In German words with ie or ei diphthongs, you pronounce the English name of the second letter. So wiener is pronounced veen-uh, and Weiner is vine-uh (both very roughly).
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You gotta go to the sketchy clam shacks in New England, not the steakhouses
6·3 days agoIf you’d like. Mormons, different kinds of Protestant, Jehovas Witnesses, Amish, Hasidic Jews, Muslims, and so many cults off the top of my head (not the links, obviously, but I just wrote out all of the religions associated with pedophilia I remembered from the past few years and went looking for stories). I suspect if I lived around more other religions, I’d be able to remember different ones and you can probably find cases for most religions (I just went looking for an exception, but even Unitarians are not immune).
I hate to break it to you about other religions, too…
Obviously the Catholic Church has a systemic problem, and given that it’s one of the largest religions on earth (and their molester shuffling), it’s more universal than in a lot of religions, and I’m not defending them. They’re only unique in scale though.
Our teeth aren’t good without fluoride.
7·4 days agoGee, you know what I think dad would have wanted? His widow to be murdered (let’s be realistic here, she’s 86 and they don’t have clean water) in a concentration camp.
OP clearly wasn’t trying to fool anyone or spread disinformation, it’s a meme and you losers are in here
demandinga better bibliography.Providing a better bibliography, in case anyone else wants it.
21·4 days agoWhen the rules are sensible generally, but should be adapted for the current scenario, I tend to be slow on the uptake. Reading this story a few years ago made me realize that I personally am susceptible to losing sight of whether something is actually worth fighting- like I can imagine myself getting stuck on “it’s a fire aisle and now these customers are annoying,” and missing that the other side is thinking “it’s my wheelchair, we need to figure out a way for me to use it.”
Anyway, imagine my surprise when exactly no one, online or irl, even expressed understanding for the actions of the worker at the theater. I don’t think it’s because their actions are incomprehensible to people, but more that, even though this is a very human mistake to make, we’re expected to be able to evaluate whether the rules are picky little bullshit that’s only really important for order or whether they actually matter and should guide our actions.
All that is to say: yes it’s a very human mistake to make, but it’s important for management to be able to determine what rules matter in a life or death scenario. To be clear, I’m definitely not calling this manager a murderer, and I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that they knew how they would react, but Amazon should probably roll out some judgment training for managers.
1·5 days agoTbh, I used that phrasing specifically because you were snippy about someone else making a claim based on their own experience and I was trying to prod you about the evidence you’re using.
When people kill each other “for no reason,” there’s often still a reason (though not an excuse)- territory in the case of gang or murder of romantic partners, protection or survivor’s benefits for your own family for soldiers killing in war, or people accidentally letting a killer instinct loose during play for people who get into brawls or similar. Even horrific crimes like genocide are committed out of a dual protective of kin/and aggressive of outsiders instinct.
The Wikipedia lists possible reasons, but we don’t actually know why animals do this when it’s actively harmful to them yet.
I don’t see how that supports that humans are one of a few species that kills for no reason, if we know that other animals kill in scenarios where it hurts them and we don’t actually commonly kill each other for no reason.
Tbh, I think it’s that you say putins not smarter than trump, instead of not much smarter. That may be hyperbole, but people are going to treat it as though it’s what you believe unless you specify like you do here
4·5 days agoBut the propaganda hits us whether we see stonetoss in the corner or not.
75·5 days agoYou might not, but I do 🤷
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10·5 days agoSome people are dyslexic
0.02 is bigger than 0.01, even though they’re both small.
27·6 days agoThat’s impressive as hell, tbh. I’m glad rehab centers focus on such useful, otherwise seemingly inaccessible skills
They won’t 25th him until he pardons them. If he gets so senile or believes he’s so sick that he pardons Vance and enough of them early, OR if Vance agrees to pardon everyone as president they will absolutely 25th him
1·6 days agoImo definitely common sense, which might not be a formal category of intelligence, but it follows from empathy, risk assessment, and understanding of consequences. Sociologists could probably do research to nail down an exact definition through and psychologists could probably measure it, though I suspect it would only really work intrademographically. What’s common sense for a rich, well spoken, fourteen year old white girl is different from common sense for a poor, uneducated sounding, twenty five year old black man, because they unfortunately face very different potential consequences for the same actions.
As a really rambling example (sorry!)
When I was the former in the US, I used to seek out and make conversation with cops if I was planning to buy or carrying (well sealed and odorless) weed at an event, because I figured they’d think I was less likely to do that if I was committing a crime, so they’d be less suspicious of me/give me more leniency if they caught me (because police corruption is a fractal: any amount of positive or negative interaction with them confers exactly that amount of forbearance or spite in future interactions). That’s terrible common sense for the latter demographic, but it worked very well for me and most of the white stoner girls I knew. Even the same demographic but older has different ideas of sensibleness. I would never seek out a cop like that today, because: A) I know that the real reason it used to work probably has more to do with us having been young teenage girls recognizing their authority than with us seeming more innocent (though the corruption bit was right), and wouldn’t apply to a woman as old as I am anymore*; and B) what works best for my current demographic is just blending in (or I guess getting way closer to a cop, but that’s both skin crawling and a much longer game than I am willing to play).
/* I’d argue it’s partial credit for common sense there and partially luck that my theory had positive consequences in common with reality, but this exemplifies the problem of letting each demographic decide for themselves what constitutes “common sense,” and use it as a metric for correct behavior /** (I’m sorry about the footnote within a footnote, my ADHD meds just kicked in on a day when I have nothing to do for the first time in over two months, after just finishing teaching a six week long German intensive course, teaching the same group for four hours every weekday, and the fediverse is the victim of my hyperfocus today).
Common sense might convince an adult not to trust the extremely rare sketchy-seeming but totally genuine opportunity, but it might also convince a teenager to trust the teacher or other adult entrusted with their safety who’s willing to buy them alcohol and nicotine products. However, if we allow people to weigh in for all of their younger demographic counterparts, we would risk making common sense impossible for all but the most mature people, thus making it no longer the metric we’re looking for.
/** it’s not really an issue for our definition or measurement of it though, it doesn’t really change things if common sense is sometimes wrong
Solo esos gatos gordos pueden pagar una leche cuarta.
Fuck do I need to practice my Spanish.
Yes. People might always pronounce their names differently from normal phonetic rules, especially if they don’t speak German, but the word wiener is unrelated.