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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Where I live now, in the Nordics, I get really agitated when I see people (in cars) standing in the middle of crossings and blocking T-junctions to smaller roads. Unlike in the Netherlands, and probably most countries, you can tell that there is way less time spent with an actual instructor (not claiming Dutch drivers are perfect, people in general are not flawless, let a lone in a high speed box on rollers). Another thing that annoys me is the amount of people on their phones while driving, it is insane. I didn’t observe it like this in the Netherlands, but that I might just have missed this. Mobile phones must be the most dangerous addiction if we can’t even put them away when doing potentially dangerous activities.

    I completely recognise the experiences you have while driving. My primary transport is public transport. I love it as I can chill and let my mind just relax a bit, but we have access to a car, and, indeed, when using it (when I snoozed a few too many times), everything is upsetting (the issues in the first paragraph are in general bothering me though) and their is no chill time when driving to work. I like driving on a holiday, cause you get to see new things and get to drive scenic routes, but as a means of everyday transport it is the worst.

    I can give the people here some slack. The streets are terrible, even in the urban space. And it does indeed help a lot to have guidance and good structural rules on how to use the roads (like roundabouts).




  • He had more than his view, he was instrumental in its creation and actively visited them.

    Indeed, Nazi propaganda must have strengthened their alliance as well.

    President Vlodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, condemned the embroidery marches, which had been conducted legally.

    I guess Nazi symbolic are not as regulated as they are in western-Europe and far from the strict rules in Germany.

    Do you know if neo-nazism forms a more significant part of the Ukrainian population than in other states, or has it been much more highlighted because of the invasion?

    It is sad to see these nazi, xenophobic and extreem right parties flourishing over Europe. All the polarising issues playing now, with a large amount of disrupters and disinformation do not tend to bring people in harmony.


  • I completely agree, we should not applaud these people, not parade them and of course nationalism often leads to more harm than good.

    Of course, Himmler had his view on the group, and like you said, and is mentioned on the wikipage, many joined for other reasons, like independence. The group itself has never found guilty for war crimes, this again does not mean this hasn’t happened.

    The parade in 2010 is really… bad and strange. Makes me wonder who allowed it. This was prior to the Mayday revolution, under a Russian aligned president.

    Again, I am not saying joining the SS for other reasons than the extinction of jews is justified, but people take their opportunity when it arises in a direction they think is right.

    Thanks for the insight on the other options in the form of the Galicians. Could the reason for them (the Ukrainian section of the SS) joining the Nazis be, that they could be better equipped as a part of a war machine, rather than as a resistance group?






  • I think this is the most overlooked aspect, besides it never being in time to do any good for the crisis we are in now.

    I believe, the increasing cost and loss in efficiency compared to alternatives will always be an issue for NE to be out-priced by solar and wind (Dunai, 2019; WNSIR, 2022). These cost will eventually come back to the end user.
    Most definitely the reason why nuclear advocates want the government to give securities and don’t dear to be the entrepreneurs they claim to be (NOS Nieuws, 2018). Please give me some welfare state, but I’d rather have some more solid solutions.

    Costs. Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) analysis by U.S. bank Lazard shows that between
    2009 and 2021, utility-scale solar costs came down 90 percent and wind 72 percent, while
    new nuclear costs increased by 36 percent. The gap continues to widen. Estimates by the
    International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has seen the LCOE for wind drop by
    15 percent and solar by 13 percent between 2020 and 2021 alone. IRENA also calculated that
    800 GW of existing coal-fired capacity in the world have higher operating costs than new
    utility-scale solar photovoltaics (PV) and new onshore wind (WNSIR, 2022).



  • Trams are the cosiest things to sit in. I enjoy being half asleep in the morning and just look at all the people being busy. Wish my town had some more grassy lines, but they don’t lack on where you can go.

    (edit: I want to add that I am also happy with the buses here, don’t think there is a reason to be either or and rather focus on reducing cars in town and in its suburbs. Obviously easier to do for smaller towns).