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It’s funny how many people have no idea how to buy used stuff for non-inflated prices.
Here’s some tips to get you started (for eBay):
1. The first thing about eBay is that most things listed as “buy now” are overpriced—otherwise someone else would have bought it already. You have to always look at sold listings to see what things are actually worth.
2. Use saved searches specifically limited in price and distance.
3. Always sort by newly listed for “Buy Now” and ending soonest for auctions.
4. Look for older buy now listings and make offers. The older the listing the lower you offer. Some tools like flippah.net show you the listed date directly without having to dig deep on the eBay website. You can make offers even when the button isn’t there, just send a message.
5. Never buy anything from sellers with 0 feedback or less than a 98% or so rating.
A general thing to remember is that unless you buy new stuff or see a listing from a store (some categories have a lot of stores, e.g. cameras) you’re likely to deal directly with a private seller and a human being. Be polite and respectful but don’t be afraid to say no. Don’t make insulting offers.

This is pretty cool. Not often somebody gets to announce the discovery of a whole new branch of life. The cells contain mitochondria unlike any known before. Features support the #endosymbiont theory of #mitochondria origins, that they were originally separate animals but one got swallowed by so…

Newly Discovered Organism Could Represent a Whole New Branch in The Tree of Life
It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses for years.

""Het ligt aan ons", zegt een woordvoerder namens de stroomleveranciers [sic! dit moet netbeheerders zijn]. "We nemen de kritiek ter harte. De implementatie van flexibel gebruik van het net is niet zo snel gegaan als gedacht. We hebben niet goed ingeschat hoe complex dit zou zijn.""

Beheerders bekennen schuld over overvolle stroomnetten: 'Het ligt aan ons'
De Autoriteit Consument & Markt zegt dat netbeheerders niet genoeg hebben gedaan om netcongestie tegen te gaan. De branche neemt de kritiek 'ter harte'.

Hehe .... Waarom deed mn internet t niet??
🙈🙈🙈
(Ja ... Ik geef de schuld wel aan mn nieuwe beamer... 🙃😇)

"Na de opkomst van Pim Fortuyn hebben we de 'gewone man' kritiekloos op het schild gehesen en durven we het niet meer te hebben over de pandemie die niet met een vaccin te bestrijden is: ongeremde domheid."
https://chrisklomp.nl/pandemie-van-de-domheid-2/

De pandemie van de onmetelijke domheid - Chris Klomp
Het is tegenwoordig erg hip om te zeggen dat je iets niet mag zeggen. Vooral mensen die vrijwel wekelijks aan de tafels van talkshows zitten of een column hebben in een landelijke krant houden er maar niet over op. Er schijnen nogal wat taboes te leven in Nederland, die ironisch genoeg dagelijks besproken worden. De […]

Another crazy week is in the can, so before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--DOJ accuses director of defense firm's cyber division of selling secrets to Russia,
--N. Korean IT workers snagged work as animators,
--Ethical hackers breached F1 database and got access to Verstappen's info,
--Hackers enabled theft of Shaquille O'Neal's custom Range Rover,

DOJ accuses director of defense firm's cyber division of selling secrets to Russia
N. Korean IT workers snagged work as animators, Ethical hackers breached F1 database and got access to Verstappen's info, Hackers enabled theft of Shaquille O'Neal's custom Range Rover, CSC 2.0 appeals to Trump to reverse cyber cuts, Apple may end App Tracking Transparency in Europe, much more

RE: https://ursal.zone/@botsocialista/115603537570266870
Does anyone else think Sam Neill should play Bolsonaro in the inevitable movie about this?

The 'peace negotiations' make no sense at all, says Patrick Bolder of @hcss@mastodon.social: the negotiations between the US and Russia are between businessmen talking about business interests. And then there are negotiations with Ukraine on military matters and ceding territory. Those worlds will never meet. https://nos.nl/l/2595620

Oekraïne slaat toe ver van het front en 'verstoort Russische oorlogsmachine'
Zulke aanvallen doen de situatie aan het front niet direct kantelen, benadrukken defensie-deskundigen. Maar ze hebben wel degelijk effect op het vermogen van Rusland om oorlog te voeren.

2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

Voor wie niet slapen kan...
Da hilft nur beten! • Fernsehfilm Deutschland 2022
https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/691f3408ee10b78c435ef11c (2022, 90min)
Nu* (03:00 - 04:30 ) bij de WDR.
Enjoy
* andere tijden regio slot