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Germany may be a poor example. I do happen to live in your example (Germany). And it's far fetched to say Germany isn't diverse. You know how many guest workers to refugees we have taken in since the 60s? I just googled "foreigner percentage US" and the same for Germany. It's 13% for US and 18% for Germany. This is non-inclusive of the millions of second or third generation Turkish here.

Also, if you have ever been a foreigner in Germany like myself, you would know that these number are far overstated for German people that can usefully speak another language. There are better examples for your point, like Holland or Luxemburg with genuinely high second or third language levels. Or you can also look at native English countries and see the US isn't alone in it's low adoption of second languages.

*white Americans maybe. There is a massive amount of the US that English is their second language... But not speaking a second language is really a problem many places.

Yeah... But why didn't they cut the hard bits off the end of the garlics?! I would be upset if I was him too. No one wants hard chunks on their garlic garlic garlic bread.

Yeah... But not just reading. If found that I have to explain extremely basic story plots or what happened in a movie to people. Like they never watched anything that happened in it.

Yeah and no. Cows eat about 2% of their weight each day. Over 98% of this comes from food that we grow for them. It's true that a lot of it we humans wouldn't eat, but we still grow it for them to eat. The idea of cows eating grass in a field and that's what they eat is extremely rare.

For the US as a example less than 1% of the cows feed is grass. The majority of things like soy (77% of what is grown and we could eat) goes to cow feed.

"There were about 92 million head of cattle in the United States at the end of 2015, with roughly 30 million head slaughtered that year. For perspective, the grass-fed industry currently slaughters about 230,000 head, or less than 1% of the total conventional slaughter."

Ohhh I most definitely am in a bubble. But it's also just common sense. You have to produce plant food, then ship the food to cows for them to eat and grow then to be killed and eaten. And it's not like you put 60 kilos in and you get 60 kilos of meat. Just look at yourself for an example. So it's only natural that if you simply feed the plants to the humans it would be better in every way. People should know this shit mate.

I asked how bad this really is: to produce one kilogram of beef requires 25 kilograms of grain – to feed the animal – and roughly 15,000 litres of water

No shit? Is this not obvious and generally understood?

It is irrelevant, but some (not all) of my keys here in Germany are magnetic. I know because I have a magnet board for my keys to hang on. That being said, she's fucking crazy. It's a simple test that you can disprove... and if this was true, oh God what MRI machine would do to someone. If they were so strongly magnetic that things could stuck to the, they would be torn apart.

I wouldn't underestimate it. Many people said simular things when computers came out, or the internet was new. Think about AI now like a 1985 computer or 1995 internet. What you see now is the start of it, not the finished product. With all the money going into it combined with how computers / AI learns new things, it likely will be fast developments.

This will date me a bit, but my school computer science teacher once told me that I wasted my money on a 2GB drive, because no one would ever use so much storage space in their life time.

Unlike spiders, Daddy Longlegs don't spin webs because they do not produce silk. Daddy Long Legs actually have only two eyes unlike spiders who have eight. Another difference is that Daddy Longlegs are not venomous. They do not have fangs or venom glands. - from Google.

I miss communities that I can ask a question to. When I have a problem with a plant, or a legal issue in Japan, or a question about bike brakes... It's nice to have someone to talk to about it that knows more than I do.