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jajko · a year ago
Old aged gouda is the best cheese I ever laid on my tongue. We live in Switzerland next to French border, so there is no end to universe of fine aged original Gruyeres, Beaufort or even Cheddar (but that one probably worse than what one can get in UK), plus all AOC Italian ones. Simply hard cheeses with grain, there are hundreds to choose from.

I love them all, but that gouda taste is something else to me and my wife. French shops just around the border luckily import some of it, I never saw it in Switzerland shops.

One way to upmark any cheese for us to put ie black truffles or wild black garlic in it.

Talking about gouda, gotta get me some slices before kids munch it all again.

clmul · a year ago
People in the Netherlands are usually not at all proud of their cuisine, but the cheese is definitely a nice aspect (as someone who eats the >1 year ripened stuff almost daily)

Although for me some of the French cheeses are the best. Just what you're used to I guess :D

clmul commented on We Kind of Suck at That Right Now   cutlefish.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/wapasta
datadrivenangel · a year ago
The one challenge of this is that a lot of these better behaviors are not viewed as 'leadership', so by being more effective you may be less rewarded.
clmul · a year ago
It seems like the advice is primarily relevant if you are already very talkative and/or complaining too much about everything wrong. In that case, it will not hurt to take a step back sometimes: this is also leadership.
clmul commented on Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora   foto-webcam.eu/webcam/luc... · Posted by u/luispa
fransje26 · 2 years ago
> we also have the artificial sunrise here 24/7 by means of greenhouses.

That's a Dutch thing. You can choose between being a great exporter of unripe, tasteless tomatoes, or seeing Aurora Borealis, but you can't have both..

clmul · 2 years ago
This is what I could see with my camera in the east of the Netherlands, and even with the naked eye I could easily see some red at times: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl
clmul commented on Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora   foto-webcam.eu/webcam/luc... · Posted by u/luispa
DoingIsLearning · 2 years ago
Still true now? In the netherlands hard to tell anything. Certainly nothing on the level of the Swiss pictures being shared.
clmul · 2 years ago
Around 1 AM at night this was the view in the east of the Netherlands: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl

With the naked eye I could see moving bright "clouds", and sometimes see streaks of red inside them. After 1:30 it died out quite rapidly for me.

clmul commented on Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora   foto-webcam.eu/webcam/luc... · Posted by u/luispa
teekert · 2 years ago
In southern Netherlands at the coast, with a 10 sec exposure, iPhone 12 mini, main cam, I was able to see some pink and green with streaks. To my eyes it was like faint clouds that changed to quickly to be clouds, better visible when I didn’t look straight at them. Your pics are something else, but what was it like to your eyes?
clmul · 2 years ago
In the east of the Netherlands I was seeing something similar to what you describe, but when particularly active I also saw a reddish glow in places. This is a timelapse I made around the same time: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl
clmul commented on Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm closures   fwi.co.uk/news/environmen... · Posted by u/darod
Hayvok · 4 years ago
> The protests coincided with a parliamentary vote on a proposed £22bn programme to halve agricultural emissions of nitrous oxide and ammonia by 2030.…close to nature reserves, the policy is tougher still, with 70-95% reductions targeted… Netherlands House of Representatives released a statement which said: “The honest message is that not all farmers will continue in business. Those who do will have to farm differently.”

What does “farm differently” actually look like? Are there viable replacements for the chemicals being targeted? (Guessing not, given the farmers’ reaction.)

clmul · 4 years ago
Well, if you produce crops instead of livestock, you are not emitting any nitrogen compounds so would in theory be totally unaffected by regulation.
clmul commented on Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm closures   fwi.co.uk/news/environmen... · Posted by u/darod
rocqua · 4 years ago
> So something has to be done to lessen output of Ammonia and Nitrogen Oxides as they are destroying the local nature ecosystems.

I think a majority of people in NL would sacrifice the local nature (to some degree) to solve this crisis. The reason this isn't being done is because these are European rules. Which Dutch democracy cannot simply overturn.

Point being, it's European rules rather than concern for nature, that is the trigger.

clmul · 4 years ago
The "local nature" (barely anything left), has already been sacrificed for decades to this. For example, a large drop in insect populations has been recorded, likely because of intensive farming practices. So continuing to do this (apart from EU regulation) does not seem to me like it is very wise. Agriculture is also very dependent on some kind of local nature existing (think pollinators). If you don't care about nature at all, it will be a very dead place soon enough. We are also part of nature, after all.
clmul commented on Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm closures   fwi.co.uk/news/environmen... · Posted by u/darod
sfvisser · 4 years ago
Why is that “simply”? Why should we care more about biodiversity than construction and farming? I think really nothing is simple about this trade off.
clmul · 4 years ago
Even with the proposed reduction in the amount of farm animals the Netherlands will still produce more than enough meat and milk to meet domestic demand, and the reason that construction can't continue is precisely the excess nitrogen emissions produced and the physical space consumed by by the farms. The country simply isn't large enough to not make this tradeoff. And if you don't care about the biodiversity, sooner or later you'll find out that you can't continue with agriculture at all because there are no pollinators left.

u/clmul

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