Haha no worries
Haha no worries
Ha, does that mean they simply don’t give you a pension? Or is it the case that you pick one and they handle it?
But yeah, sounds like it’s specific to your company, unfortunately.
Oh OK, yeah when I said “we”, I meant Dutch people - as far as I know Dutch people aren’t able to choose our own pension funds.
Cool! So how do you do that? If I go to e.g. the ABP site, I see no way to sign up. (Both ABP and BPF Bouw are sector-specifc too, I suppose, maybe that’s the issue? But looking at a more generic pension provider, they mention either being part of HR, or self-employed…)
I don’t think we really have the freedom to choose our own pension funds, do we? Possibly if you’re self-employed.
@phanpy@hachyderm.io’s “catch-up” feature is basically that.
Aren’t Citizens’ Initiatives intended for things that we’d like to see discussed in Parliament?
Still everyone, since Trump won the elections? :P Same as last time.
Everyone, since Trump won the elections?
I’m fairly sure this song got played on the radio as well, is what I’m saying.
The Sovereign Tech Fund has supported a lot of @gnome@floss.social development in the last year, great org.
This was definitely big in the Netherlands too, but also for sure not half as big as Boten Anna was. Other than that, I don’t think any other Basshunter song made the radio (if he even made more?).
cries in Northvolt
Man, so much attempt to stir up drama. Can they just talk about why they initially added the MIT license if they didn’t intend to make it public, why they didn’t make it public and open source, and what needs to happen to do that in a way and at a time that everyone is happy with, without having to do so with the eyes of the internet on them?
Time for Malta to step up!
What’s good to know that generally, in the EU and most European countries, I believe, the goal of regulations is compliance, not punishment. So “finding that an organisation is in breach” of something isn’t necessarily the first step towards punishment (fines or whatever) - often the next and final step is notifying the org and the org making adjustments to comply.
Doesn’t really matter if you don’t do business in the EU anyway, and AFAIK, no Lemmy instances are businesses.
Relevant: here’s European Digital Rights (@edri@eupolicy.social) live-commenting on their hearing.
And here are their key takeaways.
Overall, this hearing did NOT deliver the democratic scrutiny we were hoping for - our takeout had more spice 🌶️🌶️🌶
Not by themselves, but they’re generally indicative of a wider movement, i.e. for every person who came out to demonstrate, there are a few that agree, but not enough to actually go out there. And as the sibling comment mentions, moving closer to the EU also has wide support with a large part of the population according to polls. Is it just something that people disagree on with Georgian Dream, but not enough to not vote for them?
Ha I mean, that situation is indistinguishable from one where you don’t get a pension and your salary is the same, but sure :P
You do miss out on the tax benefits that employer-provided pensions give you, but in many cases that’s a fine trade-off.
Still, the actual point I wanted to make (but didn’t) stands: most of us can’t really switch our pension funds, which is a bit of a shame, because it means we can’t “vote with our wallet” for a pretty significant chunk of our wallet :( If my pension fund decides to invest in cluster bombs, I’m investing in cluster bombs…