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I dont usually name my cars, but my first car kind of naturally developed one over time:

Het Groene Gevaar

Meaning "The Green Danger", so called because it was green and had no airbags.

I loved that car

I see. In that case I stand corrected.

Cool. I'll think of that when another F150 is parked both on the sidewalk and bikepath because it can't fit the parking spot.

These things are simply too large for European roads. And that is not even mentioning the road safety concerns.

A work truck does not have to be such a behemoth of a vehicle in order to be a practical work vehicle. You can get safer and smaller pickup trucks that can haul the same amount
(Or at the very least those used to exist)

To a certain extent I agree, but you can buy a book and still commit copyright infringement by copying its contents (for use other than personal use)

If this would go to court, it would depend on whether training an LLM model is more akin to copying or learning. I can see arguments for either interpretation, but I suspect that the law would lean more toward it being copying rather than learning

They're quite common in Belgium (from what I've seen), and I'm seeing them a lot in the Netherlands as well.

To my knowledge, in the case of the Netherlands, people are using a tax-loophole to import them into the country without paying the appropriate vehicle import tax. This is done by importing and registering the vehicle as a company vehicle, but using it as a personal vehicle as well

Importing an American pickup truck this way is still expensive, but not nearly as expensive as if they had to pay that tax.

To my knowledge those are not road legal, since they are too large/heavy to be driven with a regular driver's licence
The F150 is just shy of the maximum allowed size/weight-limit

I wish there was a good alternative to YouTube. I've been meaning to host a Peertube instance but that process is really not as straightforward as it should be if they want the platform to gain widespread adoption

Google Maps has pretty decent alternatives though:

• For simply browsing the map I use OpenStreetMaps on desktop, and Organic Maps on mobile.
• For navigation (by car) I used to use Waze (which is also owned by Google), but I've switched back to good ol' TomTom

As for iPhone.. personally I have a Google Pixel which I'm going to keep using till I can't anymore. After that I'm probably switching to Fairphone. They're a European company and their phones are right up my alley

Judging by the increase in F150 trucks on European roads.. yes.

They are not officially sold here but there are ways to import them legally and "affordably".
There is a subset of the population that will import these cars regardless of whether they are suitable for the environment.

Not op, but for me the main problem with Authy is that it is owned by an American company.

It's not the worst offender, but any American company is subject to the whims of the current administration. As an example, we're currently seeing how American sanctions lock people out of their Microsoft accounts at the International Court.

I've slowly been moving over my 2FA codes to Aegis.

This article is from 2023

NS is not really responsible for housing policy though.

Visa and Mastercard were under no obligation to give in to this group, yet they did. They are equally culpable in this whole fiasco.

In my honest opinion Wero is not the solution to this specific problem either.
They could potentially also unilaterally decide that they won't allow payments for specific types of purchases (Though they are still preferable to relying in American payment providers).

The real solution is proper regulation of payment providers that blocks them from refusing service.