100

Michael Fenichel

psych@diasp.org

✓

Sorry for typos above... I feel for those who see the truth - and see it roundly ignored, or out-messaged. And those that look at facts are a minority in many places. Seeing (around Sarasota) many house signs up saying "Vote Yes Yes" and "Yes 1, No 2" etc. As my mom noted, "nobody is clear about what each one is", and one is FOR education restoration and the other combines all the voting districts into just one (undoing a major voter-approved bill last time 'round".

So yeah, it's the message that is sent & received, often with little processing/critical reasoning required. Just go with the program, "yes yes" or "yes no", whatever filters through and sticks. Or as another random person I met (in a marsh) commented, "whatever they say just goes through".

Agreed, #TrumpVirus should never have spread and surely should be gone by now. "When will we ever learn?"

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 22:46:08 +0100

V. T. Eric Layton

vtel57@diasp.org

And in addition to all here that we're finding fault with regarding the U.S. and its political institutions, there's also one of the main failings that many often fail to mention... apathy; a complete disregard for or participation in the fucked up system (read as voting).

As useless as I sometimes feel it is, I haven't missed an election day for for any election (local, state, federal) since 1996.

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 22:53:30 +0100

Michael Fenichel

psych@diasp.org

apathy

"You betha!" ™️ Combined with voluntary, natural, or imposed ignorance, a deadly combo.

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 23:02:27 +0100

V. T. Eric Layton

vtel57@diasp.org

@Hans... sometimes, NOT voting is making a statement, too.

The non-voters in the U.S. that I'm talking about are the many, many who do not even think about politics or voting, often for their entire lives.

There are over 300 million citizens in the U.S. As of 2020, the government estimates that 256,662,010 are of voting age. Yet, in that last presidential election, which had record voter turnout, it was only 67%. That means a full third of the citizens in this country who are illegible to vote, didn't even bother.

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 23:03:23 +0100

V. T. Eric Layton

vtel57@diasp.org

... voluntary, natural, or imposed ignorance

Quite the trifecta!

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 02:22:16 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

I only ever missed one waterschap election (forgot) and one for the European Parliament (train was delayed, so I was too late).

I have difficulties taking people seriously who don't vote but do complain. Especially in the Netherlands, where there's so much choice. Last parliament elections there were some 70 parties you could choose from. If you have such an incredibly well-defined set of demands that none of those will do, you should start your own party.

Not voting is never a "vote of no confidence", it's giving the election away to those who do show up. And guess which type of voters do show up..? Yup, the numbskulls who swallow the empty rhetoric of populists who offer simple solutions to complex problems.

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 04:33:36 +0100

Michael Fenichel

psych@diasp.org

First, pardon my typo, sorry Sarah... "You BetCHA!"

2nd, that's interesting @Hans van Zijst, from the American perspective where our choice had generally been "the lesser of 2 evils" except rare elections with a truly charismatic & heroic nominee (e.g., JFK). Then we grew the idea of "3rd party" and even the good ones ended up "taking the vote" from the lesser of the 2 evils and being blamed for electing the worst of the worst.

Lately we've had grossly incompetent, inhuman, inarticulate buffoons, both as Presidential candidates, and as one of only TWO viable political parties.

And like others, "it is what it is", all we know. Though some pursue alternatives, they never bring any change.

So on one hand it's mind boggling to see the diversity in "normal" election processes, and candidacies. Here it's become a race for money and/or ability to "rig" an election, or convince a cult that only one person can save them...

OTOH, some countries REQUIRE voting as a basic tenet of citizenship. Many countries (and a few U.S. States) make it easy, automatic, or a requirement to register to vote. Some places don't see the need for votes, or maybe it's good for someone's ego to show that they won 106% of the vote, "like nobody's ever seen before". Ah, freedom & democracy & choice.

"Context and Perspective"

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:16:31 +0100

V. T. Eric Layton

vtel57@diasp.org

@Hans van Zijst said,

... people ... who don’t vote but do complain.

HA! That's QUITE common in the U.S., sadly.

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:36:17 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@V. T. Eric Layton Well, the situation in the USA is different. Very different indeed. First of all, you only have 2 options. I recall an episode of South Park, where people could choose between Turd Sandwich or Giant Douche. I can imagine that if you only have 2 options and both suck, you don't vote.

Other thing is that America works by the winner-takes-all principle: the candidate that has 50% +1 votes in a state, wins that state. All the other votes are useless. So if you live in Texas and want to vote for a Democrat, you can be pretty sure that your vote ends up in the trash bin. So why vote at all...

In our system every vote counts. It's vey simple: everyone who is allowed to vote, gets an invitation (no need to "register" or anything, just take your invitation and a valid ID and you're welcome at the booth). All votes are counted and divided by the 150 available seats. So: even if a party only gets a few votes, once it's enough for one of 150 seats, that party will have that seat.

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:49:31 +0100

V. T. Eric Layton

vtel57@diasp.org

Oh, I still vote when both choices SUCK, but I enter a "write in" candidate of my own choosing. In a recent Florida Governor's race (about 8 years ago), I wrote in "Cthulhu".

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