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Vincent

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  • Greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands in 2021 were 25% lower than in 1990

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  • Reminder: 2021 was not a normal year, due to the pandemic, and emissions have risen again afterwards, IIRC. The trendline is good, but comparing these specific years doesn't paint the clearest picture.

  • Exit poll puts far-right populist Wilders ahead in Dutch election

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  • Those 15 additional seats would have to come from voters who did not vote for him, getting angry about him not governing. If they wanted him in the government, why didn't they vote for him?

    And this is especially true in the case of NSC, who've said multiple times beforehand that they'd rather not govern with PVV. If you voted for them, you can't (and probably wouldn't) really be mad at them for doing what they said they'd do.

  • Dutch election: anti-Islam, far-right Geert Wilders set for big win

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  • And D66, otherwise they won't have a majority. Though the Senate (Eerste Kamer) I think will still be a challenge.

  • Dutch election: anti-Islam, far-right Geert Wilders set for big win

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  • At the same time, people are bound to compare it to e.g. Trump, who actually got a majority. It's good to know that our electoral system works differently, if you're unfamiliar with it.

  • Dutch election: anti-Islam, far-right Geert Wilders set for big win

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  • Well, that's not set in stone yet. If he doesn't manage to form a coalition (and it's very much in the realm of possibilities that he won't be able to), the GreenLeft-Labour Party is next in line. In which case a GL-PvdA/VVD/NSC/D66 coalition (parties #2-#5) is not unlikely. Which I'm guessing would have to make some concessions when it comes to migration, but would probably be OK-ish news for the EU, the climate, and democracy and rule of law.

  • Exit poll puts far-right populist Wilders ahead in Dutch election

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  • That was a way to walk back on her former statement that she wouldn't join a Wilders government. It meant that she didn't think he'd convince other parties to join his coalition.

    Which mostly depends on NSC. We'll see what they do, but I can imagine negotiations stranding and Timmermans getting a shot.

  • Exit poll puts far-right populist Wilders ahead in Dutch election

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  • SP did that, and look where that got them.

  • I hate chromium

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  • Haha now that you mention it, they do have similar logos.

  • Women make up more than half of ministers in new government of Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez

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  • I mean, how many people do you need? Surely if you can pick from all the women in Spain, you should be able to find 11 competent ones?

  • YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users

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  • Allright allright, you win :)

  • YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users

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  • I think Nebula aims to solve that.

  • YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users

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  • Alternatively, it's funny that people write comments arguing that it wasn't targeted at Firefox users, on a post that already says that it wasn't targeted at Firefox users :P

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    Mozilla Firefox 120 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New

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  • Removed

    Mozilla Firefox 120 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New

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  • As I understand it, the blocker has website-specific rules to automatically click the right buttons. For the first release, they've probably primarily tested those with German websites. I assume that if it works well there and they've ironed out most bugs, we can see it roll out more widely.

  • [Analysis] Will Frans Timmermans be the next Dutch PM on Wednesday?

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  • They might be, but the signs so far have not been in that direction: here's Omtzigt saying he'd rather have a right-wing minority government over GL-PvdA, and here's him playing up how hard he thinks it would be to govern with them.

    I'd be interested in knowing which coalition your colleague is thinking of, but when coalition negotiations don't work out, it's pretty much impossible to point fingers to a specific party - clearly none of the parties were prepared to give more concessions.

  • [Analysis] Will Frans Timmermans be the next Dutch PM on Wednesday?

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  • If PvdA-GL comes out on top, there is a chance for them to form a coalition with all the left-wing parties and one centre party. According to survezs most leftist Dutch people are aware of this and consider a tactical vote for PvdA-GL to get a more left leaning government.

    I don't think there's a big-enough centre party that would go for that, and I don't think that's what GL-PvdA is aiming for either. Rather, if they don't come out on top, what's likely to happen is that the right and centre-right parties would try (and probably succeed) to form a coalition together. If they do come out on top, GL-PvdA will instead replace one or two of those parties in that coalition, going for something like GL-PvdA/VVD/NSC.

    And then, of course, the question is what will happen to them in the elections after that. But I'm sure the PvdA is very aware of what might happen.

  • [Analysis] Will Frans Timmermans be the next Dutch PM on Wednesday?

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  • Meanwhile, Wilders, who wants the Netherlands to leave the EU, is currently polling as the number one in some forecasts.

    In one forecast. Also the only one that has Timmermans' parties at #4.

  • toolbox vs distrobox. Which one to use?

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  • I stuck with Toolbox for a long time because it was default, but then I wanted to be able to easily recreate my *boxes with the same set of packages when e.g. they broke for some reason, or because the distro they were built on released a new major version. Distrobox supports that with its , so I switched. Otherwise it's not too different really, for a casual user like me, and if I hadn't needed assemble, Toolbox would've been just fine.

    (Except that I keep forgetting whether Toolbox or Toolbx is the correct spelling now.)

  • toolbox vs distrobox. Which one to use?

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  • Not OP, but for me, the main benefit is how uneventful major distro upgrades are. Yesterday I updated to Fedora 39, and it was so anticlimactic to reboot and then be like: is it over? But that was really all there was to it.