The idea that it could happen is false hope though, because you’re buying into the idea that the chance is worth $5. The chance is so small it might as well be zero. So you’re way over spending for a could that is practically a won’t.

There are some situations with some lotteries where the math works in your favor because of for instance rollover. But if you’re committed to $5 a week you’re not that lottery player.

If you were to put $5 in S&P 500 weekly for a decade it is far more likely that you’ll have a profit of a few thousand on top of the money that you did not spend on lottery tickets (because you still own the stock). That’s not really as radically marxist as my previous comment might make me seem, but for your personal wallet it’s way better.

In this economy if you want to become rich, the best thing is to start out rich. The next best thing is starting a company and pocketing the productivity of your employees. Back to that marxism thing again.

Ah, so not only false hope but also crushing class consciousness.

I’m not surprised. I speak Dutch.

Drol

I absolutely agree.

Technically I didn’t, so who is putting words in whose mouth?

The Chinese government are a ruthless immoral authoritarians. Say what you want about economic systems, but fuck authoritarians.

In Dutch, the only (one) is “de enige”. People often use “de enigste”, which actually means the cutest. Enig -> enigste.

“Ik ben als enigste over” “Ja, schattig ben je zeker”

"“Ich bin der Einzigste, der noch übrig ist” “Ja, du bist wirklich süß”

“I’m the only one left.” “Yeah, cute you sure are”

My school taught this whole convoluted system that was meant to help students with multiple tenses, but I just learned to apply the “ik loop” mnemonic which is so effortless (to native speakers at least.)

Sometimes I have to think once or twice about soft ketchup/'t Kofschip for the past participle, but that’s about it.

Xerc Owz

I’ve have and have had multiple mechanical keyboards, with both blues and browns. I also have the Logi MX Keys S.

I think I prefer my cheap ass Dell keyboard at the office though.

It’s kind of funny how McCain and Romney were/are the voice of reason in the GOP. We didn’t know how good we had it. Or rather how much worse it could get.

In Dutch a chair is a stoel, pronounced stool.

The people will elect anyone who is best at pretending to hear them while offering only overly simplistic solutions to complex problems. Wilders, like Trump, is surrounded by incompetent buffoons.

Geert Wilders’ party is the largest party, but that doesn’t mean the majority voted for him. I would say generally 25 out of 150 seats go to parties like Wilders’ party.

This time a lot of people voted Wilders as a protest vote (37 seats in total), but I expect a lot of the votes to return to the center-right party during the next elections.

People are fed up with a lot of mismanagement in our government, but they punish center-right coalitions by voting even further on the right while blaming the left (even though most of the left hasn’t ever been part of the government coalition).

I bet that if you take away the housing and cost of living crises, people wouldn’t be taking about immigration so much. It would help tremendously if the government wouldn’t mismanage the asylum procedures as much as it does.

I went to work in IT over half a decade ago without relevant credentials. Google taught me everything.

If only I could sign in to the damn system.

I own two shoe factories and a cotton farm, you?

On one side my grandfather died roughly 6 months after my grandmother died. On the other side my grandmother outlived my grandfather by 33 years and counting.

*Trumpy

It’s only news when GOP members say something sensible.