Very surprising how little people talk about CRA when it basically covers every digital product we use in our daily lives and the software that goes with it.

Well, at least we agree there. I too have no idea why people like to suck corporate d.

If you hate a company, don’t buy stuff from them. Don’t go whining that they owe you money after you voluntarily spent hundreds of dollars on them, that’s a weak move.

Also if you don’t want tariffs, talk to the brain dead people around you that vote for people like Trump instead of blaming companies that aren’t even from the US for having to deal with tariffs.

Microsoft is a US company but Xbox is an imported product, being manufactured in China. Therefore it was subject to the tariffs.

Let me ask you a question.
Say you export bananas to the European Union. Then the people in the EU vote to prioritize Europe above every other country (MEGA) and thanks to them you suddenly have to pay import tariffs on every banana. You are forced to raise sales prices to compensate which reduces the number of sales and lowers your turnover. Now it turns out the tariffs were unlawful and you get money back from the EU. Would you feel that that money belongs to the people in the EU?

Well not to disagree with you, but this is how tariffs are supposed to work. They make foreign products more expensive so consumers pick a US product instead.

The price is the price and everyone is free not to buy a luxury product like a PlayStation. If you did buy it after all, that means you agreed to the price.

That’s kind of understandable as they were also the ones who paid the taxes directly while importing the products.

Unfortunately that’s not an exception anymore. In many places it is worse. For instance, the same flat in Amsterdam would cost around 1400 euro per month.

Nice article but what does VBS stand for? I always thought it was a Visual Basic Script.

It has declined over the years but after Covid, crime levels slowly increased again year on year. Crime levels are higher than e.g. Amsterdam, Paris or Berlin.

I couldn’t find statistics to back up your claim.

Based on what I can find, crime rates have actually dropped significantly since the start of the century (2000: 90 crimes per 1000 residents, 2025: 45 crimes per 1000 residents).

Drug related offences in The Netherlands are three times as low compared to Germany, and five times as low as France per 100k residents.

Homicide rate has dropped significantly for all three countries. In 2023, the homicide rate in The Netherlands was 0.3 per 100k residents, while Germany scored 0.5 and France had the most with 0.8 residents per 100k residents. Just for comparison, the US has 5.8 homicides per 100k people.

This particular shooting is linked to the famous criminal Bolle Jos, who is hiding in Africa and is very much on the radar of the Dutch investigation and intervention unit.

Stone or concrete walls are normal in many countries.

You can indeed use a hammer drill to drill holes. You can buy them for as little as 30 dollars these days. And you can use an angle grinder to make cutouts for cables/tubes, and apply plaster afterwards.

Many houses in the colder regions already have cavity walls with insulation in between the walls regardless of the building method, so I don’t think this method is very wasteful in amount of material.

However, I agree that 3D printing houses had various downsides, such as the weird surface, inflexibility to modify/expand/repair after the initial build and potentiality worse insulation characteristics. I am more of a believer in prefabricated houses, where building houses becomes an industry instead of a project.

I checked and it looks like American cheese pizza is different from a Margherita. It is more uniformly looking, and it has a dominant cheese flavour without the freshness of the tomatoes and basil.

Well, good to have more choice there. But only two major Android updates? Fairphone policy is eight major updates.

At what speed are you testing?

The primary function of an ebike throttle is to provide walk assist which never exceeds 6 kmph.

Some throttles provide boost during riding, but only while you are pedalling.

If you don’t get any support while pedalling regardless, the issue is your sensor/controller/motor and not the throttle.

Heineken primarily produces in local factories worldwide, not predominantly in The Netherlands. Their annual revenue is about four times bigger than all German beer manufacturers combined. It may be piss, but it’s a nice golden stream.

Or just press the file and hit F2, or slow click on the file twice.

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Dutch, English and German share the same ancestor but are unique languages. Dutch people speak better English than German on the whole, except for older people.

In fact, many English words originate directly from Dutch, such as dock, deck, freight, boss, cookie, coleslaw, sleigh, yacht, skipper and so on. Mainly because the Dutch were very active as sea traders and colonists.

The Dutch mock the German language similarly to how the Germans mock the Dutch language, emphasizing how harsh it sounds, how loud and incomprehensible some Germans talk and how the Germans invent their own long words for everything even if there’s already a perfectly usable English word for it.

Can relate but it’s not a surprise, all three languages derive from Germanic and many words in English have originated or are borrowed from Dutch or German.

The key thing here is that the gold is not the property of the charity, but some previous owner. It wasn’t part of any purchase deed.

The reason it is such a recurring theme is that broccoli and sprouts were cultivated to taste good over time. In the recent past, they had a more bitter taste which lead to some generations disliking them.