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First of all of those parties I only consider D66 as central. Ja21 is far right. VVD pretends to be center but is also very right. SGP and CU are right and Christian so very conservative.

The thing about the freezing, it basically means healthcare stays as it is, and the newest most expensive treatments aren't automatically added to system, but the current ones are still valid. It's not great, but we need to seriously step up our military to gain more independence from the US, so we can defend ourselves against Putin, even if the US would choose not to help. This is going to cost a lot, so we need to either cut costs somewhere (healthcare is one of the biggest expenses) or we need to borrow more. Borrowing more will also kick the cheque down the road, basically making it the problem of the next generation. In a better world there was no thread of war and all the money could be spend on things like healthcare, but that is not the reality we live in.

I would call myself a (left) centrist, but I guess in has a different meaning where you live. In the Netherlands not even a right party is about letting people die without insurance.

I think what will hurt them much more is the EU realizing the danger in dependence on American tech like Microsoft, and slowly replacing it with (open source) alternatives.

This isn't really new, when I was young a lot of kids wanted to be a pro footballer or singer.

Worked with a guy that would always say I'm refactoring X and it would usually give us weird issues and bugs. So after a while the team started calling it refucktoring

Yes just like radical Christians, radical Muslims don't like anything gay, female etc. There is a reason in some Middle Eastern countries women can't go outside without a man "protecting" them.

Yeah what I mean is for me it doesn't really matter, I am not going to break a bottle, and even if I accidentally did (not really sure how at the beach in soft sand) I would clean up the glass pieces. Broken bottles at the beach are left by assholes, not by accident.

For me it doesn't really matter, glass or cans, just take whatever you brought back home or to a trash/recycle can

Nothing burger

My wife told me our son is hypermobile like her because he can sit like this https://andersonvillept.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/711ce16c-8c00-4abc-a7c5-3947d70fb2e5.jpg

That was when I found out it isn't normal and I'm als hypermobile

I can also do this (I though everyone could) https://my.clevelandclinic.org/-/scassets/Images/org/health/articles/23118-hitchhikers-thumb

Yeah I mostly learned English watching Cartoon Network, when it wasn't with subtitles or dubbed. They basically started airing in the Netherlands and an entire generation learned English by watching cartoons after school.

This is now repeating with YouTube and teens watching a lot of English youtubers.

I miss those days, Dexter's laboratory, Dragonball Z, two stupid dogs...