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Flanders (and Brussels) join the Netherlands.

Nobody asked for this

Ban private jets and charter flights. Only people-efficient commercial liners and medical flights.

Ban private and charter flights. Only high volume commercial flights

They said this 2 weeks ago. Forever running out, but never getting there

Obviously not applicable to bedrooms or private spaces, but it seems pretty normal in Northern-ish Europe, maybe Calvinist-influence countries, not to close curtains in the main living space. There seems to be a strong preference for natural light. And with how rainy or dark the sky can be depending on the time of year, people try to maximize natural lighting.

And your response is why this survey result is probably a useless stat. Most Americans don’t understand the term liquid assets, so instead they ask about access to cash. But many people understand the word cash to only mean paper money.

That’s becoming my take, too. What surveys mean to ask is liquid assets, money people have immediate access to. But most Americans are too uneducated to understand what that means, so they ask about cash. But many people probably think that’s a question about how much paper money they have.

Basically, they ask a question in a dumb way to get around how dumb Americans are, but the result is a dumb statistic.

If only Ireland had decided to build its infrastructure around anything else beyond the personal automobile. Too bad there they chose to make their country with no viable alternatives to driving.

I maintain a small Windows dual boot for taking certification exams (that don’t run on Linux). It’s torture to update it once every 6 months. 3-4 hours requiring multiple reboots.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-blockade-iran-after-talks-fail-yield-a-deal-2026-04-13/

🙋‍♂️ I moved to Europe last year on a highly skilled migrant visa.

Where I live, people who close their curtains are treated with suspicion.

I still have some of my downloads from back in the day. 128Kbps mp3 😭

Every street is North America is a highway. Straight, level, smooth, and intended for fast driving. The continent has designed streets not safe for human presence, fully supported by the older generations, and now they have the gall to complain about kids sitting indoors all of the time.

Dutch cops out a lot on adapting punny names. Part of it is that the puns don’t work, but part of it is that the Dutch are very literal with naming things.

The Count on Sesame Street? Graaf Tel. Count (title) Count (action).

That’s all he ever wanted there. You think he’s trying to liberate people or enhance their quality of life? He isn’t even doing that in the US.

This will be the corporate response.

“Only poors use transit, anyway! In fact, ban pedestrians because they might confuse our delivery robot! Sidewalks should be renamed Delivery Bot Lanes.”

https://cooljugator.com/ - website that helps with looking up word conjugation. Great for language learning, since a translation is sort of cheating and can lead you astray on meaning

https://www.timeanddate.com/ - super handy site for finding meeting times between time zones, looking up international calendars for holiday, etc

NO PEOPLE. ONLY CARS.