Gast pleur echt heel hard op met zulke comments. Op wie wil je dan dat Amerikanen gaan stemmen? Je krijgt maar twee opties. Dan maar de minst slechte. Als we in Nederland zouden moeten kiezen tussen D66 en PVV dan toch veel liever D66?
So yeah "things" are shittier, because nowadays we have the ability to live in a nearly post-scarcity society but we just don't wanna.
Humankind could have been living in blissful peace for centuries. We've always had the ability to not kill each other or fight for resources. But many people, then and now, don't want that.
The way civilizations/empires/countries have operated has largely been competitive. It's naive to think we'll all just come together and solve these very complicated problems.
Saying that people are stupid or racist... I don't think that barely has anything to do with what prevents all major countries of the world to work together to combat things like disease, climate change, inequality, etc.
How do you define "things"?
On a global scale and on average, life for humans is getting significantly better than, say, a century ago. The number of people dying from preventable diseases, war, natural disasters has been steadily going down for a while now.
Of course there are many more people on earth than there were 100 years ago, so accumulatively there is a lot more suffering now.
Also, the lives of individual people, the state of certain countries and areas are certainly getting worse.
As for non-human animals... For most of them the world is getting increasingly less habitable and for those who are raised in an industrial setting for human consumption, living conditions are largely atrocious.
I think your question is too broad for a single answer. But you might be interested in this now 17 year old (!) TED talk by the late Hans Rosling, which at least partially answers your question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
Don't like Real Madrid either but rather they win it than PSG, Man City, Chelsea, etc.
But yeah actually I think of the remaining teams I'd love it if Dortmund would win. Bayern rather than Real, Real rather than PSG.
Real Madrid I at least have some respect for as a club and institution. Not that they haven't done morally and legally questionable things, but PSG and City are operating on a whole different level in that regard.
En zo valt het doek voor Vitesse. Ben benieuwd of ze blijven bestaan en in welke vorm.
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Also to note: all they say about the built-in password manager of Firefox is that it lacks the feature to save credit cards. But I don't care about that and am perfectly happy using Firefox (alongside pass
(https://www.passwordstore.org/) on my laptop).
Silver lining for Arsenal is that they can focus on the league, but now for City (and probably Liverpool) the same applies.
And just like that there were no English teams left.
Only watched the penalties. Modric of all people to miss (actually I don't know his penalty record), but in the end it didn't even matter.
Happy to see City out. Hope PSG get eliminated too. Other than that don't really care who wins.
Vijfde is genoeg als Feyenoord de beker wint. Maar zo'n pot in de Kuip, ik zie niet hoe NEC dat kan winnen dus heb er wel vertrouwen in.
Uitwedstrijd zou leuk zijn! Conference League dan ook, daar zitten altijd een beetje rare/kleine/verre clubs tussen.
Mooi dat het spel ook goed was. Heb alleen korte samenvatting gezien. Lekkere goals inderdaad!
en dan zijn we veilig van degradatie
Nu al praktisch gezien, met dit programma.
Excelsior heeft nog Ajax en Feyenoord uit. Als ze die verliezen kunnen ze niet boven PEC komen.
RKC moet drie wedstrijden winnen. En één keer winnen voor PEC is sowieso genoeg! Dus komt wel goed lijkt me :)
Around 2004 we had some people over for a card game night. We were all sitting on our house's big terrace, where we had also put this type of lamp. The terrace was open to the outside and the lamp attracted a large amount of bugs, which would burn and start to smell, the same smell you are remembering.
To stop this from happening, my brother decided to put a kind of glass plate on top of the lamp as a cover. Initially this worked great and the smell was gone.
10 minutes later, the glass had gotten so hot that it exploded violently, shooting shards of glass all across the terrace. It was a lesson learned.
Better late than never, right?