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- Comment on Anon lives in 2056 1 day ago:
There was also William the third of Orange, who first lived in the Netherlands where he had no wife but a lot of really close friends who would visit him frequent behind closed doors. He eventually married his cousin Mary Stuart and became the king of England and Scotland in 1689.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 2 days ago:
How would you measure the time it takes to wake up without somehow monitoring brain activity externally? I mean, you start sleeping, so at best a dodgy perception of time, and at some point in time you're awake. For me it would be impossible to tell the time it takes, might be a second, might be an hour.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
The stupid thing is, there were already talks about moving away from the blackface. Of course the people at the television stations (who could make this happen) took their time, which caused the people of "kick out zwarte Piet' to make a stir. So far nothing wrong, but they did this at the televized arrival of Sinterklaas, so now they had crying children on tv. This caused the "all brown people back to Morocco" crowd to scream outrage, and suddenly we are at the current stage with two very vocal groups screaming at each other.
My kids were still in the believing age when this started, and I never had a problem explaining the issues and the changes to them (Piet used to come through the chimney, when this wasn't possible anymore he painted his face black to look the same, but now he realized this looks like blackface). The right wing voters had problems explaining, because they didn't want to, and now they see it as a defeat by the "others". Throw in some politicians who can only fare well if there's disorder, and suddenly it takes over twenty years to phase out something that should have been gone a long time ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Come to the Netherlands, we have layers on this since Santa Claus is Coca Cola's take on our Sinterklaas, who is usually acompanied by "six to eight black men" (more commonly known as "zwarte Piet", black Pete). he was was taken to the US by Dutch immigrants, after which it evolved in the current Santa Claus. And it gets worse, because while it has alway been a bit of a battle between team Sinterklaas and team Santa Claus, the last twenty years or so there is a different battle going on between team "Dutch tradition" and team "kick out zwarte Piet". Both of these last two teams are obnoxious, and would choose confrontation over dialogue every day of the week. This has resulted in a conflict with no end, where it would have been easy to phase out the blackface character with no fuss in a short time.
- Comment on Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down X and ChatGPT 2 days ago:
That's a bit pessimistic, you could also say very good to see that nothing important goes down when Cloudflare has an outage!
- Comment on It's always been women in STEM. 2 days ago:
That depends on the the view point. It is true that it was founded as a mosque, and became a teaching centre later. Since universities are considered a European invention by some, it is argued that it was a madrassa op until the 1960's. However, madrassa is basically Arabic for place of study, which this mosque was since the eleventh century or earlier. It was in any case a place of study before the foundation of the university of Bologna.
- Comment on Anon takes a DNA test 1 week ago:
He's referring to the fact that paternity doesn't make you a dad.
- Comment on Propain 1 week ago:
- Comment on They were big in the 90s 1 week ago:
In case you're serious: the original.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 week ago:
Did you write this post deliberately to trigger us? Some examples; The phone died when it should have 7% left, spilling soup at a store, smelly euro village and of course the main question.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
TIL, thank you. It indeed makes perfect sense that it would help for this.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
Better for the teeth than pH neutral? Nope. For heartburn it might help, but only for a real short time. Non-fat milk would probably be the better choice.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
Alkaline water won't be alkaline for long after it enters the stomach, so it doesn't really matter
- Comment on If animals could speak English in what foreign accent do you think that a certain species would certainly have ? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on These are the types of Whatsapp Channels Indians get recommended 2 weeks ago:
TIL Whatsapp has channels.
- Comment on It really is heart warming when grandkids teach their grandparents how to use the internet 2 weeks ago:
I love that you're getting down voted for shitposting in a shitposting community, it really shows how Lemmy is growing as a community.
- Comment on It really is heart warming when grandkids teach their grandparents how to use the internet 2 weeks ago:
Baby Shaggy and the old guy from Up.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You either shit in a record time, or won't shit for the rest of the day!
- Comment on I Powered My House Using 500 Disposable vapes 2 weeks ago:
I always wondered how that works? Do you have phases 180° against each other? Our (Europe) phases are at a 60° angle to each other, so while one phase is 230v, two phase is 400v.
- Comment on US tech firm Nvidia invests $1bn in Nokia, with sights on next-gen networks for AI 2 weeks ago:
The handset devision was sold to Microsoft, after being managed by a manager from Microsoft for a while. Microsoft shut it down within two years if I remember correctly.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 3 weeks ago:
Volkswagen Golf type 3.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 3 weeks ago:
Say it again!
- Comment on Everytime 3 weeks ago:
Drenthe actually.
- Comment on Everytime 3 weeks ago:
We don't really care about that, we can't understand you any way :p.
- Comment on Everytime 3 weeks ago:
I'm Dutch but not from Holland. There's dozens of us.
- Comment on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. 3 weeks ago:
One of the funniest things I saw when this was unfolding on youtube is that McNally works for Covert Instruments, AKA the Lockpicking Lawyer's company. Proven Industries couldn't have fucked up more if it was deliberate.
- Comment on The plan! 3 weeks ago:
I've read on the internet (so it's obviously true!) that sucking your own dick feels more like sucking a dick than getting your dick sucked. I'm not judging you though, you do you.
- Comment on This man is suffering 3 weeks ago:
If she wants to fuck with her husband, she'd better take him there to get him in the mood if you know what I'm saying...
- Comment on I remember watching this commercial late one night in the 90s on MTV, and wondering WTF?! What are your thoughts? 3 weeks ago:
Most of the comments on youtube are over ten years old, and reading them makes you almost want to ask some of these people how they are feeling now...
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 4 weeks ago:
The people who want to lower the calories per serving?