[-] Plantee@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Of course, I neither wanted to portray arms sales as just something good. Unsurprisingly, states manage to have these twisted deals in the name of national interests.

[-] Plantee@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I want to add, that arms are still needed in this day-and-age, even to uphold peace. So many things are not as black and white as they seem.

I am quite happy NATO (to name one) can deter bad actors from attacking it, or in worst case use them to protect its member states. But, yes, ideally weapons would be history.

[-] Plantee@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

Solely looking at GDP says little about the impacts of Brexit, especially on the impact it has on individuals. While it tells us the UK fares well on production capacity and economic growth, it says little on the welfare and well being of her citizens.

There is of course a lot of disparity of the origins in the data, and Tory governing most likely have its effects as well.

Point is, GDP is not a good measure on whether things are looking bright for individuals.

[-] Plantee@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

You are simplifying this extremely.

I wonder if there is a state willing to do this on their on accord without backing from the UN. Then, would Israel consider this as a breach of sovereignty? What is the risk for the peace keeping state if Israel considers this a breach of sovereignty, do you have the US + west against you?

[-] Plantee@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Indeed, that is what had happened to the League of Nations and why the US never joined.

Also the UN is still an important platform where diplomatic relations are upheld even in dire situations. Even with Russia it is important to have some lines of discussion.

[-] Plantee@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

I prioritised the flow of the sentence ;) Top 5 currently are red/white, and then adding the ones at the bottom of the table (Almere, Utrecht en Ajax) you have 8 out of 18.

[-] Plantee@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Instead of stopping all professional football in the Netherlands, stop all those games with teams that repetitively cause problems. There is definitely too many games with issues, but not the majority of them. Then again, Van Basten, probably has his red/white glasses on again, and sees Ajax as the epicentre of Dutch football.

[-] Plantee@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Trams are the cosiest things to sit in. I enjoy being half asleep in the morning and just look at all the people being busy. Wish my town had some more grassy lines, but they don't lack on where you can go.

(edit: I want to add that I am also happy with the buses here, don't think there is a reason to be either or and rather focus on reducing cars in town and in its suburbs. Obviously easier to do for smaller towns).

[-] Plantee@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Massive fan of Hidden Bar, but now with a nodge it is lacking progression, but it seems this repo has picked up the pace: https://github.com/UeharaYou/HiddenBar

[-] Plantee@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Both Chrome and Firefox have started development on their own engines.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/07/mozilla-developing-non-webkit-version-of-firefox/

There was a similar report on Chrome and Blink. Nothing official, but I feel positive ;)

[-] Plantee@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Als de golven meezitten, surfen in Unstad :)

[-] Plantee@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

beta 2 has significantly more crashes than 1 for me.

Also while I appreciate the screen distance feature (and will keep it on), I hope they will make it a little less intrusive an include a way to ignore for a bit. Sometimes, one has to examine something up close.

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