🙋♂️ I left in 2025. It's great! Walkable and bikeable cities, affordable groceries, my health insurance actually pays for stuff, there's public transit, the food is safer, and not absolutely every I do funnels into only 12 companies.
I moved my family. When my kid needs higher education, it won't cost more than our home. I can send him out in the streets without worrying he'll be hit by a truck going 80. Active shooter or intruder drills aren't a phenomenon in his school.
He'll announce something superficially positive and they'll come back to him. The American "independent" voter is a gullible fool - they always have been.
Wero now, please. I like iDeal and would love that to be more normal. I don't like Visa or Mastercard, and don't think credit purchasing should be normal.
I moved to the Netherlands ~6 months ago. It is really that good. But Dutch people don't value what they have and many are becoming carbrained assholes. Endless government funding for highways and roads, but less for public transit. People driving 400m instead of walking. It's disappointing to watch the Dutch be brainwashed by car advertising.
GRC has always been theater. Companies want to move faster than control operators can build and maintain, so there are inevitable gaps and shortcomings. And now with everyone feeding corporate data into AI platforms who are definitely not protecting the data, access controls are basically a moot point.
The US attorney general, whose job is to enforce the nation's laws, in a hearing about why she is protecting the Epstein abusers instead of prosecuting them, refused to answer questions on the substance of the matter. Instead, she started making personal attacks against members of Congress, and when that failed to stop the questions she proceeded to shout about how the Dow was at 50,000.
A huge problem is the incredibly low bar to receive a driving license. Read a booklet, pass a paper test that barely mentions non-autos, and maybe take a basic practical exam. And there are many ways around the practical exam portion.
I drink ground chicory coffee (but not like New Orleans, mine has zero real coffee in it). It's dark and bitter, just like the way I like my coffee. And it has no caffeine! Which is good because caffeine gives me tremors and panic attacks.
🙋♂️ I left in 2025. It's great! Walkable and bikeable cities, affordable groceries, my health insurance actually pays for stuff, there's public transit, the food is safer, and not absolutely every I do funnels into only 12 companies.
I moved my family. When my kid needs higher education, it won't cost more than our home. I can send him out in the streets without worrying he'll be hit by a truck going 80. Active shooter or intruder drills aren't a phenomenon in his school.
I only wish we could have done it sooner.