Humanius

Personally I stopped using Facebook years ago, but I kept the account around for my grandma's sake.
She has since stopped using the computer all together, so I took that opportunity to finally delete my account.

I do still use Whatsapp though.. I would prefer if I didn't have to use it, but there is no real way around it in the Netherlands.

I suspect it's one of those topics he likes to drum up if he needs to distract from something else.
(My suspicion is that this other topic is the walking back on campaign promises on immigration with the H1B visa thing)

That doesn't mean it's not still harmful. This stuff does harm relations with America's European allies, but I suspect that he is not actually planning on doing anything.

An alternative explanation could be that he simply wants to get his hands on a very resource rich area such as Greenland.

From my understanding there are two main beneftis:

• Capacity
• Safety

Roundabouts work great, until the amount of traffic becomes to big. Then it actually starts causing problems.
At that point you can put in a regular intersection with traffic lights, which actually works better than a roundabout does in high traffic environments. But you do lose out on the traffic safety benefits, with head-on collisions becoming possible again.

A roundabout with traffic lights increases the capacity of the intersection while still reducing the risk of deadly accidents.
It's also a lot cheaper than upgrading to the next step, which is building an interchange.

Signalised roundabouts are also quite prevalent in the Netherlands, and I can speak from experience that they generally work quite well if the lights are adjusted properly.

Note: I'm just some random guy, I'm by no means an expert on the matter.
This is just my understanding of the benefits of lighted roundabouts.

And the moment you get rid of it, that's when you encounter a situation where you really could have used a cardboard box.

That is indeed the goal, but there is still a PR battle to be had on the issue.

To my knowledge this is the first time that congestion pricing has been implemented in North-America, and how people react to this will decide whether other North-American cities are willing to take the risk and do the same thing. Over the next couple of months there will likely be a lot of opinion pieces and articles that try to make you think that the congestion pricing is a failure and should be reversed.

Edit: typo

Edit: Sorry I'm dumb. I misread your comment multiple times and thought you suggested we should just implement tariffs, as opposed to counter-tarrifs (not sanctions like you said). I think I haven't had enough sleep..

To shreds you say

What a windbag..

They should just put him on a boat on the North Sea, floating in front of a couple of windmills. That way we can supply Europe with all the clean reliable renewable power we need, and then some.

Rolling Stone has a better list of anticipated movies:
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/most-anticipated-movies-2025-1235188893/

Heres a question. I may have missed something but why is WhatsApp so popular?

It's quite simple, they were the first messaging service to take hold back when sending text messages was still quite expensive.
Unlike America, Europe did not really have unlimited text messaging plans, so when data plans became a thing people switched to alternatives, and Whatsapp was one of the early services that offered that. And then later they got bought by Facebook / Meta.

Now everyone uses it, so they benefit from a network effect. You use it because everyone you know uses it.

Edit: typo

I have a YouTube channel as well, and also got notified about this.
The setting is disabled by default, so I don't have a particularly large problem with it. But that might also be because I'm in the EU.