I mean, there’s that, but while there’s rough consensus that a bit of inflation is a good thing for the economy, it’s not undisputed fact, the exact target number isn’t undisputed either, neither is whether it would be a bad thing if we just had inflation way higher than that, or how to measure inflation in the first place, and the benefits to the economy don’t necessarily translate to a specific person’s situation. So it’s not necessarily just ignorance, and thus doesn’t necessarily justify condescension.

I think they’re saying that while it’s good that things are getting worse at a slower rate, they’re still getting worse.

Of course, one can argue about at what level of inflation things are still getting worse.

Yeah I think that’s the point they were trying to make :)

Yeah sorry, I meant the pay scales within my company - i.e. a colleague of mine moved from Germany to the Netherlands, kept the same job at the same level, and had to accept a 9% pay cut.

Weirdly, I work for an international company that does location-based pay, and the pay scales in the Netherlands are about 9% lower than those in Germany 😒

Same in the Netherlands, so I’d assume the Dutch salary is gross as well.

Isn’t PSD governing right now? Would be a bit too much to hope for that they wouldn’t nominate someone from either PSD or PNL, I assume.

Like for every other modern car, unfortunately :/ Hopefully a brand will decide to differentiate in this respect at some point.

Irregardful

This is great.

Spain passed exceptional regulations in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic that allow the government to block takeovers of local corporations by EU-based foreign ones. These rules are set to expire by year’s end, to align with EU regulations which traditionally demand that members give the same treatment to their own companies and to those from other member states.

So… Can they just try again next year?

Presumably there are other governments that do the same.

Yeah, I’m fairly sure if you turned this specific instance into a fietsstraat, it would just be a regular car street. Although given that this is a 60 km/h road, I do think that the next scheduled maintenance work is not unlikely to turn it into a proper separated bike lane?