smeg

joined 1 year ago
[–] smeg 1 points 5 days ago

I was wrong. They voted against it.

[–] smeg 13 points 6 days ago

I can't understand how this has reappeared, basically overnight, after being rejected now twice in the last 6 months. What kind of banana democracy is the EU running?

[–] smeg 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

America will vote 'present'

[–] smeg 2 points 1 week ago

Dutch tv seems very focused on drug shows, crime shows, etc.

[–] smeg 18 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Better hardware. +

But much higher price. -

Games are more expensive. -

And no must have releases. -

Score: -2

Result: low sales

[–] smeg 42 points 1 week ago

As a US citizen who lives overseas and has to vote in a state with byzantine practices, they usually only send me my digital ballot form less than 30 days before the election. To mail it and have it received before election day, I would have to mail it within a day or two. Not a lot of room for mail delays.

Oh wait, DeJoy has been sabotaging USPS efficiency for years.

Guess we can give up on that "no taxation without representation" line

[–] smeg 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And elected politicians, right?

[–] smeg 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

required = yes

Easy to flag. Then Lennart Poettering's startup van deploy the ID tech to comply with age verification laws.

[–] smeg 3 points 1 week ago

My Alma Mater. The writing was on the wall when they started shrinking and consolidating all of the pure academic departments in favor of the vocational departments, sorry I mean "business college"

[–] smeg 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most people prefer what they're already familiar with, especially when they've never experienced anything different.

Not much of a revelation.

[–] smeg 10 points 1 week ago

I made the move to the Netherlands with my family last year. Definitely worth it.

We downsized from a 1400 sq ft house to a 75 m² apartment. We've made it work and we're pretty happy about it, with some caveats about what we want our next place to have.

Getting a visa will be your hardest problem. Countries don't just let people in for funsies, you have to have a visa path.

[–] smeg 5 points 1 week ago

We're academic oriented American parents, so our instinct is to encourage academic success.

Honestly, the Dutch schools just feel less bureaucratic? I think that plays a big role, too. In American schools, kids feel like a car on an assembly line. Any exceptions or personalization along the way are treated with lota of paperwork and suspicion. The Dutch schools seem to treat kids like... kids? Human beings with individual character. It's refreshing.

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