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by retired 6mo ago
In most EU countries, children of farmers can drive 10 ton death machines with pointy spikes on the front from the age of 14 to 16. In some countries you can even do that on public roads!
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by retired 6mo ago
I remember a time around 2010 where I benefitted from social media, Facebook in particular. It wasn't addictive, I used it for 15 minutes at the end of the day to catch up with what foreign family was doing, we would organize real-life
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by retired 6mo ago
Imagine if his health insurance premiums got raised because of it, if he loses a job opportunity due to background checks or if he gets arrested because of it. Even going through customs or getting a visa can be tricky with a history of coc
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by retired 6mo ago
The problem in Australia is that influencers and musicians are still allowed on social media regardless of age, as they have professionally managed accounts. So the result is that poor children in Australia don't have access to social
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by retired 6mo ago
Cookie wall was a big shift. I noticed that since the introduction of the cookie wall, websites now have about 3 to 4 modals that I have to click away before I can start interacting with the website. Typically it is the cookie wall I have t
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by retired 6mo ago
Correct. It is sad when the government is unable to execute a solid financial recovery plan out of fear of a violent minority.
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by retired 6mo ago
Agreed. Being Dutch myself, I prefer that we lay out a long-term vision and plan for enhancing the society through democratically chosen representatives over caving for a violent minority that will literally set the town on fire if they don
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by retired 6mo ago
As someone that can’t afford to live close to family this hits me in the feelings. Would love it if the government would do something about it.
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by retired 6mo ago
> appreciation for the willingness of French workers to stand up for themselves I wonder if you still have that view when your car is one of the hundreds that typically get set on fire during protests. Rioting and the government caving f
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by retired 6mo ago
Reminded me of being a CS student. I got a list of 10 requirements for the software design. Most people implemented 9, struggling with the 10th. I implemented 6. Professor asked why I only did 6. Well, if I implemented 6 features and those
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by retired 6mo ago
"Should I use a 3.5% or a 4% safe withdrawal rate? My house is paid off and I got a company pension, two dogs and a partner. Cars are paid off but our iPhones are on a payment plan till 2028. Net worth around $2.5 billion but highly co
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by retired 6mo ago
Being eligible for Medicare, Cook can finally afford to retire.
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by retired 6mo ago
Existing models could be sold after the deadline, that date was only for newly introduced models.
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by retired 6mo ago
The iPhone 15 released in September 2023 already had USB-C. Apple wasn't required to use USB-C up until the iPhone 17 release in September 2025. That is two years.
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by retired 6mo ago
The EU did not force USB-C on the iPhone. Apple switched to USB-C years before it became mandatory.
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by retired 6mo ago
Apple switched the iPhone to USB-C years before it became an EU requirement. I doubt the EU played a role in it. The 2015 MacBook was USB-C only.
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by retired 6mo ago
From what I can see online, the average compensation that an au-pair in The Netherlands receives is 300 euro per month, with living expenses being covered by the family. There is no minimum wage requirement for au-pairs like in the UK or th
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by retired 6mo ago
> It only costs me like $180 a month in API credits In The Netherlands you can get a live-in au-pair from the Philippines for less than that. She will happily play your Beatles song, download the Titanic movie for you, find your Gorillaz
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by retired 6mo ago
All of Europe. Haven’t seen an AI camera anywhere.
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by retired 6mo ago
By privatizing them. Look at European rail in the past 50 years.
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by retired 6mo ago
As a European I can only dream of having such a rail system. When I have to buy six individual tickets for triple digit prices to get somewhere and the train ends up slower than going by car I wonder why I would even try.
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by retired 6mo ago
Same in The Netherlands. There are companies that buy plots of lands near existing rail just to massively screw over the government if they ever want to expend rail. Double digit million euro deals over small patches of land.
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by retired 6mo ago
Happy to life in a country where AI cameras are not a thing.
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by retired 6mo ago
Why not use the website?
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by retired 7mo ago
> “I wouldn’t have even posted my wedding really,” she says. “But I had to because … There’s like an etiquette. Nobody else can post your wedding until you’ve posted. So my friends were like: ‘Please post, it’s been like a week.’” I migh
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by retired 7mo ago
Perhaps look at the Spanish Cl@ve, it works with Linux. It's just a simple digital certificate that allows you to identify yourself. You can even run it on OpenBSD or TempleOS if you want to.
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by retired 7mo ago
Wow. For The Netherlands it is 4% of your income, but only the part of your income above minimum wage. If you earn €40k, minimum wage is €26k then you pay 4% over €13k = €520 per year = €43 per month. The average medical student is around €
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by retired 7mo ago
It does. A large part of the country participates in that one.
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by retired 7mo ago
Gambling is massive in large parts of Europe. For Spain, in 2022 83.9% of the population participated in gambling. Every time I am outside I am confronted with gambling in some sort of way. I don't think society benefits from it.
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by retired 7mo ago
My best guess is that the embassy in the foreign country gets a red flag when you try to renew your passport and you then have to contact the government debt collector. Different branches of government.

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