I’ve tried playing turn based games but they just kill any story pacing / flow of gameplay and I just can’t get into them.

It sound great but turn based is an immediate ‘no thanks’ from me.

Not in the city it isn’t.

It’s a bit too sweet for my taste.

As long as there’s no immediate traffic, I’ve found it safer and faster to just cross through the median, rather than try to mingle through an intersection with vehicles.

I’m Dutch. We don’t generally mingle cyclists and car traffic outside very low traffic / low speed areas. There will be a separate bicycle path with its own traffic lights. Or even better: you can just take the bicycle highway and not encounter any traffic lights or level crossings with cars at all. Straight shot into the city center.

Also, you can’t drive your car into the city center at all, it’s a car-free zone. You have to park your car at the edge of the city center, in a parking garage or other paid spot (€3,80/hour), then you’d have to walk from there. On Saturdays it’s basically a traffic jam all the way from the ring-road to the parking garage. Meanwhile I can ride my (e-)bike straight to where I need to go and park it basically anywhere.

Oh, and I ride brakeless. My shoes are my brakes.

You’d be pulled off the road so quick if you did that here. Your bike is required to be roadworthy, which means working brakes, lights, reflectors, etc.

Bicycles are inherently slower than cars, even at halfway racing speeds.

I’ll race you from my house to the Saturday market in the city center. I’ll go by bike, you can go by car. Bet you €100 that I’ll beat you there by at least 5 minutes.

Yeah, those lazy people should just go get some more money. Maybe get a small $1,000,000 loan.

But only until he can take their healthcare away.

The Netherlands

Birth cert, immunization records, high school and college diplomas. Name change docs. The list is endless.

The list reads like it only applies to backwards/undeveloped countries. Birth certificates aren’t a thing here, immunization records are in my digital patient file, I must have a paper diploma somewhere, although I have no idea where it is and I never had a need for it. The last time I had to prove I have a BSc. I just downloaded the signed PDF from the education service website. Any name changes would just be recorded in the government’s basic administration. Even things like the deed to my house is registered with the government and no one would ever ask me for the physical piece of paper, even when selling it.

I never had them back when I was a kid because my mother hated them so she never made them. The first time I had one was in my 20’s.

They started changing about 30 tears ago. https://www.iowafarmbureau.com/Article/Its-not-your-imagination-brussels-sprouts-do-taste-better-How-gene-editing-is-changing-how-we-grow-and-eat-food

That’s also because the Brussels sprouts older generations grew up on and the ones they sell now are not the same thing. They are significantly less bitter than a few decades ago due to selective breeding.

Yeah that’s not how elections work in the Netherlands.

He wasn’t elected prime minister because we don’t vote for who gets to be prime minister. We vote for political parties. After the election the political parties have to form a coalition that has a majority of seats in the house.

Rob Jetten’s party (D66) was the biggest after the elections and it’s custom that the largest party will try to find coalition partners and that they will also supply the prime minister (which is usually the party leader) so it’s likely he will be PM but this isn’t necessarily the case.

Last election’s winner did not become the PM, he was too controversial a figure so none of the coalition partners wanted him to be PM. Instead they found a independent person to be the PM, one who wasn’t even a candidate.

That being said he will likely get the job, but it’s not a done deal yet.

Zeg makker (͡•_ ͡• )

Bigger TVs was always the point of higher resolutions. SD content looked perfectly fine on the small CRT screens we had at the time. HD made bigger screens possible, same goes for 4k.

My last CRT was a 28” beast which was considered huge at the time. Then I got a 50” HDTV which was considered huge at the time. Now I’ve got a 77” 4k TV which is considered huge at this time.

Plasma TV’s are beasts. They also get hot and use a lot of power. They look great though.

I have a 77” OLED and while it’s large it’s also very flat and sits flush to the wall. Really doesn’t take up much space at all. The thing that takes up more space than the actual screen are the 12 speakers you need for the surround sound system that goes with it.

“far enough north” for this effect is above 59° latitude

What are you on about? I’m at 52º North and from May 20th until the 25th of July there is no night at all. Best we get is about 3 hours of astronomical twilight.

DST basically robs you of useful outdoors time in summer. Want to spend some time outside after work? You can’t because of the scorching hot sun. Thanks to DST it’s time for bed by the time it has cooled down enough to be outside. Of course by then it’s still too hot to sleep so you’re fucked anyway. By the time it has cooled down enough to sleep it’s almost time to get up again.

If we want to move the clock then we should move it backwards in summer instead of forwards. That way we get more time in the evening where it’s nice to be outdoors, we get to sleep when it has cooled down a bit more. In the morning the sun would be up earlier but blackout curtains solve that issue, and temperature lags behind the sun anyway so we get to sleep in the least hot part of the night.

DST is the worst invention ever.

Work three hours, buy house, sports car and superyacht.