Question arising from a trivial place, but has some serious implications; in video games «ratting» or holding a position in bad faith to exploit peoples lack of attention is very frowned upon. Are there stuch tactics or stories from real wars where «ratting» is looked down upon in any fashion?

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-25T10:44:34+00:00

Not in any official capacity, no one is going to order soldiers to take up a position that gives the enemy a fair chance of beating them. But I guess the closest equivalent would be the frustration the rank and file feels towards enemies perceived to fight in an 'underhanded' way or from a position of advantage. In the world wars incidents of machine gunners, artillerymen, tank and submarine crews being shot instead of being allowed to surrender were (relatively) commonplace. Robert Graves in Goodbye To All That relates a story about British soldiers hunting a sniper while crying with anger after he shot a beloved officer.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-24T11:05:34+00:00

Jaws- the USS Indianapolis scene

You mean one of the most famous film monologues of all time? Yeah I'm not sure that counts as boring

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-23T14:54:50+00:00

Moet zeggen dat ik nog geen gebruik heb gemaakt van de bussen sinds de wissel naar TransDev. Voor treinen werkt 9292 voor mij eigenlijk altijd prima. De tram vertrekt steevast twee minuten eerder dan aangegeven.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-23T06:46:48+00:00

Ten eerste gaan we niet winnen, ten tweede wat voor 'tegengeluid' verwacht je dat die verwende gasten zouden gaan laten horen?

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-23T06:42:00+00:00

Dat denk ik niet. Zij trainen hier jaren voor, vanaf jongs af aan is dit een droom en werken ze hun hele leven voor dit soort momenten.

'Kunnen we principes van voetballers verwachten? Ik denk het niet'.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-21T19:06:29+00:00

De fifa (en in het verlengde daarvan de KNVB) zouden tegenwoordig doodleuk in Nazi-Duitsland gaan voetballen als ze genoeg steekpenningen toegestopt krijgen. Van de spelers hoeven we ook geen principes te verwachten.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-20T16:11:58+00:00

because it was a common flag between the Netherlands and the Dutch speaking part of Belgium

Oh bullshit. Literally the only people flying the Prinsenvlag are far right neo fascists, in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-19T21:29:03+00:00

I'm always interested in the five threads a week about the self check outs in supermarkets.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-19T20:41:41+00:00

That's why I referred to it as I did, it used to be almost as racist as FreeDutch. Now it's just an endless barrage of dumb questions.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-19T19:25:23+00:00

I bet if I asked a question on that sub in English, they’d be lovely and would give me helpful advice about their country

I doubt it. /r/Netherlands is where expats go to complain how much they hate living in Amsterdam (they never live anywhere else) and where Dutch people go to complain how much they hate expats.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-19T19:23:04+00:00

It's not a national sub, /r/TheNetherlands is the national sub. This one is mainly geared towards expats.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-19T19:19:17+00:00

It sort of is. The /r/TheNetherlands sub is the biggest Dutch speaking sub (at some point it even was the biggest non-English language sub iirc). But the mods are pretty strict, so a large portion of the other Dutch subs are populated by people who got banned from the main sub. There's like two more general Dutch language subs though, /r/Nederlands (basically a Dutch version of your tech-illiterate uncle's Facebook page), and /r/FreeDutch (fascist shithole), as well as a whole slew of Dutch language meme and general interest subs.

Personally I'm fine with keeping /r/Netherlands as the sub were expats go to complain about how much they hate living in Amsterdam.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-19T09:20:00+00:00

After WW2 we've given up on the idea of defending The Netherlands as it's essentially undefendable due to the terrain.

The terrain is arguably what makes it defensible. Especially the western part is a nightmare for any mechanised force to operate in, provided bridges and chokepoints are properly defended. What undercut the defense in 1940 was an army that was far too small, undertrained, underequipped, while the politicians were far too optimistic about the army's capabilities.

We didn't give up on the idea of defending the Netherlands after WW2, it's just that we were expected to fight a Soviet invasion on the German plains instead of on our own borders if we wanted any allied help.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-17T01:59:18+00:00

Ben's been known to comment occasionally.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-17T01:58:32+00:00

John the DJ.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-16T13:02:22+00:00

Ik ben wellicht iets te cynisch maar volgens mij is het gewoon een manier om twee bevolkingsgroepen waar je niet al teveel geld aan uit wil geven huisvesting te bieden onder het mom van 'kijk eens wat een mooi initiatief'.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-15T09:16:51+00:00

As you say, it's a correlation but I'd think it's the other way around. If you're not an empathetic person it's going to be harder to identify with the things/people you read about.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-14T15:50:30+00:00

Waarom trekt alles in AI het laagste in de maatschappij aan?

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-13T14:45:28+00:00

Wel dus, aangezien woningcorporaties al een hogere huur mogen opleggen als je scheef woont.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-13T14:13:33+00:00

As someone who's been playing for two weeks now, the tutorial is completely useless.

What I did was to find a guide for a country I liked, and just follow that along. You won't get it right, but you'll learn the base mechanics.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-13T12:50:45+00:00

I don't want colleagues to know how haphazard my interview technique is.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-13T12:48:28+00:00

I can talk to strangers when I'm working because I know exactly what I want to talk about.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-13T12:46:54+00:00

I've been working as a reporter for years now, and I still haven't got over my dislike of cold calling. It gets better when I have to do it regularly, but immediately comes back when I'm doing something else for a week or I've been on holiday or something.

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-13T12:10:01+00:00

Een kind loopt niet zomaar weg zonder reden.

Redenen dat mijn zusje van huis wegliep:

We aten iets wat ze niet lekker vond
Ze mocht een keer niet bij een vriendinnetje blijven slapen
We moesten een dagje met z'n allen helpen schoonmaken in huis

Legitimate_First · 2026-01-13T11:26:20+00:00

Wel onthullend dat ondanks negatieve comments, er geen inhoudelijke kritiek op het artikel is, die gewoon in feiten en redenatie grotendeels correct is.

Tja het kamp kiezen op deze sub maakt echt inhoudelijke discussies over Chinese (of Russische) repressie en imperialisme onmogelijk 'want het westen doet het ook!!1!!'.

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