Seems silly, I care about the quality of the content. I don't care who, created it, just if it is good, and if I can use it, learn from it etc.

normie...instantly puts me off from reading the post. Makes the author sound like he is above everyone else.

The Netherlands are exceptional, at giving this public image of this amazing country, where there is practically no crime, high living standards, little to no corruption, etc. etc. etc. etc. However the longer you live here, the more you realise it's just a thin veil on the top, dig just a little bit past that, and it's a country faced with multiple serious issues. So something like this benefits scandal was not such a big surprise.

I mean, once you spend more than 10 minutes looking at how their drug enforcement works, you come to the conclusion the Netherlands is a de-facto narcostate.

While retail supply of soft drugs is permitted and taxed, production and wholesale supply to those retailers is illegal, which helped drug gangs to become immensely powerful.

This could be resolved by legalising the production and wholesale supply aspects (with great benefits for the taxman), but the political will is lacking. It would also sharply hurt criminals.

The half measures around drug legislation are indicative of how the rest of the country is ran.

typescript as a language on it's own, is worth it, however the nightmare of the landscape of all the poorly develop libraries and endless layers around it causes me to never pick it for a backend project.

With a attitude like that, I wonder if it is worth having you on the team. Might just push me to pick JS then.