Until they forgot to pack winter clothes and froze to death in Russia.

There is an offshoot of the Catholic church in the Netherlands were the bishop is not chosen by the Vatican.

Dutch people really handle hierarchy poorly and prefer "flat" organisation style. Anyone who acts as the boss doesn't last long.

There are many such because the Church's own belief is that a bishop always remains a bishop (even if removed from their diocese) and can make others bishops.

Anything with a microphone in it can be used to spy on you.

I always found that talking to computers is incredible stupid and only looks good in Star Trek. But I am apparently the minority in this because every car, phone and television has a voice activated interface.

There was scandal with Siri that lasted for about 5 minutes.

Who do you think is financially backing the Chinese? The trillion euro of EU imports...

Apparently 40 percent of Dutch fifteen year olds can't read. So YouTube is unfortunately the future.

Compared to the Spanish empire, Napoleon and Hitler the Americans are but whiny children. It would be one last hurrah for my country to break away.

It wouldn't have worked if we lived in a world were start ups being led by women was normal and investors didn't think with their dicks. But alas.

The evidence indicates that the story sold. Inferring biases from that example doesn't pass the smell test.

My public library books are DRMed with Adobe and officially you're supposed to read them on your phone lol. But it is easy to convert them.

What's the point of getting a DRMed e-book from a library, and then converting it? You are not supporting the author, you are not supporting the library, and you are not even being a good boy, legally. (You also typically get worse files than you'd get through other means)

I very much doubt China is going to let their citizens freely use AI for hacking. In fact they keep a very tight leash on corporations and their employees.