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Hey, has Assigned Male gotten less cringe recently? Or is this just a selection of good stuff?

Edit: had a look, it has improved a LOT since the early days, both in content and in artwork. Go Sophie!

It’s because the violence is mostly gone right? Riiiiight?

funfact: 1312 is a regular postal code in the Netherlands.

And round and round we go

This might be complex, but bear with me.

If someone steals 100 euros from Alex, and someone steals 2 euros from Bob, both are victims, even though Alex lost much more.

And it just so happens that the solution for both is exactly the same.

The Tankies are pretty conservative, even if they’ll never admit it.

Using your logic, I could drive to the next town over commit some crimes and have the same effect.

Correct. It’s pretty well known that this skew per capita statics in small-scale analyses. It’s also why you shouldn’t do per-capita analysis on very local scales

In the US our census counts residents, not citizens.

No. It counts residents who cooperate with the census. Guess what undocumented immigrants won’t be doing?

Going door to door to count people is a terrible method of kering track of people, which is why most places stopped doing that, using running registries instead. It’s pretty stunning that the US only has the vaguest concept of who lives there.

See, this is why normal people have a poop knife in the bathroom

Both of your examples fared incredibly poorly under external pressure and collapsed. Which is pretty much what happens with every poorly aligned group of people.

Oh, Dutch people use unsalted, and often the cheapest butter on their bread. And the majority use margerine

I had a Dutch roommate once who routinely ate sprinkles on toast for breakfast — she called it traditional.

It is! Hagelslag on bread is very much a Dutch traditional food.

Bread, apply butter, pour chocolate sprinkles on. Eat.

But pretty expected for someone who bought their degree

But dulce de leche is brown… Both of these are white.

Oh no, we imported lots of food. And we kept it nearly separate, never to mix it with our own.

We imported Indonesian food, mixed it with Cantonese food and called it “Chinese food”, or the “Chinese Indian Speciality Restaurant” https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinees-Indisch_restaurant

Bitterballen, poffertjes, awesome cheeses of all sorts, rookworst, stroopwafels, (…) pannekoek.

We’re great at snacks, that’s absolutely true.

But we share speculaas with Belgium and Germany, and spekkoek is Indonesian. Advocaat is… Probably an acquired taste, I’ve never seen anyone under 60 drink it

Which is, as these things go, completely impossible in the EU

I’m Dutch/British, and I can honestly say the Dutch don’t (historically) like tasty food. Maybe it’s the Calvinism, maybe were culturally broken. Maybe both.

Behold the Dutch breakfast

Now behold the Dutch lunch

No, that’s not a joke or a mistake. That’s real.

Typical Dutch food is Stamppot. Which is boiled potatoes (poorly) crushed with 1 or 2 boiled vegetables in it. There are a dozen versions of it and people will argue which beacon of sadness is better.

Another typical Dutch food: pea soup so thick you can eat it with a fork. It has peas, bacon, potato and sadness. Recently people added stuff to make it tasty, but historically it’s just peas and potato.

As a little break from food talk, here’s a famous Dutch painter making a famous Dutch painting: People eating potatoes . Literally just potatoes.

A typical classic Dutch desert is Hangop, which is yoghurt you hang (hence the name) in a cheesecloth to let the water soak out to make it more dense. That’s it. Plain yoghurt. Maybe add some honey for this amazing Dutch “treat”.

Now, we have amazing cheeses today, but historically Dutch cheese was pretty shit. Most of the land isn’t suited for cattle, so the milk had very little flavour. The Dutch invented adding herbs and spices into cheese. While french cheese might have a vague hint of cumin due to the ripening process in an ancient cave system, the Dutch would just chuck cumin into cheese.

We hate food, and it’s a genetic problem we still haven’t managed to break.

I honestly enjoy mushy peas. Not from a box, but fresh made. And there’s a million amazing pies.

I can handle being dead, and I won’t even complain about it, but dying sounds like it sucks.