Connor Crowley

Perfectly illustrates why SUVs are made for short people and us tall people prefer sedans. We literally cannot fit our legal in the driver's seat with a SUVs seating position. Best car I ever drove was a Volkswagen Beetle convertible (miss it). youtube.com/shorts/4pMr_...

At this point ASML could tell the Dutch government "We are not paying taxes anymore." Because apart from our real estate ponzi scheme it is the only strategic asset we have that generates actual wealth. www.bnr.nl/nieuws/econo...

At some point you just need to go Dutch and have it be a highway with a small access road.

Funny how the Netherlands is basically run as the 2010s GOP, Paul Ryan, case study on the following policies: -School vouchers -State layoffs -Health care -Social Security -Public Transit www.parool.nl/nederland/ka...

What do you expect when there are ~30,000 employees and ~45,000 students?

Contrasting this to how incredibly easy it is for my wife, son, and myself to vote in Florida from the Netherlands. Genuinely incredible how easy it is to vote in America.

Celebrating green party members is usually a bad sign.

Estimated that 50,000 Europeans died from heat related deaths last summer. Stubborn refusal to buy air-conditioning is truly the gun issue of Europe. Even the poorest of Texans survive a Texas summer.

Dutch and have student debt? ~$20,000 average? Behind on payments? No passport for you! Unironically this can result in a dual citizen losing their citizenship. In America this kind of treatment is reserved for parents who don't pay child support. universonline.nl/nieuws/2026/...

20 years of NIMBY lawsuits stopping a 10km tramline expansion (Tramlijn 19 in Delft) are finally over and the line is finally opened. Had to invent a new kind of catenary system. AFAIK there is now no new rail being constructed in the country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjm6...

NYC is probably about to build a single car free skyscrapper neighborhood with close to this population (hopefully one day the Netherlands will be as car free as that). But damn if I am not jealous of sane crane policy.

One bit of recollection from my days as a fire alarm / suppression executive. A better means of communication (also trick to sound smarter than you are) is to normalize costs to a $/ft² figure. Even though there are too many variables for it to be percise. It prevents them from scoffing.

The fact that children of immigrants in the USA are the most successful group world wide, compared to the typical European country where they are doomed to a life of structural disadvantage.

*whispers* the Dutch are no longer capable of building infrastructure. Just look at our budget this year, entirely state of good repair. Even stopping Amsterdam highway widenings and station access projects mid way.

Again, evergreen. We Dutch are more NIMBY and abuse process much more than the typical American. It is not hyperbole when I write every single housing development gets sued to the supreme court. But... American style "equity" process would generally be considered reverse discrimination here.

Oh look... Actual #humanscale that is of appropriate densities for a brownfield development in a city center with a housing shortage. Looking at you Europe weeaboos "wah wah Barcelona density wah wah."

IT REMAINS SUPER WEIRD THAT YOU NEVER SEE PARKING PROTECTED BIKE LANES IN THE NETHERLANDS. You see enough of number 3 and tons and tons of sharrows in the driver door zone. Maybe Dutch planners do not trust passengers to check the door zone?

I am once again calling on all Americans to lose their drivers license and have to reapply under Dutch training and costs requirements. Everyone of you sucks at driving. P.S. police enforcing laws and consequences are also required for driver quality. As unpopular as that is.

It would be a total moral failing if the results of the inevitable political backlash is to return to a status of not enforcing laws, and maintaining a generation doomed to being an underclass, instead of using the same political energy to change immigration laws.

Yes the A(4) paper system is far more logical, but have you considered letter size makes for much better paper airplanes?

Dutch infrastructure is literally falling apart. We have multiple highway bridges that can no longer support trucks, a broken down high speed rail line. So the new budget only includes repairs, no new infrastructure.

Infrastructure does not override driver quality. Good infrastructure can only be built upon the strict enforcement of driver quality. Also the city chronically under provides parking for its employees (likely civil servants) compared to Dutch governments.

Utrecht local public transit ridership down 14% year over year. I seem to recal @alonlevy.bsky.social saying bikes compete with local transit. But also this city is so small in population and sprawled out. www.duic.nl/algemeen/alg...

I have more expertise in Quantum than anyone on the mayor's staff. This is dumb lol. NYU remains an expert at ripping off the city. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/n...

They really gotta normalize this for population. Utrecht isn't really a city, it's a suburb built around a mall (sorry not sorry) but comparing Bern to Paris? Lol.

I am once again calling on ALL Americans to lose their drivers license and reapply under Dutch costs and standards (majority fail). Every single one of you sucks as driving and no amount of Dutch style infrastructure can fix that.

*whispers* it's just SRO. The solution to single male street homelessness is ALWAYS SRO + a few accessory supports as needed. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

Stupid Dutch doe normaal culture of blending in and not standing out. Pavers are slippery for the first time this season. For the fourth time in four years I just saw a mother riding with their toddler in a bike seat fall over. Put helmets on your babies you stupid fucking, cowardly, fullbloods.

Dutch think tank for construction economics estimates 60% of demand for housing (people looking at available stock) is from migrants with next noticable effect befong from shrinking household sizes. www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/ruimte-en-mi...

France is running out of other people's money...

Dutch municipality of Utrecht experiments with American style DEI for hiring positions. www.ad.nl/utrecht/voor...

France better get it's shit together and cut spending / raise taxes. I need the euro to be strong against the dollar when I sell my house.

This country is so stupid. Massive housing shortage? Rare city-center brownfield development opportunity? Let's build low density!

I am once again calling on all Americans to lose their drivers license and have to reapply under Dutch training and costs requirements. Everyone of you sucks at driving. P.S. police enforcing laws and consequences are also required for driver quality.

Amsterdam public transit company wants to roll out small automated buses, followed later by replacing drivers on full sized buses. Reasons are staffing shortages and costs, bus drivers are about half the operating costs on lightly used lines. nltimes.nl/2026/10/09/g...