“Boeken lezen is van grote waarde voor mens, samenleving én economie. Boeken zijn de dragers van onze cultuur en laten mensen van jongs af aan ook andere werelden en gezichtspunten zien. Taalvaardigheid en geletterdheid maken het verschil in de ontwikkeling van mensen, op school en op de arbeidsmarkt”
Droomde vannacht een (naar mijn weten) niet bestaand woord: "afkansing", oftewel als kansen verminderen. Er is bijvoorbeeld sprake van afkansing als je steeds minder kans maakt op een huis of baan. En als er steeds langer niks aan de klimaatverandering wordt gedaan, dan is er sprake van overlevingsafkansing.
There's so many little things the new #Dutch xenophobic rightwing / anti-environment government will make worse.
Here's one most people will have missed:
In the early 2000 my "farmer" classmates got diesel cars as their first vehicle. They'd fill it up with "red diesel", a very cheap (no sales & excise tax) fuel legally only to be used in farm vehicles.
Despite stern warnings only one of them ever had its fuel checked. He received a small fine.
2/3 "Minor" misuse was de facto tolerated (like the unenforced 100km/hr speed limits on Dutch highways, something also thrown out).
In 2013 the 0% excise tax was cancelled and this practice stopped. A decade in and it turns out farmers don't need this subsidy to be profitable anyway.
However. The farmers wanted "stuff", and #rodediesel is a nice direct subsidy.
So after weeks of rumors it was announced #rodediesel wil be back.
One of the first farm vehicles to be electrified is "that small wheel / front loader". The machine that never leaves the farm yet gets used hours a day for a million little things.
It can charge locally and thus doesn't need a massive battery. Its effective up-time is easily higher than comparative diesel vehicles.
The new #Dutch government just made the business case for these waaaay worse by subsidizing every liter diesel with 15 to 20 eurocent.
@Jigsaw_You Misschien kunnen we een dag van nationale rouw afkondigen waarbij we tijdens de plechtige ceremonie op De Dam bij wijze van uitzondering uit frustratie wel luidkeels schreeuwen mogen.
#NSC en de #VVD hebben hun doodvonnis getekend. #Omtzigt is niet meer geloofwaardig en bij de #VVD is de deconfiture eerder ingezet na het strategisch geblunder van #Yesilgöz voor deze verkiezingen.
What started as a peaceful walkout this morning by hundreds of university staff, professors, lecturers in protest against police violence against students last week is now developing and escalating once again.
The riot police are here, hundreds of them are blocking the entrance to the university. After the university staff finished their rally, the students went in and they have built some tents right into the main hall.
The police are now coming in and [the students] are trying to block the police. They managed for a few minutes but now the police car van is driving towards the entrance and everyone here is very much hoping that the same scenario that happened last week is not repeated here.
The protests are against the war in Gaza and they’re also demanding the university to cut ties with Israeli universities but also to protest against police violence and what they say is a violation of their rights to demonstrate.
So far I’ve only seen peaceful protesters and the police is coming in and of course, there’s a lot of trauma after what happened last week so the situation is quite agitated.