To start off: Especially when you're openly drunk at 3am and unable to act normal 😂

You need to be able to identify yourself to law enforcement (and some others like ticket inspectors on trains) when stopped (for a valid reason ofc), I'd say that makes sense? We don't have a distrust of our (law) enforcement like there is in the US, they're held to a high standard here.

In a lot of instances they also need a copy of your ID at the bank, your work, etc. This is mostly to prevent identity fraud as far as I'm aware.

More info: NL: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/identificatieplicht / BE: https://www.watwat.be/politie/wie-mag-mijn-identiteitskaart-vragen

It's literally just a card (almost) everybody keeps on them together with their bank card. In the future we'll most likely just be able to use digID (in NL) or Itsme (Belgium) as a substitute to identify ourselves.

If you get stopped and don't have it with you the first time you'll just get a warning and they'll just look you up by name instead, after that they fine you for not having it with you. If you do not identify yourself they can take you to the police station until they can identify you, you know the only people who have an issue identifying themselves usually? Drunks and people who either have a history / current issue with police. (You often see this in the videos of our favorite police vlogger: https://www.youtube.com/@PolitieVloggerJanWillem)

I'll add on to this before you still call it dystopian, for every single time a police officer asks for an ID they have to note that down, its logged that they looked this person up, they have to write why they did it (reminder: every single time) and this can get checked by a superior officer/other instance (depends on country I believe) + anyone who was checked can dispute the check afterwards. They're very harsh on abuse of the access police have and everything they do for their work is logged systemtically and also by the officers in question (source: I worked for Belgian police IT). Here's an example of when an officer looked up people he could not justify: https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20240215_94848864

That's so weird. I don't get why they 1. Don't require people to have valid ID on them and 2. That there's ID's that don't show their status (citizen/whatever).

I am living in the Netherlands but my ID is still Belgian but shows I'm a citizen from there and also an EU citizen. I use this ID + the paper in the mail to show I am required to vote (we still have mandatory voting, but it'd work the same if it wasn't mandatory).

Take this fake ID as an example:

It shows both our "social security number" (Belgian sepecific) and the document number (required for use within Europe)

The back also has a chip that can be read and a qr code

For me an EU based (degiro) was better cause it can automatically provide tax documents / apply for benefits (like no double tax on US stocks)

Its not that I don't want that content at all, its that my entire feed is filled with it that is the issue.

100%, my main issue with all the "new" social medias coming out is that they lack a recommendation algorithm which basically blocks growth for any small communities (/creators depending on platform) and does not allow me to have an interesting feed.

On Xitter I always browsed the For You page and on the daily found new creators that posted interesting stuff that I wouldn't have seen otherwise. Now I just browse like you said on All and blocking communities I don't want there, but its already obvious to me there's wayyyy too much news and nothing else there. All I see is Trump Trump Tesla Trump and a bit of memes inbetween.

As far as I'm aware the company behind degiro is actually called "flatexdegiro" so not sure if they're related

Currently got most of my EU ETF in Amundi and planning on selling the rest of my iShares EU 600's later this year to put it in Xtrackers (first got some other financial stuff to focus on to see that my tax bill doesn't go boom)

Been using Degiro for a while. Outside of 1 year them not correctly filing taxes automatically resulting in me having to do it manually its been a great service!