How I’ve learned it is, that cognitive dissonance arises when one of your beliefs or behaviours is challenged by new information. This can make you uncomfortable, and to alleviate that, people have coping mechanisms. It’s probably these coping mechanisms which cause other people to say you suffer from cognitive dissonance. There’s a quite good Wikipedia article on this imo.
Haarlem is not a suburb but it’s own city, it is actually the capital of the North-Holland province.
That article literally says the other one is what New Zealand is named after.
Companies only do things for their bottom line, not for customer demand. Also, if nobody would buy gas from Shell anymore, their gas stations would just have to be rebranded to something else. Behind the scenes the oil companies are all trading with each other.
How the fuck is this country even still standing at this point with this chicanery and buffoonery at the reigns?
Because it’s basically the same everywhere?
Are there any other nudist colonies?
This is exactly the same with the Dutch and the Belgians.
There’s two spring-y extensions on the back which slide inside the electrical box.
The Dutch word is almost the same as the German word, though most abbreviate it to “beha”.
We hada Philips and a Dyson, which were in our opinion trash. We now have a Nilfisk for the last five/six years, holds really well.
In the Netherlands we now also have a “terugleveringstoeslag” where you have to pay a monthly fee based on the maximum peak power delivered to the grid over the year. At least, the bigger electrical companies already have it, the rest will soon follow. My coworker (who has way too many solar panels installed) got a letter from Essent that he had to pay 67 euros monthly starting October. So he switched companies, but he’ll have to figure out something else next time.
I’m a little drunk scrolling on fedia.io after a bbq with family to celibrate the holidays. I should probably go to sleep.
The whole COVID made the kids dumb is just the newest excuse in a long line. Before that it were phones, computers, calculators and probably a lot more. My kids are from the new generation, and they’re doing just fine.
I’m gonna knit a brown sweater. If you guess what I’m gonna do, I’ll let you have half of it.
She picked me up in a bar. Been married for 23 years now
Windows 10 or 11 on all (three) day to day systems. Linux Mint on an old laptop which is hardly ever used, and windows xp on an ancient laptop that’s only used as music player, and not connected to any network.
I read earlier “someone” were a couple of college students.