Das war mW genau der Grund, warum der 3. Oktober letztlich zum Tag der Deutschen Einheit wurde und nicht der inhaltlich besser passende 9. November. Ich finde das auch sinnvoll, da der 9. November als Gedenktag in meinen Augen abgewertet werden würde, wenn man dort einen Feiertag begeht.
I don't know what study these numbers are based on, but many of them only assess certain (typically younger) age groups. In my experience, the people coming out of school today in Germany are often quite good in English.
Edit: Looked it up. The data are not based on any study but the results of test takers that aim to earn a certain language certificate. So no specific age group but still likely younger people. The sample is completely self-selected, though, so it's hard to say anything definitive. From the Wikipedia page:
The EF EPI 2024 edition was calculated using test data from 2.1 million test takers in 2023. The test takers were self-selected. 116 countries and territories appear in this edition of the index. In order to be included, a country was required to have at least 400 test takers.
And more:
The EF English Proficiency Index has been the subject of criticism in literature. From the point of view of methodology, it suffers from self-selection bias. Instead of testing the level of English proficiency in the population, it tests the level of English of those who self-select.
This seems like a very poor basis for a country ranking.
I think it's more about finding a picture with similar clothes and hairstyles. The fact that they're obviously not the same people is part of the joke.
Fake. Wenn das echt wäre, hätte der Eigentümer des Leiternherstellers noch eine großzügige Spende für Spahns Wahlkampf entrichten müssen. Als ob Spahn irgendwas ohne Gegenleistung macht...
Honestly, if the choice is between doing it regularly with a floss holder and struggling to do it with your fingers, the floss holder wins. Do whatever helps you to maintain the habit.
The Assassin's Creed franchise nowadays seems more like one of those slushy machines at the mall that perpetually move the same ingredients around in a neverending cycle of despair and stagnation.
I think this is pretty reasonable and shouldn't be a hot take. IMO, what macOS does better is to provide a simple UI that protects less experienced users well enough from themselves while keeping developer tools accessible and close enough to standard Unix stuff. It's easy to get into but not too hard to move past the basics once you need to. In Windows, I often feel like the opposite is true. The UI is a complicated mess of three different UIs that doesn't even protect users all that well, and developer tools are often separate products with their own learning curve that are aggressively Windows-specific.
I was thinking about getting a rice cooker. Do you have any recommendations?