I've honestly never found much to get worked up over about neoreaction, one way or another. To some of my more rightish acquaintances, it's a breath of fresh air, while some of my more leftish acquaintances think it's the next great bogeyman (one wonders if the spectre of a Koch brother stumbling across Moldbug keeps them up at night). I just ( Read more... )

Yeri "tuinslak" Tiete has been contacted by Belgian ICT minister Vincent Van Quickenborne -- on Twitter. The minister has invited Tielte to come discuss the NMBS/iRail issue with him, and states that "NMBS should be happy with your initiative ( Read more... )

...but getting that across to NMBS is taking some doing ( Read more... )

It is a quarter past midnight, and one of my neighbours across the street is blasting Dolly Parton out the window for the rest of the street to hear. No, I don't know why.

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Woke up late-ish-morning yesterday and found out that one of
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I basically skipped out on the Internet for most of last week. This was mainly because last year's router decided it was no longer interested in putting out a consistent enough signal for my WLAN interface to stay stapled to it long enough to do things like, oh, open a webpage. I am happy when things consistently work, I can troubleshoot them when ( Read more... )

Here in Belgium we have a health care system whose operations are prima facie remarkably similar to what has been proposed in the US -- with one major difference. See if you can spot it ( Read more... )

One of the cooler things about living in Belgium is that it is basically impossible to live in a reasonably-sized town and not be within a couple of blocks of a bakery. (We're a block from one, and within four blocks of two more.) This has had a really positive impact on my life in terms of breakfast. Every morning, post-caffeine, I hike over to ( Read more... )