This is just conservatism, no actual argument is actually made for its preservation. This is what happens with the gradual march of technological progress, new better options replace the old when it is surpassed in every qualitative way. You always get groups of people that don't like change, hanging on to the old...
I think you can sit all day on a shitty chair as long as you do some strenght training to ensure your spine is sufficiently stabilised. Only time I got some back aches was during Covid when the gyms were closed for half a year.
What does that even mean? Did you not get the whole, burning hydrocarbons is bad for the climate memo? We have to stop all net carbon emmissions in the next fifteen years or were screwed (propably already are) and twats like you keep going online spouting your 'i don't buy the climate argument' bullshit. We're literally talking about burning hydrocarbons to heat stuff, how the hell can you say that you don't buy the climate argument?!?
You gotta start somewhere mate, might as well start with a rule that says, if you're gonna build something new and put a new stove in, might as well make sure it's electric. Really don't see you're point here. So because the impact of a single measure is not that big it means we shouldn't do it? You could apply that reasoning that a shit load of individual measures, what you fail to point out is that all those individual measures add up to a Significant reduction, even if any single one doesn't by itself.
Your arguments do not make any sense. Contrary to CO2 emmissions, nitrogen emmission have a direct effect on local wildlife, biodiversity and health of people and animals. It therefore does make absolute sense to limit emmissions, even if that means emissions are subsequently done in another country, besides 75% of dutch livestock is produced for export so we are actually currently taking the local emmission burden for foreignly consumed meat!
The 'small guy' are a couple of extremely rich cattle feed producers (in fact in the top 10 richest families in the country) which financed a succesfull propaganda campaign to derail this extremely necessarry piece of legislation. It is a damn shame that american type populist and big money financed misinformation campaigns are coming to the Netherlands as well...
What are you even talking about?! Nobody is talking about banning livestock production. The netherlands could literally reduce the amount of livestock in the country by 50% and still produce more meat and milk than is consumed by Dutch society, in fact we would have plenty over for export. The only reason people want to hold this legislation up is for their own monetary gains.
Nitrogen fixation is mainly a problem related to livestock, 75% of livestock/meat production is exported in the Netherlands. This has nothing to do with food security...
And to add to this: The Netherlands is currently a huge meat producers while being a relatively small country with very high population density. In fact, 75% of dutch meat production is exported. This has therefore nothing to do with compromising Dutch food security and everything to do with Large cattle feed producers in the Netherlands fighting (with a lot of money and donations I might add) to not loose a very lucrative market.
Unfortunately from a public perception perspective they have a very easy and convincing story to tell: the story of the hardworking dutch farmer working day and night to put food on the table of Dutch society!
Sure... You could also reframe it as the cost of building a big gate around your low homelessness neighborhood to keep the homeless out and to have security personelle to boot them out of the neighberhoud if they do get in...
Sure but isn't that a bit of a chicken-egg question? Why doesn't that the Netherlands have a huge poor underclass? Perhaps it has something to do with education at all levels being practically free and having social safety nets to ensure people don't fall through the cracks of the system ending up being homeless/destitute. I can tell you btw we do have a significantly large underclass, they just don't live on the street or in crime ridden ghettos.
You could easily solve that by having social/redistributions measure on a municipality/state level... The Netherlands is also part of the EU, very little social welfare measures are effectuated through the EU, most of that happens on a state level.
Why are you guys talking about a bail-out? Is there any talk of that? Not as far is I know... As far as I've seen that only happens when there is a systemic/ high contagion risk...
Sure but is a rationally acting financial institution operating in line with the incentives of the system they operate not also inclined to do everything to keep your money safe?
That is a patently false statement. Extensive A/B tests have shown that most people don't like a coloured sound and instead prefer a flat frequency response with low distortion. You can convince yourself that your expensive audiophile headphone with coloured sound are amazing for you, but research clearly shows that preference in relation to music reproduction is not some sort of deeply personal preference that differs from person to person. Audiophiles seem to all try and convince themselves that it is and everybody is on their own audiophile discovery journey to find the sound they like, when these audiophiles are actually subjected to a blind A/B test, they find out that they're actually much closer to the norm than they'd like to admit...
Self check-out works amazingly well in the country I'm from (the Netherlands), most shops have even done away with most traditional check out lanes, leaving only a couple for people that don't want to use self checkout. You do have to scan the bar code of every item the same way a cashier would but because many more self checkout counters fit where there used to be only one traditional checkout lane, you never have to wait for a free counter so it still saves a tremendous amount of time.
Shoplifting is countered by random inspections so every so often before you pay, your checkout locks up and e clerk comes over to scan 5 items to ensure you've scanned everything. I'm pretty sure they also link that data to your customer loyalty card so I hardly get checked anymore..
Sure war still happens all the time, it is however of a very different scale and intensity. Nukes have basically precluded any direct confrontation between nuclear capable states (or alliances with those states). Wars between those states used to be the most destructive ones.
Proxy wars through and in non nuclear states sadly still happen...
This is the exact same model plenty of Dutch cities use and this is absolutely not the problem they have. Sounds more like a city cleaning problem than anything to do with waste collection.
Who would want to buy a farm for which the license to operate has been revoked? This is a reduction in total livestock in the Netherlands as a result of a reduction in the amount of farms, these farms are not just being bought up and integrated into larger farms....
This of course relates to nitrogen holding compounds such as ammonia, other sources (in the form of nitrogen oxides) are road and airplane engines as well as construction and heavy industries. These nitrogen compounds actually have an acute negative impact on population health through respitory tract damage as well as on wildlife as well as certain types of plants, which leads to a reduction in biodiversity. That's the reason for EU wide nitrogen compound emmission caps. Just to be clear, the Netherlands has an extremely high concentration of livestock farmers. About 75% of meat production is exported even though we're an extremely small country with a super high population and structure density..
The reason for having reserves in another currencies is for your country to be able to buy stuff with that other currency from other countries, it is therefore an enabler of international trade. You seem to be seeing reserve currency as some sort of external piggy bank/store of wealth for central banks, which it is not. The only way what you are proposing makes any sense is when every country starts accepting bitcoin as the defacto currency for payment in international trade, which would never happen.
If for example Japan wants to buy stuff from America, they'll need dollars, so they buy dollars with yen on currency as markets, why would anybody first want to buy a volatile crypto to, after which they still would need to buy dollars to actually purchase the American goods? Or should we replace all national currencies with bitcoin or something? What are you proposing? This has been the recurring problem with cryptofanatics, you understand nothing of basic aconomics and just spout this kind of nonsense which after a first uninformed look seems vaguely credible and you start convincing yourself that crypto's have any real use
Sure, but what you are describing is not the same as becoming a tax resident of country solely for tax gains, I think that is morally wrong. I do believe in open borders and flows of labor, if specific part of the the world raise wages to attract skilled labour, I think that's great, more choice for us all! I personally would still want to live in the Netherlands earning a third of the disposable income compared to Dubai for various reason, including moral as well as standard of livings reasons but I completely understand somebody else might make a different choice.
there is a small subset of people that indeed believe in the programmable money future in that world, the vast majority of people were just sold a get rich quick scheme and are now losing their money.
So not paying taxes like everybody else which pay for public services you use is morally defensible as long as you don't pay those taxes to a democratic nation as opposed to a dictatorship?
Just like russia was America's best friends during WWII, they still let them bleed dry before entering the war ensuring a sufficiently weakened Russia after the war.
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