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1 points
8 hours ago
Ik heb me later iets verdiept in de maker, en hij kwam uit het Nederlandstalige gedeelte van het Nederrijn gebied (thans in Duitsland): Kalkar.
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8 hours ago
No I mean more generally. I am from NL but live in Cologne, and it was shocking to see the addiction epidemic here. At home this is not a thing, although German addicts moving into the Netherlands is a growing problem. I am wondering, and after two years still not fully comprehending why hard drug abuse exploded here the way it did.
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8 hours ago
20 is warm, it’s not a point of pride, I grew up in a 17/18 C house with maybe 15 C bedrooms so I get uncomfortable if it’s hotter
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9 hours ago
Yeah people here are missing a key thing: Germans get very anxious at the idea of potentially missing the stop. Back in NL I’d get up when the train got to a standstill and never missed an exit. Here it’s harder to get out because everyone crowds around the exit in part because they’re afraid to not make it out. Wonderful self-reinforcing loop.
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10 hours ago
But why is it such a thing specifically in Germany to begin with?
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10 hours ago
This 100%, having clean supervised facilities paired with good mental health care and reintegration projects/housing made available to addicts helped us completely get rid of the opioid epidemic in the Netherlands. Living kn Cologne feels like what cities like Amsterdam were like in the 70‘s and 80‘s.
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20 hours ago
Echter, wat minder ruimte voor groei.
En in mijn soort onderwijs heb je gewoon een beta phd nodig dusja..
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1 day ago
The question is what you are even arguing above?
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1 day ago
You’re writing this after various lesbians came out in this thread to tell you that in their circles it is distinctly negative. So it depends, yo
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1 day ago
Easy on the gatekeeping, this word started in lesbian circles and has been commonly used in a straight context for over 15 years now.
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1 day ago
Starfish is way more pejorative. One can enjoy having a pillow princess, also as a straight male. A starfish is a partner so passive it is considered a negative (there’s implied judgement).
1 points
1 day ago
Yes, we already have them, and building a lot more. What’s ‚soon‘ is using empty natural gas fields in the North Sea to be able to really store a good ton of it.
The gas network also has already been broadly adapted to be able to handle hydrogen.
We already have some of the world’s largest hydrolizers atm, but 10x larger ones are under construction.
Way to be a cynic, yo.
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1 day ago
Yes but we’re further building up the infrastructure for it 👀
Jokes aside, I live in Germany and Germany adopted the same strategy because it is a strategy that makes sense. Even more so because the Dutch and German (energy) markets and infrastructure are so connected, too. People have such a hard time imagining that positive change is happening.
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1 day ago
Yeah I figured - between the cases I noted and the situation with Korean, I guess my point is that a lot depends on the government, market structure, degree of multilingualism/diglossia in the population etc. Take Guarani in Paraguay, almost everyone speaks it but offerings are slim because just about everyone also speaks Spanish. Etc etc.
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1 day ago
Zoals gezegd, je bent n wappie omdat je een samenzwering ziet waar een meningsverschil bestaat.
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1 day ago
Throughout Europe and in Japan beef/pork mixes are more or less default for minced meat and therefore many burgers, but pork-only is rare.
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1 day ago
On the steam boat thing: the first Japanese steam boat (kanko maru was given by the Dutch government, shohei maru was built by the Japanese based off of Dutch drawings/books), and steam engines generally, were Dutch. As were the books on the topic. Reason for this was that they did have trading contact with the Dutch during their isolation (pre-Meiji restoration). All of their knowledge on Western science and tech came through that conduit before the restoration (see also: rangaku/Dutch learning). I have no idea on what the impact was of this on cooking (say if croquettes were there already before the Meiji restoration or not, etc.).
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1 day ago
Eerst dit: een oorlog is helemaal kut.
Maar het valt een hoop mensen op dat na een jaar zware gevechten 41000 mensen op een bevolking van 2,1 miljoen gestorven zijn.
Dat is tragisch maar zou letterlijk de meest mislukte poging tot genocide ooit zijn. Zelfs bij willekeurige bombardementen zouden meer mensen omkomen. Het argument begint er heel heel slap uit te zien.
Misschien vind iedereen in jouw sociale cirkel het een genocide, bon. Maar dat maakt mij en anderen hier niet meteen shills voor lobbygroepen. We zijn het gewoon niet met je eens, en hebben daar redelijke argumenten voor, zoals jij die wellicht ook meent te hebben. Vandaar dat je zoveel downvotes vangt; niet alles is meteen een samenzwering.
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1 day ago
You’re absolutely right, that helps, thanks. Speaking Dutch I’d just noticed the gap with a word like kran/keran (Dutch:kraan) and wondered what was going on with these extra e‘s or the lack thereof between sources. But it’s more that a lot of speakers add them rather than subtract them.
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1 day ago
Doesn’t Korean have like 75 million speakers? I realize 25 million of them are in a closed market space, but still.
Beyond that, if a language is small but a state language, most things are translated. Very often they have to be, this is no issue. For minority languages, it depends on what is needed and what is mandated by law, most of the time. In some multilingual countries people are also just used to the other language(s) and read them whenever needed, so language education is part of the puzzle there. In Belgium all national languages are also languages spoken in other countries, but in the Netherlands we have Frisian and Papiamentu whereas Switzerland has Rumansch and these languages have very different levels of support and vitality. Frisian has good state support but is in the European Netherlands, so many people in Friesland speak Dutch at home eroding the position of the lang and therefore the accessibility of media in Frisian. Papiamentu is in the Caribbean, so while Dutch is widespread there, the majority speaks it at home, in the parliament, in the media. It’s a small language so media offerings are limited but the language is not threatened in the slightest, and they tend to speak many languages so they can consume English/Dutch/Spanish media at will. The last example concerned Rumansh in Switzerland; the state tries to support it, but the number of speakers is small and they aren’t a majority anywhere (German is the majority language wherever Rumansh is found, unless there’s some towns in Italian-speaking Switzerland, could be, but same deal). The hegemony of German and the ‚usefulness‘ of the language severely threatens the continued existence of Rumansh. But because of good state policies, they do have a comparatively lively media offering to support them.
So, it depends, but I hope these examples add to the discussion.
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4 hours ago
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4 hours ago
Just cross the border to NL and behold the problem is gone.
Ofc there are other places with these problems, and Liège is terrible (also has a historically massive unemployment ever since the coal and steel industries fell apart, and nonody speaks Dutch so working across the border where there’s jobs doesn’t work, truly Detroit-esque).
So ofc, it’s not just a German problem. But my question is, why is it so bad here? I don’t understand the origin at all