A pregnant woman has spoken out after a Dutch police officer was filmed assaulting her at an asylum centre, seeking widespread outrage online.

The footage showed a Dutch police officer throwing the woman to the ground and others dragging her on the ground.

She says she approached officers to ask whether she could remain with her husband as he was being detained when police suddenly used unprovoked excessive force against her.

The woman explained that her husband broke the TV in anger after learning about his brother’s killing, and the police arrived at the centre soon after.

She gave birth five days after the violent incident and says her baby was “very early” and “needed more time”.

found some good leads here: https://www.eerlijkegeldwijzer.nl/

(crossposted from !rotterdam) There is a quite good hole-in-the-wall Indonesian restaurant in Rotterdam with very generous portions as a quite low cost. Just like many Indian restaurants that serve Pompedams with tubs of different sauces, Indonesian restaurants also serve a few sauces and chutneys. The tubs of sauces are huge. One of the tubs looked like at least ½ bottle of soy sauce. These were open uncovered containers. So if a customer were to cough or sneeze, they could easily contaminate the sauces. Either they are extremely wasteful and throw away ~33—50cl of sauce per table, or they are re-serving it. I don’t imagine they could afford to be so wasteful as low as prices are. They must be topping it up and re-serving it. Is it legal? There is a commercial kitchen hygiene principle that any food that leaves the kitchen never returns to the kitchen. I don’t recall where I heard that, or whether it’s law or just mitigating a restaurant’s own liability. The theoretical fix to avoid waste and also avoid the hygiene problem is to take the sauces home in a doggie bag or bring Tupperware. But it seems a bit off unless they are actually wasting it anyway.

Five or so years ago Holland Casino refused me entry for dress code issues (fair enough - European casino culture is less about gaming and more about conservative ambiance; creating a place to “be seen”). As I went for the exit, a manager who overheard the refusal stopped me to make an exception, apologised, and offered me play money to stay. I was effectively paid to play, which is (or was) normal for casinos.

Now Holland Casino has the audacity to impose membership, and the membership is not gratis. It has become an exclusive club costing €7.50/yr. The membership requires showing an ID card. So you can no longer enter the casino anonymously and on top of being closely tracked you pay for the privilege.

Consider that Facebook offers a premium service where users can buy an ad-free UX -- but their data is still collected nonetheless. Pushovers have become conditioned to paying with money AND their data both.

IIRC, some riverboat casinos in North America charge an entry fee. But in that case it’s actually a tax imposed by the gov (I think), and you can still enter anonymously. It’s feasible that Holland Casino would be passing through a tax obligation, but seems unlikely since it’s per year not per entry.

Is Holland Casino the only game in town?

HC is the only proper casino in Amsterdam with table games. The rest are just machines/slots -- or so I am told. Is HC a nationwide casino monopoly? Are there any comprehensive casinos with table games in Netherlands? Paying a gatekeeper is a non-starter for me, and player’s club membership should be optional.

hello Dutchies!

if i may ask, how are worker protections in the NL? i'm particularly interested in contrasting with Germany.

thank you!

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/157678

Tens of thousands of demonstrators in the Netherlands have donned red and marched to protest the Dutch government’s policy towards Israel, exceeding the turnout for a similar event in May