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1. Not specific to the Dutch at all. Worldwide practice.
2. These are also human traits! Maybe not so much humane traits.
Accountability Sinks
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#102The TV series Yes Minster and Yes Prime Minister have a lot to say about accountability in the governments.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
The logic is simple, we eat what's convenient to produce and we construct our morals around that.
Meat costs a lot to produce. We eat it because it tastes good, not because it's convenient.
True. Habits also play an unconscious role and tradition a conscious one. To demonstrate the former: bellow two studies on cats exposed pre, peri and post natal with a specific aroma. From the first abstract:
> We conclude that long-term chemosensory and dietary preferences of cats are influenced by prenatal and early (nursing) postnatal experience, supporting a natural and biologically relevant mechanism for the safe transmission of diet from mother to young.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232700921_Prenatal_...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40452868_Effects_of...
I'll add that habits and taste can change later in the life voluntary or involuntary: There's plenty of people that "learn" to like something they didn't in their youth for many reason: new cultural environment, health, curiosity...
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#104> Eventually, employees noticed a problem: The card design only allowed for 24 characters, but some applicants had names longer than that. They raised the issue with the business team. I'm looking at you, ANA Mileage Club card! 24 characters should be enough for anyone according to their database. They even have a whole page dedicated to how you should work around it (I tried, this procedure & indeed it lets you trun…
That's a .jp site. Is it 24 kanji? That should be plenty of space :)
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#105According to Dutch law, you lose your Dutch citizenship if you accept another nationality. The Dutch embassies (who are responsible for renewing Dutch passports abroad) are well aware of this law and have processes in place to refuse a passport renewal if you can’t provide proof of temporary residence in the country you reside in. The local institutions however, don’t have these processes in place and are generally not aware of this law because it only happens to a tiny little percentage of the population. And nobody updates the national registry with your new nationality because that’s the responsibility of local municipalities, not the Department of Foreign Affairs. So if you decide to simply renew your passport in the Netherlands instead of abroad, they’ll just give you a new passport because you’re still registered as a Dutch citizen at the local level and they don’t have a process in place to check your foreign nationality.
Don’t ask me how I know :) It is one of the few accountability sinks that doesn’t affect me negatively.
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#106>The SREs were accountable to the higher ups for the service being up. But other than that they are not expected to follow any prescribed process while dealing with the outages.
That's because hard work and being serious about your tasks do not get you promoted.
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#107I always remind myself when I have to go to the DMV[0] that I should plan on leaving with nothing more than another action or set of actions to take. I never enter the DMV expecting to complete a process, and the workers behind the counter always have this visible, visceral response when I DONT lose my fucking mind at their response to something. When I continue to be pleasant and understanding it’s like they suddenl…
Off-topic, but since you mention it, I've always been confused about what Americans always seem to be doing at the DMV. It seems to be a staple of pop culture that people are always there and the queue is always very long, but I've never known what anyone is actually trying to achieve. The DVLA in the UK doesn't have a high-street presence. I took my driving test once, then received my driving licence in the post. Wh…
In the US we don’t have a single DMV, but rather 50 separate DMV’s with varying degrees of efficiency and online capabilities. But in my state most routine things no longer require a physical visit. Licensing is pretty tightly controlled because in the US the card serves as a primary source of identification in the absence of a national ID card.
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#108I always remind myself when I have to go to the DMV[0] that I should plan on leaving with nothing more than another action or set of actions to take. I never enter the DMV expecting to complete a process, and the workers behind the counter always have this visible, visceral response when I DONT lose my fucking mind at their response to something. When I continue to be pleasant and understanding it’s like they suddenl…
Off-topic, but since you mention it, I've always been confused about what Americans always seem to be doing at the DMV. It seems to be a staple of pop culture that people are always there and the queue is always very long, but I've never known what anyone is actually trying to achieve. The DVLA in the UK doesn't have a high-street presence. I took my driving test once, then received my driving licence in the post. Wh…
We have kiosks at grocery stores etc where we can get renew documents and print new license tabs etc, you can also do most things online and receive your new documents in the mail.
You really only need to go there for driving tests (for teenagers or immigrants), completing private vehicle sales, and other odds and ends
What I always found interesting is going there and people arguing with the workers about not having proof of insurance or a clear title etc.
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#109I always remind myself when I have to go to the DMV[0] that I should plan on leaving with nothing more than another action or set of actions to take. I never enter the DMV expecting to complete a process, and the workers behind the counter always have this visible, visceral response when I DONT lose my fucking mind at their response to something. When I continue to be pleasant and understanding it’s like they suddenl…
Off-topic, but since you mention it, I've always been confused about what Americans always seem to be doing at the DMV. It seems to be a staple of pop culture that people are always there and the queue is always very long, but I've never known what anyone is actually trying to achieve. The DVLA in the UK doesn't have a high-street presence. I took my driving test once, then received my driving licence in the post. Wh…
Until recently you couldn’t do much online with the government in the US. In Nevada, you can do most of the routine stuff online now, too.
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#110It's only related to what he wrote but it reminded me of something that low-key annoys me whenever I hear Americans talk about the Holocaust. I know he only touches on it very slightly and indirectly raises a related point to what annoys me about most coverage about it. It's pretty simply that the people that were systematically slaughtered during that time period were classified to be Jews, Gypsies and other "undesi…
At first yes, because they had control over the German Jews. It expanded of course as their control spread through conquering.
Absolutely, the atrocities didn't stop there. That was only the beginning. I didn't mean to insinuate that only Germans were mistreated. The sociopaths running the government in Nazi Germany were very methodical about it and forced everyone into becoming either a collaborator or victim themselves, facilitating even more atrocities as WW2 progressed