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  • Yeah I mostly learned English watching Cartoon Network, when it wasn't with subtitles or dubbed. They basically started airing in the Netherlands and an entire generation learned English by watching cartoons after school.

    This is now repeating with YouTube and teens watching a lot of English youtubers.

    I miss those days, Dexter's laboratory, Dragonball Z, two stupid dogs...

  • With a system like .beat (or internet time as it was also called), there are no timezones and there is no daylight savings time.

    If we would use a system like that, I'm pretty sure stores in Barcelona would open at a different time than stores in Amsterdam, because the sunrise at different moments. Now we have the same timezone, because it works wel for trade, not because its the best local time.

    Using the exact same time globally could fix that. We use the same time for meetings with people abroad but choose the time that fits when the sun rises

  • I remember that at some point in the 90s or 2000s you could buy watches with beats time. A day was divided in 1000 beats and there where no timezones. So 300 beats could be breakfast for me and bedtime for you.

    I think I would actually really like a global system like that.

  • I don't know about your city, but getting towed away can cost you between 150 and 500 (diffent in every city) plus the fine (parking on a tram lane) 120 plus about 25 for every night your car is not picked up. So people avoid that.

    When I just got my drivers license I came home one night and found a free parking spot, felt like the last one. When I needed my car about a week later it was gone. Went to the police to report it as stolen, turned out it was towed. I accidentally parked on a reseved spot that you are not allowed to park in. Pretty dumb but it was an honest mistake. The fine was about twice what I earned a month from my partime job as a student. It really sucked, but it was a good lesson.

  • We got the second kid when the first one was almost 4. It was pretty rough, we where just getting back our sleep, and went in 2+ years of irregular sleep. She is 2 and a half now and thankfully sleep is getting much better.

    If you have a kid and thinking about a second one, I would recommend don't wait 3+ years, or wait 5+ years so you have a bit of time to recover.

  • Yes and to make it even worse, your aunt back in the day would tell 10 people some BS and maybe 3 would believe her. Not some Russian bot factory spits out BS to 10 million people and a lot more believe it.

  • I once saw a post from an American guy visiting family in Germany. They borrowed him a car so he could visit other family about 400KM away.

    The family that owned the car spend an entire day getting it checked out by a mechanic, making sure all the fluids where fine, getting the tire pressure just right, etc.

    He thought it was pretty funny because he drove double that distance every week just to go to work.

  • I think you have a good point most Dutch people would say lets get Indonesian food today, while actually getting food you probably can't find exactly the same in Indonesia.

    I would probably take D (I think it still has a tiny slice of Italy). Pizza and asian I can't live without. I think there is still debate on the origin of fries)...

  • This can't really be answered in a simple way. Like a lot of "traditional" European dishes use potatoes. But at some point they where not native to Europe. So does that count? Or something like New York style pizza, is that American? Because in that case the Netherlands for example has a lot of Indonesian dishes that are more variations on traditional Indonesian food (made by immigrants using more local ingredients).

    I think food is the best example why immigration and mixing of cultures can really improve humanity.

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