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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by thrownthatway on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:04AM (#47962692)
Good job.

Now detail three strengths Belgium posses.

If you hyper focus on the problems, you’ll be completely oblivious to the solutions.

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by hylaride on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:20AM (#47962919)
They asked if it was bankrupt, not for a feel good or balanced essay.

That being said, Belgium can be and is wonderful. I'm a geopolitical nerd and I loved touring the WW1 battlefields.

Ghent is one of my favourite mid-sized cities in the world! It's got some of the best gothic architecture around, an amazing and creative beer scene, and is not overrun with tourists the way Bruges is. I was there for a conference (I'm Canadian) with a colleague who grew up in Paris. He literally said "If I knew Belgium had this, I would have visited far more often". Belgium gets a bad rap because it got so hammered in both world wars and if you just visit Brussels you're left with the impression that it has little history outside of one preserved tourist block.

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by thrownthatway on Thursday April 30, 2026 @11:46AM (#47964255)
You still didn’t answers the question.

I’ll get the ball rolling.

Belgium is tiny about 30,000 square kilometres.

But it produces a metric fuck tonne of food.

You only got to come up with two more now. C’mon, you can do eeeeit!

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by thrownthatway on Thursday April 30, 2026 @03:54PM (#47967423)
Also…

> They asked

I don’t understand this approach.

You’re on an open discussion board.

Yeah, they asked. Now I’m asking something.

Or do you expect the chair to bang their gavel and tell me I’m out of order.