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I actually get the graph that way.

Here you go!

I live in the Netherlands, and fired for cause is very hard over here. Basically the employer needs solid evidence of misbehaviour, and even then most judges will still rule in favour of the employee.

Three months would be excessive in the Netherlands. The legal minimum is one calendar month. When you resign you can always negotiate to shorten the period, but most of the time people will work the remainder of the contract. Also, your new employer might actually think there is something wrong if you can quit your current job faster than the one month.

How I’ve learned it is, that cognitive dissonance arises when one of your beliefs or behaviours is challenged by new information. This can make you uncomfortable, and to alleviate that, people have coping mechanisms. It’s probably these coping mechanisms which cause other people to say you suffer from cognitive dissonance. There’s a quite good Wikipedia article on this imo.

Haarlem is not a suburb but it’s own city, it is actually the capital of the North-Holland province.

That article literally says the other one is what New Zealand is named after.

Companies only do things for their bottom line, not for customer demand. Also, if nobody would buy gas from Shell anymore, their gas stations would just have to be rebranded to something else. Behind the scenes the oil companies are all trading with each other.

How the fuck is this country even still standing at this point with this chicanery and buffoonery at the reigns?

Because it’s basically the same everywhere?

There’s two spring-y extensions on the back which slide inside the electrical box.

The Dutch word is almost the same as the German word, though most abbreviate it to “beha”.

We hada Philips and a Dyson, which were in our opinion trash. We now have a Nilfisk for the last five/six years, holds really well.

Meanwhile they’re getting workers from everywhere because of their declining population. What a shitstorm Orban makes of his country.

In the Netherlands we now also have a “terugleveringstoeslag” where you have to pay a monthly fee based on the maximum peak power delivered to the grid over the year. At least, the bigger electrical companies already have it, the rest will soon follow. My coworker (who has way too many solar panels installed) got a letter from Essent that he had to pay 67 euros monthly starting October. So he switched companies, but he’ll have to figure out something else next time.

It’s not, but you made me google, so I gave you an upvote.

I’m gonna knit a brown sweater. If you guess what I’m gonna do, I’ll let you have half of it.

She picked me up in a bar. Been married for 23 years now

Windows 10 or 11 on all (three) day to day systems. Linux Mint on an old laptop which is hardly ever used, and windows xp on an ancient laptop that’s only used as music player, and not connected to any network.

If you really want to go that route, skip this book and read “poor man’s James Bond”.

Crows are some really ballsy animals. I saw one do a feint attack in the air on a falcon the other day, presumably so that if the falcon was carrying prey it might drop it.

On the other hand, we used to have a chicken that was so food driven, it succesfully attacked a crow who was trying to steal his food. So that one might have been less smart. I’m sure however it remembered that particular chicken.