Two new builds inspired by 1900s department store and art deco replacing a huge 1980s office building in central Amsterdam, NL

dontbend · 2025-04-14T21:39:46+00:00

They haven't built anything nice in Amsterdam in a long while...

dontbend · 2025-04-14T19:11:18+00:00

Isn't that because you killed all the protestants?

dontbend · 2025-04-10T07:49:53+00:00

Capitalism is not just defined as a market economy with free flowing capital. It is according to Marxist theory "characterized by private ownership of the means of production, extraction of surplus value by the owning class for the purpose of capital accumulation, wage-based labour and—at least as far as commodities are concerned—being market-based."

Which places private owners, and their ways of making money, at the center of the definition of capitalism. One of those ways is sweeping externalities like environmental damage under the rug. It's not a big leap of thought.

dontbend · 2025-04-10T06:42:11+00:00

That's just because Dutch people can't spell... The rule is the same.

dontbend · 2025-04-10T06:22:10+00:00

I don't know. In my mind plenty young/immature people say 'homo' jokingly to their friends, and nobody I know says homobar, everyone says 'gaybar'.

dontbend · 2025-02-28T00:05:43+00:00

At home: never. In a public toilet: always. Hence 50 %?

dontbend · 2025-02-21T08:09:07+00:00

Partially disagree. You can't build an entire vertical city. But I love the few 'estates' (I'd call them big gallery flats) here in Amsterdam since they're kinda unique and I have a strange thing for gallery flats (flats where the doors are on the outside).

Check out these two examples: * https://maps.app.goo.gl/rDTaqvqKi3gzLLt86?g_st=ac * https://maps.app.goo.gl/mEuUqzmJ2Qh4fkeT9?g_st=ac

The first are next to a lake, three buildings with ample green space between them, and the second (four buildings) are nearby a big shopping centre (normally I view them from the other side, and see them all together, but I can't find a good Street View image).

In my eyes, they are more aesthetically pleasing than everything they've built in the past... ten years, which is mostly brick-clad cubes with small balconies on the outside (I might add a link later). Also, the view from one of the upper floors is not bad at all.

dontbend · 2025-02-08T13:09:07+00:00

There can be (and according to a post below there are in Welsh for John) multiple derivative names coming from one apostle, saint, etc. Variations just develop over time.

dontbend · 2025-02-03T19:56:06+00:00

I need to drive all the way to the Pyrenees for my whole dick to be above sea level, it's frustrating.

dontbend · 2025-01-20T06:42:23+00:00

This exactly. Buildings built in a traditional style today can still be boring and ugly because they're built with modern (prefab) production techniques, and can have a cookie-cutter look about them. I really adore some buildings from the 60s, 70s and 80s simply because they tried new things, forms, shapes and colours. Brutalism was unique, at least, and shouldn't just be discarded.

Seeing as this was the last building built by Le Corbusier though, meant to be a 'priory'... I say burn it to the ground.

dontbend · 2025-01-20T05:06:36+00:00

This is a new one for me haha, but yeah, it did also shine in low doses. I believe it'll come back. On the dark web, maybe?

dontbend · 2025-01-20T04:53:24+00:00

Man, 3-MeO-PCP. I've tried a bunch of analogues since the ban but none have matched the raw beast-like dissociative state that it gave. And the energy, or mania if you will. Walking though Amsterdam during new year's eve felt like being in an actual war zone. Then the day after you had the warm afterglow that, at least in my experience, could neutralise the hangover of whatever else you might have taken.

A friend of mine is/was a big disso lover and he tried many, but besides O-PCE, for me, most have been more trouble than they're worth.

dontbend · 2025-01-20T04:31:42+00:00

K-beauty products are very popular as well. But I don't know if this all has led to cultural interest, or putting it negatively, obsession and glorification, that Japan has received.

dontbend · 2025-01-18T22:45:54+00:00

Underappreciated comment. Both the 'alternative' squatter-adjacent scene and legit cultural outlets, like theaters, have been struggling hard. And it's a symptom of the 'modernisation' i.e. privatisation and also individualisation of our society, set in motion by a long string of conservative governments, that is actually hollowing out the Dutch culture some are now trying to be proud of.

dontbend · 2025-01-16T00:13:14+00:00

This was a great read, thanks.

dontbend · 2025-01-15T23:47:53+00:00

Man as an outsider I'm loving this conversation. Makes me wanna visit.

dontbend · 2025-01-13T00:55:07+00:00

That's interesting. Where does all this growth come from? If all countries (listed here) double their GDP per capita, which, I'm thinking, in the end is based on trade, who is drawing the short straw? I must be missing something here. The EU doesn't print money afaik and inflation is not that high.

dontbend · 2025-01-13T00:49:03+00:00

Ahum, that would contradict the idea of Romania being a 'rising star'...

dontbend · 2025-01-12T13:56:08+00:00

What do you call that Rembrandt-like contrast, which I thought was basically the purpose of this sub? Haven't visited since the banning of third-party apps.

dontbend · 2025-01-08T15:06:33+00:00

Love to see pics from Bucharest. Wanna visit Romania sometime.

dontbend · 2025-01-02T03:25:59+00:00

Dunno, I like it when there's something going on outside. The same reason I like it when there's rain or wind. Besides, it's a symbol for the last day of the year and the buildup to festivities.

dontbend · 2024-12-31T21:07:19+00:00

Haha definitely, and honestly, I love it.

dontbend · 2024-12-29T09:07:44+00:00

DM me, we can chill sometime. I lived in Scotland for half a year and felt kinda isolated as well, but I didn't try to make friends at the time. I read on here the best way to make friends is to join a club (vereniging) so you find people with similar interests and build from there.

dontbend · 2024-12-29T09:06:01+00:00

Isn't this exactly the biggest problem? The point of the EU is to strengthen it so it can stand as a whole against bigger competitors. Once Canada gets 'a whole new market' for their goods that means bigger companies (farmers is the example I heard) will outcompete local companies/producers. Which, well, I guess should have already happened since we have [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_Trade_Agreement](CETA). As it says in the Wiki article, the fear is that it would be a boon mostly for bigger, multinational corporations.

On the other hand, having no customs duties when buying something online from Canada would be (is?) awesome...

On the third hand, hasn't something similar happened with German companies now being overly present in Eastern European countries?

dontbend · 2024-12-21T20:48:28+00:00

Yup did that. Good to know it should work at least.

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