That’s not for dreamers, it’s even worse: it’s for people born in the US to parents here illegally or temporarily.

Merkel famously hated Putin. They worked together, for better or for worse, but she did not personally like him. She has a phobia of dogs and he’s a dog lover, which she would have obviously been fine, but he brought a large dog to one of their meetings after her office had requested otherwise, which she felt was an attempt to intimidate her.

That’s a very good point. I was picturing a society where this is common and accompanied by a reduced government role, which would require more community support for people who have greater need of it, but that’s not very realistic.

Well, yes. I’m assuming honor where it shouldn’t be assumed.

Incredibly bad take incoming:

I don’t have a problem with widespread corruption inherently, but it has to be well understood and broadly applicable (which it generally isn’t).

For the average citizen, it doesn’t make much of a difference if you have to pay a €10 processing fee at town hall to get a copy of an official document or if you give the teller €10 under the table to make sure your document gets processed. In fact, there’s an argument to be made that the bribe fosters the local economy more than the processing fee. The problem occurs when a person who does not expect corruption doesn’t pay the €10 that no one tells them is necessary and doesn’t get their document.

Of course the processing fee, being publicly disclosed, is subject to pushback from the populace as a whole, whereas the bribe can be set based on how badly the individual needs something from the government/how positively the official feels about the individual and can therefore be incredibly unfairly applied, which is obviously worse.

You know your dad better than I do, but the vast majority of parents don’t want to hear those. It would hurt my father quite a bit emotionally to have to hear about the times that he wasn’t there to protect me (he was an incredibly present father, nothing to do with being a deadbeat).

Asbestos might not cause mesothelioma if ingested, but it’s been linked to digestive system cancers as well

Cognitive behavioral therapy helps with this exact problem

I can’t tell if H is a troll or just really stupid (or both). She and I clash about several subjects and she does sometimes straight antagonize the rest of us, but she’s also weirdly ill-informed about a lot of things and 67 years old. A lot of the antagonism seems to stem from her expecting everyone to defer to her because of her age, but because she’s not very smart, she orders us to do things that don’t make sense, then gets annoyed when we don’t.

I mostly just try to ignore her and don’t accept any food from her unless it’s prepackaged and I know what it is.

It’s not evenly split, it’s $50/week for each week worked between 2021-2024, up to ~$7,700/worker.

It’s still not enough. Especially because that’s roughly equivalent to 200 minutes of minimum wage pay for NYC.

a “worrying escalation” of the conflict

An attack with no injuries is a worrying escalation of the full blown war in which the other party keeps vaguely (or not so vaguely) threatening nukes?

Are the soldiers obligated to rescue shipwrecked survivors? I ask because, if not, this seems bizarrely stupid (or right in line for this admin). They could just leave them in the water and it would probably accomplish the same thing (I don’t approve of it, to be clear, but it seems less shortsighted). Even if they are, they could pretend not to notice them.

It’s pretty concerning, you’re right. I actually wrote a list of things that are vegan and vegetarian to keep in the back because some of my coworkers would give random answers when people asked about them (and we for some reason have chicken fat in our omelettes, so they seem vegetarian but aren’t).

I work at a bakery and am vegan. Whenever we get a new cake or vegetarian sandwich, my coworkers ask me to try it. At least one of them, H, is always surprised to learn that dairy products are in fact made from milk.

On the other hand, one of my coworkers brought in sesame sweets made without dairy, eggs, or honey and H didn’t believe they were actually vegan and kept making jokes about my cheat day.

I found this, which is interesting, but I’m so distracted by the fact that this person only drinks tea.

I really like one sentence summaries of national histories, and one of my favorites is Russia’s: “and then it got worse.”

Holy shit, I always just assumed it was John Brown

I don’t know, but nobody in my life wants to talk about DS9

Unfortunately the incredibly red and swollen face sort of diminishes the effect

Die habe ich, aber es hängt vom Ziel ab. Wenn man die ganzen Kleinigkeiten wirklich verstehen will, sind die Duden Grammatik und www.dwds.de nicht zu unterschätzen, aber dafür muss man Deutsch auf einem gewissen Niveau (~B2-C1) schon können. Um soweit zu kommen, sollte man möglichst viel Input*, Zeit solches zu bearbeiten, und durchdachte Korrektur (jeder falscher Artikel muss nicht korrigiert werden aber Fehler, die die Kommunikation verhindern sollten erklärt werden, solange die Situation das erlaubt) kriegen.

Kurz gesagt ist mein Rat auch nicht so eigenartig. Ich glaube wir legen den Fokus zu scharf auf Auswendiglernen, aber das ist eigentlich nur relevant, wenn man fehlerfrei kommunizieren will. Es ist eine Tatsache, dass viele Menschen kein perfektes, sondern ausreichendes Deutsch können wollen, und das ist okay.

*Inputquellen, die Lernmotivation erwecken können und die ich nie als Lernende in einem Deutschkurs gesehen habe: Rammstein (nicht wirklich meins, aber etwa ein drittel der deutschlernenden sind nach meiner Erfahrung durch Rammstein zu Deutsch gekommen); gemischtes Hack, oÄ; synchronisierte Serien, die man schon kennt; Tabletopspiele sowie MtG oder DnD; und moderne Jugendliteratur (ich war ein bisschen zu alt damals für die Percy Jackson Bücher auf Englisch, aber sie waren perfekt für mein Deutschniveau und noch interessant als Erwachsene - natürlich wäre etwas unübersetztes wie Tintenwelt noch besser)- dabei ist die Regel, dass man zwischen 2-5 Wörter pro Seite nachschlagen müssen sollte.