RunawayFixer

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[–] RunawayFixer 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Flanders + Brussels.

[–] RunawayFixer 1 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I have never eaten beignets like that, where I'm from it's always a recognizable apple before it gets battered and fried (in thick slices if it's large or whole if small).

If I search for beignets aux pommes, the 1st, 2nd and 4th result is without compotes, just apple slices like I know them. The 3rd looks to be the compote version. Adding compote to the query finds recipes for "beignets a la compote de pommes", so I suspect that it's a regional thing that those are called apple beignets.

[–] RunawayFixer 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Some fruits can be fried in the form of "beignets", which is fruit covered with batter and then fried. Apples are traditionally the most popular beignet recipe I think: "beignets aux pommes".

[–] RunawayFixer 14 points 1 day ago

It's not just the royal family, other descendants of the french conquerors are also on average wealthier than the descendants of those that had been conquered.

One pretty striking statistic: "Furthermore, Norman descendants also enjoy other privileges, including attendance at the best universities. In a recent study that examined the enrollment at Cambridge and Oxford over the last thousand years, it was revealed that at certain times, Norman names were 800% more common at Oxford than in the general population, and more recently, were at least twice as likely to found in that institution’s enrollment."

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/10/last-1000-years-families-owned-england/

[–] RunawayFixer 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try the next time that the algorithm goes nuts.

[–] RunawayFixer 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I had been using YouTube for years without being presented rightwing propaganda in my suggestions. I mostly just watched strategy gaming, history, technology channels and some peculiar travelling blogs. And my suggested was just mostly those things.

Then one day I used my YouTube account to cast kid shows for my niece for the first time. After that I was suggested more kid shows which didn't interest me personally, but I also started getting suggested cat videos, which I obviously clicked. And the week after that half my suggested feed was rightwing misogynist/racist/culture war misinformation, and it took a lot of "do not recommend channel" to clean it up again.

So now I believe that there is a concerted effort by some malicious actors to train Google's algorithm to assume that if someone is interested in cat videos, that they would then also be open to becoming a misogynist racist prick.

[–] RunawayFixer 5 points 6 days ago

I remember from an older article that it's a very small college and the new republican dean/president/chairman (I forgot what he was) is being paid $ 700 000 per year, about $1000 per student. I'm certain that he isn't the only person making bank from this. It seems to be a grift to funnel tax money into the pockets of friends and sycophants, and while the college board tries to make itself relevant in the eyes of their maga public, the future of the students appears to not be a consideration, because they're not the ones paying for this circus.

Apparently fighting the republican culture war is very profitable for republican grifters.

[–] RunawayFixer 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

According to the headline it's 20% of those who voted for the mayor, not 20% of the population. So fe a drop from 60% to 48% voter participation.

[–] RunawayFixer 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If a system encourages people to not vote when they have no clue who they are voting for, then that might be considered a feature instead of an issue. Though one problem I can think off is that coaching of voters on how to vote becomes even more effective. I'm on the fence on this one.

Ps: is a 20% drop enough to say that something "cratered" or is this just another superlative clickbait title?

[–] RunawayFixer 2 points 1 week ago

True, headlines matter.

[–] RunawayFixer 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why "no"? You're basically saying the same as the summary.

[–] RunawayFixer 7 points 1 week ago (9 children)

In the eu terms like butter and dairy can only be used for milk products.

But our legaslative pendulum did swing a bit too far in the other direction (imo): terms like soja-butter and so on were also banned.

 

Nothing new.

This is also unchanged: "while countries like Sweden and Denmark also have quite high taxes, they manage to offer better services in terms of health care, higher pensions and free child care, among others."

 

Oud nieuws, maar nog niet gepost denk ik. De Pano reportage is zeker het bekijken waard, best wel grappig, en tegelijk ook triestig.

Gerelateerd: https://www.humo.be/tv/dankzij-humo-brengt-pano-geen-andere-onzin-walter-de-donder-gaat-af-als-een-gieter~bf6b7eea/

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