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Cake day: January 22nd, 2025

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  • Coalition options are complicated.

    D66 + GL/PvdA + VVD + CDA is ideally what they want, very broad and centrist, but VVD said they won’t partner with anyone left, and especially not PvdA. Since VVD had better than expected results, they’re keeping their leader, so I expect that promise to stick.

    Another route is D66 + all of the left wing parties combined, but getting them all to agree on an agenda led by a centre-left party seems fraught. Also, some of these small left parties have never been in government before and probably don’t have the chops for compromise.

    A possibility is D66 + CDA + VVD + JA21, centrists partnering with the right to keep out the left. A tale as old as time! JA21 makes me nervous, basically a more polite version of FvD.

    The most likely outcome is a centrist minority government of D66 + CDA + GL/PvdA, and then relying on the left parties or right parties separately to pass the legislation they want based on the topic.

    Of course, trying to address the far right with centrism is how basically every county eventually falls to fascism. This election outcome isn’t great.

    I’m a little scared of D66 leadership, too, because they want the Netherlands to have more direct democracy and first past the post - basically emulating the American system; we see where that leads. And they want to solve the housing problem with massive deregulation and hand-outs to developers, basically leading to rampant suburban sprawl and car dependence.







  • Unfortunately, this strategy didn’t work to prevent my kid from having the same milk allergy that I do. In fact, it’s worse.

    Not fatal or anything. His lips become bright red, swelling slightly and peel later, he obviously gets days of the shits, and if it’s repeated exposure he will get rashes all over. And we’re talking some small amount of milk powder or unexpected butter deep in the ingredients of a baked good - if he actually consumed something like real milk, butter, or cheese, it would be much worse.

    Goat cheese seems fine. It’s something about the cow milk proteins.

    For me, it’s just a serious case of the shits when it’s the real deal. I guess my millennial upbringing of a glass of milk daily conditioned some small amount of tolerance.








  • Dumb ploy in favor of the meat lobby. Consumers aren’t confused, they clearly know it’s a different product than meat. Stores put it in a separate section. We have hundreds of products with non-literal names to help consumers understand what they are trying to be.

    The reality is that meat agriculture is bad for the environment, bad for public health (both individual health and for how it spreads disease), and is less shelf stable. It isn’t going anywhere, though, so stop trying to put barriers in front of better choices.