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@thijsniks @StatisticUrban I can guarantee that the average Dutch person can speak better English than the average Italian

@StatisticUrban 97.3% of Dutch students in Lower Secondary Education have English as a foreign language class and 79.4% in Upper Secondary. Not sure what Pew did here ec.europa.eu/eurostat/datab…

In this respect, English has clearly won.

@0xSeco Waarom minimaal 5000 opnemen?

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@CashFlowKingsYT @joecarlsonshow Ftx was the closest we got 😢

@joecarlsonshow So we won’t be seeing the kalshi badge next to your name anytime soon? 😔

Just a reminder that gambling can be incredibly addicting and destructive to your financial future, family stability, and relationships. It has a negative future expected return, meaning you are more likely to lose money the longer you do it. Very few major podcasts, networks, and personalities will be critical of the industry because the gambling and prediction market sponsor almost everyone and their dog. I'm not sponsored by a gambling company, I never will be. So I'll say it plainly: Don't do it. Put your money in productive cash-producting assets. Buy stocks, buy real estate. Don't gamble.

@S_VanTeutem Op zich zou NL ook niet bos maar moeras moeten hebben. Vang ook veel meer CO2 op in veen

Sad

@EuropeanPan This is not nature, its industrial farming

The Dutch countryside, despite - or maybe even because of - its incredible flatness, is insanely beautiful, especially in the sunny seasons. Leisurely cycling through it, as we do, is one of the highest forms of meditation.

@sTeamTraen @spetsnaz9999xy @NoContextDutch1 You can actually brag in the Netherlands by saying how cheap you got your clothes

@spetsnaz9999xy @NoContextDutch1 The Dutch are the only nation in the world that tell "ethnicity famous for being cheap" jokes about themselves.

@suusonline @leeuwengm Dat laatste is wel weer grappig met betrekking tot politiek tussen Wallonië en Vlaanderen. Maar ja Belgische programmas en journalisten zijn over het algemeen een stuk beter

Ik heb bijna 30 jaar in België gewoond en heb zowel de Belgische als de Nederlandse nationaliteit. Altijd grappig om te lezen als mensen mij uitleggen hoe Belgen zijn. Hint: het heeft geen reet met hun afstandelijkheid te maken. Wel met het feit dat Belgen hun vak (welk vak dan ook) zeer serieus nemen, en feiten van gevoelens/meningen kunnen onderscheiden.

Had geen zin om naar Eva te kijken, dus ik keek om 19u even naar het VRT-journaal. Daar kwam een item voorbij met als titel 'Wachtrijen aan grens door stijgende brandstofprijzen'. Ze lieten een lange file bij een tankstation zien, ze zeiden dat Nederlanders altijd al graag over de grens kwamen tanken en interviewden een paar Nederlandssprekenden, maar ook anderstaligen. Dat werd feitelijk gebracht, zonder oordeel, met vooral aandacht voor verkeersproblemen incl. mogelijke oplossingen, gebracht door een lokale burgemeester. In de laatste paar seconden interviewden ze een tankstationhouder die vertelde dat de hij niet blij is met de drukte (het woord 'Nederlanders' werd door hem niet gebruikt) vanwege prijsafspraken en dat hij verlies lijdt. Dat was niet de hoofdtoon van het item én er werd ook niet gegeneraliseerd. Ik keek net, om 20u, naar het NOS Journaal. Daar werd datzelfde item gebracht, maar met deze aankondiging en titel 'België heeft genoeg van Nederlanders die in België komen tanken'. De NOS maakt er een compleet zeikitem van, terwijl de Belgen het op hun eigen journaal veel feitelijker brengen zonder de nadruk te leggen op wat ze vinden van 'de Nederlanders'. Waarom brengt de NOS dit nieuws met opzet negatiever en veroordelender dan de Belgen zelf? Ik kan wel een reden bedenken, maar dat moet iedereen voor zichzelf maar invullen. #Journalistiek

@alt_w_v_g For 3400 you can get two dogs

Took the dog to the vet yesterday Golden retriever She ate something in the backyard My wife said "she looks off" I said "she's a dog. She always looks like that." My wife made the appointment anyway Nice office Fish tank in the lobby Every professional I visit has a fish tank The vet came in Looked at the dog for maybe 30 seconds Pressed on her stomach The dog wagged her tail He said "we should run some tests" I said "what kind of tests" He said "bloodwork, X-ray, urinalysis, and an ultrasound" I said "she ate a stick" He said "we want to be thorough" I said "what's the cost" He said "roughly $3,400" For a stick My wife looked at me Not the ceiling this time Directly at me The look that means "if you negotiate the vet bill for our dog I will never speak to you again" I said "run the tests" Fastest approval I've ever given No diligence No second opinion No counter The dog looked at me Tail still wagging She has no idea what anything costs Must be nice They took her to the back We sat in the waiting room for two hours My wife was worried I was calculating the per-minute cost of this visit I didn't say that out loud Therapy taught me that much The vet came back Looked at his chart for 90 seconds He said "good news. Nothing serious. She probably just ate something that didn't agree with her." I said "so she's fine" He said "she's fine" I said "we waited two hours and spent $3,400 to confirm what you suspected when you pressed on her stomach for 30 seconds" He said "we wanted to rule things out" I said "what did you rule out" He said "quite a bit" I said "name one thing" He paused My wife said "we're paying the bill" I said "I know we're paying the bill" The vet recommended a "premium digestive supplement" $89 a month I said no My wife said yes The vet looked at me I looked at the dog The dog was asleep on the floor $3,400 and two hours later and she's the most relaxed one in the room We paid In the car my wife said "you were going to negotiate weren't you" I said "the thought crossed my mind" She said "it's our dog" I said "I know. That's why I didn't." She looked at me I looked at the road The dog was in the backseat Head out the window Not a single thought behind those eyes I've never been more jealous of another living thing $3,400 $89/month supplement One stick Non-negotiable Sent from my iPhone

@AlpenHofnarr Look at the bases in middle east, the US is not defending the skies for the countries that have US bases but they have become targets because of them

The U.S. has troops in Germany, Japan and South Korea not out of charity but because those bases are the backbone of American global power projection. They give Washington reach, logistics, intelligence and influence across two continents. So let’s stop pretending this is a one-way favor. It isn’t.

@marcos_placona @thekitze Put a towel below it moist boi

@thekitze bro hear me out, those lids tend to accumulate water (stealthily) like a mofo. u heard that from me first!

OH LAWD WIFE APPROVAL GOES BRRRRR

@DQuilici1 @archeohistories I think the submarine has right of way and the sharks let them pass before they go

@archeohistories I’ve always wondered if subs hit whales or sharks or any other sea life. Can any submariners chime in?

The USS San Francisco, a nuclear submarine, in dry-dock in 2005 after hitting an underwater seamount at 35 knots... On January 8, 2005, the submarine was traveling at full speed about 350 miles south of Guam when it slammed into an uncharted underwater mountain known as a seamount. The impact occurred at roughly 35 knots, or about 40 mph. The collision was so violent that sailors were thrown across compartments and equipment ripped loose inside the vessel. Despite the catastrophic damage to the bow, the submarine’s nuclear reactor remained intact and safely shut down. One sailor died from injuries and nearly 100 others were hurt. Remarkably, the crew was still able to bring the submarine to the surface and navigate it back to Guam under its own power. The damaged bow section was later completely replaced using the front portion of the decommissioned submarine USS Honolulu (SSN‑718). The seamount the submarine struck was not properly marked on the navigation charts the crew was using. After the accident, the U.S. Navy reviewed submarine navigation procedures and improved how digital ocean-floor mapping data is integrated into submarine charts. © History Pictures #archaeohistories

@patapackala @Hinkel00 @pootsobotka Your norms allow for pyjamas in public

See the reason you think we have bad fashion is because we have different norms than you do. You judge us by your norms. We judge you by ours. Americans aren't so chauvinistic as to think our fashion norms are universal and apply to all cultures. Also though, popular casual European clothing is pretty much what we were wearing here 15 years ago, so do with that what you will

Europeans: it’s so obvious when there are American tourists in our country Europeans in NYC:

@formula1god Americanized

Am I the only one that finds the new timing tower INCREDIBLY ANNOYING I NEED to be able to see it to the thousandths of a second 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@polpopcorncast Ze kijken niet eens naar Geert

Zo ongeïnteresseerd: Beveiligers van Geert Wilders zijn altijd muziek aan het luisteren als hij de auto uit komt.

@Paliza @writerofscratch @jmckenzie513 One shotted

@writerofscratch @jmckenzie513 Tbf as an American, I didn’t even know the Netherlands existed until I met my Dutch husband.

Girl asked where I'm from so, like always, I made her guess. First guess: Germany. I tell her she's incredibly close. She goes "England?" I tell her it's in between England and Germany. She thinks for a moment and I mentally prepare myself for her to guess correctly. "Greece?"

@BozeWitteMeneer @RealWokeRight @GoodAmericanMan Yeah the road gives it away

@RealWokeRight @GoodAmericanMan Belgian. ☺️ Im Dutch. But this is all the way Belgian.

Name the race

@danilocoding @bryan_johnson Guy needs a tan

@bryan_johnson this guy was bragging about the heist this morning, he was also larping about being bigger than mike mentzer

Someone stole $630,000 worth of Blueprint creatine in an elaborate heist. The driver used a false ID to pick up the units from our factory, then turned off the tracker and stopped responding to calls. The stolen creatine monohydrate was precision-dosed and third-party tested for purity and heavy metals. 15,918 units of pure grade A powder. If anyone has information, lmk. Even if we don't recover the creatine, I'd at least like to know this person's health stats. Here’s a rendering of what we suspect the perp might look like.

@LandsknechtPike @Pede_Jo Had the best bolognese in Italy made with horse meat

@Pede_Jo Even in those regions few people eat horse meats regularly, it's more like there isn't a wide social stigma but even in continental Europe many would still not be ok with it. I just ask a buddy who is a Croat if he would eat horse meat and he said no. Many such cases.

The stigma against eating horses is one of many things in the West that largely originates from Christianity but people became so accustomed to it that they don't make the association. In the Middle Ages, Catholic Church associated eating horse meat with paganism! For example in 732 Pope Gregory III wrote to Saint Boniface (the missionary converting Germanic tribes) urging him to forbid the eating of horse meat, describing it as a "filthy and abominable" custom. In this manner the newly converted Christians would differ from pagans as pagan rites practiced by Germanic peoples included consumption of horse meats. Among Germanics, Celts and steppe peoples like Magyars horse meat consumption was often tied to ritual sacrifices and communal feasts in pagan rites. In some places in Central Europe and Eastern Europe, the traditions of eating horse meat persisted longer, for example in Hungary it was apparently only reduced after the Mongol invasion of 1241-1242 which impoverished the land and made horses scarcer. This was despite Hungary officially adopting Christianity in 1000. Of course there were many cases of starving armies eating horses over the centuries but this was seen as different, only happening out of extreme necessity. Eating horse meat in general was associated with pagans, barbarians and steppe people, and of course later on with the emergence of Christian chivalric traditions and knights, horses were seen as having special status. There was also the invention of horse collar in Europe and its adoption from 9-12th centuries which made horses valuable as farm animals as well. So in this sense, there was also practical reasons for not eating horses in the Middle Ages, due to their value. However the stigma against eating horse meat among Europeans like Germanics, Celts etc. began with Christianity and persists into modern times, even though horses do not play the same role in society anymore. This can be explained as one of those Christian traditions that are simply deeply rooted in people in the West.

@S_VanTeutem Bit surprised about India

🇳🇱🇬🇧pretty good

@vamperignon @Degen_CPA @hitsdiffcap A shiny!

@Degen_CPA @hitsdiffcap Best Pokémon I’ve gotten was Charli D’Amelio

Never canceling Raya after this