I would not exactly call that “a long history of appeasing Nazis”
And regardless, the NL had the intention of remaining neutral in any conflict that might happen in Europe, just like they did in WW I.
Insulting the head of state of a neighbouring militaristic country is generally not wise if you intend to stay neutral.
I stand corrected.
But my point was more that you need to make sure that your diet includes a source that gives you sufficient B12, which is not quite as obvious on how to get that with a vegan diet compared to a vegetarian one.
Apparently Vegemite also contains B12. But it’s also high is salt, which makes it not ideal.
Going vegan is quite a bit more involved than going vegetarian.
When eating vegetarian you can mostly kind of wing it and generally get all the nutrients you need. But when going vegan you really should make sure you know what you need to consume in order to be healthy.
Since B12 is only found in animal products, you are probably going to have to take a supplement.
Care to elaborate, or are you just gonna put out a statement like that without explaining what you mean?
The general idea of the snus-bans is that snus is not commonly consumed outside of the Nordics, so it’s better to pre-emptively ban it. They are trying to nip it in the bud before it becomes a problem.
Cigarettes are socially and culturally engrained after a century of normalization, and it’s a lot more difficult to ban it. Even vapes are already somewhat at the stage where it’s nornalized enough that outright banning it becomes difficult.
No problem. You can edit the post’s description to add the link after the fact.
It’s a paywalled article, so here’s an archival link
“Smoke-free” in this case means fewer than 5% of people smoke daily. As of 2025 that figure stands at 4.8% in Sweden
The proportion of daily smokers dropped from 16 to 4.8 percent between 2003 and 2025, according to the new report.
Meanwhile, Sweden has seen a sharp increase in the use of snus in recent years – the small nicotine pouches popular in Sweden – a factor that the tobacco industry often highlights as a major reason for Sweden’s low proportion of smokers.
Fewer smokers is good of course, but I am not sure if the consumption of tabacco is really going down significantly. It rather seems to be moving from cigarettes to snus, which I’m not sure is a good thing.
Snus is banned in the rest of the EU. Sweden has an exemption on that ban, which they pre-emptively carved out when they were in talks for joining the EU
Some of the most democratic nations are constitutional monarchies, but let’s ignore that little factoid lest we upset some Americans…
That being said, I agree with you. The UK definitely needs democratic reform. The House of Lords being largely unelected and the House of Commons being elected through first-past-the-post is outdated at this point, and needs updating.
The reason why I remark on it being reasonable, is because over here in the Netherlands we have been seeing increasingly more places that just outright ban smoking on the entire premises. They specifically choose not to have designated smoking spaces.
In practice this does not work at all, because smoking is an addiction and you can’t expect smokers not to smoke for hours upon end. So in practice they smoke outside anyway, and you are worse off than you would have been in a situation with designated smoking spots.
My boyfriend has a Kobo, and he has an integration with his library that allows him to borrow ebooks.
I’d have to ask him how it works exactly, but it sounds pretty convenient.
This guy can go suck an egg…
He also added, “Let’s take Bandera back to 1880 properly. No double standards, no hypocrisy. If LPRs are ‘unconstitutional’ and invade our right to ‘public’ privacy, we need to be courageous enough to go all the way. I look forward to the ‘Privacy First’ crowd showing up to support these bans […] just remember to leave your phones at home.”
It’s not that difficult to see the difference between having the option to decide not to bring your phone if you don’t want to be tracked, and not even getting an option to avoid AI-powered CCTV systems all over town.
I wouldn’t be surprised if all in attendance will be rich oil sheiks from Dubai.
New regulations from 2026 – smoking will only be permitted in designated smoking areas.
Frankly that seems to me like a pretty reasonable regulation. It’s not nearly as extreme as the post’s title would suggest.
As part of the trade agreement, Europe requires America to honour and implement their part of the agreement as well. If Trump starts raising tariffs again that would be a clear breach of the trade agreement, and Europe no longer has an obligation to honour their end of the deal either.
There is also an expiration date in the trade agreement for 2029, if I’m understanding correctly
Does anyone know whether the mutual acceptance of each others vehicle standards is still part of this agreement?
Back in August / September there was reporting that, as part of the trade deal, both parties would “accept and mutually recognise each others norms for cars” and that “the agreement voices a desire to align vehicle standards”
I really do not want those massive American death-machines on European roads. It would undo decades of work making European roads safer.
I wouldn’t mind it if we started negotiations to let the UK rejoin in some capacity, but I think that there should be certain guarantees that they won’t just up and leave again in a couple of years. And I also believe they should not be granted any exemptions to Schengen and the Eurozone that they may have had before.
In the Netherlands flavoured vapes were banned several years ago, because in practice they were getting used to make vaping appealing to kids. You cannot legally buy them anymore, but there are ways to still get them illegally.
Still… it adds an additional barrier to obtaining them, making it more difficult for kids to get their hands on them.
You can selfhost your cloud storage, for instance using Nextcloud, if you want to maintain complete control
It’s not only “like” stealing, I would just call that stealing.
This blog post is making my AI-senses tingle