Going to Amsterdam on Thursday
    13 years ago
            Not sure of what to expect there despite having taken a look through openstreetmap.org. 
After reading a description on how to use the local public traffic system, I got the impression, that the municipality of Amsterdam likes to discourage people from using the system, if even "flat rate" tickets require checking in and checking out each time for "billing purposes" when you use it. It's either a ploy for lazy mass surveillance and/or payload optimisation, or some electronic throw-away-gimmick-trash corporation conned them into buying a "futuristic/progressive" chip-based ticketing system because stamped paper which does not need valuable conductive metals to function is so 19th century ago. Possibly it's a bit of everything.
Oh well, none of the places I'm supposed to go to is further than 5 km away from my lodgings, so I'll be good, and the only Dutch person I actually know is a little too far away and disapproving of demons and monsters anyway. [She got upset over the then weekly Dimension of Pain comics by Ian McDonald simply because the characters were demons].
When I mentioned, that there are a sex museum and a torture museum in Amsterdam, the laconic answer from my family was that people put only those things in museums which they no longer have themselves. Which is probably why the museums I'm going to visit are about Resistance and Social History ;P
                    After reading a description on how to use the local public traffic system, I got the impression, that the municipality of Amsterdam likes to discourage people from using the system, if even "flat rate" tickets require checking in and checking out each time for "billing purposes" when you use it. It's either a ploy for lazy mass surveillance and/or payload optimisation, or some electronic throw-away-gimmick-trash corporation conned them into buying a "futuristic/progressive" chip-based ticketing system because stamped paper which does not need valuable conductive metals to function is so 19th century ago. Possibly it's a bit of everything.
Oh well, none of the places I'm supposed to go to is further than 5 km away from my lodgings, so I'll be good, and the only Dutch person I actually know is a little too far away and disapproving of demons and monsters anyway. [She got upset over the then weekly Dimension of Pain comics by Ian McDonald simply because the characters were demons].
When I mentioned, that there are a sex museum and a torture museum in Amsterdam, the laconic answer from my family was that people put only those things in museums which they no longer have themselves. Which is probably why the museums I'm going to visit are about Resistance and Social History ;P
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