It is exactly as you say.
I have ran out off Heinlein and Asimov's books in the public library (can't remember reading Clark books)
Then I turned towards fantasy.
It is exactly as you say.
I have ran out off Heinlein and Asimov's books in the public library (can't remember reading Clark books)
Then I turned towards fantasy.
Same situation, only different library, in different country. Even mentioned by you in another topic Tanith Lee's fantasy had to appear on my menu as well for the same reasons.
Hard Scifi hasn't been popular enough since the 80'ies, thus we're seeing pulp scifi with long series of boring space-war "scifi" and similar replacing the real scifi. The last scifi author that stuck with hard scifi (afaik) was Greg Bear. His "The Way" trilogy was great. After that he had to adapt to the change in what the majority of the audience wanted to survive as a writer.
Nowadays I consume short classic scifi stories from the 40'ies to the 60'ies in audiobook form. If someone is interested I'll link to the channel/narrator William Sky who has released dozens and dozens of readings that I've never read/heard before.
his main platform is substack (due to issues with youtube demonetizing his channel for the most ridiculous and false reasons). He's releasing extra readings for his supporters on substack ($5/month):
https://storiesfromtheskysff.substack.com/
Ursala von der Leyden symbolizes everything that is wrong with the EU
You can't vote for here. No clue what she stands for but the bitch is power hungry as fuck.
And they believe they can fix the EU economy, that the EU personally destroyed with all kind bullshit regulations. Stuff you can't vote against btw as a EU citizen cause you have no influence on EU policiy. The parlement is just a bunch of yes men.
Anyway, they believe they can fix the EU economy..... by spending EU tax payer money on AI . As with any retarded goverment that isn't controled in it's power, the solution to the shit they have made is more goverment shit.
We are fucked. Give it 2 decades and the EU is some sort of Chinese communist party dictorship. The burocrats always want more power and there isn't a mechanism to control this piece of shit institution.
Ursala von der Vomit is the first president of the european commission that acts as a head of state. It's started with covid when she even believed she could decide things for herself. Never waste a good crisis. This is historic. It will not stop here. Power corrupts. Things will get worse from here.
And you can't leave the EU. They allready showed it with how the dealt with Brexit. The UK had to be punished.
The EU wants more power and it will become more powerfull. There is absolutely no democratic control over the EU, it's a blueprint for a dictatorship.
It's will be a Orwelian shithole.
Therefore you need plebs, immigrants are usefull for that purpose.
It's with English translation. This is how you create plebs. In the Netherlands we are 400.000 houses short. Reason: unlimited immigration. Second the building of houses is limited cause of absurd ecological laws (nitrogen emmisson laws). Also the prior goverment destroyed the public lending marktet for homes with insane anti capatalist taxes (thanks Hugo de Jonge).
So the only way you can get a home is to buy it. For that you'll need two above avarage incomes. This isn't available for most younger people. Social rental housing is unavailable (immigrants first).
So the people in the vid somehow managed to get a place in an old office building. This is considerd illegal. They were forced out of their home by the police and were adviced to go to a homeless shelter.
-Unlimited immigration, doesn't matter if they contribute anything to society (the avarage asylum seeker cost the society 700k)
-enviroment above all, making it impossible to achieve economic growth and build houses.
What can go wrong
Imho it wouldn't be that big of a deal if the population declines. Sure it will be harder to find nurses for the elderly but we will figure that out. As a last resort you could give greenpasses for people with the required skills, doubt it will even be necessary. And economic decline as a result of a shrinking population isn't that bad. But at least people will have a house to live in.
Wilders is a socialist and anti capitalist. He is gonna destroy the housing market even more. As of today he demanded lower rents for homes (it's allready impossible to make a profit lending out a house). Btw almost all of dutch politics is now anti capitalist, we are beyond fucked.
With 150 seats, 14 are pro capitalist (JA21, SGP, FVD and BBB), VVD is traditonaly pro market (24 seats), but they have become green and pro EU. The rest of the bunch all believe that the goverments fixes all and the solution to the mess they have made is more goverment regulations.
The socialist bunch is never gonna fix the housing crisis of course.
Second Wilders anti immigration policies are obstructed by anywone that is able to. Goverment/media/law. It's all extremely leftish. And even if laws are enforced to limit immigration, no doubt some judge will mark it illegal and nothing changes.
The socialist bunch is never gonna fix the housing crisis of course.
All major building efforts have so far been led by leftish ('60 CDA, '70 Bloemkoolwijken PvdA, '90 Vinex PvdA).
When did everything completely fail? In 2010 when VVD decided to ditch VROM and let the market handle it (of course).
PvdA in 2025 isn't the same of course. While I appreciate the effort the combine two parties into one with the 300 parties or so we have now, I think PvdA has given up too much for GL and lost meaning to the "A" in its name.
The socialist bunch is never gonna fix the housing crisis of course.
All major building efforts have so far been led by leftish ('60 CDA, '70 Bloemkoolwijken PvdA, '90 Vinex PvdA).
When did everything completely fail? In 2010 when VVD decided to ditch VROM and let the market handle it (of course).
PvdA in 2025 isn't the same of course. While I appreciate the effort the combine two parties into one with the 300 parties or so we have now, I think PvdA has given up too much for GL and lost meaning to the "A" in its name.
You can't blame the market for the housing shortage of 400.000. This is the goverments doing, with some help of EU regulation (workers migration).
Also goverment is extremely investor unfriendly and it's impossible for investors to invest in homes. It's not a free market. Prices are way beyond inflated cause of the shortage, this is a bad thing if you want to rent out a home cause tennants can't even pay up a sufficient rent to make it worthwhile.
For instance for private home owners.
You'll get about 4% income of net home value in rent.
Then the cost: 2,2% capital gain tax (proposed in 2026 2,8!)
1% maintenance cost.
So net gain is 0,8% and 0,2% in 2026.
And for that 0,8% you'll get a tennant to take care off that can't be kicket out of the house, your money is frozen in stone. And all this with a irrational goverment that is extremely investor unfriendly and can come up with even more degenerate laws.
I exclude the capital gains on home value but this shouldn't be higher then inflation for the long term. 10%+ gains as we have now are not sustainable and it's not income, it's risk.
Future proposed capital gain tax are even worse. A wopping 36% on all capital gains.
So if you have a year with say 15% increase in home value (not unlikely given the shortage in homes and the failure of goverment to fix it), you'll have to pay 5,4% of net home value in taxes . And net rent income is also taxed for 36% off course.
So you'll need to have extra cash somewhere, just to pay taxes cause you rent out a home that you can't get rid off cause the tennant is protected and the rent cannot be terminated. And off course, when the housing market slides, you have limited options to be compensated for earlier paid capital gain taxes, but you'll have to pay it all again when prices are on the rice again.
So renting out a home is a losing money buissiness. Something that's a problem cause there is a group of people that just need to rent a home. Subsidized homes have always been in short suply, it's a lottery to get one. People will have to life in caravans like in the vid I posted. Things will get worse soon cause a lot of younger people are just living with their parents but they want to leave someday..
Homelessness is gonna be huge in couple of years. It's an absolute disgrace.
Sure, blame the free market for the housing problem.
I'm surprised you can even build 400,000 homes in The Netherlands (j/k). After all, you're such a small country and from what I know it's already very crowded. Perhaps that's why so many Dutch people are moving to Sweden in order to feel freer with access to forests, wilderness etc.
Many of them seem to settle in the north of Sweden which is the least populated area of Sweden. They must've felt pretty overcrowded.
The socialist bunch is never gonna fix the housing crisis of course.
All major building efforts have so far been led by leftish ('60 CDA, '70 Bloemkoolwijken PvdA, '90 Vinex PvdA).
When did everything completely fail? In 2010 when VVD decided to ditch VROM and let the market handle it (of course).
PvdA in 2025 isn't the same of course. While I appreciate the effort the combine two parties into one with the 300 parties or so we have now, I think PvdA has given up too much for GL and lost meaning to the "A" in its name.
You can't blame the market for the housing shortage of 400.000. This is the goverments doing, with some help of EU regulation (workers migration).
Also goverment is extremely investor unfriendly and it's impossible for investors to invest in homes. It's not a free market. Prices are way beyond inflated cause of the shortage, this is a bad thing if you want to rent out a home cause tennants can't even pay up a sufficient rent to make it worthwhile.
Sure, blame the free market for the housing problem.
Where did I say I blamed the market? The market will build if they can (the previous building booms were done by the market, it's not like there's a government building company), but they can't due to the shit governments of the last decades. But just letting the market come up with a plan and solution to put 100000 houses a year down, which is what I referred to, isn't going to work. You need a functioning government to decide where to put these houses (and make space for it). With the market just buying some vacant plots and building 50 houses a time isn't going to cut it.
Frant wrote:
I'm surprised you can even build 400,000 homes in The Netherlands (j/k). After all, you're such a small country and from what I know it's already very crowded. Perhaps that's why so many Dutch people are moving to Sweden in order to feel freer with access to forests, wilderness etc.
Many of them seem to settle in the north of Sweden which is the least populated area of Sweden. They must've felt pretty overcrowded.
Only 13% is built (not all housing, also industry), so there's plenty of space . We need to take out 10% (of total) of the agri industry, which has waaaaaaaaaaaay too much in control (54%) and only adds ~6% of GDP.
Ah, classical left rethoric: turn the country into a city state, but at the same time same time protect the environment so that not a single house can be build. And booh farmers cause we hate working class people that own property, bad people. People that contribute shit and are on welfare, those are the saints.
Typical right retard, just whine with unsubstantiated garbage and come up with no solutions. FYI, there are just 400k people on welfare, that's ~2% of population. Also farmers contribute waaay more to CO2 and NOx levels than housing does. If you take away some of the farm land, it's a net win for everyone but some farmers. We can't have it all, something must give, and I'm sorry, but it's gotta be farmers. It'll address a lot of the issues we have right now.
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. As with any retarded goverment that isn't controled in it's power, the solution to the shit they have made is more goverment shit.
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