Pieter Kuiper 🌍🇳🇱

Natuurkundige uit Groningen, jarenlang in Zweden, nu weer terug.

Home page: https://pietkuip.github.io/
Fediverse: https://zug.network/@pietkuip

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2026-05-16 15:16:03 UTC

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The BBC World Service should be free around the world, I believe. I listen to the live stream via their app, without commercials. When I choose a specific program, there will be advertisements based on my IP address (in Dutch when I am in the Netherlands etc.)

2026-04-28 17:40:46 UTC

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They are afraid for their property value, they are afraid of a population might need a higher level of taxation. Conservatives would build, but only villas that would not be affordable for ordinary workers.
Few local politicians want to invest in social housing. They prefer that the poor live in neighbouring municipalities.

2026-04-28 16:54:53 UTC

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That is just one VLCC (very large crude carrier) per day. But Iran used to export much more, dozens of tankers per day.

2026-04-22 22:28:22 UTC

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It would not bother me if students took the course out of genuine interest, in fact I would be delighted. But in our department we had a summer course in astronomy that many of those students had chosen because that would entitle them to an allowance.

2026-04-15 08:52:27 UTC

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Also, the agency assumes (quite reasonably) that authors get paid for publications in scientific journals. I had to convince them that that was not the case. They cautioned me against publishing anything more as it might jeopardize my unemployment allowance.

2026-04-06 20:22:21 UTC

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You will have to fix it at your end. Article 25. Or wait for his demise (Praise be Allah!) @npub1s20…twmm

2026-01-20 20:38:52 UTC

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I read that serfdom had been legally abolished in Korea in 1894, when this guy was 5 years old.