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Taalnazi

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  • In Permissive Amsterdam, Ads for Fossil Fuels or Meat Are Now Verboden

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  • Parking is only expensive if you're not a resident there. It's also easier to travel by public transit to and fro in and around Amsterdam.

    'sides, the 30 km/h is good for safety in pedestrian areas. So I feel like this measure actually improves general wellbeing.

    A livable city is a city of pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transit. Cars should only be necessary for ambulances, firetrucks, police, and transport. (And while we're at it, kick out those disgusting American monster trucks!).

    Now, the housing affordability, that one's a great and valid concern - I think we should allow squatting if people keep it clean, and push away from people owning several homes to rent at extortionate rates. We'll need to encourage building in a lot more towns and mid-sized villages around, instead of only in the Randstad. If we want the NL to be balanced and prepared for sea level rise, we better gotta build in the south and east.

    On the sex level, I disagree with Halsema's proposal to move out the prostitution to a remote area which may be less safe for them. I think it's better to coordinate w/ the prostitutes etc themselves to increase safety w/o laying foundations for surveillance states.

  • Dutch central bank chooses Lidl for European Cloud

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  • A step ahead, but better to ditch relying on corpo altogether, and have an independent, own host.

  • Merz suggests Ukraine may have to accept territorial loss to help pave way for EU membership

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  • Balkanise Russia instead

  • Swedbank discontinuing their wallet App

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  • Can't Wero try to change servers?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL the fascist Uštase had a children's concentration camp

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jastrebarsko_children%27s_camp

  • UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for 'terrorism' amid UK media blackout

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  • UK are participating in terrorism now, aren't they? They should jail & reform apartheid defenders instead.

  • Swedbank discontinuing their wallet App

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  • There is a European alternative to Visa/Mastercard! It's Wero.

  • Von der Leyen uses Orbán defeat to push for end of veto in EU foreign policy

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  • Oh definitely, she's an enabler. What we need to do, as leftists, is to look at WHAT the fascists are doing to win votes, and use their own tactics but tweaked for the left.

  • Von der Leyen uses Orbán defeat to push for end of veto in EU foreign policy

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  • See: Yesilğoz, a Turkish liberal politician who betrayed the Socialist Party to work for the corrupt, big company party (VVD), and now clails to be a minister, despite effectively calling Douwe Bob's refusal to have a pro-Israeli concert, "a normalisation of Jew hatred".

    Fuck her, she's not my minister. And when Douwe Bob got death threats due to HER words, she refused to cave in until the latest moment. Fuck that piss minister, bought by Israel's genocidal lobby.

    I hate her and I think she is actively enabling antisemitism and fascism. And she indeed is! She tried to proclaim that antifascism is a danger.

    Fascists never tell you they become fascist. They start with declaring an enemy. And let us then make sure they will regret that, and reform to be good citizens.

  • General Staff: Russia has lost 1,304,550 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

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  • The real number is likely somewhere inbetween the Russian and Ukrainian estimates.

    Prigozhin estimated 120,000, and that's by 2023 only, when he complained the numbers were underreported. The lowest Western estimates of the war up to February this year, point to 230,000, the highest to 1,400,000.

  • PSA: Bot advertiser going around

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  • Praise be, thanks!

    I actually did try reporting but couldn't, it hence why I did it this way.

  • PSA: Bot advertiser going around

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  • Yeah this is the exact DM they send. I suspect it's an ad or a scam attempt by having you click the image with something attached.

  • Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe warned of debanking consequences

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  • Sadly so far only Belgium, Germany, and France. Why those already managed to put in Wero while the rest hasn't, is beyond me.

    Are there actual, practical reasons? Or are other countries' governments being lobbied too hard to not put through with Wero?

  • Programming.dev Meta @programming.dev
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    PSA: Bot advertiser going around

  • Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe warned of debanking consequences

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  • iDEAL from what I know is basically Wero, just local. So you're already kind of using it, if you do so.

  • Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit

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  • fascist*

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  • Should also add that a lot of libertarians in reality tend to be more of the "I want the freedom to repress others" people, eg wanting homeschooling (which can increase abuse), opposing measures that would improve every person's quality of life (such as universal healthcare) etc.

    Anarchists on the other hand, tend to be more often on the socialist or communist kind, in where they favour the abolition of hierarchy and thus favour an egalitarian society, by abolition of private (but not personal) property.

  • Why is Sigrid Kaag on the Board of Peace?

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  • Who was the journalist? Is there film evidence?

  • Americans on vacation

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  • Yeees... yees... all is going according to plan

  • How do Scandinavian/Nordic cities compare to Dutch cities (Amsterdam in particular) in terms of walkability?

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  • Been around in both areas often, I'm Dutch and went to Oslo. Family has visited Copenhagen. All are walkable by US standards, by European standards as well. For Dutch standards, it varies a bit.

    Overview

    As for public transit, generally I'd say the NL are the second best in the world (Switzerland is somewhat better in its quality and reach to smaller towns, and Luxembourg actually has it for free). Still, all capitals and 100k+ cities in the Nordics and NL should be decent in terms of public transit, walkability and bicyclability. Don't expect a utopia of perfection. Like every country, we have our nice things, problems and issues, just a bit differently.

    That said, it's certainly better than NYC, which I'd consider the most STEW-friendly big city in the US. Cambridge, Massachussetts might be better than NYC, though (higher total bike & pedestrian & public transit share).

    STEW is how I translate the Dutch priority system for infrastructure, that we use:Stepping - PedestriansTwowheelers - BicyclistsEveryone - Public transitWheels - Cars

    For an environment to be car-friendly, STEW is absolutely necessary (thus, bicyclists, pedestrians, public transit, all those make it better for car drivers, as there's fewer traffic jams!).

    My recommendation, if you are going to live a few km outside of the city, get an e-bike, or live near a public transit stop.

    Nordics

    Of the big Nordic cities, Copenhagen is the most bicycle friendly, clearly the winner. I'd even go as far as to call them excellent for Dutch standards. The rest of Denmark is likewise decent. Odense pops out most in mind, they have a particular extra focus on bicyclists.

    In Norway, Oslo is a relatively good one as well, lots of bicycle paths. Stavanger and Bergen are also okay, but not as good. (And they're way rainier!). Most Norwegians will take you into account when you bicycle along the roads, by driving a bit slower near you.

    In Sweden, Malmö, Umeå, and Uppsala are fairly good for bicycling. Stockholm, compared to other Nordic capitals, has a better cuisine and nicer architecture, but the biking is meh.

    For Finland, the capital Helsinki according to the Copenhagenise Index, is number 6 out of all cities, so should be pretty good (the index only takes into account cities with 100k+ people, though).

    Iceland is a beautiful country, but it's unfortunately still very car-focused. Reykjavík has quite some bits to improve regarding bicycle friendliness. It could be considered walkable, though it is not quite bicycle-friendly yet.

    Faroe Islands: sorry buddies, I don't know too much about you. Only that it's walkable, but no idea about bicycling and public transit.

    Greenland: same issue as Faroe Islands. Don't know much, but I know there's a bus line in Nuuk.

    The Netherlands

    Amsterdam is on par with Copenhagen and good (but so are virtually all Dutch cities), though it suffers from a lot of tourists walking on the bloody bicycle lane. I've had to ring more than often to yell them away.

    Utrecht I'd actually label more bike-friendly. It has or is going to have a neighbourhood that's completely car-free. The mid-sized cities Groningen and Nijmegen (nicknamed "Havana at the Waal") are great as well.

    Of Dutch big cities, Rotterdam and The Hague are imho the worst. They have a more carbrained infrastructure. On a global (and even European) scale it's still bicycle friendly, but you will encounter wide roads where other Dutch cities instead have bus lanes, bicycle lanes, etc. It's improving, though.

    DiscriminationMost of the Nordics as well as the Netherlands are actually fairly sympathetic to Cuba and we like Cubans (not the far-right ones in Florida though, we detest those that voted for Trump).

    With regard to discrimination, I think you'll find that it depends on how well you learn the national/local language. Most people in the NL and Nordics can speak English decently, but socialise in their native language. The better and sooner you learn that, the easier it'll be adapting. Discrimination isn't as overt or common as in the US, but usually is more 'casual', more subtle. Think à la, not getting hired as fast because of foreign names, lower salaries, that stuff.

    The far right sadly also grows everywhere in the world, due to rich people funding those through algorithms -- and so violent incidents increased. Regardless, discrimination should and must always remain prohibited, and so please do report it! I'd welcome you as one of us.

    That said, on how you'll be treated, approximated, you'll be fine. People are curious and like to hear from elsewhere. Jamte's law applies. Don't stick out too much, don't brag about being rich, don't put other people down, that all helps.

    And, this goes for everyone (even native people included), but it's harder to get yourself into friend circles as an adult. Not impossible, though! Your best bets are through study, work, and hobbies. So seek those out.

  • Queens Boulevard, New York City. It’s insane that we allow car dealerships to take over as much land as they want to store cars

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  • More like, why does the street cross the bike lane like that.

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
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    How to talk to other people on NMS console w/o voice

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
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    CHALLENGE: what star system so far closest resembles the real-world one you've seen?

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
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    Highest damn mountain I'd seen

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
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    Question

    If you play in Permadeath, are there then any Paradise planets without sentinels?

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
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    Dance rave with everybody <3

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
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    Most valuable item you'd ever find?

  • Mlem for Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    No longer able to change app picture

  • Europa / Europe and the EU + EEA @lemmy.world
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    Turkey will back Sweden's NATO membership bid

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/world-europe-66160319
  • Assassin’s Creed @lemmy.world
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    Mirage - Basim, the master Assassin