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The only actual rule I'm aware of is diminutives (i.e. words ending in -chen or -lein) always being neuter (das). This is also the reason why it's das Mädchen (girl) and das Fräulein.

The rest is arbitrary, and sometimes there's even regional variations.

Also one is a strong and one is a weak verb, meaning that in certain cases, one will be split apart:

Ich umfahre jemanden: I drive around someone.

Ich fahre jemanden um: I run someone over.

Clearly nuclear is the future!

For anyone wondering: First number is base, second is related, third is other. I have no clue what those terms mean.

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I know phones cost money but when they lock you in a shitty contract for 2 or even 4 years, is it even worth it.

In the EU, mobile phone contracts have been limited to 24 months since 2011.

As much as English speakers call each other "male sibling" or "canine".

Technically correct, but no one makes that association in everyday language.

Which is kinda unfortunate. Mich_iel would've been much more on brand.

Probably when it was beaten in both features and cost by the alternatives.

In other news, snow blindness is on the rise in suburbia.

Every major country that has ever gone down the communist road has ended up a dictatorship.

Up until not too long ago, every democracy relied on slavery, disenfranchised large parts of the population, and eventually ended up a dictatorship. If you asked someone in like 1810 whether democracy could work, it'd be completely understandable if they pointed out all the horrible aspects of Greek and Roman "democracy", American planations, colonialism and the Reign of Terror, and if they assumed all of these to be inherent to democracy.

"Sure, the king isn't perfect, but he's surely better than Robespierre (who was inevitably succeded by Napoleon). And besides, great thinkers like Plato argued for a philosopher king – and that guy lived in a democracy, who would know better about all of it's evils?"

Yes, communism has failed in many respects so far.* The reasons for that are complex, include active sabotage by anti-communist states, but anyone who doesn't genuinely and critically reflect it's failures is (probably) doomed to repeat those mistakes.

Assuming those are inherent and inevitable based on less than a hundred years of history is imho short sighted.

*Some very early societies were probably kinda close to what we conceptualise as communism™ today, but applying the term is anachronistic.

Tipping has been prevalent in many Europeam countries for decades, though the amount is usually less than in the US.

That's the whole point of going to a restaurant. >So you can convince yourself that the food is somewhat healthy, without seeing all the salt, sugar and fat they put in it.

I thought the point of going to a reastaurant was eating tasty food. No one's lying to themselves about reastaurant food being healthy.

But alternatives we have and know to work solve both greenhouse gasses and local porblems.

We'll have to stop driving gas cars specifically, but we'll also just have to drive less in general.

Conservatoves would unironically do this to own the libs.

It would solve so many problems over there, honestly.

Which ones?

Mars was once habitable but lost it's magnetic field, wiping it's atmosphere. Venus was once habitable but taken over by a runaway greenhouse effect.

I'm not saying they ever had life or that we're going to suffer the same fate, but it's definitely possible to wipe a planet clean.

The pressure is applied to the center of the chest, because that's where the heart is, in both situs inversus and the typical layout.

Usually, the heart occupies more space on the left than on the right, but it's more central than many people think.

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Sure, christmas could be celebrated without consumerism, but is it? This is an observation about the reality of society, "it could be different" misses the point.