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  • It is based off the Dutch system called iDEAL. We’ve been using it as our standard way of paying in web shops for about a decade.

    Since iDEAL is behind this and it’s already the standard way of paying online for all Dutch people, I expect it will simply be a matter of time before all Dutch people will pay with Wero.

    When we pay with iDEAL we already see a screen saying (in Dutch) “iDEAL will be renamed to Wero, nothing else will change”

    I hope the transition is as smooth as that, but we will see.







  • Well, I guess you can call water with red dye a Merlot, but it doesn’t make it so.

    The US is a wild place, maybe Florida even more so. We buy our weed in a shop that has an address and Google reviews. The purity of MDMA and other drugs can anonymously be tested as well. So there is a lot less funky stuff going on. We didn’t even have over here crack until the last 10 years or so.







  • Not if you think about this a little more than 2 seconds….

    But sure, I will explain some more.

    In a combined race, even the fastest women have something to draft behind that rides faster than they normally could: a man. That gives them an unfair advantage over the other riders who don’t have that same advantage.

    The only thing faster than the fastest men is a motorised vehicle. And drafting behind that is also illegal.

    Or simply put: the reason a woman can’t draft behind a man is the same reason a man can’t draft behind a motorcycle.


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    That usually doesn’t work. It will give unfair advantages to women who manage to “catch the wheel” of a male cyclist and especially the ones who manage to hang behind an entire group of men.

    It takes much less effort to closely follow a cyclist and even much less effort than that to hang at the back of the peloton than to ride by yourself.

    Now of course you can make rules about female cyclists not being allowed to get closer than X amount of distance behind a male cyclist, but that is just much more complicated than simply separating the groups.

    It is also the reason why they banned male pacemakers running in front of the top female marathon runners. It is unfair to the rest of the group who have to do the running on their own.





  • I know, and that is a silver lining, but of course developing countries are hit much harder by the oil crisis than developed countries. We just pay more for our oil and that’s it. They can’t do that and they also don’t have the resources to make the transition as quickly.

    Edit: actually, I stand corrected. I just found this article as well as this one and it looks like Africa especially is doing a hell of a job. Hopefully for them they can also afford electric cars or – preferably – improve their public transportation in the near future and skip the polluting part of their development entirely.

    The trade off of course is an increase in soft power for China. Whether that is a good or bad thing remains to be seen.