Legal or not, the firings were unjust. That they are illegal by bourgeois law is just icing on the cake that makes it more palatable to believers in the status quo

At the same time, I’m reading about how they’re missing other targets, so overall I’m confused: https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing-6-march-2025-two-sessions-climate-news-new-vice-minister-targets-missed/

When I look up the video all the comments are Dutch people struggling with the cyclist’s Frisian accent lol

Don’t forget the “red-islamist alliance”

:spidermans-pointing:

…wait, there isn’tan emoji for that?

Uhhh…

The Spanish royal family constitutes the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon (Spanish: Casa de Borbón), also known as the House of Bourbon-Anjou (Spanish: Casa de Borbón-Anjou).

I… didn’t see that.

CGTN is “Chinese state media” lol, it used to be called CCTV like at home

They’re replies spread out over multiple months that I haven’t marked as “read”, in most cases because I want to save them for later.

Looking a bit into this, it seems to be shenanigans over some budget cuts that were approved by the majority-KMT legislature, possibly just to mess with the DPP government. So the DPP is now trying to get recall votes in almost every KMT consituency where they can do so. Kinda reminds me of all the (attempts at) recall votes for California’s governor.

Some businessman and his NGO advocated for doing these mass recalls for “KMT=fifth column” reasons, but afaik there was little grassroots support for this

Kinda funny when they say the rally took place in a “rainy Taipei” meanwhile the stock photo shows it being sunny.

The KMT opposes independence like the DPP wants and they advocate for “cross-Strait dialogue” with China. They’re the legacy party that founded the Republic of China. They are lean older and more conservative, whereas the DPP is associated with the youth.

XiTA

You haven’t seen Emmen. Has poor transit to boot.

One thing I should point out is that while we do cycle a lot, car ownership is still super high, so even in a model city like Houten the streets get cluttered by households having 2 cars each.

My explanation for the aversion is that we refuse to shake off an antiquated view of the Dutch landscape where our cities are small and low-rise with a lot of rural areas. So we may not be on Belgian levels of sprawl (we did get some measures against that in the seventies) but medium-sized cities are everywhere and as a result motorway traffic is high. The motorway between Amsterdam and Utrecht is 5 lanes in each direction.

I know Switzerland sprawls a lot too but they also have more railroads connecting them all, at least.

Oh, and Dutch people are the epitome of the neoliberal subject.

Seconding this as a Dutch person, especially on the “allergic to dense development” part

“Finally” our turn? I thought we were one of the first…