I live in a bigger (left-leaning) city with good connections elsewhere through our train station. Our local public transport isn't great, we just have buses. I wish our municipality would explore other transport options as well but they don't seem eager to do so. I live fairly close to the train station but that doesn't change the fact that the different in travel time is so significant.
I'm not going to move for this job, I've never moved for my job since jobs come and go. I search for them in a specific radius from my house and my current job was definitely on the edge of what I feel comfortable with. That all aside though, moving there (Utrecht area) is basically impossible with how expensive housing is nowadays.
I fully agree there should be less subsidies for driving and more for public transport. I understand being able to drive is a privilege and if public transport felt like a solid alternative I would use it more often. I like being in the train, it's quite relaxing. I was just trying to highlight that the Netherlands isn't perfect either and that people sometimes idealize our public transport and infrastructure.
As a Dutchie, I can attest to this. Most people I know are VERY much reliant on their cars and would rather die than give them up. Our non-car transportation is okay outside of the the big cities (where trams pick up a lot of the slack), as long as you go to another bigger city / town. Once you want to go somewhere outside of that, the cost and travel-time racks up quickly. Also, companies and governments are very much supporting car ownership.
A personal example: I travel to work by car (it's around 80 km door to door). I know, wrong community to admit something like this but I have a very simple reason for it: I get paid more to do so and it's faster. Going by car means I get to work in just under an hour. If I try to do the same thing using public transport, it will take me an hour and 45 minutes.
I get compensated €0,25 per km of driving. My car is quite fuel efficient (a Toyota corolla hybrid which uses around 4 l of fuel per 100 km) which means this easily covers my fuel (and most other expenses that come with driving my car). So when I take the car, I end up getting paid more salary each month.
If I take public transport, my work covers this for me. A one-way trip door to door would cost around €22,00 so that's €44,00 round-trip. It's great that they do this but it doesn't benefit me to do so. I don't get extra salary and spend more time traveling, for which I am not reimbursed. Therefore, I end up driving instead.
And like I said, the "amazing public transport" you see represented online is usually only the big cities. Outside of those we heavily rely on our trains and buses, which aren't anything to boast about. I've taken the train in other European countries and had very similar experiences for a much lower price. On top of that, if you live in a town that doesn't have a train station, you're dependent on taking a bus from that town to a bigger town with a train station in order to get anywhere. And once you need to start doing that you're going to have a really rough time getting anywhere without a car.
I had a wireless mouse that did that shit, it was infuriating. You'd move it and it would take like 0,5 second to register you moving it, causing it to move with a delay every single time you hadn't touched the mouse for like 10 seconds.
I don't think it's as much about the level of Argentina and more about the level Spain plays at. There's basically no team that can beat them at the moment. The best you can do is defend and hope they don't score (like Cape Verde did). They are so dominant and so good at holding the ball that they even made a team like France look incompetent. .
Most of the Argentina players didn't play at their best (just like they've done all tournament) but Spain also just made it impossible for them. Add to that the injuries and forced subs of both of their starting centre backs, the red card and that idiot Paredes coming and only kicking players instead of the ball and there was just no chance of them achieving anything.
I feel bad for Messi, he really dragged the team all the way to the final only for his teammates to completely give up once they got there. It made it easy for Spain to neutralize Messi and with that, all threat from Argentina was gone. If Messi retires (which I think he will), I think Argentina won't be much of a threat for the foreseeable future.
The amount of upcharge on anything wedding or funeral related is honestly insane nowadays. Want to rent a space for a party? Sure, that'll be 2000 euros. Renting the same space for a wedding? Sure, that'll be 5000 euros, catering not included. Ridiculous.
This. Countries around the world could save SO much money if they stopped subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. But no, better increase the tax on the middle class...
To be fair to them, their average daily commute is about double of what it is over here in Europe and their public transport / alternative transport options are way more limited.
But yes, they definitely don't help themselves by driving giant child killing death trucks that burn a gallon of fuel every few miles.
Sounds very on brand for him then. I've given up on expecting there to be an end to this, I think it will just go on and on and on until Trump gets kicked out of office (and then some more because Dems are just as eager about this war and sucking off Bibi).
I fully agree that this should be the last drop in the bucket for the governments around the world to really go all in on sustainable energy.
My country's government (I'm Dutch) announced a package of measures worth 1 billion euros yesterday to help combat the war consequences and they mainly focus on relieving the impact. It's nice of course but I think they should instead stick some of that money (if not all of it) into speeding up the green energy transition. That would really help out in the long term.
Besides, the measures they did end up taking are very unpopular. They lowered road tax specifically for company cars, offered employers the option to decide whether to compensate their employees more for their travel time and put some measures in place to help out the poorest. The last one is good of course but everything else is kinda pointless in my opinion...
I wish the Netherlands would speak up against Israel too. Our PM even took part in a massive protest a while back but the second he got into office he seemingly flipped positions, influenced by our "wonderful" right wing lib party.
Yeah, the fossil fuel lobbying definitely paid off for those companies. They really should start moving some of those subsidies into electricity and electric cars / sustainable public transport. There's no reason not to. Battery tech is basically at the point that 95% of people could drive electrically with some minor adjustments so why not give it some more incentives?
Honesty though, I don't blame Iran in this. Their terms were clear (and pretty reasonable) and the orange idiot and the genocidal baby killer just straight up ignored them.
We're slowly getting to the point where they're get too greedy and moving past that critical mass point. I think Trumps presidency really turbo charged the idiocy.
Well I have been hearing them complain more about it being more difficult to make ends meet. Perhaps that'll finally make them rethink their political stance.
I agree with that sentiment, shame I'm not actually from the US. My in-laws are but they're (allegedly) too disconnected from politics to care. I still feel like they might be closeted Trumpers that don't want to openly say so but who knows.
I live in a bigger (left-leaning) city with good connections elsewhere through our train station. Our local public transport isn't great, we just have buses. I wish our municipality would explore other transport options as well but they don't seem eager to do so. I live fairly close to the train station but that doesn't change the fact that the different in travel time is so significant.
I'm not going to move for this job, I've never moved for my job since jobs come and go. I search for them in a specific radius from my house and my current job was definitely on the edge of what I feel comfortable with. That all aside though, moving there (Utrecht area) is basically impossible with how expensive housing is nowadays.
I fully agree there should be less subsidies for driving and more for public transport. I understand being able to drive is a privilege and if public transport felt like a solid alternative I would use it more often. I like being in the train, it's quite relaxing. I was just trying to highlight that the Netherlands isn't perfect either and that people sometimes idealize our public transport and infrastructure.
As a Dutchie, I can attest to this. Most people I know are VERY much reliant on their cars and would rather die than give them up. Our non-car transportation is okay outside of the the big cities (where trams pick up a lot of the slack), as long as you go to another bigger city / town. Once you want to go somewhere outside of that, the cost and travel-time racks up quickly. Also, companies and governments are very much supporting car ownership.
A personal example: I travel to work by car (it's around 80 km door to door). I know, wrong community to admit something like this but I have a very simple reason for it: I get paid more to do so and it's faster. Going by car means I get to work in just under an hour. If I try to do the same thing using public transport, it will take me an hour and 45 minutes.
I get compensated €0,25 per km of driving. My car is quite fuel efficient (a Toyota corolla hybrid which uses around 4 l of fuel per 100 km) which means this easily covers my fuel (and most other expenses that come with driving my car). So when I take the car, I end up getting paid more salary each month.
If I take public transport, my work covers this for me. A one-way trip door to door would cost around €22,00 so that's €44,00 round-trip. It's great that they do this but it doesn't benefit me to do so. I don't get extra salary and spend more time traveling, for which I am not reimbursed. Therefore, I end up driving instead.
And like I said, the "amazing public transport" you see represented online is usually only the big cities. Outside of those we heavily rely on our trains and buses, which aren't anything to boast about. I've taken the train in other European countries and had very similar experiences for a much lower price. On top of that, if you live in a town that doesn't have a train station, you're dependent on taking a bus from that town to a bigger town with a train station in order to get anywhere. And once you need to start doing that you're going to have a really rough time getting anywhere without a car.
I had a wireless mouse that did that shit, it was infuriating. You'd move it and it would take like 0,5 second to register you moving it, causing it to move with a delay every single time you hadn't touched the mouse for like 10 seconds.
And especially the foreign cyclists
I see you've dealt with democrats before.
I don't think it's as much about the level of Argentina and more about the level Spain plays at. There's basically no team that can beat them at the moment. The best you can do is defend and hope they don't score (like Cape Verde did). They are so dominant and so good at holding the ball that they even made a team like France look incompetent. .
Most of the Argentina players didn't play at their best (just like they've done all tournament) but Spain also just made it impossible for them. Add to that the injuries and forced subs of both of their starting centre backs, the red card and that idiot Paredes coming and only kicking players instead of the ball and there was just no chance of them achieving anything.
I feel bad for Messi, he really dragged the team all the way to the final only for his teammates to completely give up once they got there. It made it easy for Spain to neutralize Messi and with that, all threat from Argentina was gone. If Messi retires (which I think he will), I think Argentina won't be much of a threat for the foreseeable future.
The amount of upcharge on anything wedding or funeral related is honestly insane nowadays. Want to rent a space for a party? Sure, that'll be 2000 euros. Renting the same space for a wedding? Sure, that'll be 5000 euros, catering not included. Ridiculous.
This. Countries around the world could save SO much money if they stopped subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. But no, better increase the tax on the middle class...
To be fair to them, their average daily commute is about double of what it is over here in Europe and their public transport / alternative transport options are way more limited.
But yes, they definitely don't help themselves by driving giant child killing death trucks that burn a gallon of fuel every few miles.
And will then most likely proceed not doing that. The current dems are a punch of wimps who bow to the corporate interests, just like the republicans.
Sounds very on brand for him then. I've given up on expecting there to be an end to this, I think it will just go on and on and on until Trump gets kicked out of office (and then some more because Dems are just as eager about this war and sucking off Bibi).
I fully agree that this should be the last drop in the bucket for the governments around the world to really go all in on sustainable energy.
My country's government (I'm Dutch) announced a package of measures worth 1 billion euros yesterday to help combat the war consequences and they mainly focus on relieving the impact. It's nice of course but I think they should instead stick some of that money (if not all of it) into speeding up the green energy transition. That would really help out in the long term.
Besides, the measures they did end up taking are very unpopular. They lowered road tax specifically for company cars, offered employers the option to decide whether to compensate their employees more for their travel time and put some measures in place to help out the poorest. The last one is good of course but everything else is kinda pointless in my opinion...
I wish the Netherlands would speak up against Israel too. Our PM even took part in a massive protest a while back but the second he got into office he seemingly flipped positions, influenced by our "wonderful" right wing lib party.
Yeah, the fossil fuel lobbying definitely paid off for those companies. They really should start moving some of those subsidies into electricity and electric cars / sustainable public transport. There's no reason not to. Battery tech is basically at the point that 95% of people could drive electrically with some minor adjustments so why not give it some more incentives?
Yippee! The fun never ends...
Honesty though, I don't blame Iran in this. Their terms were clear (and pretty reasonable) and the orange idiot and the genocidal baby killer just straight up ignored them.
We're slowly getting to the point where they're get too greedy and moving past that critical mass point. I think Trumps presidency really turbo charged the idiocy.
While that's true, he was still miles better than most other recent presidents.
Well I have been hearing them complain more about it being more difficult to make ends meet. Perhaps that'll finally make them rethink their political stance.
I agree with that sentiment, shame I'm not actually from the US. My in-laws are but they're (allegedly) too disconnected from politics to care. I still feel like they might be closeted Trumpers that don't want to openly say so but who knows.
Ah yes, the Schumer classic.