FriendOfDeSoto

Current? Maybe. Since the 1750s? Nope.

Nuclear power is also a stop gap solution if you ask me. It isn't clean. It creates highly toxic waste products that nobody wants to keep stored for centuries in their backyard, just not a lot of CO2. That gets waved away a lot like it isn't an issue. It's better than burning gas, oil, or coal. It's not better than renewables in my opinion. And nuclear needs a reliable cooling chain for its survival and all the people unfortunate enough to live close by. That's normally done with water that happens to flow by the plant. If the increasing heat dries out these rivers, you'll get a slightly more stretched out version of Fukushima.

The problem is batteries. If we could have batteries that store the sun and wind energy for when sun and wind are on a break, we'd be set. We don't have that. The tech isn't there yet. And we'd probably empoverish all the countries who are unfortunate enough to have the necessary rare earths in the ground in the process. We're fucked in more ways than one.

It's a tantalizing idea simply to blame the US for the deteriorating climate in Europe. But that seems both pointless and unjustified. Industrialization and excessive emissions started in Europe. We have gone into debt far enough ourselves in a manner of speaking, we can't blame the yanks although their government currently is .... well, you know.

Europeans are going to buy air conditioners and they will probably outfit cooling facilities that people can seek refuge from the heat in as a stop gap measure. That's definitely causing more nuclear waste in France where atom splitting reigns supreme. Although nuclear power generation will suffer when rivers needed for cooling become mere trickles. And for the rest of the continent one can only hope they don't burn shit to turn turbines to make more power. But it wouldn't surprise me if they did.

There is no way to prevent these heatwaves; the damage is already done. If we stopped burning stuff today everywhere, we could prevent them from getting worse. That's just a very sensible pipe dream unfortunately.

Language is imprecise. That's where the ambiguity needs tolerance. A child can be a grown person and a person growing up, depending on context. There is no orphanage for people in their 40s. The original argument seems to hinge on the word child being basically equal in meaning to human being in all contexts. Which isn't the case all the time. And it isn't in the context of orphans.

You need to work on your ambiguity tolerance.

Would you say that's relevant then to this discussion?

Scots a full brother. And where in Europe do they speak Guyanese?

The Dutch have the highest concentration of Frisian speakers. But there are other people along the cost as well, thinning out towards the North. Hence, a minority language.

That's not a great statistic. Future diplomats will have college degrees. They will have pre-existing language knowledge. That's too narrow a sample if you ask me.

And they wouldn't teach them Frisian anyway because it's a minority language spoken on the mainland North Sea coast from The Netherlands to Denmark.

Normalerweise bin ich gegen die Todesstrafe. Für den Ersteller dieses Aufklebers erwäge ich, meine Meinung zu ändern.

They say that both French and German are "closest" to English but still different languages

Who are they? Because they are wrong. The closest step cousin to English is Frisian. Dutch is closer to English than French, I'd argue.

Novel ≠ novel. It would have to be contemporary and not written in overly complicated language. Novels are mostly not written for learners to read. Even people who are fluent will miss stuff because culture doesn't come in a dictionary. So can they understand everything at that level? Nope. Can they understand enough? Probably. Arguably more so in German because it doesn't fuck with a version of the past tense that only shows up in literature.

They date whoever they want. Probably not you though. Thanks for rage baiting with us today.

and then fix the new mistakes it made while trying to fix the old ones and