Tbf, it was an art installation and the overreactions it generated are hilarious.

So outright annexation.

I can lie under the table, puking my guts out and still remember the year.
You need more training, son.

Except this skull is unusable now because skulls are not closed at the bottom and someone seems to have cut off the top.
Also the “skulls of your enemies” industry usually doesn’t use the whole body. Quite wasteful if you ask me.

For file names, absolutely.
When I’m asking what date it is I typically know the current year.

I’ve been told that the stuff isn’t actually plastic,

Some even claim this stuff is cheese

There is quite the difference between 150/365 and 300/365.
One is about 3/7 the other 6/7 and now look at today when most of us work 5/7 on a normal workweek.

and dissent must not be tolerated, as they can lead to chaos and rebellion

The party is always right

Products are priced based on their cost/value

Ah, yes and the world is full of rational actors with perfect information.

the content you like

The content I like is on youtube though

Breaking news! Company tries to find optimal price point.

companies like Microsoft are always considering novel methods for powering (and cooling) their data centers

If they are near population centers, they could use the excess heat from both for remote heating.
But mostly adding a nuclear power plant to a data center will require additional cooling.

Well, they couldn’t go with Helles because it’s actually good.

Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?

According to wikipedia the phonetic usage includes:
[g] [d͡ʒ] [ʒ] [ŋ] [j] [ɣ~ʝ] [x~χ] [d͡z] [ɟ] [k] [ɠ] [ɢ] /dʒiː/

For English pronunciation it lists:
/dʒ/ /ɡ/ /ʒ/ and silent

I’m saying that there are no consistent rules so language learners have to learn each word individually.
If you learn languages by memorizing every singe vowel shift since proto-indo-european then be my guest but for someone who just wants to speak the language and has to learn the difference between plough, through, though etc, it seems pretty damn arbitrary.

Yes, but we’re not talking about the linguistic history of how words developed.
We’re talking about learning a language and the lack of consistent rules can make that quite difficult.

Bavarian

On that note, I also understand some Swabian, Franconian, and Austrian.

It’s just not comparable to having to memorize arbitrary gender for every noun in the language

Yes, instead of having to memorize one of up to three possible genders for every noun, you only have to memorize an infinity of arbitrary pronunciations for every word.
Much easier.

Doesn’t necessarily mean the Olympics were in their right.
More likely that the salami maker wanted to avoid / could not afford a legal battle.

Fuck Communism and fuck unchecked capitalism

Interesting how capitalism needs the qualifier ‘unchecked’ while apparently communism has only one possible form.