There is a high demand for teachers in The Netherlands. This demand mostly exists because the job conditions have gotten a lot worse, while pay has not increased accordingly. But if he has found a good place, is not worked into a burnout, and makes enough money to live happily, then he should have a very stable job.

Are you that cheap?

Might be a sound and temperature insulation solution. Although, if so, I recommend adding some insulation material inbetween the layers.

Maybe there is a boardgame café somewhere inbetween the two of you. Gives you plenty to do, and usually is not very expensive.

Then for food, hit a supermarket and find a park or bench to make a sandwhich or some other food that can be eaten straight from the supermarket packaging. If you are planning PBJs, all you need to bring, is a spreading knife.

TIL. Thank you!

Huh, I thought that they only filtered your blood when donating plasma, hence the PFAS could simply be returned to you. But I have to admit that I’m far from an expert on this matter.

Either way, we kinda have returned to bloodletting being a reasonable medical approach.

When it comes to PFAS contamination, people have been having decent results by simply donating blood often. Getting it out of the system via blood does help to reduce overall levels in your body.

You are in a contract with the government. Maybe an involuntary one, but still a contract. This contract gives you rights and benefits, but also obligations and responsibilities.

When the government does not uphold their end of the contract, or changes it to essentially only obligations for you and no benefits, then it becomes extortion. Still not exactly theft, but closer to what you mean.

However, the vast majority of people get benefits that far outweight the costs of the contract. Safety, transportation, education, utilities, etc.

Nah, nobody will believe that. You have to be subtle. Just invite a journalist to the groupchats with his homies.

Sleepy cats can be quite derpy. I once had an unannounced visitor come in via the catflap. The catflap was there from the previous homeowner. What neither I nor this cat knew, was that the catflap was set to entry-only mode. Poor guy got locked up in my kitchen overnight.

So when I strolled into my kitchen in the morning we looked at eachother, both with the question in our eyes: who the hell are you? So I offered my finger for sniffing, and when approved I slowly petted the sleepyhead. But when I turned around for 5 second to grab my phone, his brain woke up, and suddenly he remembered the trouble he was in, and pannicked. I was suddenly super scary. It took some convincing that the kitchen door was opened to outside, that I wasn’t going to harm him, and that he was free to leave.

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The rise of rightwing politics is not a problem unique to Greece. The Netherlands has none of the economic issues, and has a steady flow of highly educated people comming into the country, yet we also elected a right wing populist. Remember how popular Le Pen was? Or how about the German AfD party? Don’t blame the wrong reason for the rise of these parties throughout Europe.

Fun fact: Android is one of those Linux variants. It is, however, so highly modified, that we usually don’t really call it ‘Linux’ anymore. But the core components of Android are most certainly Linux components. So in a pedantic way, way more people directly use Linux than you would think.

You married a small child that is now grown up?

It is not the physical danger, but the risk of people being manipulated, pressured, or straight up forced into doing it. That can certainly still happen with online content. It may not be the image you have of Onlyfans, but I can’t imagine it not happening to some degree.

Exploitation also happens with foreign workers in the farming and logistics industries though. So under the argument they are making, I recommend also closing the entire farming and logistics industries.

That’s good for PFAS poisoning though, since bloodletting reduced PFAS levels in your blood. So if you are worried about PFAS poisoning: go to your local bloodbank, and start donating!

I would not believe her. This reeks like attention seeking at best, or straight up narcissism at worst.

Note that narcissism seems to be at least partially hereditary. So if it is true that her parents have NPD, she is problably has too. Especially with the behaviour you describe.

The lashing out when people question their abilities reminds me of all the lashing out the most famous narcissist in the world does: Trump. Anytime someone calls out his bullshit, he goes on a rant, trying to discredit the person or organisation calling him out. Similarly to how your friend lashes out when you question their delusions of grandiosity.

I recommend, at the very least, to make sure to set some extremely clear boundaries for yourself, and accept that if they are crossed, you cut all contact. Because trying to help another is pointless if it just creates another victem. But I would distance myself from this person. Even if she does need help, I doubt you can provide it.

It is a unitless measure, since you divide income (euro) by price of goods and services (euro).

Good. If member states would be 100% free to assign citizenship, you can get some terrible ideas. For example: give all unwanted migrants citizenship, under the condition that they do not stay in your country.

A lot of treaties only work under the assumption that the definition of citizenship stays what we know it as right now. Protecting that definition means protecting the EU treaties.

A similar success story:

My dad is in the early stages of dementia. This has been quite draining on my mom. As a result, she had been pushing him to go to a kind of day care for dementia patients. She tried over and over to convince him by telling him he would like it there, with absolutely zero success. My dad is way to stubborn to admit such a thing.

Eventually she told me about this, and I advised a change of strategies: tell him how he can help you. Focus on your needs, not his happyness. Because, although he is stubborn, he is also the kindest and most willing-to-help person I know.

She ended up telling him telling him, how she needed some time for herself, where she didn’t need to worry about him.

I now have some pictures of him, where he is smiling his ass of while on an excursion with the group of the daycare. Mom was absolutely right about him liking it, but it was useless as an argument to convince him.