IEC 60906-1 That is not a reversible plug which is annoying at times.

It takes less force to plug in. Above 2.5A, Schuko plugs require a lot of force to plug in and pull out. To some extent, this is actually good for safety, but I would argue that, in the case of Schuko plugs at least, it’s too much Hmm, I get what you mean and this can be an issue and it's probably the reason why plugs without grounding exist since they are easier to pull out.

It is also easier to plug in without seeing the plug since it isn’t round. Everyone who has tried to plug in a Schuko plug without seeing the holes knows how difficult it is Never had this issue

I didn't even know there are different three-phase power plugs, but then again you rarely need those compared to the normal plugs

Voting with your wallet really only works if you have options. In the EU it is generally easy to just not order from Amazon f.e. but I understand that isn't an option for everybody. And even if people make a choice it only works if a critical mass does it. That critical mass is pretty low for smaller stores.

I always find it weird that the wages for the US are so much higher even though most products are just cheaper over there. Partially because the sales tax is pretty low compared to VAT. The whole "automatic" difference in wages depending on where you live is BS. If I decide to travel 2 hours to work and my college decides to take a 15-minute drive/walk we should still have the same salary ffs. Different rant and I kinda understand why they do it, but wages will normally go up if they can't get anybody in the centre of new-york.

I kind of feel like they’re more Universal problems though at this point A lot of problems are yeah, some are reversed, like we in NL (Europe?) have an employee market while the US has an employer. (aka we have a lot of jobs to choose form and people in the US don´t). I just hope we can dig all of ourselves about the issues.

Yep. I’m thinking more and more what “made us great” in the past was the relative youth of our institutions. The longer these things run the further from ideal they tend to become. I would be very much in favor of institutional reform to attempt to continually improve these situations, but of course “institutional reform” is often a cover for fast-track corruption enabling.

I am not sure if this is even correct, The Netherlands as it currently is, is pretty young, but people have been living in Europe for ages. We are one of the countries with the lowest corrupt, we do pay a lot of corrupt nations/people though, but that is a different story.

Dystopian future stories about global corporate rule making governments irrelevant have been around for a long long time - the US is continuing to develop in that direction, but we do have at least a little further to go before we completely get there (even with recent accelerations in some areas.) It is hard for people in the US to make a choice other than support these companies, mom and pop stores are an alternative. In Europe, I am seeing a trend that we are more focusing on EU based alternatives or even better national based alternatives. (or open source, even better imo)

We have a housing crisis, we have a job crisis and loads of other issues, but yes we do have an acceptable safety net.

The minimum wage in America doesn’t even cover like a car payment for a decent car. But why would you need a car with a loan? I drove a 1600 euro car for 50k km for 4 years. And everybody I know drives second hand cars unless they get them from a work or own company lease.

You have zero say in your work and how it’s done and if you have problems with your boss your boss can just fire you because they feel like it. Man I hate that you are serious, this is terrible mate. The wages are "high" in the US compared to NL for a lot of jobs, but this just sucks.

The only thing I feel like you could do is keep going and maybe make a different choice on where you buy something, mom and pop shop instead of Walmart. Those big box stores aren´t doing any good. But that might just be an incorrect take.

What could a foreigner do without going to the US itself to help you people?

It sounds like you are talking about a lawsuit instead of a complaint, or at least I see the two different. Complaints don´t have anything to do with the actual court and lawsuits do.

The restaurant example comes from a friend who was running a restaurant when he decided to run for political office. His incumbent opponent was directing health inspections of his restaurant at about 10x the normal frequency of inspections

That is just corruption shining through, something like that (samples) should only be done in set intervals f.e. Man, the US really sucks. And people keep going to massive companies and especially in the US that is destroying jobs and possible the entire country. A lot of the money from massive companies doesn't end up inside the US government's treasury.

NL is different for sure, we are a long way off from a 30€ minimum.

We also have a lot of wages being based on the minimum wage so an increase will increase everything.

My experience is based on NL.

Saying that, the US has a lot more chains than smaller restaurants at least it seems like that from an outside. The bigger the company the more chance there is to have a wate increase without a loss. Did those studies include things like social security, pension? And things that the employees need? (Rethorical)

But if you hage a restaurant with 200k revenue, 50k cost of food, 50k of personal costs (including wages etc) plus 30k of other costs you make like 70k before tax. And in this example the owners need to live from the profit after tax. (Numbers generalised). A 10-20% increase looks duable since there would still be a profit.

Personally I just see an universal basic income be introduced everywhere or compensate both employees and employers in businesses where your company might not be truely viable, but it is good for the general public (theaters are often government subsidies)

I believe you that it is legal and maybe it should be in the US.

I am just saying that it would be a weird thing if the US ever added more privacy laws since this kinda contradicts this. I believe that the badge number should be enough for some other party to punish cops when needed. But I do not live in the US so my point of view is already a bit different on this entire situation

Making picture in public of others is alreasy not allowed under GDPR, but only if somebody complains you will get into issues most of the time.

We need to stop the bullshit excuses people like you are using to allow for the recording or eveeything it really needs to stop. You are already no allowed to have a camera watching the public streeth

Not that often, since it is a very formal matter to sue a registered accountant over here. It costs like 50 euro to complain or something and the accountant can lose his title from it.

https://www.nba.nl/tools-en-ondersteuning/publicaties/2025/jaaroverzicht-klachtencommissie-nba-2024/

Split the country up in 50 different countries

Considering people all across the world tend to generalise I don't think it's a good idea to share all the personal details of a cop. I would rather prefer we just having transparency in the general administration (annual reports) and their salary.

I also dislike that the law should have exceptions. The more exceptions a law has the complexer it gets and the more some people can abuse it.

Fining a complaint about a police office can also be done on their badge number, and that should be enough. If a police is just bad at their job, but a good person (so they fuck up some other way), then they shouldn't be at risk of being attacked/stalked or whatever by the people they arrested, which is what a public database of the people doing their job allows for. People should be held accountable for their actions and everybody should be held accountable in the same manner.

Just because a photo is made in public doesn't mean it is a public photo, or at least it shouldn't mean that. Again, to protect civilians.

Well yes I know, but there is a difference between using a domain bound to me as a person and a random string of numbers that changes every 5 minutes