You will never meet a more conservative voter than the mean (mud)German voter. Nothing should change ever, anywhere.

I was literally just about to call the broadcast manager at ESB, nice guy, but then I procrastinated and opened up Blue sky...

Whispers: This is still just air-conditioning.

When they are brown and blocking traffic they are rioters. When they are white lynch mob and trying to murder asylum seekers by setting their homes on fire with people inside, they are protestors. youtu.be/NNuCdrwwR_s?...

Walking the dog at 5:50 in the morning, hear screaming and cursing come out of a house. Sure enough, penalty kicks lol

My American mind cannot understand why this debate only happens in Europe. The rest of the world "It sucks, don't die, get AC." There is nothing unique about France, UK, or German cities, but this strong cultural undercurrent.

When you build homes to a code that requires high floorplan solar exposure rates.

I have no idea how Germany can survive the closure of 4 VW factories and cutting 100k jobs.

I don't know why people are treating this like some sort of revolution. De Blasio did it as well while simultaneously raising costs.

Kind of fundamentally disagree with this take. If for local environmental concerns and not engineering concerns, you reduce nuclear power during a heat wave and solar is perfectly capable of covering the gap. That does not mean 100% solar is the only way forward. Shit is useless in winter.

I don't think any European country or city has lifted sleeping in the rough restrictions. But they really should

Shit... New Passport = New UK ETA.

Even as night falls, the heat remains unrelenting across France. @ 9 pm local time, some towns are still recording humidex values up to 50°C (122°F) Even at 9 pm , Romilly-sur-Aigre in north-central France remains 35.6°C (96°F) with a dew point of 27.4°C (81.3°F) Extreme, even, lethal, heat

KLM remains the worst f-ing piece of shit airline. Stupid ethno-state national pride preventing competition.

IMO the main reason white (sub)urban millennials and Z feel so much poorer than their parents is simply because their parents benefitted from the white flight and/or gentrification cycle. Cities ran out of 30m-1hr commutable land and boom / busts do not really exist anymore in housing.

A lot of people will blame a pet policy, or Brexit, and now to proceed and blame my pet policies. The country is demographically doomed, wants to preserve its ethno-state, has expensive energy and cannot complete with America on increasing productivity through AI development.

This is Dutch crack cocaine.

Paris if air-conditioning had been invented by a Frenchman and not American Saint Carrier.

The superiority of shitty American double hung windows strikes again!

How does 1 of the safety bars on a squat rack go missing? What the hell were the cross fitters doing? I presume something like swinging it over their heads and making propeller noises.

The town of Utrecht has a social housing waitlist of 12 years before getting a home. Some are made available for lottery, a 1/3200 chance. www.rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/40567...

If you want to build a VC backed company to vacuum up a shit ton of money, you simply need to propose products and concepts that science fiction writers invented and they read while in middle school. Or in Musk's case the anime he watched.

Even if just a non-binding pledge, the concept of actively trying to benefit historically disadvantaged groups on government expenditure is extremely far to the left of anything acceptable in Europe. Also as someone who has done this, such a complete and total pita /cost adder.

I remain extremely disappointed that the typical Dutchman cannot actually handle direct feedback. I am turning it down for you people.

If anyone has ever bid a MTA contract you see this plan as day. The technical SOW is rarely longer than 10 pages. The remaining 400 pages are a mix of legal compliance and a living history of ways they have been screwed before -now prohibited from the bid.

God I miss fluoride in my drinking water. Stupid superstitious, RFK, Dutchmen.

Is it "shit on stingy conservative blood and soil Europe day" today? Totally here for it. The Knicks did just win the only sporting event that matters this month, so eat shit you self immolating has beens.

Ummmm. I am literally working on building city center data centers in NYC right now lol. And there are reasons for it to be city center and there are a lot of reasons why it is very difficult and these days centers are outdated. Some of these on this map are literally outdated and abandoned.

Europeans returning to default European things and building ghettos for undesirables. "One idea would be to use the deportation hubs for 'one specific nationality,' he said." www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

Really is amazing seeing Europeans media calling a terrorist lynch mob in Belfast "rioting protestors." Ethno-states are stupid.

Does the mayor of the city of Los Angeles even matter?

Cabinet integrated appliances SUCK!!!!!!! Complete esthetic over function choice.

The waitlist for UK social housing is so long (but also probably has a lot of housed individuals on it) and the UK rate of construction is so low, it would take 119 years to build the backlog. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

A lot of these deeded donations are simply a resident trying to get the government to pay for the ongoing maintenance (and real estate taxes) of their views / distance to neighbors.

Dutch government comes out, and says "yo, we are Alabama levels of racists." Alternatively, the USA is regressing back to the institutional racist norms of stupid European ethno-states. What DEI was would cause riots here. www.staatscommissietegendiscriminatieenracisme.nl/documenten/2...

God the lack of competition at Schiphol and reliance on KLM for many routes is the absolute worst.

Hm. In a conversation with a high profile building in Chicago, appears generators are basically impossible to get permitted.

(Dutch) Video about resistance to the construction of 5600 homes in Amsterdam. 0 displacement conversion of industrial area. Basically: -want to keep vibes. -parking and car charging. -only people born here should live here. -new housing can be sprawl, take transit. youtu.be/Sv9IjyylmOc?...

Environmentalists need to adopt a different term to distinguish themselves from environmentalists.

The (rest of the world) mind cannot comprehend how (rightfully) easy voting is in much of the USA.

Interesting quick summary about the politics of air conditioning in the NIMBYist country in the world. lenews.ch/2026/05/29/t...

Wait until you learn the real reason Dutch people ride bikes! Never had anything to do with infrastructure.

The EU celebrating its groundbreaking regulatory framework around the AI threat just a few years ago, and now being in a complete panic over AI sovereignty is kind of hilarious.

Random thought: People greatly underestimate just how much of a detriment electronic payments are to economic growth. Small business are built on "check is in the mail" shadow credit.

90% of Dutch bike lane km's are simply gutter sharrows. The difference is I feel perfectly safe riding on these. The reason is getting a driver's license in America is too cheap and accessible.

It's that time of the year when tens of thousands of Europeans must be sacrificed at the alters of degrowth, alternative cooling solutions, and idiotic myths about air conditioning. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

When Americans point to Europe and say how much more liberal it is and how Bernie Sanders would be center right... news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

Don't remember where I read this recently but, "Nothing like the primary objective of a project as reliably as a secondary objective."

There are so many wall street area buildings that are comically ducked due to a combination of LL97, older and less desirable floor plates, historic preservation, FDNY and batteries, plus the terrible electric grid down there.