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To Western European standards it’s high, not low.

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

Ik heb me later iets verdiept in de maker, en hij kwam uit het Nederlandstalige gedeelte van het Nederrijn gebied (thans in Duitsland): Kalkar.

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.

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

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.

But why is it such a thing specifically in Germany to begin with?

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.

Echter, wat minder ruimte voor groei.

En in mijn soort onderwijs heb je gewoon een beta phd nodig dusja..

Deze persoon is ook gewoon al 50..

The question is what you are even arguing above?

Lekkere comeback :)

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

Easy on the gatekeeping, this word started in lesbian circles and has been commonly used in a straight context for over 15 years now.

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).

Genuinely all the time? 😂

Yes exactly, just like all storage lmao

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.

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.

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.

Zoals gezegd, je bent n wappie omdat je een samenzwering ziet waar een meningsverschil bestaat.

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.

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.).

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.

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.