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I doubt it. The only reason for him to cooperate is because he can be elected for two more terms if he becomes president after January '27. Tbh, I think he’s as power hungry as Trump himself, and I wouldn’t bet against him going after Trump’s kids (with all their corruption) if he were to become president suddenly.

Every time I see them, in this case a little over a week ago.

Sure, but the water tends to come out during freezing, and to make up for that, they inject water before hand. Like I said, anything below 5% doesn’t have to be reported, which gets stretched to 10% so they can make up for the loss a second time.

Well, you can say two different things by saying either “To be taken seriously” or “To seriously be taken”.

I can assure you that meat in the Netherlands is also filled up with water. Pretty much all meat sold in the super markets will when cooked first release the water, causing the meat to boil for a bit before it is evaporated. They don’t have to mention it on the packaging if it’s below 5%, which means in reality it’s closer to 10%. Since the Netherlands exports a lot of meat, it’ll be all over at least Europe.

The answer to the question in your title is yes. The answer to the question in your last sentence is also yes. Have a nice day.

Isn’t it because Benjamin Franklin (I think) started naming his fellow country men “Americans”, in order to create cohesion?

Yup. It helps that I’m a chemical engineer, guestimates and winging it is part of the job description.

Other engineer, and when I don’t have Excel handy, I just use 3 because it’s 5% accurate.

No.

I don’t know this old house, but one of the first home improvement shows in the Netherlands had a guy who looked the typical bearded handyman, think Bob Vila or Al Borland. At a certain time they added an item to the show where he would “spontaniously” ring someone’s doorbell and ask if they had some small repairs needed so he could show how it’s done, things like a leaky faucet. Easy stuff. The problem was, it was found the directors didn’t do a good job of keeping clocks out of frame. So if you looked carefully you’d see that he started at ten in the morning on a five minute job, and was done with it at three in the afternoon.

Anyway, it was later revealed that he would come in for some shots, then have the real handy people come in to do the work, and after he would take over for some finishing shots. Going on a tangent here: Eventually he was fired because he was accused of sexual harrasment. He sued the network, and they revealed there was a code of conduct specially developed for him which stated he shouldn’t bother the women on set, he shouldn’t tell jokes with sexual undertones, he had to keep working when the camera’s weren’t running and he wasn’t allowed to drink alcohol on set.

If AI would be the downfall of McKinsey and their peers, more people would be for it.

Ew, that’s the slimy laugh.

It was studied in the Netherlands a few years ago, and it turns out that for people from the same social economic background in the same city, the neighbourhood you grew up in made all the difference. Oeople who grew up in the “right” neighbourhood made on average 50% more pay.

Also in the Netherlands.

They are, but not mildly.

Isn’t this a known dark pattern? Not so mildly infuriating for me.

Some (religious) people would say that Keith Haring has a short line with the creator of earth these days.

Looks like something Keith Haring would have painted.

Meh, I’ve met plenty of nice French people. I’ve had one French asshole as a coworker, but the other French coworkers agreed he was an asshole. Though honestly I’m Dutch, and the official motto here is “France is a great country except for the French!”.