The Netherlands is basically entering a period of degrowth due to institutionalized and cultural BANANAism.

Utrecht's regional grid is sold out and not accepting anymore connections.

It's weird that the Dutch tax system is designed to prevent the middle class from becoming rich, but also protects the rich from becoming middle class.

A broken cable on the front of a bike.

Bike front brake cables last 17 years.

Sample size: 1

Said it before, saying it again.

There are three inevitabilities in life, Death, Taxes, and the NYC mayor will be violently hated by the end of their administration.

Laughs in Dutch at $10.30 per gallon.

You fools think we ride bikes because of culture and infrastructure?

A four quadrant political grid showing all political parties basically fall in the right conservative quadrant, or the left progressive quadrant.

Not really. We really just have the equivalent of Democrats and Republicans as they all fall on a same political line. All it does is shift coalition building from intraparty to interparty.

pfft easy...

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Updated statistics about safety of Dutch cycling.

1. 81k cyclists needed the emergency room last year (not walk in like USA need referral).
2. 16k of which had brain injuries.
3. 23% increase over the past 10 years despite better infra.

Basically every org you can imagine recommend helmets.

Shush... No facts, just vibes.

a man in a suit says " this looks like it 's gonna hurt " in front of a woman ALT: a man in a suit says " this looks like it 's gonna hurt " in front of a woman

I once again find myself asking for quotes from local 3.

There is no demand from Brussels.

Drive to Beive to Brussels, fly back to Amsterdam, get on the same plane to NYC, and save several hundred euro.

Can you find the pricing irregularity that makes no sense even from a supply and demand perspective?

A google flights screenshot showing that a single leg non-stop from Amsterdam to NYC is more expensive than a double leg stop from Brussels to Amsterdam to NYC. With the later flight to NYC being the same.

The mysteries of airline pricing.

The economy of the North Eastern Blue States and the West Coast blue states are larger than any European nation.

They can institute the labor price controls and admin layoffs that would bring one of the versions of European healthcare and costs.

They won't because those jobs are voting blocks.

The shortest way to become worth 10s of millions is to open a regulated building service company in NYC.

This is the only financial advice you need.

I pay about $100 per month in Holland.

Same car was about $200 in Florida.

Ah the 2% tax. I absolutely abused this when I had 20 of do employees in Kyiv.

The Dutch* FTFY

I might just be a queens boy, butI can't be the only one thinking both layouts are idiotic?

Just make one roundabout on the edge and unify the park.

What am I missing? Besides the fact that all American drivers suck.

American drivers cannot be trusted to actually learn and follow traffic laws in the modern political framework.

A.k.a. driving should be expensive and held to a standard of accountability.

+1.

The problem with food in the Netherlands is not who is cooking the food, nor the ingredients, it is who they are making the food for.

The despicably calvanist Dutch.

This is just a permanently installed portable unit.

"New" is the operative word when considering the Parisian ban on heat pumps.

If the city is somehow forced to build new homes, I am confident the Parisian insistence of human sacrifice against airco will remain.

It is insane that I need to connect via an app to a (not yet stolen) bikes gear shifter to apply firmware update so it shifts.

ESP32s are responsible for so much enshitification.

How dare you compliment us!

No point in learning Dutch, all you will ever talking about is the weather.

Yup.

That is to say the parking permits are separate from the corporation fees.

Yeah I looked at once of these a few months ago. Kitchen is too small.