Vincent

Yes, I am not arguing that street design doesn't matter, and I'm not arguing that speed limits are always adhered to. All I'm saying is that none of those clips say that speeds limits do not matter at all. Usually they'll say that they need to be combined with traffic calming measures like bends, roads, and cobblestones.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find research that looked at a real-life situation where speed-limiting measures were taken without a low speed limit being applied.

It's not either/or. Those videos say that street design is important (i.e. if you make a wide and long stretch of asphalt, you can set a limit of 30 km/h, but nobody's going to stick to it), but they don't say that you can make a winding, cobble-stoned street lined with trees, and then put the speed limit at 100 km/h.

And as the article says, doing both is exactly what Helsinki did.

Not just implied:

Helsinki decided to lower speed limits near schools to 30 km/h, a measure that is set to take effect as the academic year begins. (...) Street design has also played a key role.

Yeah in practice you're right - if you live in the Netherlands and are adamant that you're not voting GroenLinks, I can be fairly certain that you're also not going to vote D66 or PvdD.

But that doesn't allow me to go on a rant about two-or-fewer-party systems :P

I feel like this one might actually be better if it omitted the last five panels 😆

I'm glad I live in a place where this would give you almost no info.

Because there's more than two options.

That makes sense, thanks!

See https://feddit.org/comment/8020018

It's not saying that Israel might launch an operation in the Netherlands, just that it's trying to influence public opinion and to interfere in the operations of the ICC and ICJ (in the sense that US sanctions did).

Ah, thanks! So it was the AIVD, not the NCTV, I was just looking in the wrong place :)

This tracks, although "designates a threat" sounds like a bigger deal than highlighting these two widely-reported actions, i.e. I understand why this didn't make the news here. It certainly doesn't signify a sudden change in Dutch policy vis a vis Israel.

As a Dutch person, I don't know this source or the one it's referring to, and I can't find the report on the NCTV's own website, even when I search for the mentioned name (I can only find one from 2022, that doesn't seem to mention Israel).

https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/114874448146053278