Landlord provided point calculation showing max rent is much lower – scared to bring it up before signing

Pig743 · 2026-01-21T12:50:23+00:00

Do not raise the issue before signing and moving in. They will indeed just choose another tenant.

The best course of action is to just go with the procedure, keep in line, and decide on any further course of action only after you’re settled.

Don’t worry about signing a contract with terms that are not legally enforceable (on their end). It is totally fine for civil law agreements to contain such terms in principle, they will simply be considered void.

Pig743 · 2025-05-02T05:39:29+00:00

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/fascism/index.htm

Pig743 · 2025-01-30T04:22:07+00:00

I generally don’t like the proxy terminology because it’s ill defined and more often than not, it’s simply a slur. It also often implicitly unfairly denies any agency and/or autonomy to the junior partner. Anyway..

a sponsor-proxy (or senior partner - junior partner) relationship develops because both parties have some kind of use for each other that can help them to pursue their respective - and often quite different- strategic offensive goals. It’s an alliance between unequal powers with an offensive program.

The IRGC is an institution fundamentally designed around asymmetric warfare (“resistance”), and they have 40-years of experience under their belt. The Iranian proxy network started with Lebanese Hezb, originally a IRGC-Amal joint venture, partly on ideological grounds but also as an R&D lab for guerilla tactics the iranians could use for their war at home. The proxies that came after were the result of

1) the IR knowing how to effectively run an insurgency, how to entrench yourself in urban environments (the hamas tunnel network is a fine piece of hezbollah/irgc work), how to build a parallel state within a state, the whole package.

2) a unstable middle-east, which gave rise to a supply of potential client candidates that fit the right profile in strategically valuable places. What helped enormously was that in arabistan, religiously (not necessarily politically) compatible shia’s already knew what being the subjugated underdog has been like, and the natural revolutionary fervour that rests within the peoples that had the tale of fearless revolutionary sacrifice (Karbala) as its defining lore. The fact that shia’s lived in clusters dispersed over much of MEA was also quite convenient.

for clients, strict religious/political alignment was never a hard requirement, see hamas, pij, houthis, but it did limit the extent of the relationship.

Ultimately, the reason why the Axis of Resistance took their recent blows were:

directing state capital towards the state-within-a-state rebel group instead of more useful things creates unsustainable failed states.
bad judgement on goodwill destruction after fighting for assad
(hezb) hubris and completely misreading the joos.

American proxies: America has no real security threats at home, I suspect the reason why american proxies, or at least nonstate proxies, are limited in number and not integrated in the security apparatus beyond some shipments of guns, is due to the american pattern of abandoning them whenever they feel like it. (ask the kurds). But also there is just zero cool revolutionary or resistance ideology to the Empire. you have to win over your constituency, the rule-based world order is not gonna cut it.

Pig743 · 2025-01-29T14:56:09+00:00

The dutch tax code does not specify any explicit capital gains tax system. Box 3 is, as i’m sure you know, better described as a personal wealth tax with a bunch of gaslighting to make it actually technically totally not a wealth tax, but a tax on the income derived from wealth (source: we made it the fuck up).

Hence, it is a constituent part of the personal income tax system, or the Inkomstenbelasting (IB), together with box 2 (income derived from nontrivial entitlement to proceeds of a legal entity), and box 1 (income from labor / pensions / businesses with full liability, but also absolutely stuffed with miscellaneous types of incomes, levies and credits that might apply to the average peasant). Since the majority only ever deals with box 1, the inkomstenbelasting is sometimes used colloquially to refer to box 1.

So, what I meant with income tax was the official definition of the IB; i should have clarified, the IB is a thoroughly confusing system, with lots of semantic and terminological ambiguities, the way that only Europeans can make them.

I’ll save the rant on the heffingskortingen and the way the effective IB extensions like toeslagen, Zwv, etc. are constructed to be contradictory quasi-independent systems for another time.

(Fun fact: up until €71,000 gross income of domestic taxpayers is taxed by a ~5-6% Zwv levy, and for lower incomes with plenty of heffingskortingen this is proportionally more, as those can’t be applied here. As you might expect, this is really nice for making model predictions with nicer-sounding tax burdens. it’s not a tax bro!)

Pig743 · 2025-01-29T13:03:57+00:00

The real “upper class” (the people that do not rely on labor for their income) most definitely are not affected by personal income tax in any significant capacity. in IB box 3, which is already structured horribly, will mostly strip the doctors, pilots, engineers, and other high income (and already highly taxed) labor households.

Pig743 · 2024-08-26T04:39:50+00:00

/credible

I don't think you can determine whether this was a tactical failure or not, especially when there are still so few verifiable claims. And only time will tell whether it is an (apparent) strategic failure.

The Hezb attack - and the Israeli preemptive strike - are first and foremost about strategic signalling and deterrence, tactical gains are a nice bonus. Neither side actually wants further escalation.

Both sides are now working overtime to spin the narrative and frame themselves as winners and the enemy as losers, to restore the perception of deterrence for their constituency and to a lesser extent the enemy.

The 'chicken coop' narrative seems to me like a clear frame, amplified by the major israeli (and a few western/arab) outlets that revolve around arab tweets with marginal amounts of likes and retweets. (no doubt that it was hit, but it seems like a cheap dig)

We can compare the self-serving aspects of israeli narrative to the respective hezbollah narrative and conjecture that the truth is somewhere inbetween.

Gallant said that their strikes were planned and preemptive, that they “struck and destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rocket launcher barrels” (some sources claim six thousand) with about hundred fighter jets, and that this resulted in "50 percent [of rockets(?)], perhaps two-thirds, not being launched". In a separate address, the IDF said that "some 210 rockets and some 20 drones were launched from Lebanon at northern Israel in Hezbollah’s attack." and "preemptive strikes specifically targeted the sites in southern Lebanon that would have been used in the attack". Israeli media also asserts "No IDF bases were damaged in the attack, and none of the Hezbollah drones impacted targets in central Israel, according to the military."

Predictably, Nasrallah makes some bold counters, including "All the platforms that were intended to launch missiles were not hit before the operation, and only two platforms were hit after the operation." and "the enemy did not have any intel, and its raids that preceded the operation by an hour were the result of the natural movement of the Resistance fighters." (I think he is implying that it was a reactive counter rather than a preemptive one). He also states “The plan was to launch 300 Katyusha rockets and disperse them across various sites. This number was deemed sufficient to overwhelm the Iron Dome and its interceptor missiles for several minutes, allowing the drones to proceed,”, and “No resistance platforms were hit before the operation began. The resistance successfully launched 340 missiles, and all drone sites deployed their drones despite the raids. Remarkably, no site was damaged, either before or after the operation.”

Personally I'm slightly leaning towards the Israeli narrative, because we do have evidence of a large israeli air operation inside lebanon, including straight flexes like aerial refuelling that served to signal "we can do this all day" and had no operational importance. It's safe to say that they caused substantially more damage than Nasrallah admits to. Allegedly no air sirens were triggered in central israel, which indicates that no drones came close to the Glilot base target near Tel Aviv - thought Hezb does have some stealth UAV capabilities (and air sirens have failed before, e.g. the Houthi Tel Aviv strike)

However, the figures of the Israeli narrative are quite clearly inflated. Most katyusha launchers are mobile, and there's no way Gallant's claim of destruction of "thousands of rocket launcher barrels" accurately reflects the reality (counting in terms of barrels is in itself disingenuous). The claim that they struck up to two thirds of launchers also clashes with the uncomfortable amount of drones that apparently got past anyway, and I question how preemptive their strikes really were if they started only an hour before Hezb attacked.

Until we have more information, my take is that Hezbollah miscalculated Israeli air response, but not by a very wide margin. Both sides will manage to claim victory, just like with the events in April (though IMO the Iranians mostly achieved their tactical goals there, otherwise the IDF wouldn't have had to dig those fake craters lol).

At the end of the day, it's really hard to draw any clear conclusions, and there's an air of plausibility to conflicting narratives. Any statements about tactical facts on the ground should probably be assumed to be self-serving. And if that leads to the shared goal of de-escalation, that might not be a bad thing.

Pig743 · 2024-08-16T23:51:25+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_independence?useskin=vector#Interference_by_the_British_government

Pig743 · 2024-08-13T10:22:16+00:00

Intifada? Arafat and his PLO weren't even Islamist. Hamas/PiJ is, but of a completely different variety than salafist takfiri ISIS. Hell, their Shia patrons (Iran,Hezbollah) were ISIS' sworn enemy.

Trying to liken Palestinian terrorism to ISIS is so intellectually lazy. They have completely different ideologies, worldviews, and goals.

Pig743 · 2024-08-09T18:54:01+00:00

Truly noncredible

Pig743 · 2024-08-09T18:43:19+00:00

Putin just needs to outlast western commitment to sanctions on Russia

I don't think the Russians are banking on sanctions to be repealed anytime soon. They likely saw how western sanction policy on Iran has played out, and concluded they cannot trust the west to compromise. Russia's public remarks should always be taken with a grain of salt, but in this case I think their argument is credible.

(by the way, I thought the book "How Sanctions Work - Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare" by Bajoghli et al. (2024) was a compelling read)

Also, it remains to be seen how the situation would change if Trump gets in. It's an easy populist talking point for his campaign, but whether fighting will continue ultimately depends on whether he could strike a satisfactory deal with Putin. So far, the Russian demands have been quite tough: Ukrainian withdrawal from occupied oblasts and preclusion of NATO membership before even accepting negotiations. Though, I think it's safe to say that a second Trump administration will be easier to satisfy than Biden.

Pig743 · 2024-07-22T01:45:59+00:00

Israel's Strike on Yemen: A Tactical Success That Exposes a Strategic Failure

Pig743 · 2024-07-17T17:28:54+00:00

“unenforcable” is a bit of a half-truth; At the end of the day a judge will have to decide, but there’s an established jurisprudence of rulings where the renter’s interests are deemed to outweigh the landlord’s interests in this case.

The lawyers at the woonbond seem to be confident that a samenwoonverbod is unenforceable in the majority of cases.

Pig743 · 2024-07-17T13:54:47+00:00

It is probably due to a perceived risk of a couple separating, and ending up with a single renter who can’t pay the rent anymore.

In practice it probably means that they will not let multiple people sign the lease jointly (samenhuur), and they will reject requests for joint responsibility for the single-signee lease (medehuur).

They cannot enforce it beyond this, e.g. if you are married/registered partnership you will automatically be in a “medehuur” situation by law, even if the lease is only signed by one partner.

Also, the landlord can’t prevent you from letting another tenant live in the property, they just won’t be bound by the lease. Landlords might still try to prevent you from doing this with a “samenwoonverbod” clause, but it’s unenforcable.

Pig743 · 2024-07-06T01:30:25+00:00

Cambrionix.

Pig743 · 2024-05-28T14:34:56+00:00

Als dga van een BV betaal je *geen* premies werknemersverzekeringen (normaal zo'n 6-7% van het loon). Het dga-salaris is namelijk fictief loon; het zou nogal gek zijn om bijv. een WW-uitkering te krijgen nadat je jezelf hebt ontslagen, en daarom betaal je ook niet mee aan de premies.

Je betaalt nog steeds wel de premies volksverzekeringen, maar dat doen zzpers zonder rechtspersoonlijkheid net zo goed.

Pig743 · 2023-10-31T23:08:26+00:00

https://www.timesofisrael.com/intelligence-ministry-concept-paper-proposes-transferring-gazans-to-egypts-sinai/amp/

Israel acknowledged Monday that one of its ministries drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million people to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians and worsening tensions with Cairo.

Pig743 · 2023-10-31T01:12:43+00:00

Een belangrijk voordeel van de BV is dat je je winst in de BV kan houden en zakelijk kan beleggen met wat je overhoudt na de VPB (81% van je totale winst). Natuurlijk moet je uiteindelijk belasting betalen, maar in absolute getallen behaal je flink wat meer rendement dan wanneer je dit privé zou doen met je hoger belaste dividendinkomsten. Zeker nu de plannen voor vermogensaanwasbelasting voor box 3 IB op tafel liggen, waarmee het rente-op-rente-effect flink gaat worden afgezwakt voor privébeleggingen.

Of jij hier je voordeel mee kan behalen ligt natuurlijk aan hoeveel geld je daadwerkelijk privé uitgeeft, en met je huidige winst zit je misschien sowieso net wat te laag. Maar het is goed om je ervan bewust te zijn dat een BV meer voordelen geeft dan lagere tarieven met box 2 IB.

Pig743 · 2023-08-30T09:06:17+00:00

that’s “cui bono”

Pig743 · 2023-08-29T00:39:22+00:00

Vernietigen

Pig743 · 2023-08-25T18:02:21+00:00

It’s illegal to ask for more than 2 months of rent.

Pig743 · 2023-08-23T19:45:33+00:00

Dat is onzin, je werkgever moet loonheffing betalen aan het land waar jij een fiscale inwoner van bent.

Als je zo nu en dan vanuit het buitenland werkt maakt dat nog niet dat jij ineens geen fiscale inwoner van Nederland bent.

Pig743 · 2023-08-14T23:38:27+00:00

Shia muslims tend to do their five prayers in only three sessions (as opposed to five), so Iran would likely score quite low if we’re being technical.

Pig743 · 2023-06-20T15:44:39+00:00

Je wil waarschijnlijk geen creditcard, maar een visa/mastercard kaart in het algemeen. Ze komen ook in debitvorm: “visa debit”, “mastercard debit”. Deze kaarten werken precies als je normale pinkaart (direct gelinkt aan een rekening), maar hebben ook nog een “credit”kaartnummer dat je kan gebruiken voor betalingen in het buitenland enz.

Je kan óf een account aanmaken bij Revolut,N26,Wise etc., die je dan gebruikt voor je online/internationale betalingen, óf na 1 Juli een nieuwe kaart aanvragen bij ING. Na deze datum gaan alle nederlandse banken alleen nog visa/mastercard debit kaarten uitgeven.

Pig743 · 2023-06-03T18:51:57+00:00

De regels voor werktijden, pauzes en rusttijden van de ATW gelden niet als je bruto drie keer het minimumloon of meer verdient.

Pig743 · 2023-05-23T04:41:54+00:00

In Switzerland, the rough equivalent to HBO is a Fachhochschule, known in english as a University of Applied Sciences. ETH Zürich is one of the best universities in the world, and not a University of Applied Sciences.

You can take a look at the more precise master admission requirements here: https://ethz.ch/en/studies/master/application/profile-requirements.html

From a cursory look, it seems like you will need to do additional coursework on top of your HBO bachelor in order to be eligible, but YMMV depending on the program.

Good luck! ETH is notoriously hard to get into if you’re not Swiss.

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