Not sure what you mean by IA but they e.g. completely razed Warsaw.

My suggestion: stop defending war criminals based your feeling and some hearsay.

Where did I defend war criminals? What part of me saying “Of course it’s a genocide” did give you that impression?

You said that trucks are more damaging, right?

…to roads. It’s a metaphor, if you stretch it too far of course it’s going to break. Side note though bikers mostly kill themselves, not others.

All of that is things that German states have. Not sure what federal agency you’re in contact with but it certainly isn’t the Ausländeramt that’s state-level.

Of course it’s genocide. And yes the Nazis did all those things. And the Nazis did a whole fucking lot more than that. That’s the issue, here: By Nazi standards Israelis are amateurs. What they’re doing is more in line with what Turks did to Armenians.

Spains regions lack of their own police, tax collection (the German federal level doesn’t even have a tax office), only partial cultural autonomy. Also the powers they have are only devolved, they’re not guaranteed those rights.

German states are fully formed states in themselves, they have their own sovereignty, delegating the exercise of parts of it to the federal level just as EU member states delegate sovereignty to the EU. “Fully formed state” here meaning that they do not rely on the federal level for their administration, in fact living in Germany you generally don’t come into contact with federal bureaucracy at all, it’s all state or municipal level (district level is technically state level, they’re devolved public bodies).

I’ll grant you that among unitary states Spain is quite federal, but it’s not “more federal than federal countries”.

Well it is an anti-tourist thing in the sense that regulations on AirBnBs and the like are meant to close the “hotel license” loophole. Touristy places generally don’t mind new short-term accommodation and give out licenses like candy, likewise small places with relaxed property markets, non-touristy places are much more restrictive because they don’t want to tank their economy.

For grandma in a village renting out some rooms to visitors getting delisted will result in her going to the municipality, asking for a license, getting one, and putting the listing up again. For an investor buying up apartments in big cities to illegally use as a hotel because renting long-term has lower ROI, well, they won’t get a hotel license, their listings are going to stay down. If you want to build only hotels and have no long-term accommodation may I suggest building a theme park somewhere.

Under Article 80, the GDPR foresees that non-profit organizations can take action or represent users.

Emphasis mine. Just in case anyone is still denying that Euro-English is a thing. It provides for it, which implies it anticipats it, so if we get rid of unnecessary Romance it foresees it. Plans for, as Wikipedia puts it, but not only the French etymology (prevoir) works, there’s also German vorhersehen/vorsehen which collapse when you calque them into English. Gives Brits all kinds of headaches, they were writing lots of huffy memos before Brexit.

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I think there’s some „reasonable” keyword in the right to be forgotten.

The original case was a Spanish cook being haunted by the first google result for his name being an article in a local newspaper about his restaurant going bankrupt decades ago. No scandal or such, just an ordinary bankruptcy, but he could demonstrate that it was impacting his current business.

He sued, and google had to remove the thing. Not when you search for his name and bankruptcy, not when you search for “what happened to that restaurant”, and the newspaper itself also didn’t have to do anything. As far as I know you can still find the article.

If you’re a journalist writing the guy’s biography, you’ll find it, push come to shove in some offline archive. But random people won’t see him nailed to a virtual pillory, that’s what all this is about.

I don’t think it’s really an issue for AI, but it has to be engineered in. Ultimately it’s about judging relevancy.

Of course it’s ok, that’s a proper comparison, you’re actually going into details. You can say that they’re both meant for transport, but one for goods, the other for single passengers. There’s plenty of differences such as weight, speed, also, amount of road tax they have to pay: Trucks are much heavier, they chew up roads much much faster, so they pay more.

Comparing them, we see that they share some things in common, but are far from the same thing. If we were to pretend that they are the same, if we were equating them, we couldn’t apply lower road taxes to motorbikes than to trucks, we would, indeed, be trivialising the damage trucks do to roads. We would be willingly blinding ourselves to the damage trucks inflict far in excess of motorbikes, we would be sticking our heads in the sand.

Dude the issue in Barcelona is that AirBNBs take up housing that’s supposed to be occupied by supercomputer researchers. The city also already has plenty of Hotels. Licensed ones.

If more tourists want to come than there are hotel rooms tough luck why should Barcelona tank its economy for them. Barcelona is a city, not a theme park. The reason it’s beautiful is not because it was built to attract tourists, but because it’s an economical powerhouse run and lived in by people who value things like architecture and urban planning.

Take your tourism dollars and spend them in Extremadura, Barcelona won’t mind. Great food there, nature, small places, little industry, Roman architecture, they can actually use that money.

Both Motorbikes and trucks are vehicles but motorbikes are not trucks.

The song in question, it would’ve been glorious.

Hmmm, ja, ich sehe. Germanistik auf Lehramt studiert. Welche Gefühle kommen da bei Ihnen auf wenn ich das sage?

Kommt von das Platt her das hat wie auch Englisch Nominativ, Genitiv, und Objektiv.

Der Bauer sein Nachbar gibt den Schmied den Hammer.

They talk a good game about eliminating child labor, but always seem to look the other way in their supply chain.

Maybe in the past, but they actually lobbied against the EU diluting the supply chain act which makes companies responsible for human rights abuses of their suppliers.

My best guess it’s that it’s a combination of being sick and tired of being sued and not having due diligence documentation at the ready to defend themselves not just in state courts but also the court of public opinion, as well as the realisation that human rights abuses don’t make cocoa any cheaper for them: It’s not like slave plantations would cut them a share of the extra profit, they’re still paying word market prices. So for them it’s a way to get rid of grift and corruption within their own supply chain and they don’t want to be the only ones playing along those rules.

It definitely isn’t caused by Nestle suddenly growing a conscience, it’s just that making money, for a change, in this specific case, actually aligns with corporate responsibility.

“Variety” doesn’t imply status as a dialect or as a language; it’s neutral in this regard, that’s why I used it.

I believe and forgive you.

The reason why I bristled is because there’s a political dimension to the classification: The reason we have that generational gap in native proficiency is because the language was actively combatted, sidelined, and bemeaned by academia, “Low Saxon is an obstacle to education”. Parents were made to believe that for their kids to have success, they needed to chide the grandparents for speaking it while the kids were around. In that effort, it was quite popular to class it as a dialect which goes contrary to the experience of speakers, flies in the face of more than a millennium of literary history, status as Lingua Franca, and much more. So for me, being neutral doesn’t cut it: It diminishes the hard-won spark of self-esteem that’s necessary to revitalise the language.

Also it’s important to distinguish proper Low Saxon from Missingsch, the contact variety to Standard German. (Contemporary) Missigsch indeed is a dialect of Standard German, you can go full-tilt on its non-Standard features and Bavarians will still understand you.

So genau hab ich mir das nicht überlegt, wollte nur mal ein langes Wort schreiben. Gibt mehrere Möglichkeiten.

Z.B. gegenüber von dem Ding eine runtergeklappte Arbeitsplatte die man hochklappen kann und mit dem abgebildeten Ding dann verriegeln. Kann man sicherlich auch in filigranerer Ausführung bauen aber dann würde es nicht 500 Jahre halten.

Here’s the ZDF documentary, German only, German subtitles available.

Here’s an interview with the makers, also German but as it’s on youtube you might have some success with auto-translated subtitles.

variety

Language! High German may have an army but we have the fleet.

More seriously if you class Low Saxon as a non-standard variety of Standard German and then have a look at the family tree you’d have, for the sake of consistency, call English a German variety. Sure they’re all West Germanic languages but we need taxa for the taxonomy god: Low Saxon is more closely related to the Anglo-Frisian languages than to the Allemannic/Bavarian line, which is where Standard German stems from.