Not GP, but: Realplayer compressed everything to hell, the quality was absolutely atrocious. I believe it was buggy as well.

Quicktime was a behemoth that took ages to launch. To speed things up, it liked to auto-load and be active in the system tray, slowing system start down even further and taking up precious ram on the off chance that you might want to watch a quicktime video. It also liked to register itself as the video player of choice for other formats, because why would you use a decent player if you can use a shitty one that was made by Apple? Fuck quicktime.

They’re five months early for April fools.

That link is borked. Use this: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/ruben-schilt-lekte-geheime-raadsdocumenten-over-chemours-ik-weet-dat-ik-een-jaar-cel-kan-krijgen-maar-mijn-geweten-is-belangrijker~b2c5a373/

That doesn’t mean anyone actually knows the CIA said that.

OP provided the source, straight from the cia website.

For context, the total Dutch government budget for 2023 is 395 billion. So this represents 9.5 per cent of government spending.

Great allies ❤️

The cabinet has fallen (for the fourth time in a row lol) and are now basically sitting out the period until the next elections in november.

Add to that the many months it will undoubtedly take before a new cabinet gets sworn in.

And the arms race.