Let’s see how long it takes before he gets another pardon and a government position.

I think that people with access to higher education who also have constant access to world news is bound to lead to people not wanting to put their kids through it. If you compare that to someone who barely has access to the internet and whose main focus is trying to feed their family and it’s a whole different situation. Humans need meaning in their lives and in western societies this has been waning for a while now.

Nothing. The thing he said about openly shooting someone in the street without meaningful consequences is getting more and more true every day.

Bro… condemning them is such a low bar and these ass politicians here are not even willing to take that step. It takes almost 0 effort and is very low risk. We have territories that “belong” to the Netherlands close by that are afraid of what’s going on with their neighbor and you won’t even speak up about it. Weak.

I agree, I think it’s all about affordability and ease of use. If they can sell them for a nice price (somewhere around the price of a PS5 pro) and they’re easy to use I don’t see a reason why they wouldn’t sell. Hell, I might even buy one myself. I have a very old gaming pc (close to 10 years old now) and even though I’ve replaced some parts over the years (ram, GPU, storage), the core of it is still very outdated and it might almost be cheaper to switch to something like this then to upgrade my existing pc.

I fully agree with you. There’s a reason why people that are terminally online often have pretty extreme ideas.

It really feels like it’s getting more and more difficult to have a good discussion where you can disagree on something but still talk to each other about it. People are in their echo chambers and the dissonance of that to the opinion of someone else is so large that they can’t do anything but call it fake or wrong.

I guess it might be about time to finally cancel my YouTube premium over this. I already was a bit on the fence after they bumped up the price, this might be the final straw. There’s already plenty of misinformation on the platform as is, no need to let even more proven spreaders on there.

As a Dutch person, I’m very glad we’ve made this decision. After reading about Ireland doing the same I didn’t think we would but I’m glad that we did and also that we’ve decided on this somewhat early instead of waiting to see what the “bigger” countries are doing like we usually do with these things.

I’m glad they’re giving him all the “words of strong disapproval” before doing nothing about it and letting him do whatever he wants. Good stuff…

Oh good, I’m sure that will make things a lot better… I honestly feel most of the world would be better off without AI…

People would freak the fuck out if he was holding a Koran instead but because it’s a Bible it’s socially acceptable… Silly stuff.

Lol I love how it says "considered one of the more humane ways to sacrifice laboratory rodents. Who are they sacrificing them to? The great God of science?

Yeah, definitely a kinda true statement on their end. Except they mean it in a positive way and it obviously isn’t…

It’s the same in the Netherlands. The most vulnerable traffic participant is always protected. Bicycle gets hit by a car? Cars fault. Pedestrian gets hit by a bicycle? Cyclists fault. And so on.

I mean, the fact that there is stuff for sale in the US with the label saying “scientists in California have proven this causes cancer” is proof enough that even a crazy nutter like RFK can be sometimes right.

He’s obviously guilty and I really hope people don’t let him get away with it. He should be shamed for what he’s done, even if it was “long ago” (which it clearly wasn’t judging by his continued contacts with Epstein even up to when he was president).

It’s crazy, he’s pulling all the “break glass in case of emergency” files out at once. Let’s hope it’s not enough to distract people from what a gross pedo he really is.

NSC and BBB. PVV looks like it might stay as one of the biggest, if not the biggest. But I hope that a successful campaign from other parties can change that. The big party on the left was only trailing by 1 seat at the last polls.

As a Dutch person, I’m very pleased this happened. The only thing that could’ve made it better is if it happened earlier. In the news coverage yesterday you could already see all the “ex” government parties trying to spin it in the most positive way for themselves. I really hope it doesn’t work this time. 2 of the 4 current government parties look set to be nuked next time around and have basically no influence anymore. I just really hope that means that people look more towards the left (or at least the center) when voting again. We’ve had a very long time with right wing governments now and enough is enough.

Our country has been suffering for a long time and things have definitely been getting worse societally, more and more people have been turning into right wing nut jobs who assault police and medical personnel and misbehave in all possible ways.

I’ve even seen it a lot that people don’t even reply to “how are you”, they just start talking about something else. So weird…