The big ones last longer than the small ones.

Bielefeld, obviously.

It depends on what you already know, if you don’t know any tonal language already then learning your first tonal language will obviously be an additional hurdle.

That said, Chinese is considerably easier to learn than Japanese in many other ways, such as the basic grammar being remarkably straightforward.

If they did that after you left, how do you know that they did that!?

Anyone can edit Wikipedia, there’s no way that this is true. (Seriously, just think about it for three seconds!)

I spent a large portion of the day debugging open source software and yes, I enjoyed doing that. It would of course have been more convenient if someone else had already done it, but it does give me a nice sense of accomplishment to contribute to the community.

I’d pay it all as a voluntary additional tax payment, the government would do a much better job than I could myself in making sure that the money really benefits the entire community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Persson

How One Of The Last Fez Makers In Cairo Keeps A 600-Year-Old Tradition Alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYPXGqtacpw

Okay, but then we also have to stop pretending that the USA is a democracy.

Yes, that is long overdue.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

Jordan Peterson wrote a rather interesting essay earlier this year about the situation in the UK:

https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog/theyre-not-rape-gangs/

I’m using nullmailer, it’s as simple as it gets and has worked flawlessly for me for many years now:

https://untroubled.org/nullmailer/

Circumstances outside of my control forced me to switch domain names. (I could not afford to pay for my own domain name 30 years ago.)

I have a URL that’s 30 years old this year and it’s still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.

(Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)

Nothing at all, I want my phone as slim as possible.

I use Aegis for everything, including Google.

With Baudot code machines could be built that would automatically decode the signal and type it out as plain english.

Bonus fact: Those machines could also be used to type out plain French.

simplify “Fahrenheit?”

Celsius.

Tru dat.

The EU did a massive study on this:

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/59ea4ec1-a19b-11e7-b92d-01aa75ed71a1/language-en