Heureusement c'est facile à bloquer.

Well that's disappointing.

Every day I understand better Kurt Tucholsky’s lament that being a left intellectual in late Weimar felt like showing a red card to the tides.

Ik zou het niet ernstig nemen. Neem 'Saleu en de kost', wat in deze streken als afscheidsgroet gebruikt zou worden volgens dat kaartje: de keren dat ik het heb gehoord zijn op de vingers van één hand te tellen, en als het al gebruikt wordt, dan eerder sarcastisch, als: ik hoef je niet meer te zien.

That's good ...

I push them to Pocket, and with a satisfied sigh, I can close the tabs. (Now, as to actually reading everything in Pocket ...)

I changed the home page on Firefox (mobile) to udm14.com. Change home page > Current home page > you can manually add whatever you want there.

Ta.

Absolutely stupid question, but: what I don't get about their lending decision: most everyone back then thought it was a bad idea and banks wouldn't see their money again. So - what made them assess the risks so differently?

Brussels > Vienna > Venice > Palermo > Catania > Naples. (Last year saw Brussels > Milan > Bergamo > Brescia > [by bus] Salò > Genoa > Aosta > Torino > Brussels ❤️)