Guess I'll be contacting my MEPs, and looking into which MEPs support and oppose this plan.
Though I am glad to see my country at least has stated it finds the proposal unacceptable.
What the hell man.. The guy is just sharing his view on what OP asked..
Just because you disagree with the guy doesn't mean you need to wish cancer upon him.
According to Cornald Maas (the Dutch commentator for the Eurovision) the "threatening motion", as far as he is aware, was Joost pushing down the camera/phone, after asking not to be filmed.
A mix of Spotify (I have a premium account there), and my own collection of CDs which I have ripped and can access via Jellyfin for higher audio quality.
AirBnB is already severly restricted in several parts of Amsterdam (though a court ruling last year did overturn those restrictions in some neighbourhoods)
I think you are missing the point why people take issue with overtourism.
Amsterdam isn't a themepark, it's a city where people actually live, grew up, have lives. And overtourism tends to hollow out what makes the city authentic. The houses get converted to AirBnB's and hotels, the regular shops, pubs and restaurants can't find regular customers anymore so start catering to tourists instead, etc. This results in a sort of Disneylandification of your city.
It's generally a nuisance to the inhabitants of a city. And ultimately a city is for the people who live there, not the people who visit.
Tourism can be good for the local economy, but there is only so much people are willing to put up with.
It's because back when smartphones and Whatsapp were new, unlimited text messaging plans were either expensive or unavailable in much of Europe (and I would imagine other places as well). From my understanding these kinds of plans were much more common in America.
When your cellphone plan has limited text messages, but sending messages via Whatsapp takes so little data that it might as well be unlimited, the barrier to early adoption becomes very low. So people start using Whatsapp, and get their friends to use Whatsapp. And once that ball is rolling it becomes very hard to stop.
These days people use Whatsapp because everyone else uses Whatsapp.
It's the assumed default.
Edit: Heck.. even to this day I have limited text messages.
My current cellphone plan is for 12 GB, Unlimited calls, and 500 texts.
And I've not sent a single text message in months, if not years.
I agree with you entirely that automated trams are more difficult than automated metro systems. However I do think that trams are a most likely a more easily solvable problem than automated cars.
Trams are restricted to their track, so the number of unique situations in which they can end up is more limited.
Because of this you can model the environment in more detail.
Trams are large, heavy and commercial vehicles. So you can justify shelling out for more detailed sensors such as lidar etc, whereas on a Tesla you have to make due with merely a camera sensor.
You could potentially hire a dedicated person in a central location whose job it is to remotely get trams out of tricky situations.
This would not remove the need for drivers outright, but could reduce the number of drivers you need per tram.
That is not to say automated trams are easy, or already viable. I'm just saying that they are likely more viable than automated cars will be in the nearby future.
If the situation in Germany is anything like the Netherlands, it legit is just a shortage of workers outright.
There are more job vacancies than people to fill those vacancies, so you end up with a shortage of workers.
Making tram driving more attractive by paying them more would draw employees away from other industries, who also need people to do the work.
Not saying tram drivers shouldn't be paid more, but if the situation in this German city is anything like what we are dealing with here in the NL, then paying people more is not going to solve the issue.
Only solution is to either decrease the number of open positions (which usually only happens in a recession, which is not great), or to increase the number of people who can do the work (for example through immigration)
Edit: A possible solution specifically in the case of trams could be automation (self-driving trams), which would relax the overall demand for workers.
There are already transportation system without drivers that have been operating since the 80s (e.g. the London DLR)
It's probably a bit more tricky in mixed traffic, but since trams are on predictable rails it would be easier than automating cars.
$1149 / month is the average, meaning there is cheaper places out there (probably depending on location)
Not everyone earns minimum wage, there are plenty of people who earn above minimum wage
Just because there might be issues with cohabitation, does not mean that living alone doesn't seem to correlate with higher rates of depression
The new study comes at a time when the number of single person households in the U.S. has skyrocketed. In the decade from 2012 to 2022, the number of Americans living alone jumped by nearly 5 million to 37.9 million.
There is clearly a lot of people who can afford to live alone, and for some reason they appear to be at a higher risk of depression.
Dismissing the existence of this group is not going to solve that problem.
The [ICJ] ordered Israel to refrain from any acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention and to ensure its troops commit no genocidal acts in Gaza.
"At least some of the acts and omissions alleged by South Africa to have been committed by Israel in Gaza appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the (Genocide) Convention," the judges said.
The ICJ has said that there is a possibility that some of the allegations that South-Africa has brought forward might fall under the definition genocide.
That is not a definitive statement. That is saying that further investigation is justified.
I have also not seen the Israeli government openly calling for genocide or the extermination of the Palestinian people. However, I have seen plenty of instances of the Israeli government calling for the elimination of Hamas.
It could be that "Hamas" is a veiled placeholder for "Palestinians", but it could also very well be that they are specifically talking about the terrorist group.
My problem is not the suggestion that it might be genocide. I'm not even entirely convinced that it isn't. My problem is people claiming that it is definitely, factually, genocide, while referencing statements by courts that have never been made.
Prime-minister Rutte was literally with Netanyahu today calling for a cease-fire and for Israel tone down the attacks.
The Netherlands may be an ally of Israel, but they are hardly saying "Israel can do no wrong"
You claim that Israel is "factually" committing genocide, but there are legitimate reasons why people are hesitant to outright call what is going on in Gaza a genocide.
On Wikipedia the definition of genocide is as follows:
In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.
Key part in this definition that people generally get hung up on in the case of the Gaza, is the "intent to destroy".
Very few people are arguing that Israel is not extremely heavy-handed with their actions in Gaza, to the point that they have likely committed war crimes against the civilians of Gaza. However it is insanely difficult to prove that there is an "intent to destroy" in full, or in part, the Palestinian people in Gaza as a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
There are plausible explanations as to why the current operation might not meet that definition.
Maybe it is a genocide.. Maybe the Israeli army is merely very heavy-handedly eradicating a terrorist group, with a high civilian death toll as a side-effect.. The latter is almost definitely a war crime, but it is not necessarily a genocide. We simply do not have the full picture yet.
I think editorializing actual statements made by the court to make them sound like they support the case for genocide, only serves to muddy the discussion. And I take pretty big issue with that.
Edit: Small disclaimer.. I'm talking in this case about what is currently going on in Gaza.
What is going on in the West-Bank with the settlers is a different matter.
That situation I consider to be ethnic displacement, at the very least, committed by the settlers with the full support of the Israeli government.
This is a judgement by the Dutch high court, not the government.
The Dutch government is still studying the verdict, but is seemingly looking to reverse the decision.
Guess I'll be contacting my MEPs, and looking into which MEPs support and oppose this plan.
Though I am glad to see my country at least has stated it finds the proposal unacceptable.