That’s not my experience at all ,there’s nothing about windows that “just works”. If feels like two or three different systems badly stapled together.

I’ve yet to see to see one. Where have you seen them? Is it Germany or the Netherlands?

It looks fucking weak and pathetic and the UE should have stood its ground, but apparently it’s the same as with the Japan deal. The investments are just smoke, no money allocated, no dates, etc. Just an empty gesture to appease MAGAts Still, pathetic and VdL should be sacked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich?wprov=sfla1

As I said, they’re not in power here, but you’ve got a pedophile fascist there. What are you doing exactly about it?

The far right is a minority in the European Parliament. Von der Leyen could be better but she’s not Trump. We voted and are struggling but at least we’re holding the line. How is it going for you?

Indian is not a language

Ah alright. Got you

Yes, more than 25% are not Jewish

It says Israeli, no religion was mentioned.

The hypocrisy of the Netherlands talking about fiscal resposability while having siphoned off the taxes from most of the continent is something else

I don’t know, I enjoy using gnome much more that the steaming pile of shit that is windows 11

He said linux, not gnu/linux

I can’t wait for the bubble to pop.

It’s very entertaining to be able to trigger people at will to crawl out of the like bugs and talk shit online

Uhhh so edgy

Read the agreement. It wasn’t mandatory

Income tax is one thing, social security is another and the taxes your employer pays as business are another. You’re just conflating them all. Some countries have lower social security contributions but have no universal health insurance or you just have to pay out of pocket or it’s tied to your work, etc. It’s not apples to apples

Taxes I agree. They are proportionately larger than in most of the EU, and services worse.

They are actually below average

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/05/16/personal-average-tax-rates-in-europe-which-countries-saw-the-biggest-rise-in-2024

Services, I guess that’s more a matter of opinion, but having lived in Germany, UK and the US, I think they’re OK

Nobody knows, the new agreement hasn’t been published yet (or at least I can’t find it on the NATO website). What’s on the NATO website is the previous one and the wording is intentionally very vague, as usual in these kinds of treaties so that everyone can keep doing their thing:

Allies whose current proportion of GDP spent on defence is below this level will:

• aim to move towards the 2% guideline within a decade with a view to meeting their NATO Capability Targets and filling NATO’s capability shortfalls. (emphasis mine)

mandatory to spend 2%,

It wasn’t mandatory