The official response is “To be better prepared for a potential crisis” Gold closer to home is easier to liquidate. The unofficial speculation is that the national bank is worried that the US could easily disrupt the NL financial traffic, hence the move.

My 2 cents: They probably don’t want to signal complete distrust like France did in 1959, so they just withdrew some.

Local article on the topic: https://nos.nl/artikel/2629369-nederland-haalt-groot-deel-van-de-goudvoorraad-weg-uit-de-vs-en-canada

Fair enough, I meant to subtilty disagree with you on the hypothesis that pollution is the leading factor and instead suggest that it may not be the leading factor, as I have been taught that socioeconomic factors like education do most of the explaining. But that is not what I wrote of course.

But I’m no expert on the matter so you might very well be right either way. The topic appears to be well studied though, but I haven’t gotten around to reading any papers

Consider that there might not be a single unifying explaination and instead a number of compounding factors.

They would never, thats illegal!

I took kernel device driver programming as a course in uni. They were still teaching the device driver course but not the operating system course you were supposed to take before that. Always felt like I have been systematically lacking that knowledge because of that. I’m interested!

Is it your body?

Pardom me if I am wrong but wouldn’t you still get borders in the form of economic areas that have specific needs. Which would then result in area specific culture and governance, eventually just resulting in borders again at an eventual conflict with the neigbouring zone? I know that I am making some jumps here, but that is sort of what human history feels like.

P.S.

All for getting rid of the oligarchy btw

Do you think that that dissolving borders is really possible? On a utopian level I want to believe, but sometimes I feel like mutual dependence might be the best we got.

Not necessarily. You could end up with the Korea scenario, or India Pakistan border with everlasting tension between the two.

I don’t agree with npdean, but isn’t that a bit of a stretch?

I feel so helpless and horrified. And amidst all of this life still goes on. It sometimes feels surreal to me.

You can literally feel empathy for both though?

A special shortcut tot remove line breaks, citations, line break hyphens and other garbage from my clipboard. For easy copying from academic papers.

well they get to shoot at dutch F-16s now instead of passenger airliners. But ye

Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Quality replies are much appreciated! I think that narrative, as you put it, is generally a good thing as it helps us to remember information and make sense of the world. I work in research so I didn’t think twice about the distinction between the and a scientists. Not so sure that scientism is in my top 10 problems list, but it it is still good to be aware of such biases.

Thanks for making me aware of scientism. I am a little unsure how it applies here through.

Yeah no I knew someone that had that happen, he managed to park on the emergency lane and it took a while for someone to figure out that he was dead.

Yes, many don’t know this but you can give out appreciation and compliment for free.

Enjoy eternal torture

But still they come