I think it’s more likely that the genocide denial will just continue on. Just cast doubt on anything concerning it, split hairs over the exact definition of ‘genocide’, poisoning the well by claiming all information illuminating the genocide is from Hamas and propaganda.

This is what’s happening now, I don’t see why it’d stop.

I don’t think for legal purposes - not specifically, anyway. All newspapers I read (Dutch ones) have opinion pieces which explicitly do reflect the opinion of the newspaper (written by the editors and generally known as a ‘commentary’). All other opinion pieces published by the newspaper are the opinion of the individual columnists, not of the newspaper (even though they published it and it may align with their opinion anyway).

It’s just transparant, pretty much.

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GHF probably isn’t the worst death squad.

It works the same in English, though, just with the suffix ‘-ish’ (and a number of other suffixes) instead of Dutch ‘-se’. You could literally translate ‘Goudse kaas’ as ‘Goudish cheese’, Gouda just never gets the ‘-ish’ suffix (or any suffix at all, really) in English.

We actually call it ‘Goudse kaas’, though. ‘Gouda’ is just the city of Gouda.

Reputable German newspaper Die Zeit is also reporting this. Though it’s only a short temporary message.

The book does predate the North Korean utter totalitarianism. Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, the year after the Democratic People’s Republic was founded. It was based on the Stalinist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

This is US internal news, which I’m desperately trying to avoid here because I can barely avoid it elsewhere anyway. Please keep it where it belongs.

Looking on Dutch and German webshops, I’ve found BBB Cycling and Trivio are Dutch brands selling (multi)tools. Sigma and SKS GERMANY are German.

No idea if they’re any good, though :p

You don’t mean this, do you? The EU attacking the military on which their individual armies depend, the greatest military of the largest economy on earth, would be incomprehensibly stupid. It’s utter fantasy, anyway. A dystopian fantasy that would involve more Europeans dying than Americans, that is if it wouldn’t devolve into nuclear war.

EDIT: not sure why I’m being downvoted for commenting on a fantasy of violence. I don’t think „please start World War III” is fun banter, sorry.

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The scenario I was responding to implied the US would wait and see „how long it takes Putin to get to Western Europe”, at least that’s how I read it.

And the answer is: he wouldn’t ever reach Western Europe. Not in a million years. It’s simply fantasy.

That’s a lot of pieces ’till Western Europe, which was the scenario I was responding to. And, while I have very little faith in our politicians, they’re not complete imbeciles. An attack on an EU country will certainly lead to an even stronger push towards unification than is the case now already, with just threatening words (from Trump, though - not Putin).

The idea that Russia, a country with a GDP the size of the Benelux, could take on an economic block comparable in size to China, is simply ridiculous.

Russia hasn’t even been able to take down Ukraine, how could it ever be able to take down the entire EU?

I suppose it’s what you’re used to. I’ve since before I knew of Amazon’s existence just used Google to find stores where I can buy what I’m looking for. And then I generally pick the cheapest shop. I’ve simply continued what I was used to doing anyway.

Though I also already never went with Amazon even if it was cheapest, as it was yet another American service.

I love Boekwinkeltjes.nl :)

You can find lots of antique shops with really old (pre-1800) books on there.

Workers & Resources is made by a company from Slovakia. Unintentionally, all the games I play were all European anyway. And if they weren’t, I pirated them.

Except for RDR2, then :)

I’ve never bought anything there, and I’m not really sure what you’d buy there anyway… Very technical things?

For normal household goods, I buy from bol.com or from the webstore of whatever results come up in an internet search.

Books I buy from De Slegte (secondhand) or Donner, but these are also my favourite (physical) book stores. Especially Donner has a beautiful and impressive store in the center of Rotterdam.

Electronics I buy from Coolblue or physically in a Mediamarkt.

Cheap junk I get from Action, Xenos or other random junk stores. I’ve bought from TEMU twice, but I don’t think I will again. I don’t really need to. I’ve also bought from ebay once.

This is all very Netherlands-centric, of course.

Pannenkoeken are also often baked with cheese or bacon (spek anyway).