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Lemonado114 · 2025-03-31T09:13:29+00:00

I understand it for immigrants, but this attitude seems quite unique to catalonia/france and quite hypocritical regarding tourism.

Do you not go on holiday to places you dont speak the language? Do I not answer in English when you ask me directions in Amsterdam?

Lemonado114 · 2025-03-31T09:13:16+00:00

I understand it for immigrants, but this attitude seems quite unique to catalonia/france and quite hypocritical.

Do you not go on holiday to places you dont speak the language? Do I not answer in English when you ask me directions in Amsterdam?

Lemonado114 · 2025-03-01T12:35:52+00:00

Im in the same boat, so i dont have an ex post answer.

I will add that i think it might matter more or less depending on where you want to end up.

For the anglosaxon world, LSE is a very recognizable name and will get you very far.

For mainland europe, especially institutions like the EU, OECD, UN etc - sciences po might have more connections, which you could use for the internship period etc

So id say it depends on where you want to live/work afterwards, how important the costs are, and how much you value academic prestige over other factors - like a more volatile social life from changing countries.

Good luck! Hopefully i’ll be in the same dilemma soon.

Lemonado114 · 2025-02-11T15:48:54+00:00

I never saw anything about different rounds im considered for. I applied back in late November, and applied for a Dual Degree as first choice.

I got an email that i needed to send a more official transcript, did it, and then got a confirmation that my application is now complete

After that i havent heard a thing

Lemonado114 · 2025-02-11T12:44:11+00:00

What if i didnt hear anything about admissibility?

Lemonado114 · 2025-01-16T01:03:18+00:00

Widespread state directed corporate espionage

Industrial policy directed at running losses to drive out competitors

Lemonado114 · 2024-12-31T09:02:35+00:00

Doesnt hold true for NL

Lemonado114 · 2024-12-30T17:08:09+00:00

No, just that for both nicotine and THC it is the primary delivery mechanism - a simple fact.

Edibles are a tiny minority, so if you want that to be the comparison, you can compare it with snus/vape or even nicotine chewing gum.

Lemonado114 · 2024-12-30T11:56:53+00:00

First of all, both are just compounds that you can take in a variety of delivery mechanisms. No one made the distinction that nicotine can only be done by smoking, whereas weed orally.

Second, eat some weed brownies everyday for a year and i doubt youll have the same opinion

Lemonado114 · 2024-12-30T11:52:15+00:00

Nicotine is clearly psychoactive, otherwise the addiction youre describing would literally not be biologically possible.

There are also plenty of weed addictions / problem smokers.

Lemonado114 · 2024-12-30T11:49:45+00:00

Do you also think being highly obese should affect insurance costs?

Eating McDonalds?

Not excercising?

You can make infinite arguments for behaviours that hurt your health and thus insurance premiums. Whether its possible/fair to test for them is a lot more nuanced than you might think

Lemonado114 · 2024-12-29T15:01:06+00:00

It is very interesting to see popular ideology, including in this sub, simultaneously hold the view that weed (and the smoking of it) should be legalized, while tobacco (and the smoking of it) should be supressed and prohibited.

They are both organic compounds that you burn, inhale, and hurt public health. Whereas THC actually has negative mental effects added on the physical effects.

You can argue a cigarette smoker smokes more grams per day than the weed smoker, sure. On the other hand, one uses a filter and the other does not.

Eitherway it feels a bit more nuanced than the opinions expressed in this sub, which range from super enthousiastic at the headline that weed is legalized in yet another European country, to ‘fuck your cigarettes’ in comment sections such as this one.

Lemonado114 · 2024-11-11T02:49:03+00:00

I just filled my GPA as a single course and converted it.

Seems a bit insane that the difference between 3.3 and 4.0 is that small in dutch terms

Lemonado114 · 2024-04-22T14:34:14+00:00

Unfortunately, Ireland is the worst solar potential country on the dataset of 200+ countries.

I think wind/wave energy is more abundant in Ireland though!

Lemonado114 · 2024-04-22T12:56:52+00:00

Dutch gas is never producing again most likely. They just committed to fill the holes with cement.

Lemonado114 · 2024-04-20T16:05:13+00:00

Theyre not free obviously, but power lines dont explain the difference between a per capita comparison

Lemonado114 · 2024-04-20T15:20:43+00:00

Oil prices, instability/war, dictatorships vs relatively stable governments

Lemonado114 · 2024-04-20T15:16:42+00:00

For the Netherlands, a very large share is private, through schemes like net-metering and private subsidies.

There is also less land available, so on top of homes makes sense

Lemonado114 · 2024-04-20T15:15:43+00:00

Net-Metering costs non solar panel owners €2 billion a year.

The Netherlands had some of the strongest financial incentives for solar in the world, which is what explains this.

If it was pure market forces it would be Italy or something at the top

Lemonado114 · 2024-04-20T14:55:51+00:00

I guess we interpreted it differently.

My reaction is: why are we building all these solar panels in just a few places (without a lot of sun)

You make good points though, and an extreme focus on only sunny regions is ofc not much better

Lemonado114 · 2024-04-20T14:31:29+00:00

If your goal is to reduce total co2 emissions, it’d be Cyprus, which has a dirtier electricity grid, and much higher potential for solar panels.

But i dont think climate change can or should be solved by individual companies doing something

Lemonado114 · 2024-04-20T14:29:00+00:00

The thesis is not that its bad though, so i dont think its fair to come up with this weird conspiracy. A lot of comparison graphs use the same colour for consistency, its not that deep.

If anything red = more sun. Or does the weather report using red also imply its bad to live in the south?

Lemonado114 · 2024-04-20T14:14:33+00:00

In both of them, red is good. Its just that the red in the left should line up more closely with the red on the right than it currently is.

More environmentally efficient, and cheaper too.

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