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- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 4 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] 4 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] 4 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 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 Historians never talk about the "good old days". 1 week ago:
If I search for Dutch gilded age, the first result is the Wikipedia page for the Dutch golden age. If I google only gilded age I get a lot of results for a TV series, and this Wikipedia page.
- 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 Archaeologists Discover the World's Oldest Paintings—Made Long Before Humans Existed, and Eerily Sophisticated 2 weeks ago:
Neanderthals are not our ancestors, they were a different branch from a common ancestor. Kind of like modern day Bonobos and Chimpansees.
- 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 It really is heart warming when grandkids teach their grandparents how to use the internet 3 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 3 weeks ago:
Baby Shaggy and the old guy from Up.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
You either shit in a record time, or won't shit for the rest of the day!
- 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 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 4 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? 4 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 Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 4 weeks ago:
I once had a girl in a bar tell me (after some flirting and kissing) that she was wearing white panties with pink hearts, to which I responded "That's nice".
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 4 weeks ago:
The people who want to lower the calories per serving?
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 4 weeks ago:
He doesn't get the power to shut down the internet. The internet is shut down wether he likes it or not. And this guy might post that he would love it, but let's be honest, he craves the attention.
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 4 weeks ago:
Big difference; the internet would be shut down for them too.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 4 weeks ago:
They don't mind the jobs, they mind the compensation for said jobs.
- Comment on Helpful guide 4 weeks ago:
Comic by Will Santino, who's name was conveniently cut off from the bottom.
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 4 weeks ago:
You can even vary within a dimension depending on the topic, for instance globalist on environmental topics but otherwise nationalist.
- Comment on Historians never talk about the "good old days". 4 weeks ago:
I'm Dutch, so we are tough about the Dutch golden age, which spans about the seventeenth century. Trade science and art were at a high point back then, but looking deeper it turns out the life expectancy for common people was lower than in the surrounding countries. The wealth was all concentrated in the Holland province(s), which explains why the Netherlands is commonly referred as Holland in other countries. Another thing was the schism between catholics and Calvinists, which meant Catholic cities didn't benefit at all from the golden age. It also wasn't benificial to the 1.7 million people who were enslaved by the Dutch.
So all in all, the Dutch golden age was very much golden for the merchants and aristocrats of cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Leiden or Haarlem, and for the protestant ministers. For the rest, of you didn't live near these cities you probably were dirt poor.
- Comment on Fucking math... 4 weeks ago:
I'd do 4%=1/25, 75/25=3.
- Comment on funny little guys 5 weeks ago:
This was one of the more stand alone episodes, and while I didn't really watch the series a lot, I really liked these stories, which were a lot more silly and light hearted.