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The stupid thing is, there were already talks about moving away from the blackface. Of course the people at the television stations (who could make this happen) took their time, which caused the people of "kick out zwarte Piet’ to make a stir. So far nothing wrong, but they did this at the televized arrival of Sinterklaas, so now they had crying children on tv. This caused the “all brown people back to Morocco” crowd to scream outrage, and suddenly we are at the current stage with two very vocal groups screaming at each other.

My kids were still in the believing age when this started, and I never had a problem explaining the issues and the changes to them (Piet used to come through the chimney, when this wasn’t possible anymore he painted his face black to look the same, but now he realized this looks like blackface). The right wing voters had problems explaining, because they didn’t want to, and now they see it as a defeat by the “others”. Throw in some politicians who can only fare well if there’s disorder, and suddenly it takes over twenty years to phase out something that should have been gone a long time ago.

They’re not wrong, it could be, but the question is should it be?

Come to the Netherlands, we have layers on this since Santa Claus is Coca Cola’s take on our Sinterklaas, who is usually acompanied by “six to eight black men” (more commonly known as “zwarte Piet”, black Pete). he was was taken to the US by Dutch immigrants, after which it evolved in the current Santa Claus. And it gets worse, because while it has alway been a bit of a battle between team Sinterklaas and team Santa Claus, the last twenty years or so there is a different battle going on between team “Dutch tradition” and team “kick out zwarte Piet”. Both of these last two teams are obnoxious, and would choose confrontation over dialogue every day of the week. This has resulted in a conflict with no end, where it would have been easy to phase out the blackface character with no fuss in a short time.

That’s a bit pessimistic, you could also say very good to see that nothing important goes down when Cloudflare has an outage!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-Pain

In case you’re serious: the original

As previously reported, this is perhaps one of the more unusual research developments to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated shortages of ventilators and artificial lungs to assist patients’ breathing and prevent respiratory failure.

TIL Whatsapp has channels.

I love that you’re getting down voted for shitposting in a shitposting community, it really shows how Lemmy is growing as a community.

Baby Shaggy and the old guy from Up.

You either shit in a record time, or won’t shit for the rest of the day!

The handset devision was sold to Microsoft, after being managed by a manager from Microsoft for a while. Microsoft shut it down within two years if I remember correctly.

A man’s got to eat some time you know.

I don’t believe bar alcohol would become cheaper (at least in my country). Bars are often times leased, and a lot of times the landlords are companies like Heineken. They charge some very high rent, and even have their own version of dynamic pricing where you can lease a not so popular bar, make it profitable again and then see the rent doubled because now it’s A-list property. I’ve also never seen a price in retail go down due to lower costs in general, the difference gets pocketed by the company.

Volkswagen Golf type 3.

Say it again!

Drenthe actually.

We don’t really care about that, we can’t understand you any way :p.

I’m Dutch but not from Holland. There’s dozens of us.

One of the funniest things I saw when this was unfolding on youtube is that McNally works for Covert Instruments, AKA the Lockpicking Lawyer’s company. Proven Industries couldn’t have fucked up more if it was deliberate.