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  • A lot of formerly bad neighborhoods are turning, and I think that’s mostly due to gentrification, not because the idea behind the neighborhood (in this case Bijlmer) was somehow belatedly good…

    The idea of the Bijlmer and how it was presented sounded great on paper, but neighborhoods that are exclusively these cheap stacked blocks still mostly attract people on the bottom of the economic ladder and thusly also a relatively large amount of people that will misbehave in various ways. I don´t think culture is relevant here.

    This status quo changes now because apartments evidently go for 300 to 400k “because Amsterdam” and the people they originally built those blocks for can´t afford that in a million years.



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    They like to say these things that don’t actually make any sense.

    It’s the same with the crying around Europe’s mandatory USB-C connector. “Oh it stifles progress” Apple protested.
    Forgetting they had the same unchanged connector, and in fact data protocol on their devices for twelve years before Europe decided they wanted a standard, with all the freedom to improve it.

    A standard, apple already adopted for everything not iPhone no less.


  • We have basicly everything you play games on, so also both of these. But the Steam Deck is absolutely the gigachad, even moreso than my actual gaming pc if you just look at hours used.

    If you forced me to get rid of all my devices but one, it’d probably be the Steam Deck that’ll be left. And yes this consideration included my gaming pc and smartphone.

    The only regret I have about buying the Steam Deck is being so late to the party, having acquired it but 6 months ago.










  • Your not towing anything with the smaller transits.

    Even the smaller vans can tow 1.5t. I’ll concede it’s a lot less then a pickup can tow but this is not “nothing” and plenty practical for lots of use cases you’d have in any city.

    And they suck in winter.

    This is the Netherlands, not the Yukon. We don’t have 5 foot deep snow on the roads in the Winter. In fact it’s been years since we had any kind of snow at all. We just have a mild chill and mostly just rain.

    The off-road/awd capability’s of any vehicle are almost entirely irrelevant in the Netherlands for the overwhelming majority of people.



  • Trump has the “excuse” of having to depend on El Salvador for this but there’s no way Bukele has no control over their prison system. This is the same guy that had the weight to “sanitize” El Salvador of criminals, i’m sure there’s nothing within El Salvador’s borders this guy can’t control.

    In other words, this man will die in CECOT.

    This guy is likely already dead, which would also be the only somewhat logical explanation as to why Nayib can’t return him.



  • Ik ben al jaren lid van de partij waar ik ook al jaren op stem, maar het probleem lijkt mij toch vooral te zoeken in de hoek van politici die zich laten beinvloeden door mensen met belangen die niet persé heel breed liggen, en mensen die nooit vinden dat ze genoeg geld hebben en er ook niet voor schromen hun welvaart over de rug van anderen nog verder op te krikken.

    Volgens mij is het percentage stemmers die echt lid zijn van een partij ook nooit echt magistraal veel hoger geweest? En lid zijn van een politieke partij of echt meedoen in dat proces en dingen als partijcongressen bijwonen en flyers uitdelen tijdens verkiezingen enzo zijn ook nog wel twee verschillende dingen.