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The literal meaning was defined "to drink". If you drink something, it becomes a part of you.

Same for overmogen in the Netherlands. And eergisteren for the day before yesterday.

Yikes!

Here you go!

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.

First, this seems to be three years old. Second, he is one of the contributors to HA, HA was originally started by Paulus Schoutsen who is still an active contributor.

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?

What you call a good thing, I call green washing.