The “poorness” isn’t as much of a talking point here afaik, but more to do with the reduction of livestock farming. Long story short, a lot of our soil is currently used for agriculture, which means we have a lot of nitrogen emissions, mostly from fertilizers. The only viable solution is to vastly reduce our livestock (with proposals going so far as to halve it). Unfortunately, the farmers don’t like this, so they blocked the roads and brought manure into cities.

Now I should stress that I am absolutely in favour of halving our livestock, but the farmers here were also really fucked over in some regards. Big banks, predominantly the Rabobank, pressured farmers to take on big loans to build even bigger stables for livestock, knowing full well that this was coming. They are counting on the government to help out the farmers, which means a lot of taxpayer money for them. There are many farmers that behave like assholes, going so far as to intimidate politicians at their homes, so I have little sympathy for them. But I cannot deny that the situation was not entirely of their own making.

A bit more niche, but I’d say Roll20 for online TTRPG’s. It has quirks, absolutely, but it has gotten better overall and is free with optional paid plans that offer good benefits which are not necessities.

Slightly hotter take - this one may be the consumer’s fault. They keep making them because 1. copyright expiration, and 2. people keep fucking watching it! This is such an easy thing to use your wallet as a vote on.

Last year, an amazing movie called Juror #2 came in the cinemas. Not a remake (to my knowledge) or sequel of any kind. I watched in the first week of release in my country. I had to go to a less-well known cinema because the main ones did not even show it in that city. And once there, we were in a small watching room that wasn’t even full. One week into release. Meanwhile, Gladiator 2 down the hall was in a nearly sold-out, much larger room.

I love shitting on big corporations like many lemmings here, but in this specific instance, I think the consumers are at fault. Movies are not a necessity. Pirate them if you really want to watch a remake/sequel, and pay for original stuff. Companies keep making nostalgia slop because people keep paying them for it. It really is that simple.

Yeah that’s the thing. It would be outragiously stupid way to advertise their things, but sadly that does not make it impossible…

I read another headline earlier, something like “Blizzard strands 1000 people on Mt Everest.”

And my early morning brain went “ugh Blizzard really is an awful company, going way too overboard with their promotional material.” I wasn’t even that surprised.

Now I see this headline and that earlier one makes more sense 😂

Thank you for this great pupdate :)

If you are affraid, we will look together

If a country where many people follow a book that says homosexuals should be stoned to death are abusing homosexuals I think it is naive to dismiss the connection.

And yes, Europe nowadays is quite tolerant, and I am very thankful to live there myself as a queer man, but it was a very different story in many countries only 100 years ago.

You can thank the European overlords pushing christianity everywhere during the colonial ages for shit like this.

Not that the islam is much better in other regions, but nigeria is christian afaik

Whatever happened to “do the crime, do the time” eh?

And also a lot stupider

I will never claim that all jews are bad because Israel is fucked up, nor will I ever claim that all catholics are bad because of the Spanish Inquisition or all muslims are bad because of the terrorists. It is true that not all people who follow those religions are bad.

However, one cannot deny the religious motivations. They are doing this because they believe that their sky daddy promised them that land, just like the catholics who did commit the inquisition believed their sky daddy wanted a pure catholic europe, and the racidal muslims believe their sky daddy wants to punish unvelievers/misbelievers.

I bet you were pretty fucking far from OK eh?

That is what it is most likely made of, yes

I have never played, nor do I know anyone who has ever played, Raid: Shadow Legends

They really want to pick up where they left off huh

Yeah exactly. I wonder how Trump would’ve responded if anyone in the room asked him if he would have used diplomacy had he been president during Pearl Harbour or 9/11. I’d have loved to see him squirm his way out of that one after he stated that Zelensky needs to be open for concessions in exchange for peace.

We do have pancakes with bacon or cheese yes, but they are typically combined with “stroop” (sugarbeet syrup), not fruits. At least, not to my knowledge.

A worse food crime we do is the pickled herring with raw onions, imo.

I know I’m not in a great position to give culinary criticism as a Dutchman but what the actual fuck

Once a month? Oh damn, that sucks.