Pretty sure it's not poor people living in poor African countries that are destroying the world either.

It seems like easy talk to imply people in Africa can just go die of thirst as you think their water now belongs to the elephants, all from the comfort of your chair thousands of kilometers away while your country is contributing a thousand times more to the destruction of the world than they ever will. And I can state this with fair certainty as pretty much every country in the world is doing worse. What was even the point of your comment? How about you give them your water as they deserve it more?

Thanks a lot for ruining the combination for my luggage!

And names, I always rename those "My Company" apps to just "Company" so I can find them back in the list. That "My ..." stuff is so annoying.

Either the legal expert is a terrible expert or the reporter is an idiot who misunderstood him (or has an agenda).

It should also be pointed out that what De Wever says is completely irrelevant as it's not his decision to make. It's the federal prosecution office that acts at the request of the ICC.

The law in Belgium explicitly forbids political influence over ICC arrests, so it's the judicial branch that orders the action to arrest, not the executive one. Furthermore, after the arrest they transfer him to the ICC where the ICC will first determine if his arrest happened in a lawful way according to international law. It's not the Belgian courts and certainly not Belgian politicians that have any saying here.

And perhaps a final point: diplomatic immunity does not work in this case. The ICC rules override the immunity rules. This has already been established by the appeal court of the ICC. Otherwise criminals could use that as a loophole to avoid arrests.

Source: lawyer at the ICC https://www.standaard.be/buitenland/bart-de-wever-heeft-wettelijk-niets-te-zeggen-over-de-aanhouding-van-netanyahu/53096700.html

I'm not a fan of football in general but the moment they start dismissing the rules under government pressure is the moment they lose all what's left of their little credibility.

FIFA is corrupt to the bone, but until now it stayed away from corrupting the game itself, at least officially. There are plenty of dodgy cases with referees and inconsistent applications of the rules, but so far this never extrapolated to interference by the organisers themselves.

How about you travel there and bring whatever you have?

Or maybe just start by reflecting why you even felt the need to state your original comment and think 'yeah this is a nice and productive thing to say, that will help for sure'.

Our fossil fuel consumption is also at an all time record high, despite EV growing in popularity. It's mostly because a lot of ordinary cars are replaced by SUVs that eat a lot more fuel.

https://standaard.be/cnt/dmf20230712_92929200

78 million is peanuts to the total budget. I don't mind that money going to parties so that it's more resistant to bribery/lobbying.

What I don't like is that the money is being used to invest in non-political activities such as real estate and essentially compete with the private market with government money to get richer. Ironically it's the most right wing parties doing that. So much for free market.

I think the solution is taxing second homes while controlling rent prices (so that it's not renters who have to pay that cost) and also make it prohibitively expensive to own more than two places. Huisjesmelkers need to go out of business really fast.

Red cards have always led to a suspension of at least the next game, as was again confirmed by FIFA before this cup. Further suspensions can be and often are reduced indeed (e.g. Ronaldo's suspension during qualifications was reduced from 3 to 1 matches).

Whether it's truly a red card or not is not really the issue here. What about all other dodgy red cards? What about dodgy goals? Are we going to call those all into doubt too? During the game the referee and by extension the VAR decides. Teams can argue on the field and once the game is over: that's it, no more discussion about the decisions. Discussion about future cups can happen of course, but you can't just change the rules of a running cup. That's not fair to anyone who properly followed them.

I honestly don't give a damn about Belgium winning or not, but I really don't like how the US and FIFA are corrupting something that a large part of the world holds very dear. That's an outright shame. What happened here is unprecedented.

For me it mostly gives a bad image of how hopeless the situation is. Absolute top politicians should at least be able to have a basic conversation in the other language but they often can't even do that.

One of the reasons Flanders is so extremely sensitive about the language rules and the language communities is because they see frenchification happening everywhere they go, especially around Brussels (but also in other cities). And when even our top ministers cannot be bothered, it doesn't exactly hint that people will adapt and speak Dutch rather than expecting others will accommodate them in French.

It would take the nationalists down a few notches if ministers were equally as fluent in Dutch as their Flemish counterparts are in French. Doesn't have to be perfect, just comprehensible and showing effort.

Isn't the fine for the traffic violation? The compensation from a civil lawsuit will follow I presume.

This makes sense in my opinion. Violating traffic rules should result in the same fine regardless of whether you hit someone or not (like drunk driving isn't more OK just because you got lucky and didn't happen to hit anyone). But if you do hit someone, expect to compensate all costs and damages to that person or family on top of the fine (that goes to the state).

That said, I wish traffic violations would be fined much more harshly. Also if you didn't hit anyone during your reckless behaviour.

Seems like a good and fair punishment. The guy was actively and intentionally undermining democracy, spreading hatred and planning for creating conflict. He was and still is clearly a danger to society and people's safety and should be punished accordingly.

I think the NVA is gonna tear itself apart between the VB'ers in disguise and the liberals. That party covers a way too wide spectrum to maintain.

This obviously just illustrates a point, but callbacks and decorators are not uncommon. And iterators are exactly like that:

type (
	Seq[V any]     func(yield func(V) bool)
	Seq2[K, V any] func(yield func(K, V) bool)
)

Which is very readable.

Definitely not with MR in government. They're also the single reason why the woonbonus is still a thing for second homes. Rather than discouraging it, all of us pay taxes so we can hand it to people who are rich enough to buy a second house in the first place for snatching that house away from us and driving up the prices.

That party is the most populist, anti-science and destructive to the social and financial wellbeing of this country I've seen. And that says a lot if you take a look at some other parties.

And worse, they censored relevant paragraphs that had no reason to be censored at all to hide their corruption. It's criminal in my opinion.

Same, maybe I should start posting a bit more actively too

Go's syntax is vastly superior once you have more complicated signatures, then the left-to-right truly matters. For example a variable that contains a pointer to a function that takes a function and an int and returns another function (like a decorator).

In C the order becomes very hard to understand and you really have to read the thing several times to understand the type of fp:

int (*(*fp)(int (*)(int, int), int))(int, int)

In Go, you can just read from left to right and you can easily understand what f's type is:

f func(func(int,int) int, int) func(int, int) int

It's just much more readable.

See: https://go.dev/blog/declaration-syntax