I thought Facebook executives could be ‘infamous’ at best.

According to Dutch newspaper NRC, the Israeli army has said it ‘regrets the inconvenience’.

Too bad modern ship sterns aren’t interesting enough to hang on a wall.

It’s exactly the same in Dutch as in German with ‘knecht’ and ‘ridder’. Also, apparently ‘Ritter’ is a loanword from Middle Dutch ‘ridere’.

Why is Wagenknecht still relevant?

They don’t? You can generally just translate them: genitive ‘des’/‘der’ can just be translated by the analytical ‘of the’ (‘Das Buch der Frau’ > ‘The book of the woman’).

The dative is ‘to the’ (in the sense of giving), eg. ‘Ich gebe es dem Mann’ > ‘I give it to the man’ but also ‘Das gehört dem Mann’ > ‘That belongs to the man’.

Of course, to general rules in language you always have edge cases and exceptions. This is true for any actually spoken language. For the German cases, you have a lot of verbs and prepositions with a specific case, though with the translation method you can quite often find it’s actually the same in the other language, just expressed differently. For example ‘glauben’ takes the dative case, in Dutch, dative can be translated as ‘aan de/het’/‘voor de/het’. You could translate ‘Ich glaube dem Kind’ to ‘Ik geloof aan het kind’, which is an old-fashioned way of saying the same.

As a Dutch learner of German, I was never taught this in German class, when German cases are actually quite simple when you know this: it’s just a different way of expressing the same grammatical relations (synthetic vs. analytic). The hardest part is gender (which has vague rules but is often just knowledge, though it does tend to match what’s left of grammatical gender in Dutch, specifically male/feminine vs. neuter, so I had something of a head-start), and learning which words belong to which combination of gender and case. This is just language learning, though.

Wir haben hier auch einen der sich „König“ nennt, sich Geld zukommen lässt, davon Immobilien kauft (sogar mal in Mosambik)…

Und ihr arrestiert sie einfach?

This is US internal news, which I’m desperately trying to avoid here because I can barely avoid it elsewhere anyway. Please keep it where it belongs.

In the Netherlands a party whose one member (Wilders) has spurred on some of his followers to chant ‘less, less, less!’ on the question ‘Do you want more, or less Moroccans?’ (PVV) is now the largest party in government. The Second Chamber (parliament) has also voted their chairman to be from his party, which means a PVVer was present at yesterday’s World War 2 Dead Remembrance to lay a wreath on behalf of the Chamber.

Forgive me for not thinking we’re doing much better.

The Netherlands is well-educated and extremely secular, yet it has voted the extreme right PVV as largest party in its last elections, which is now the largest party in government. The extreme right is on the rise pretty much everywhere in the western world, and has been since at least two decades.

And the Conservatives losing in Canada can also be blaimed quite simply on a powerful foreign leader demanding its annexation. Otherwise, they’d likely have won anyway.

Now you mention it, there haven’t been any studies on what happens when you attempt to send Elon Musk to Mars by catapult. Seems like a worthy and 100% ethical scientific endeavour to me.

Is it the Great Patriotic War there too now?

But we honestly shouldn’t give attention to every little American fart.

I don’t like the stereotype (and it is just a stereotype) of German being a ‘screamy’ language. As a Dutchman who also speaks German, it’s a perfectly pleasant language to me in 99% of the cases (but then I think it’s beautiful anyway, hence why I learnt it). There’s nothing inherently ‘screamy’ about German.

Though I have to admit that when I do hear it being screamed in, it immediately triggers associations with that period in history like I was there myself. I blame movies.

Ami go home.

Indeed, I loved Reddit silver exactly because it was such a nice alternative that actually came from the community. Then, Reddit killed it…

I meant to imitate an AI response as a joke… Should’ve written ‘Regenerate response’ under it, sorry :p

I see you dislike the way things are going currently. When talking about AI, it is important to note that it also has many exciting positive uses:

• It can easily recognise spots indicative of cancer.
• It makes desk workers more productive.
• It may be used to lessen the burden of parents raising their children.
• It may promote safety by helping in recognising acts of disorder.

Please remember to always keep an open mind towards the future of AI.

I disagree. Hungary and Poland going utterly authoritarian came before America. If anything, they are parallel processes going on in Europe and the US.

I hope they won’t forget to say thanks to their American overlords partners.

I’ve understood that Taiwan has many missiles aimed at China. Are they not significant enough in power/number to be enough of a deterrant against China?