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- Comment on Gotta Philip soon? 1 week ago:
Most delivery trucks around here are electric. Most power generation is renewable, importing some nuclear. Some fossil fuels still in the mix, but if the government was smart they would phase it out.
- Comment on Gotta Philip soon? 1 week ago:
In Europe, the price is mostly paid by the consumer. In America, the government subsidizes the industry to the tune of billions per year, both at the federal and state levels. It makes gullible people think American fuel prices are lower, when in fact it socializes the cost of fuel onto all of society.
- Comment on Sitting in traffic 1 week ago:
My trains, trams, and buses are rarely crowded. Maybe at peak rush hour.
High frequency makes them not crowded. You’re complaining about a poorly designed public transit system, which is probably all you’ve ever encountered.
- Comment on Countries with Most Personal Records Leaked in Data Breaches (2004-2025) 2 weeks ago:
{"code":"download-file-error","msg":"Unable to download image, bad response 400 Bad Request"}Ah yes, very interesting 🤔
- Comment on Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump 4 weeks ago:
Silicon Valley is a bunch of exploited morons.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 1 month ago:
I struggle to consider it scientific because it bakes in so many fundamental assumptions without questioning them. At least mainstream economics.
- Comment on This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play 2 months ago:
The New York Times summed up: here’s some terrible shit. Would you like a delectable chickpea recipe now?
Its core audience doesn’t really care about anything.
- Comment on Americans Head to Europe for the Good Life on the Cheap 3 months ago:
Am American. Moved to the Netherlands in July. My salary went down some, and the taxes are higher, but structural differences mean that I’m paying a lot less out of pocket on essentials like healthcare and transportation, which translates into the same, if not better, net take home pay.
- Comment on Dutch Voters Deliver Major Setback to Far-Right Party of Geert Wilders 4 months ago:
Coalition options are complicated.
D66 + GL/PvdA + VVD + CDA is ideally what they want, very broad and centrist, but VVD said they won’t partner with anyone left, and especially not PvdA. Since VVD had better than expected results, they’re keeping their leader, so I expect that promise to stick.
Another route is D66 + all of the left wing parties combined, but getting them all to agree on an agenda led by a centre-left party seems fraught. Also, some of these small left parties have never been in government before and probably don’t have the chops for compromise.
A possibility is D66 + CDA + VVD + JA21, centrists partnering with the right to keep out the left. A tale as old as time! JA21 makes me nervous, basically a more polite version of FvD.
The most likely outcome is a centrist minority government of D66 + CDA + GL/PvdA, and then relying on the left parties or right parties separately to pass the legislation they want based on the topic.
- Comment on KATHLEEN 6 months ago:
What is that in a real scientific measurement?
- Comment on Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power 7 months ago:
AI garbage strikes again