Ideal is not the same, by any means, as PayPal. Read up.

With ideal you loose your money. Ideal is made from the pov of the bank and the shop selling you stuff. Its almost impossible to claim your money back without the sellers consent.

Tikkie is not the same as PayPal since tikkie only works with EU banks. (and quite possibly at this moment only NL banks) PayPal does not need a bank account. Its also not really a wrapper around ideal but thats another discussion. And mostly a semantic one so lets not go there.

Effe wat meer moeite doen en de kleine lettertjes lezen medenedelander :)

Hell no.

Are you u all living in rosy mc Rosewood Santa’s little safe harbour everything is fine and dandy rainbow world? Or are you all lying through your teeth?

Letting someone in your home with clearly visible psychological issues, in your circle of trust, filled with those you hold most dearly and packed with your dearest memories, that place… And then letting someone in you know nothing about?

Hell fucking no.

In the real world letting some rando homeless dude in your home has a 50/50 chance of ending up in crazy town. There is a high probability that you, yours or your stuff get fucked up. I cannot and will not accept those odds. Even a 2% chance of shit happening is a risk I’m unwilling to take when it comes to my kids.

Would I help him? Maybe. It depends on some factors (like can I at that specific time, did I help him out earlier, do I have cash on hand) Would I let him in? No f-ing way.

So real answer: money: maybe, eat & drink: anytime. Clothes: I’ve got some you can have, no problem. Bath and clean: nope. Never.

Thank you for clearing it up

Since I’m in Europe not much. Not big enough to really change something or set something bigger in motion.

This is what I find interesting: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/investing/michael-burry-stock-market-crash/index.html

We all are. Always have been. That was my point. I don’t own my house, the bank does and as long as I pay each month half of my income they allow me to live in it. I will never own it 100%.

The things you’re pointing at have always been a problem, nothing new. And each year those problems grow. As do the deficiencies of our governments, our states.

Nobody expects you to do anything. Just don’t expect anything in return and you’re golden.

BTW, you sound like me in the 80s. And that’s not meant as an insult or something, it’s just an observation. I’m curious if that says something about the economic & society cycle and where we are in it.

My third even, 100% bank owned. Cannot afford to switch again so I think this is it till the end. All my under 30 colleagues also have their own by the way. It’s fucking expensive especially with 3 kids who probably cannot move out the next 10 years.

I know where you’re coming from, having older kids myself. It’s hard and unfair. But that’s how it always been. The unfair part isn’t new.

Looking back thinking it was easier in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s is, I’m sorry to say, disillusional. You’re just looking at housing (which was also bullshit in the 80s, and 00s by the way) and forget the rest of the shit of those times. 80s wasn’t fun, my dad lost his job, we only kept our house because my grand parents died and the inheritance filled the financial hole. 00s also wasn’t fun, being a part of the greatest depression since the 30s, I was fortunate to keep my IT job, a lot of mates lost everything. (job, house, marriage, because bad finance kills relations I’ve learned.) My wife did get fired and still is not at the same level as back then. But we get by, thank you for asking.

Finance is a bitch. Always has been.

Nobody wants that. But getting fucked in life is unfortunately a large part of living it.

Thank you, you’re an asshole too! :)

Hahaha, that’s not what I’m saying but if you want to take it like that, be my guest.

I’m saying shits fucked y’all. I’m also saying that it always has been.

The grass wasn’t greener back then. Just a different shade of brown. Housing was better, a lot else was way worse.

Large cities, big tourist spots? Yes. Go in land and it’s game over. I’ve been in cajarc (beautiful spot, really!) this year, it’s on one of the compostela routes so they get a lot of pelgrims from al over the world. 1 waiter spoke good enough English to have a conversation with. 1.

In 7 and vista you already used steam and battle.net. The last time you clicked on an exe really was a long time ago.

Every installer ever since windows 95, made an item in your start menu. No clicking an exe.

unless you pirate your games, but then you’re still just clicking an exe and this post doesn’t make sense.

But hey, he made fun with his meme, I had fun typing my response, that’s all there was to it, no?

You’re American. Marketing data says that you like all things French and Italian.

Guess what happens next in this salesforce driven industry?

:)

East of Munich you’re best bet is German, but English is also spoken widely. West of Munich you’re more or less fine with English. In the northern countries we are used to the fact no one speaks our language so we all speak English, a lot of people French and a lot of German because it’s close to our own.

Italians try English. As do most Spanish. Try is the magic word here, it’s like your Spanish after high school or my French. :)

French don’t try. They speak French. Period. In hotels etc. (tourist spots) English is spoken by few employees. But they are there. :)

In the balkans the situation is mixed. Some parts English, some German, some French, some Russian. I get by with an English/German mix in Croatia. my German is better then my French… But not a lot). Here in the Netherlands my level of German is widely called “steenkolen Duits” (coal German) because it’s course, harsh, hard and dirty)

Anyway you’ll be fine. Have a great vacation.

Story of every generation, bub. I had the oil crises, 80s collapse, I forgot what it was called in the nineties, dotcom bubble, 2008 banking crisis, and the last few

Returning theme? One big dip per decade. 80s and 08 where the nastiest though.

Wars? One every 5-10 years. Too many to remember.

Yeah, I’m getting old.

And that guy in your pic is 54, pushing 55. Nowhere near 35.

So get your shit together, and take another one on the chin. The working class gets our asses kicked financially ever since money was invented. It’s how the system works.

The meme’s is that it was better back then.

It truly really wasn’t.

I know. I was there. There was no “just clicking an exe” in the nineties. Pc’s where work machines. Made for boring stuff like excel and typing letters. Getting them. To play a game was a task on its own.

To play games on them you really had to go through several burning hoops. Every time. Because game A used xms, game B didn’t care, game C must have ems. Etc. You where reconfiguring your pc for each game in a different way.

Later, win vista and XP solved a lot of problems but caused several others just as worse.

It was with win7 it finally all started to work like it more or less should.

And really, I meant it: I take current day tracking and ads any day. 3 steps forward, one backwards.

It’s nowhere near accurate. This guy clearly never played wingco 3 with it’s 15 minute intro.

This guy clearly also had never played mechwarrior 3. A game by microprose no wait fasa interactive no wait microsoft no wait some other investment party.

This guy clearly also never fucked around with EMS or XMS.

This guy also never lived in the pre windows era. (clicking on an exe, come on people.)

Reality was:

Installing a game was an afternoon. Ever swapped 14 floppy disks? Then came cdrom which made it better (double speed master race @300 KB/sec! Yes! Now it only took an hour!

Then

D: CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)

GAME.EXE (enter)

this game needs 605 KB free base ram. You have 585 KB. Please free up ram and try again

(muck around with qemm386 and if you where poor emm386) Reboot, reboot, reboot.

CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)

GAME.EXE (enter)

Crash.

Reset.

CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)

Config.exe (enter)

Scroll with arrow buttons to sound Config. Check. You can’t remember the dipswitches you set on your soundblaster pro. Open the cabinet, remove the card. Look at the dipswitches on it. you see now you set the dipswitch to irq 5 instead of 7. Fuck, that’s it. You also make a mental note of the dma channel and the memory address. Fuck that, you couldn’t remember it last time so you write it down. Irq5, dma 1, 220h.

Reinsert to the ISA slot, close cabinet. Reboot. Fuck. No sound from the cdrom. Guess you knocked that flimsy cable loose again. Fuck it, this game fortunately has no cd audio.

CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)

GAME.EXE (enter)

Crash.

WTF?

Oh I’m so fucking dumb, I didn’t set the irq in Config.exe of the game, I just wrote it on this piece of paper. Ffs. Reboot.

CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)

Config. Exe (enter)

Scroll to soundcard, change the irq from 7 to 5, check the dma… That’s good, check the memory address… 240h… Fuck. Good I catched that as well. Change that also to 220h.

Exit,

Game.exe.

Crash.

Godfuckinghelldamnit.

The fucking retarded mouse driver conflicts with qemm. I don’t need that fucker for this game, remove it from Config.sys. Reboot.

CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)

GAME.EXE (enter)

Glide3d error on line 2365. You need version 2.13. You have 2.10.

Oh fucking hell.

CD windows Win.com

No mouse detected.

Fuckingthefuckfuck.

Edit Config.sys, unrem The mouse driver, remove the qemm optimisations because they clashed with the mouse driver.

Reboot.

Win. Com. Click on netscape. Start the modem. [modem sounds] 56k6 baby! That fucker is fast!

Click on the address line (netscape crashes)

Sigh. You’re to tired to even curse at this moment. Click on netscape again. Click on address bar, http://www.3dfx.com

Wait… (loading at 4k a second)

Click on support

Wait… (loading at 4k a second)

Click on drivers

Wait… (loading at 4k a second)

Click on glide

Wait… (loading at 4k a second)

Click on download latest.

Wait… For 30 minutes for it to download. (loading at 4k a second)

Your mum wants to call your aunt. You have to hang up that computer bullshit NOW.

Fuckingthefuckhelcuntshit.

Mum, it’s only 5 minutes remaining! I don’t care, I’m out of eggs and I need them. Maybe you’re aunt has some otherwise I have to go to the store. Hang up now!

Fuck. Hangup.

Wait.

Do it all again.

Finally downloaded. You just know you’re going to get your ass chewed up by your dad because you where downloading for over an hour, it probably costed somewhere around 5-7 bucks to download this driver because of the egg fiasco. Anyway, install the driver.

First unzip it.

C: Cd\temp Unzip Glide3d.zip

Error unreadable byte at 435543.

Sigh.

Download it again

(now you know for sure you’re going to get it)

This time it unzips.

Install.exe.

It installs.

Finally.

Reboot. Start game. Not enough memory because of the new glide driver. And you forgot to unload the mouse driver.

I’ll take current day ads, tracking and the sacrifice of the soul of my firstborn due to EULA’S any fucking day

It’s like jack Nicholson said in a few good men:

THE TRUTH? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

(I lied a tiny bit, Glide3d usually meant a dos4gw game which finally meant 32 bit addresses and no conventional memory bullshit. But you can change that for any other driver you needed)

(random tenacious D song starts when you enter the vehicle)

Nobody will win. The waitress stays or will return and still get paid shit. The menu will get digitised because it’s cheaper. You know what less costs mean?

Higher profits.

The end.

Wake up.

No. There are already plenty examples of this. Thinking this will happen in the near future (100 years) is a fairytale.

As long as you don’t have vocal cords capable of creating effective speech and you don’t have appendages with which is possible to create and use tools you’re fucked.

Examples? Plenty, let’s go:

Pig: As intelligent as a 6 year old. What we do to them makes Auswitz looks like summer camp.

Dolphins: pushed into a bay and murdered by the hundreds. Thousands (millions?) die each year in the nets of our floating fishing factories. Their intellect is at least that of a 6 year old and most probably way more.

Whales: hunted to virtual extinction. Way more intelligent then a 6 year old.

Elephants: show clear sociological traits. Remembers stuff over a long time. Grieve over death. Hunted for their big ass teeth.

Apes: our close relatives. Hunted for meat. Most species of them easily operate at 10-12 year old level. Can use tools but can not create them. At the current path they’re on in the wild (extinction). They will never reach the stone age.

We rule. Harshly.

THIS IS JUST A TRIBUTE

(I don’t know, you guys said she wants the D)