Well gee, we could return the things stolen from Jews by Nazis… or we could just sell weapons to Israel. That’s easier and more profitable!

Compared to roughly 140 other countries. The US has a very high suicide rate, they’re a huge outlier because of gun ownership.

It’s not even the fault of the culture either, it’s mostly due to the darkness throughout the winter.

Nah, go traditional. Get him an exploding cigar.

You can remember it, because the T separates the Es into discrete entities

You’re not wrong, but the only thing there that’s not arguably correct is calling hegseth little and I guess misspelling his name.

Wait, is there a specific term for a doctor who primarily operates in British English?

That’s how they get you

Because it’s worked out great all the other times the US has done that

I wouldn’t assume anything about the number of his children from that, tbh. And that’s fair, multiple children are relatively common.

The time that something similar actually comes up for me is with doctors. I tend to assume that people are talking about their single gp when they say “my dr.,” and this is often wrong with people who have a lot of health issues (it’s not a problematic assumption, because I don’t do anything with it, I’m just picturing a GP for whatever their story is).

I suspect the disconnect is between traditional headline values (first shortness, then understandability) and the ones that would actually make sense in the modern age (font size is adjustable at the point of receipt, and nobody reads articles, so clarity should win over length).

I’m my father’s daughter. I have two sisters who are also my father’s daughters. I am also one of my father’s daughters, but that doesn’t make my first sentence incorrect.

Judge Hofer, presiding, an experienced mountaineer who is active as a mountain and air rescuer (although he emphasised that had “no bearing on the case”) ruled that the defendant had been negligent in failing to recognise that Kerstin G would be unable to complete the climb well before the couple ran into difficulty.

That’s… incredibly convenient

Yeah. I think throwing his brother under the bus would probably earn the king a whole lot of goodwill with the public, whereas pardoning him would outrage people.

Though not much came of Jimmy Saville, but Andrew’s not dead

I mean…

I have to assume thr relatively precarious position the royals have is stopping him

I’d also be interested in whether those politicians embraced the violent rhetoric of “misleading information.”

I think there’s a parallel with other social clubs, too.

My medication kicked in while writing this and it shows. TLDR: in Germany, there are various social clubs including international cultural exchange groups (generally composed of immigrants/children of immigrants and Germans in a roughly 2:1 ratio) and clubs based around specific countries open only or mostly to immigrants from those or neighboring countries (whether openly or simply through convention, selection bias, and social pressure). The former are fun and the latter tend to be toxic unless there’s currently a large wave of immigration/refugees from the country they represent in Germany, in which case they can help coordinate resources and support, as well as help people deal with culture shock and the trauma of needing to flee their home country.

I’m an American immigrant in Germany. I love international groups and being able to bond with people about dealing with German bureaucracy as a non-native. I have zero interest in American emigrant groups.

In international groups, we do make fun of Germany, but it’s not mean spirited. We also commiserate about the actively negative aspects of living in Germany as an immigrant. In American groups, I suspect it would turn into U-S-A chants or something similar.

International groups here welcome Germans as a rule, whereas for groups for specific nationalities, it tends to be limited to people who can speak the language.

There’s a real need served by national groups for brand new immigrants who are overwhelmed by everything being different (often significantly more different than Germany is for an American), and they’re great for creating a sense of community that can be helpful for short term immigrants (though they can hamper long term integration).

I suspect I’ll warm up to American groups as a way to give new immigrants a crash course on German culture if we get a wave of American refugees in the next couple of years, because those are the demographics (large groups of people temporarily displaced from the same country who all come at once) that tend to benefit from these type of groups.

I’ve been told that national groups for Arab countries tend to be full of either bitter, unpleasant people and/or gay people and blatant alcohol drinkers, because everyone else just meets at the mosque. Although given that I have no first hand experience and the person telling me about it only has experience with a handful of cities, it may not be accurate for the rest of the country.

It’s spelled Pretti

That’s close-minded. Many people are motivated to improve the world beginning with their immediate environment without having any special attachment to their environment. I’m sorry if you wouldn’t be, but don’t put that on all of us.

There’s a gesture? I’m fucking old

Maybe rephrase your comment if you don’t want it to be interpreted the way I interpreted it.

Thank goodness we don’t judge people based on their heritage, like Nazis.