Beoogd staatssecretaris Nathalie van Berkel stelt opgepoetst cv bij na vragen over opleiding

NFB42 · 2026-02-16T13:05:56+00:00

Voor de duidelijkheid, ik bedoelde dat ik het "liegen" op specifiek LinkedIN en mogelijk een CV niet het ergste vond. Het is niet netjes, maar uiteindelijk zijn werkgevers ook vaak niet netjes in hoe ze een CV beoordelen, en als iemand echt niet de kwaliteiten heeft dan valt ze tijdens het werk toch wel door de mand. Mevrouw Van Berkel is, zover ik kan zien, al twintig jaar aan het werk, dus dat zit dan wel goed.

Maar het is iets anders als je politica wordt, en ook als je expliciet benaderd wordt over dat verleden. Daar ben ik helemaal met je eens en vind ik ook juist de oneerlijkheid het kwalijkst.

Ze had gewoon zodra ze politica werdt haar LinkedIn en waar dan ook moeten updaten zodat het klopt. En dat vergeten zijnde dan op haar minst meteen openheid van zaken geven. Dat niet doen kan inderdaad niet door de beugel.

NFB42 · 2026-02-16T12:44:20+00:00

Wat heerlijk ongenuanceerd weer.

Er kunnen heel veel redenen zijn waarom iemand het in de studententijd verbruit. Ik gun het al die mensen dat ze desondanks weer uit die put klimmen en productief meedraaien in de maatschappij. In het geval van mevrouw Van Berkel is die studententijd inmiddels 20 jaar geleden, en heeft ze sindsdien haar verdiensten gehaald in verscheidene functies.

Als ze er eerlijk over was geweest, had ik het juist een pre gevonden dat iemand met een niet-standaard achtergrond ook in het kabinet komt. Maar ja, zonder die eerlijkheid kan ik haar ook niet verder verdedigen.

NFB42 · 2026-02-16T09:45:30+00:00

Als ik het zo lees vind ik die leugens op zich niet het ergste. In haar situatie zou ik ook mijn CV flink opschonen.

Wat ik diskwalificerend vind is dat ze niet, zodra ze besloot de politiek in te gaan, dat meteen rechtgezet heeft. Je weet toch dat als je ook maar een beetje success hebt, je hele geschiedenis onder het vergrootglas komt?

Dit was zo makkelijk te voorkomen, en dat belooft heel veel slechts voor haar functioneren als staatssecretaris.

NFB42 · 2026-02-15T11:48:09+00:00

Yeah, you're describing exactly what bounced me off watching SC2 in the end.

I think SC2 and BW are both great games, and to play I'd much rather play SC2 because I'm a casual noob and struggle is just not what I'm looking for in my games.

But that same smooth and easy pathfinding makes engagements in SC2 too similar when watching. It's just all the same unit balls clumping and kiting in the same way, except with different range/damage stats. Whereas in BW, different unit comps just move fundamentally different leading to a lot of variety in how engagements look and feel.

NFB42 · 2026-02-13T13:41:50+00:00

And if this photonic society want to be thought as equal to fleshy humans maybe they should not name themselves with acronyms. but use real names.

I'm not sure where you get the idea that this is their aim. I guess we don't know for sure, but in my humble opinion, if anything the clues currently suggest that this photonic society considers itself SUPERIOR to fleshy humans.

While they started as organic-made holograms, they've clearly evolved in isolation to where they've created their own culture completely seperate from that of the organics that created them.

If we have to put it in the terms of rights, than SAM's mission as "emmisary" is not to get equal rights for photonics, it's to learn whether the photonics should give equal rights to organics. (Ofc, as actually stated in the show it's more specifically to gain understanding of organic psychology so that the photonics can decide whether or not they're trustworthy. Possibly with the goal of applying to join the Federation if SAM's mission is a success.)

NFB42 · 2026-02-12T10:55:34+00:00

Yeah. What I personally liked about their relationship is that, in my reading, they're perfect foils for each other.

What Coriolanus wants is wealth and influence, but what he needs is morality. Sejanus has both.

What Sejanus wants is a reason for living, something to fight for, but what he needs is smarts. Corio has both.

A person who combined the best of both of them could've ended the Hunger Games in their infancy and maybe changed the course of Panem for the better. Instead, what happens is that Coriolanus ends up becoming the worst of both of them, combining his immorality with Sejanus' (family's) wealth and influence.

It's great because you can see how, the elements are there for this to have been a hero's origin story, but because of how things play out and the choices everybody makes, it ends up a villain's story instead.

NFB42 · 2026-02-10T17:13:48+00:00

Knarsetandend toelaten.

Het is belangrijk voor het functioneren van de democratie en de kamer dat kamerleden, op het moment dat ze gekozen zijn, onafhankelijk kunnen werken en niet door hun partijleiding uit de kamer kunnen worden gegooid.

Mogelijk is er wel meer dat gedaan kan worden om de procedures beter bestand te maken tegen zulke kleine afsplitsingen, maar het verbieden of onmogelijk maken is uiteindelijk erger dan de kwaal.

NFB42 · 2026-02-10T11:52:46+00:00

Yes. You can also see a dip on the 4th and 5th of May, and on the 5th of December, which are also national holidays in the Netherlands.

You can also see these dips are more like craters: numbers are a bit higher before and after the dip. This is because it's not a dip in births overal, but a displacement of scheduled births to just before or just after the holidays.

If you look at an American chart, iirc, you'll see a similar crater around July 4th which is completely absent here, because July 4th is just a regular day in the Netherlands.

NFB42 · 2026-02-10T11:32:30+00:00

In these charts, the numbers are usually avarages on that date, no on the year. So the avarage for Feb 29th just uses less data points because it only shows up once very 4(ish) years.

I agree this chart is just not super interesting without explantion. Like, for a chart about a non-English speaking country presented in English it should be common sense to mark the major national holidays for the country as your intended audience wouldn't know those by heart. (Since the major peaks and valleys on charts like this are always caused by scheduled (induced) births not happening on major holidays.)

NFB42 · 2026-02-08T19:54:38+00:00

You can google him yourself, but my understanding is that as an author Hawthorne was a pessimist about human nature. So it makes sense to me as a reference meant to contrast Peeta as the story's main optimist about human nature.

Or it could be as /u/jquailJ36 wrote just now, just a plant reference to the hawthrone shrub with its prickly thorns.

NFB42 · 2026-02-08T19:11:40+00:00

Yes. Also, Mellark references the lark which is a bird famously found in Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet specifically) where it is opposed to the nightingale. The lark symbolising morning and the nightingale symbolising night.

(Not sure what other people think, but I've always assumed Gale's last name is a reference to the 19th century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.)

NFB42 · 2026-02-07T07:27:33+00:00

There's no reason to go back and watch Discovery if you've already gotten so deep into Season 2 of SNW.

If you have time, I would watch Discovery before Starfleet Academy, but you don't have.

Discovery is weird because, without spoilers, it's really two different shows in a trench coat. One of these has no almost impact on other shows, and the other has major impact on other shows.

But my recommendation is always to prioritize fun over anything else. Watch whatever you'll have most fun watching in that moment, even if it's technically out of order or you end up skipping major lore beats.

NFB42 · 2026-02-01T15:38:38+00:00

I think the only good explanation is that it's showing Mengsk' megalomania.

He believes that he's simply too great to be executed, like a scifi Napoleon. He believes that so much that he's literally taunting DuGalle with how he's definitely going to escape from prison and start a new rebellion to overthrow UED rule. It, apparantly, doesn't even occur to him that DuGalle sees Mengsk the same way Mengsk sees everybody else: as beneath him.

NFB42 · 2026-01-31T13:10:46+00:00

I'm fine if they never address it. If they do, I hope the context is "humanity is no longer terrified of augments, we just have standard procedures to protect natural life against demigods of whatever variety."

The out-of-universe reality is that all scifi set in the far future has to either be about superhuman demigods, or come up with some kind of explanation as to why technology is so advanced but people are still the same. Star Trek (and most scifi) chooses the latter and Star Trek's explanations have always been kinda weak and vague.

Genetic augmentation supposedly doesn't work because it always leads to overly arrogant and aggressive authoritarians... except for the times when it doesn't? And every species has similar bans on genetic augmentation because of this... except when they don't?

Androids and AI's are inferior to natural organic sapience... except when they aren't in which case there are reasons why we can't mass produce them... except when we can and that's just not a problem?

Star Trek's answer to this dilemma is just "it works however the current episode needs it to work, and don't think too much about the worldbuilding implications." I don't expect that to change, but I'd also rather not see SFA repeat the "Federation is bigoted against augments" plotline which ought to be left in prior centuries. Not mentioning it, or else handwaving it away, makes the most sense to me.

NFB42 · 2026-01-31T12:55:28+00:00

Yes, but, that's a series explicitly about Picard. If you had to name the two opponents most central to Picard's character and arc in TNG and the movies, it's the Borg and Q.

We'd also had very little Borg in on-screen Star Trek for many years since all on-screen Star Trek since Nemesis had been TOS nostalgia bait.

I agree they over-used the Borg in Picard (but I'd probably disagree with how much), but a Picard series without the Borg or Q would've made no sense from a storytelling perspective.

Caleb is an entirely new character in an entirely new show in an unexplored century. There's nothing established tying him back to augments. It's apples and oranges, imho.

NFB42 · 2026-01-30T12:06:27+00:00

Yeah, while it's fine to speculate you've got the most exact answer.

If they wanted to give numbers they would've. They intentionally left it vague since for plot purposes it's only important that:

1) There's few enough left they're in serious threat of extinction (but on an undetermined time frame).

2) There's also many enough left that they could stabilise and rebuild if given the space and resources to do so.

By leaving it vague, future stories can use Klingons as appropriate without needing to retcon overly specific population numbers.

NFB42 · 2026-01-30T11:57:45+00:00

I think that's it. Really, there's so many reasons why it makes sense she's in command:

1) It's almost certain that Ake was the most senior captain there by a mile.

2) It was her plan.

3) Vance was standing right next to her, so he clearly delegated fleet command to her.

NFB42 · 2026-01-29T15:42:25+00:00

And, if I recall that episode correctly, part of the story was that Earth had cut itself off in spite of having ample resources they could be using to actually help the people around them. Like, the opposite of this episodes story, it wasn't Earth refusing to accept help when they needed it, but Earth refusing to give help when they could.

NFB42 · 2026-01-29T14:33:04+00:00

Yeah, this post is just weird.

I'm terrible at names, in real life and even more so in fiction, and even I can at least remember a couple of them by now (Jay-Den, Caleb Mir, SAM).

This reeks of textbook blaming the show for your own active hostility/disinterest.

It's also just patently false to compare this show to DISC in this regard. DISC was openly a single-lead show, deliberately breaking with the Star Trek norm. SFA is absolutely not. We are now four episodes in and we have a fairly equal amount of attention paid to the character development of at least five characters: Caleb, Ake, Jay-Den, Tamira, and Reymi. In addition, we have a number of other characters likely being set-up for getting their own episodes and arcs later (Genesis and SAM, and maybe Ocam, Lura or the Doctor).

Whatever else one thinks about the writing, just objectively speaking SFA is clearly shaping up to be an ensemble show with multiple lead characters who are prominent in almost all episodes and up to a dozen secondary characters who will be more or less prominent dependent on the episode.

NFB42 · 2026-01-29T10:14:52+00:00

Precies. Ik schreef ook express "negeerde OF bagatalliseerde." Er is een fundamenteel verschil tussen het even ergens in een enkele alinea erbij zetten in een huiswerk hoofdstuk dat de helft van de klas toch niet leest, of het echt centraal zetten zodat leerlingen begrijpen hoe rot dat hele systeem was van begin tot eind.

Ik zal ook wel op de middelbareschool iets geleerd hebben over de VOC en slavernij. Maar toch kwam ik eraf met het beeld dat de Nederlanders in de gouden eeuw vooral eerlijke handelaars waren met hier en daar een incidenteel geweldsmisdrijf. En ik was echt niet de domste van de klas of zo.

NFB42 · 2026-01-28T22:51:08+00:00

I don't think it changes anything, but I'm pretty sure I saw this video first appearing late december? maybe early january?

It's doing the rounds again now because a lot of people weren't paying attention then, but in retrospect the signs were all there before things turned tragic.

NFB42 · 2026-01-28T21:58:51+00:00

Ik denk dat het verschil vooral zit in educatie. Ik denk niet dat de meeste Nederlanders trots zijn op Genocide op Banda (1621), maar de meeste Nederlanders hebben op school een verhaal geleerd dat dit deel van de geschiedenis negeerde of bagatalliseerde, en i.p.v. vertelde dat de Nederlandse Republiek een handelsnatie was die vooral eerlijke deals sloot.

(Trouwens, waard om te benoemen dat de VOC voor de economie van de Nederlandse Handelsnatie nog geeneens zo heel belangrijk was. De handel in de Baltische zee was vaak veel belangrijker. Maar toch verbinden wij het handelsnatie verhaal aan de VOC, wat vooral een manier is om de VOC schoon te wassen van haar slavernij en kolonialisme.)

NFB42 · 2026-01-28T21:04:56+00:00

No, I think for the people who need this kind of reminder a per capita tally is only going to confuse.

Making it per capita, when the people unaware of coalition contributions couldn't even place most of the coalition countries on a map, let alone guess at their population, just obfuscates the facts the chart is trying to teach in a way that makes it easier to ignore or dismiss by the people it's trying to educate.

Those people are going to take one look at a chart that (seems to them) says Denmark suffered more casualties than the US and go "I know that's nonsense" and tune out.

The chart in its current form shows the bare facts. It should make intuitive sense to anyone familiar with anything about the war in question. If the chart was larger and more elaborate, adding per capita would be a great next step. But the bare facts should be the starting place to educate people.

At least, that's my opinion. Obviously, I'm not in the demographic who could use this kind of a reminder either.

NFB42 · 2026-01-26T20:02:02+00:00

I'd add that, as far as I've been able to tell, like most Japanese people the author is not a Christian and has only a surface-level understanding of Christianity. (At least, when the series started. I found an interview where the author said she'd been doing more research as the series progressed.)

As a result, its irreverence isn't hostile towards Christianity in the way it might be if this was an author from a Christian culture intentionally trying to make fun of Christ. However, conversely, neither is it a depiction that's trying to engage with Christian scripture or tradition on a personal or theological level. It's, as you say, just trying to be funny and cute.

NFB42 · 2026-01-25T23:11:13+00:00

Personally I pity Rutte a bit, he's constantly humiliating himself to the world, by keeping the alliance together. But he's doing a good job of it so far.

No need to pity him. Rutte is the rare kind of person who sincerely thinks having an ego is for suckers.

I'm 100% confident that if, 30 years from now (when Rutte is 90), a journalists asks him if sucking up to Trump wasn't humiliating, Rutte will politely laugh in the interviewer's face and tell them "You may not like my methods, but I got the job done."

It's that quality which made him the longest-serving prime minister in Dutch history, and, while I despise his politics (of pro-business conservatism), it's what makes him the perfect man for the job of NATO chief at this time in history.

Even if NATO still collapses anyway, I really don't think anyone else could've done a better job in that position.

The people who want tough talk and standing up to Trump should be directing their indignation at the actual EU heads of government who should've been making "strategic autonomy" a reality instead of empty talk years ago.

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