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Until you introduce whom (and, occasionally, whose) and native speakers' brains explode. It's soooo easy: Whose brain was exploded by whom? His brain was exploded by her, not He brain was exploded by she. Native English speakers do understand cases, they just don't know that they understand.
but it all sort of collapsed in on itself and nouns basically sorted themselves into the two current categories at random depending on dialects and stuff.
That's how it started out in the first place! Indo-European noun classes don't really have anything to do with gender, there just happens to be three and the words for "man", "woman", and "thing" are in distinct classes, so that's what the classes get referred by. Otherwise it's semi-random, that is, by phonology. Unless people disagree (it's die Nutella btw).
Classes are useful because they allow for concord between nouns and other parts of speech. The German the sentence "He holds a pen (Stift) and a bag (Tüte) and puts him on the table" unambiguously tells you that it's the pen which is put on the table: Bag makes no sense because it's feminine. There are rules as to how words are distributed into classes but no native speaker will be able to explain them short of the dead obvious. Not part of native-level German lessons, that's literature and grammar analysis, not phonetics. Romanes ite domum.
Ah, well, insight is the first step to betterment.
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Can you explain how what I said is racist? I was talking about cultural practices, societal organisation. The cultural differences I allude to are all rather well-established anthropology. Left-wing anthropology on top of that, Emmanuel Todd started that whole thing.
On the flipside, can you explain how "the germanic skull is uniquely shaped in a way that maximizes both ignorance and arrogance." isn't? Can you show me those phrenological characteristics in this example? The man does speak better Low Saxon than me, that's for sure, so obviously he's more German, even more Saxon, than me.
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Ridiculing these tirades usually result in a smug dismissal of the conversation while claiming victory or it angers the german causing it to respond with wishes or promises of harm.
If that's not straight-up projection I'd say pot calling the kettle black, don't you think? Not even an tiny bit of smug dismissal in there?
If you actually went through my history you'd have seen that I called what Israel is doing a genocide on every second occasion, and have been saying "The Kahanites will use the opportunity" on like day two after October 7th.
Are you saying that in western liberal democracy a good citizen speaks only English and German?
The "only" is your addition, and your addition alone. At least try to argue in good faith, will you. Do you have no other trick but straw-manning.
As to "incoherent walls of text": Go read Emmanuel Todd if you need further elucidation, in particular "The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure & Social Systems". It's not the most recent, there's been further empirical research after that but the broad strokes still stand and the book is an easy read.
Unlike you, I won’t say that Germans by nature have an urge to commit genocide.
[citation needed]. If anything I would say that humans have, regrettably, that tendency. Humans are rabidly violent creatures.
Also I was always, and only, talking culture, in this thread. Not nature as in genetics or something. Why do you keep making shit up.
Maybe you can teach me how to become a proper citizen, someone as decent as you are sensei?
Nah you'll fit right in: Your incapacity to engage with a topic in good faith rivals that of AfD voters.
You do seem to be aware of the crass differences in societal organisation. Maybe, on reflection, you could see that I wasn't actually dissing your clan, I was pointing out that you care about it. Arabs coming here tend to be caught in between their familial obligations and what local society expects of them as individuals, and struggle to regard the people around them as not strangers (because not clan members) but familiar (because you're living in the same region).
Go ahead, make the jump, say "My clan is now
<village in Bavaria>
". That is hard. It's more than just moving to a different place, it's changing very core, and often unconscious, concepts about how identity and the in/outgroup distinction is constructed. Suddenly, you're expected to be familiar with people you don't even know, that you've seen at no wedding, no nothing. Migrating between different region-based societies is kinda akin to marrying into another clan: Sure you'll have to adapt but you already know the basic rules. Switching between the two systems a whole different game altogether.When I went to an anti-genocide protest I learned that I’m not allowed to speak Arabic
You don't have a right to assembly in the first place, as a foreigner, though it's generally tolerated. If you want to influence German politics, why speak a language that practically noone here understands? Your English seems to be just fine, and from what I recollect police were also fine with English. They need to be able to tell whether you're shouting "Peace be on earth" or "Gas the Jews", simple as that.
Which you'd readily understand if you had a region-based mindset: The necessity to stick with the people around you, instead of the cousin half-way around the earth. What will the cousin think if you're standing in Berlin, not speaking Arabic, bowing to the sensitivities of the local heathens? Heavens! What will other clans think if members of our clan do that kind of thing, our standing will be tarnished! We must uphold our image of virtue or our sons and daughters will never marry into a rich and powerful clan! Why even protest if it's not in Arabic our cousins won't understand and they are the ones who need to see that we're doing the virtuous thing!
Yeah I've seen those pictures you sent, posing in front of a Mercedes, to show how well you're doing abroad: Just like a Sheikh, your family can be proud. Was it at least a rental or did you use a parked one?
I've never been on an organised wine tour but my family made a habit of swinging by a vinyard on the way back up north. The wine tasting comes with the beds (also, Zwiebelkuchen) and you get excellent prices on boxes because you're cutting out the middle man. Kids get to taste different grape juices.
I suppose those kinds of offerings exist in all wine regions, an organised trip would then be visiting multiple of those places.
The actual reason why let ... in syntax tends to not use C-style "type var" like syntax is because it's derived from the syntax type theory uses, and type theorists know about parameterised types. Generics, in C++ parlance, excuse my Haskell:
let foo :: Map Int String = memptyWe have an empty map, and it maps integers to Strings. We call it foo. Compare:
Map Int String foo = memptyIf nothing else, that's just awkward to read and while it may be grammatically unambiguous (a token is a name if it sits directly in front of
=) parser error messages are going to suck.Map<Int,String>is also awkward but alas that's what we're stuck with in Rust because they reasoned that it would be cruel to put folks coming from C++ on angle bracket withdrawal. Also Rust has ML ancestry don't get me started on their type syntax.the rest of us
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See even ChatGPT can emulate self-awareness better than Sam Altman.
It's a couple more actually. That list also mentions brands that are in other games and source books but e.g. Porsche is definitely in 2077.
Kinda yes but no? There's minimum standards for gun control in the EU and thus the "right to bear arms" countries (Austria, Czechia, Poland, Baltic states, Finland) regularly have work cut out for them when the framework gets tightened while the "may issue" and "don't issue" countries are perpetually in overcompliance.
The vast majority of CEOs don't become billionaires, most billionaires are born with a golden spoon in their mouth, and the rest got there by stepping on everyone else's backs. That's rewarding sociopathy.
Artists and athletes don't do either, they work to get good at their craft and, crucially, would be doing the same thing even if they were not as successful as they are. You can count them as petite bourgeois which of course come in good and bad but as artists and athletes are not, by trade, businesspeople they tend to very much fall on the good side. Like, you won't see Clooney undermining the actor's union -- on the contrary, he's advocated for raising his own union dues. And when they use their money to start a business you don't tend to get another Oracle or something but ARCH Motorcycles. Give me one reason why, in luxury space anarchism, the answer to Keanu Reeves saying "I want to build cool motorcycles, you in?" the answer of the collective wouldn't range from "hell yes" to "meh but you guys do you". He'd get all the resources he'd need: He entertained and uplifted billions, of course we'll chime in.
OTOH, of course, fuck J.K. Rowling. But unlike with the golden spoon billionaires she's the exception, not the norm.
Een Man de op een Frömden schimptweil he vun woanners kümmtkeen Mensch hölpen deitwenn denn een Möw doröver flügtschitt eem meern in sien GesichtGenauso soll das sein
Bezos’ is hardly the only high-dollar wedding to be held in the city — not least George and Amal Clooney’s nuptials in 2014, which were cheered on by locals.
Yeah don't confuse the Clooneys for Bezos, please. Whether an actor should be a half-billionaire is up for debate but if anyone should have that kind of money yes it's artists, sportsball players, etc. That is, don't confuse celebrities and feudal lords. Venice is an ancient and serene republic, have some self-respect.
You're going to spend 1 to 1.8k or such on the flights alone when coming from the US. Plus of course, as a yank, being able to afford to have a free day at all.
I get it most yanks are broke but a couple hundred are not much in terms of holiday money. Cheap hotels are going to cost you 25 to 50 Euros per night alone. Mallorca 4-star all-inclusive incl. plane tickets about 1k per person, seven nights. That's groceries for a year if you know what you're doing, or a bit more than two months of German welfare (the raw disposable payout, rent, heating, and health insurance is separate). Monthly net income on minimum wage ~1.6k, you'll probably spend most of your holidays in Balconia but if you want, yep, the Baleares are affordable. Trekking from hostel to hostel? Even more so, that's student-level holidays. Drinking wine while doing it? Depending on country, cheaper than beer. So, no, it's not out of touch. It's just not ameripoor.
Couple of days in Venice? There's camping grounds all around, bring a camper (I know, investment, but you can also rent them) or a tent. Commute into the city, if you buy anything... well ideally just don't it's all a tourist trap.
I'm not Christian so I don't really have a skin in the game but insofar as I'm still Lutheran: No, those people aren't Christian. Well, actual Lutherans would never say it like that but talk about "people regrettably being in grave error" but same difference.
Point being is that you can't profess to follow a religion if you ignore core tenets. You can't be a dancer if you never dance. And you can't be a Christian if your creed boils down to "Jesus was too woke".
Your religion is evil and always has been.
Christianity has always been self-righteous and arrogant (see the Lutheran "charity" above), but that's not the same as evil -- otherwise the French would also be inherently evil. They can, indeed, be quite rad on occasion.
A narrative that conveniently ignores that the Dalai Llama was, and is, more of a socialist than the CCP ever mustered to be and was always very much on board with reforming everything. Or, well, the current incarnation always was. The split only came after it became clear that tankies gonna tank, that is, the CCP cared less about the freedom of the people (both in a spiritual and material sense) than about having full control over a mineral-rich mountain fortress to build a military-industrial base that couldn't be shelled from the ocean. Tibet alas is, geographically, the Switzerland of the Himalayas. Another factor was the sheer popularity of the Llama in Tibet, spiritual leader + socialist is a sure-fire double whammy to popularity but threatened the party's prerogative of interpretation not to mention orthodox Marxist doctrine, opium for the people and everything.
You know what's the most absurd thing about all this, especially considering Marxist materialism? That the CCP is claiming that it can legislate on reincarnation. And not in the "yeah this is all BS" sense, that'd be par for the course, but in the "ok here is how it's going to be done" sense. Went so far as to accuse the Dalai Llama of blasphemy for suggesting that whether and how he reincarnates will be up to him. And I guess the CCP is stuck on insisting that incarnation is real because otherwise the can't blame the current Dalai Llama for the politics of his previous lives?
Very much so, though they import lots of parts. Generally speaking the Ukrainian defence industry is operating under capacity because cashflow.
Ukraine builds rockets and the biggest airplanes in the world and has a vibrant IT sector, they can manage drones. Much of the Soviet high-tech design and manufacturing was Ukrainian, that's one of the reasons why Russia wants its colony back.