Mental gymnastics at an Olympic level.

I was thinking the same thing. Dutch work culture is pretty much no bullshit. No emotions flying everywhere needed. If the idea is stupid, we'll let you know.

Hamas: terrorism. Israel: war crime. There, not too hard is it?

Sure, if you don't mind storing stuff and then never reading them again.

That's not the way it works in the rest of the free world. Judges are, by definition, trusted to be impartial interpreters of the law/constitution. That's their role.

The problem is that these judges are appointed through a political process, as about any government worker apparently is. This way you get a hyper politicized country, where even the job of librarian is no longer just a job, but an oppointment that should be strictly controlled.

It's absolutely baffling.

Exactly, different states still have their country as common ground. Most Europeans identify with their nationality first, and as a European second.

Post mortem by said media after the election: 'How did he get so much coverage?' 😲

As a European: I'd love those prices.

Gotta ELI5 for this guy.

Found the Brit.

+1 for LaTeX. Did my PhD dissertation in it, wouldn't have wanted it any other way. I prefer Visual Studio Code with a couple of plugins as an editor.

Been using Nine on my personal device, as Outlook was horrible at syncing with IMAP accounts (only synced on demand, never in the background). On my work device, I do use Outlook, but with an O365 account it does work as intended.