But pretty expected for someone who bought their degree

But dulce de leche is brown… Both of these are white.

Oh no, we imported lots of food. And we kept it nearly separate, never to mix it with our own.

We imported Indonesian food, mixed it with Cantonese food and called it “Chinese food”, or the “Chinese Indian Speciality Restaurant” https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinees-Indisch_restaurant

Bitterballen, poffertjes, awesome cheeses of all sorts, rookworst, stroopwafels, (…) pannekoek.

We’re great at snacks, that’s absolutely true.

But we share speculaas with Belgium and Germany, and spekkoek is Indonesian. Advocaat is… Probably an acquired taste, I’ve never seen anyone under 60 drink it

Which is, as these things go, completely impossible in the EU

I’m Dutch/British, and I can honestly say the Dutch don’t (historically) like tasty food. Maybe it’s the Calvinism, maybe were culturally broken. Maybe both.

Behold the Dutch breakfast

Now behold the Dutch lunch

No, that’s not a joke or a mistake. That’s real.

Typical Dutch food is Stamppot. Which is boiled potatoes (poorly) crushed with 1 or 2 boiled vegetables in it. There are a dozen versions of it and people will argue which beacon of sadness is better.

Another typical Dutch food: pea soup so thick you can eat it with a fork. It has peas, bacon, potato and sadness. Recently people added stuff to make it tasty, but historically it’s just peas and potato.

As a little break from food talk, here’s a famous Dutch painter making a famous Dutch painting: People eating potatoes . Literally just potatoes.

A typical classic Dutch desert is Hangop, which is yoghurt you hang (hence the name) in a cheesecloth to let the water soak out to make it more dense. That’s it. Plain yoghurt. Maybe add some honey for this amazing Dutch “treat”.

Now, we have amazing cheeses today, but historically Dutch cheese was pretty shit. Most of the land isn’t suited for cattle, so the milk had very little flavour. The Dutch invented adding herbs and spices into cheese. While french cheese might have a vague hint of cumin due to the ripening process in an ancient cave system, the Dutch would just chuck cumin into cheese.

We hate food, and it’s a genetic problem we still haven’t managed to break.

I honestly enjoy mushy peas. Not from a box, but fresh made. And there’s a million amazing pies.

I can handle being dead, and I won’t even complain about it, but dying sounds like it sucks.

I can do (some of) the maths, but I definitely can’t explain why any of it is like that, or how it works.

I have had a concussion as an 11 year old, and have absolutely zero memory of what happened or how. It probably involved my bike, since that was outside when I somehow stumbled back home (which I also don’t remember).

My brain goes from two or three days pre-concussion, to having the absolute worst time with my parents waking me every hour at night for no clear reason and my arm being broken. I think I have some vague delirious memories from that, but none of them make sense, and maybe I inveted them afterwards.

It was not a fun time, and a helmet would have probably prevented that. There’s no permanent damage, i think, but that was extremely lucky.

Look who’s getting nervous about his elections

Funfact: not all windows laptops let you choose what happens when you close the lid.

My previous laptop had options for shut down, sleep and hibernate. And if you wanted none of those, you could go fuck yourself (or install not-windows, which didn’t work for the shitty niche software I need)

A 20-year-old man allegedly tossed a Molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman,

No he didn’t. He was with me the whole time.

Some people still think Morgellons disease is a real thing where their skin grows artificial fibers, instead of… those being from their clothes.

Damn biscuit on one hand… Radioactive shitheap on the other.

Idiots: “meh, I’m fine with either”

Mijn punt is dat als we (alle burgers) dat anders willen zien, dat we dan anders moeten stemmen. Ik vind het persoonlijk een goede zaak dat we Europa meer zelfstandig willen zien, en daarbij hoort een betere defensie. Helaas zou ik ons ook graag onafhankelijk van de VS zien.

Oké dat is interessant, maar waar lees je dit? Het staat niet in dit NOS artikel.

Nergens. Dat is logisch nadenken

I love this too

Uh, nee, hoe kom je daar bij? We stemmen op partijen

Lekker pedant.

Er staat niks over of dit nieuwe systeem voor Oekraïne is.

Nee, het idee is dat je 1 systeem hier in Nederland blijft, en de rest met ons leger mee gaat naar waar dan ook.

The protestant church as an institution isn’t exactly destitute either. It’s just not in gold.

They’ve made a free, state-owned, anonymous age-verifcation API for this purpose right? They’re not requiring Meta to confirm your real identity, riiiiight?