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  • No, 40% of climate change is caused by the wealthiest 10% globally. That's 800,000,000 people, including according to this 100 million US-Americans. Even the bottom 50% of US Americans cause as much emission (per capita) as the top 10% in Turkey or Argentina.

    Source (2015)

  • Although I'm only vaguely aware of the German laws, I don't think other EU nations' laws differ significantly.

    Here's the corresponding law:

    The insurer shall not be obligated to effect payment if the policyholder has intentionally and unlawfully caused the loss suffered by the third party.

    Source:

    Since this was clearly negligence, I think they would be fine. After all, they didn't intend to damage the statue. Gross negligence is still negligence.

  • Well yes, but actually no.

    The reason grammatic gender is called gender is because almost all nouns referring to men (boy, men, father, uncle...) are in one group and almost all nouns referring to women are in the other.

    In German, Mädchen is not in the female group because -chen is a diminutive changing any noun's group to neuter. The word Jungchen, from "Junge" meaning "(young) boy" exists as well and is also neuter.

    Similarily, all plural nouns are in the female group. Just because grammar has some more quirks doesn't mean grammatical gender doesn't line up with actual gender.

    The only exception in German I know of would be the word "Weib", cognate to wife, translating to women, which is in the neuter group. Except this word is archaic and an insult nowadays. All other words referring to gendered people should be in their corresponding grammatical group.

  • Can someone help me with the extremely relevant task of deciphering the icons on the desktop? I spot:

    • VSCode
    • OBS
    • FireFox
    • Windows Recycle Bin icon
    • a Windows Folder icon
    • 2 IntelliJ programs(?)
  • Looking at the other comment, the status of homeschooling seems somewhat ambiguous.

    However, in my country where children must attend school until they're 18, what you described doesn't work. No child is exempt from this rule, save for those with extremely severe learning disabilities. And schools are extremely strict when it comes to non-attendence of minors. For instance, after 10 missing days each further missing day must be accompanied by a doctor's notice (or other proof if it's unrelated to health, such as attending a funeral of a family member during school hours). If there is no valid reason why the child was missing for so long, the parents will either receive a fine in the low thousands of dollars or a criminal investigation will be started.

  • Yes, in this case men are absolutely to blame, I am not denying this.

    I believe they intended their comment as a general statement not specific to sexual harassment/assault. It felt like a fatalist response, not as an attempt to derail the conversation.