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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Dutch isn’t a low German though dialect? It’s more closely related to Franconian and Middle German than to Frisian and Low German
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Dutch is a Franconian dialect though? They just didn’t go through the consonant shift like their cousins in the Rhineland. It isn’t really that closely related to Frisian or Low German and even less so to Norther Germanic.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Oslo doesn’t really get that cold in winter and other coastal cities further out west even less so. e.g. the avg. low temperature in Bergen is 0 degrees in Jan and Feb.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Do we have any or any significant number of Roman tax receipts? Most Roman/Greek texts that we have had to survive until ~1000 AD. If a text was available back then there is a reasonably good chance that we have it (or rather a medieva
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
AFAIK the scanning process is pretty expensive
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
GPT 4.0 isn’t even remotely close to being useful at all in this case so I have some doubts about ‘very soon’
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The town of Ercolano sits on top of it. Of course effectively it’s a suburb of Naples these days
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> It can also ask the Commission to propose laws, they also hold the power over approval of the Commission body and the power to ask for the Commission resignation So very limited actual power compared to any real parliament. Maybe it’s
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
A real parliament would have dissolved and appointed a new one. This kind of only proves my point, they basically have the same recourse that every ordinary citizen or organization does. Again the EU parliament has about as much power as th
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> had ramifications for everyone's brain, there's no reason to think that's anything but superstition. Or people began driving differently when the roads were empty (even if less frequently) and continued doing that even t
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The EU parliament does not create new laws it just rubber stamps them. Basically it’s less or about as relevant as the parliaments of pseudo-democratic European empires of from ~1900 like Tsarist Russia, Germany etc.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The parliament can’t create or propose new laws or directives, only the undemocratically appointed commission. The EU parliament is mainly a joke which costs a lot of money
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Don't you have a right to vote for an elected representative? Of course not. The EU parliament is just there to rubber-stamp the decisions coming from the undemocratically appointed commission. They can’t propose any laws or direc
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
So it would be centrist/moderate then, certainly not leftwing?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
There is no reason why those plastics have to end up in waterways though
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I don’t agree. It’s not about being a better engineer than those at Boeing etc. (you might be right about that but it’s totally tangential). It’s about being open and transparent about potential risks, being transparent about your mistakes
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> extremely curious your ale goes bad so quickly Not mine. Medieval ale didn’t have any hops in it (it didn’t become widespread until the 1400/1500s in some countries like England) so its shelf life was shorter > It's defini
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Intel should have bought Acorn, not Olivetti. Intel had StrongARM though. IIRC they made best ARM cpus in the early 2000s and were designing their own cores. Then Intel decided to get rid of it because obviously they were just wasting
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> ARM has been really competitive since And a few years prior to that Intel made the most competitive ARM chips (StrongARM). Chances are that an Intel chip would have powered the iPhone had they not scrapped their ARM division due to “re
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Same safety standards as the Boeing 737 Max for nuclear power plants Not really though.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Any system dominated by a single party with no real checks and balances will inevitably becomes thoroughly corrupt. Having the theoretical option to vote for someone else hardly changes that if there is no credible competition. > Your p
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Isn’t that mainly a myth some people on the internet are very adamant about repeating for some reason? > The water it's made from is boiled eliminating any funkiness, and by the end the alcohol it has in it makes it inhospitable to
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Allow banks to give out mortgages in such cases should be illegal too.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> odd kind of depression Not so much if you compare it to the original “Great Depression” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression Of course assuming that 5% even means anything. Look up the Soviet official g
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
And looting all the remaining assets in the process. Not to mention trying to extract as much as possible from mortgage holders who bought uncompleted houses and have to continue paying even though they’ll never get anything in return.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
What does that have to with bonds the government might refuse to pay out (or western governments might ban you from receiving payments even if they don’t)?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Sure. But any single party state is inherently non-democratic regardless of anything else.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Whatever humans do to earth (based on current technological capabilities) it will still remain more habitable than Mars by a magnitude or two
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> suggestion would cause similar accidents every 4-6 years That seems like somewhat absurd speculation. Both of those events made future incidents significantly less likely. Also Chernobyl was totally avoidable and only happened because
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Eggs very pretty expensive outside of rural areas though (and even there they seemingly wasn’t close to being as common as now). e.g. a dozen eggs cost about the same as a chicken https://www.luminarium.org/medlit/medpr

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