Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species at age 50

This might also be the case in the Netherlands to be fair. Sorry for the confusion then.

US-Evangelical. Even evangelical dominations can vary a ton. It’s just a term for trying to expand/spread the faith. In the netherlands evangelical churches are often the most progressive.

And even the term evangelical means very different things. In the netherlands the ‘Evangelische kerken’ are some of the most progressive.

I looked it up cause I thought this was about those full face coverings but those are burqas… Keffiyehs are just headdressings, this is just about blocking muslims / middle easterns, cause I bet they would be fine accepting a white person with a scarf around their head

You can edit titles on Lemmy! :) might not he something you think of coming from reddit.

since when is the president of the European commission addressed as your excellency

The bans in Dutch schools are not only during the lessons, which they always have been, but now fully during the school day, having to lock away the phones at the start of the day and unlock them at the end, meaning they can’t have them during breaks either.

If you drop it I bet it splits so both sides fall face down on the ground. It’s a law of nature

All of them are super easy recipes! Though if you’re in America I would advise against making the German Pancake at the moment, because you need a lot of eggs for that one.

To illustrate it some more with images:

American Pancakes:

Pannenkoeken:

Crêpes:

‘Dutch/German’ Pancake:

Well, I’d consider Dutch culture to be western as well lol. Dutch pancakes are there own thing (not to be confused with a ‘Dutch Pancake’ in America, which is another different thing

We call the thicker, smaller pancakes ‘american’ pancakes.

Dutch pancakes (Pannenkoeken) are thinner and bigger in diameter. More like a crêpe. Though crêpes are thinner again.

The american ‘Dutch Pancake’ is a very fluffy egg pancake baked in a pan. (Also called a German Pancake or Dutch Baby Pancake) (there’s not much Dutch about it, because it originated in the US from someone of German descent)

Hahaha I’m curious how many people know the word ‘Pannenkoek’ just from the Mario 64 youtuber

The Dutch government has botched implementing these environmental reforms quite a bit in the past, which has caused right wing / anti enviromental parties to swoop in and claim the bigger environmental rules are the problem, instead of the way they were implemented.

There’s this one big ‘farmer’s party’ and a lot of farmers have bought into their lie of representing actual farmers, but the party was founded by lobbyists and their biggest donators are chemical companies who would benefit a ton from being allowed to pollute