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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • There’s definitely the bureau kredietregistratie in the Netherlands.

    As far as I know you can’t “freeze” it like you describe, though you can request information on what is stored about you and who accessed it. It also costs money to run a check, and credit history doesn’t go back more than five years, doesn’t include your mortgage unless you missed paying that for longer than three months, and doesn’t include debts less than €250.

    Edit: also just checked, but the information is only shared with parties that share credit history with the BKR. I think that means that it’s basically frozen by default, i.e. only parties that are actually about to do business with you can access it, but I’m not entirely sure. They’ll at least have to do some kind of business, i.e. not be a generic data broker.




  • I took a trip from the Netherlands to Romania, and amazingly only had a single transfer.

    At least, that was the plan, but then a train went missing on the way there and we had an additional transfer. Pretty stressful. Way home was super smooth though.

    The one thing I don’t get the EU doesn’t bring down the hammer on is getting directions and buying tickets. Feels like that should be a relatively easy fix, forcing all European rail companies to align from the top down. But I’m probably unaware of something that makes that harder than it seems.






  • Ik ben toch ook wel een beetje benieuwd waar dit idee dat dit allemaal zo heftig is tegenwoordig vandaan komt? Ken je mensen die daadwerkelijk zijn gecanceld? Zijn er dingen die je zou willen zeggen, die eigenlijk niet zo heel erg zijn, waar je daadwerkelijk consequenties voor zou merken als je ze zou zeggen - en wat zijn die consequenties dan?

    (Ik noem bijvoorbeeld nog steeds af en toe dingen gay, maar dat leidt hoogstens tot een afkeurende blik van mijn vriendin. En wellicht een ongemakkelijk gevoel bij homoseksuele omstanders natuurlijk, maar goed.)








  • In the Netherlands, the parties PvdA and GroenLinks have started working together very closely, participating in elections with combined lists. They did the same for the EP elections, but had the challenge that PvdA was part of S&D, whereas GroenLinks was part of the Greens.

    They went for the same solution: half the list (the PvdA part) will join S&D, and half (the GroenLinks part) will join the Greens. They will align their votes, though.

    The way I interpret that, is that it’ll be easier to influence the Greens (since it’s a smaller group and thus GroenLinks is a larger part of it), but if the S&D position can be swayed, it’ll have more effect. And in general, both parties presumably aren’t that far from their group’s stances anyway.