This is a conspiracy theory, not unlike the theories you will hear on the right. I've never heard anyone on the right equate soy with Asian or other cultures.
Well, in American there was Bernie Sanders.
It's a confounding thing, that so many people will vote for leaders who straight-up tell them that they will make the world a worse place for them (Reagan, Trump, Thatcher).
Nobody's head is going to explode. Most conservatives are well aware that soybeans are an American croup and are even proud of the fact. They just think that the soybeans should be served to cows.
Vilifying people you don't like is no way to establish understanding or communication.
This itself is a conspiracy theory. I've known a lot of right-wing people, and none of them made a connection between Soy and Asian cuisine. They don't like tofu, in particular, because they didn't grow up with it and see it as some weird, hippy thing.
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I agree. I don't think anyone is thinking that hard about the "Asian" roots of soybeans. And people on the left are just as hung up on their identity politics as people on the right.
There is a strong association between Tofu with hippy culture, even though there really isn't such a thing anymore. I guess if you don't want heart disease by the time you're 40, you must be a hippy.
No. Smoking is way more personally dangerous than alcohol, except for auto accidents. Tobacco hurts you in so many different ways -- with sagging skin, lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, stained teeth, strokes, hypertension. Also, alcohol addicts only represent about 10% of the drinking public, whereas about 90% of smokers become chain-smoking addicts.
And, as I mentioned, smoking often kills people a decade short of retirement. Drinkers, on the other hand, often reach old age.
Not justifying alcohol, but there are so many downsides to smoking. But you can't explain that to an addict.
I have a folding bike that was originally meant to be part of a Marlsboro rewards program. Apparently smokers weren't all that interested in exercise. Who knew?
The U.S. basically has no plan for storage of nuclear waste. All but one of the "swimming pools" have been filled to the brim. Some sites are starting to move the waste into concrete vaults. Some have been seen leaking.
The first step is to figure out what happens to the waste.
Yes, where I worked they generously gave you a 10 minute mid-morning break. Unless you were a smoker, and "needed" to slip out 5 minutes every hour. I often wondered if I could get away with just "smoking" a straw.
Most of the smokers I've known don't even get close to 80, and are often very sickly when they do. Two family members that didn't make it to 60. A healthy looking co-worker who dropped dead in the parking lot. A former boss who didn't get to enjoy more than two years retirement.
Cigarettes are the only consumer product that, when used as directed, kill their consumers.
Can you add to a koopzegel with purchase of a kadobon ?
Be the traffic you want to become.
As long as the temperature is below 451F/233C, there should be no danger of fire.
Pro Tip: Keep masking tape in the kitchen. If you do something weird like storing a pizza in the oven, put a piece of masking tape over the oven dial as a reminder. Masking tape is good for putting a date on things going into the fridge too.
How are they for coming off ? The various reinforced tires I've tried (randoneur, gator, 25mm) are really hard to put back on. Like you peel the skin off your hands trying. I've notice that most tires, even cheaper ones, don't give you trouble for the first 500 miles. So have gone back to a medium grade tire that doesn't require special tools to replace.
Space Flower Moon Micro Reactor, a conceptual car-sized fusion reactor
Wait, what? I don't think we're anywhere close to build a car-sized fusion reactor. Fission, sure.
You only needed a slim 50% to split? Not like a 2/3rds majority?
Is some of this money going to fund ITER (I assume everyone in the EU has to pay a little) ?
Regardless, I stay away from both irregardless.
The most important message doesn't happen until almost the very end. The thing that no politician wants to face up to:
Niko Paech says that’s an impossible target:
"That’s why it’s important to set our sights on a smaller, no longer growing economy ... post-growth economy. A different lifestyle is part of that. We declutter our lives, free ourselves of ballast that just costs time, money, and resources and takes up space. Beyond that, we’ve got to extend the usable life of the products around us. Whether it’s smart phones or bicycles, fabrics or furniture. We’ve got to double, if not triple its life. And use many things communally.
Adjective word order - when after the noun?
So I thought Dutch had a word order similar to English, with the adjectives in front of the noun. But then I see sentences like this from NOS:
> Mysterie knalgroen kanaal Venetië opgelost
So the adjective indicating that the canal is "Venetian", is coming after the noun, even though two other adjectives came first. Is this typical, and is it usually the location that comes after?
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I'm sceptical. That would be an extremely unethical test. And it would only prove that too much of something can kill you. Did you know that people can even die from drinking too much water?
China is the current king of new nuclear power construction. The US is attempting to launch a comeback, but its still unknown whether that will be successful.
Key points
- China has 21 nuclear reactors under construction which will have a capacity for generating 21.61 gigawatts of electricity, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. That is more than two and a half times more nuclear reactors under construction than any other country.
- China’s drive to build nuclear energy is twofold: It’s got a massive demand for energy to meet, and it’s reliance on coal to meet its energy demand in recent decades have left it with dirty air. Nuclear is a clean source of electricity.
- The United States is attempting to launch a nuclear comeback, largely powered by new smaller modular rector designs, but it’s success in attaining its previous dominance is up for grabs at this point, experts say.
"Jullie" and "je" in the same sentence.
I have a sentence, used by a Dutch speaker/instructor:
> Vandaag leer ik jullie hoe je vragen kan stellen
In the same sentence, we have the audience referred to as "jullie" and "je". Is this typical? I guess I would expect it to be consistent:
> Vandaag leer ik jij hoe je vragen kan stellen
or
> Vandaag leer ik jullie hoe jullie vragen kan stellen
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More than 60 million plastic water bottles go into landfills and incinerators every day, according to the Container Recycling Institute.
Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to upcycle plastic into soap. Around 120 grams to 130 grams of plastic can make 100 grams of soap.
Could we have a r/learndutch community?
I checked the big lemmy list. Apparently lots of people want to learn Thai. But I didn't see a community like "learndutch". Learndutch is subreddit where people learning Dutch can ask questions about words, grammar, and phrases they're having trouble with.
Feddit.nl seems like the obvious place to host such a community.
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