When someone else’s happiness is requisite for your own.

Depends on where you live. Unless you explicitly specify something else in the employment contract, the notice period here (the Netherlands) is 1 month for the employee and 2 months for the employer. If you do specify it in the contract, the notice period for the employer has to be at least twice that of the employee.

Once you finish the books, make sure to catch the series on Apple TV+, it’s a damn good adaptation.

‘Just hot air’ is a bit of an understatement. Mine goes to 500°C during a cleaning cycle. It physically locks the door so you can’t open it when it does this. My dishwasher I can open at any time.

Only some. I’m autistic and don’t have any problems with hypersensitivity to food.

However, GI issues are a very common in autistic people. Differences in microbiome may very well be one of the causes of autism.

This is misleading. The 49.5% tax in the Netherlands is on income above €75,518. Billionaires rarely make the bulk of their money as income.

We don’t have a capital gains tax, instead there is a tax on capital that’s based on expected return on that capital. It’s about 1% on money in bank account and about 6% on stock and other investments.

if all of your photos are selfies, you are unintersting, and probably anti-social

When I’m doing things with friends, we’re enjoying whatever we’re doing. We don’t take photos of each other doing it. Even if a photo happens to be taken, we don’t actually share those photos. None of us have social media so we don’t post them anywhere either. I literally have zero photos of myself.

Frankly, it really weirds me out that some people do have all these photos of random activities. Like they have a camera crew following them around in daily life.

I live near a university that attracts quite a few international students/lecturers and I’ve often witnessed the exact opposite of this. You’re outside in the middle of summer, trying not to die of a heat stroke, when a obviously non-native person walks by wearing a winter coat and a hat.

Microsoft is really trying hard not to lose their last place in the console market lately

Lightning is/was actually pretty great. Also remember that it was introduced before USB-C even existed.

Triangeljosti.

The Jostiband is a Dutch orchestra for people with a developmental disability, mainly people with down syndrome.

A [triangle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(musical_instrument)) , or triangel in Dutch, is possibly the simplest instrument you can think of.

So calling someone a ‘triangeljosti’ is basically comparing them to someone who plays the simplest possible instrument in a band for developmentally disabled people.

Also, cancer isn’t one disease but a whole class of diseases. And we actually do have vaccines that prevent certain forms of cancer, like the HPV vaccine.