I was circumcised at 40 for medical reasons, due to phimosis. That was a blessing after several years of issues with having normal intercourse and having little operations done that were ultimately ineffective.

Anyway, it’s definitely different and I am much less sensitive. I definitely prefer being uncircumcised, just not, you know, with phimosis.

Maybe we should have, but it was raining and also all parties agreed on it, so who would we turn to?

In Denmark a state pension forbids you from working, yes. You have to pay back the pension for every hour worked.

Well, I hope you find a model that works. Though, with the benefits of having a job also being social and having a purpose, I think I’d prefer having the elderly stay on the job market is some respect on reduced hours and so on.

It’s not a weird flex, but I don’t know how you’re going to balance your budgets with that early a retirement age. Or maybe you don’t have the same challenges with the large generations retiring now that we do?

In Denmark, my pension age is 70. It seems wild that the French are rioting over a rise from 62 to 64…?

I don’t know man, for me ‘burger’ also refers to the shape. Fry up a lovely mushroom or whatever and add it instead of the meat and I would call it a burger still.

Language is the only truly democratic system we have, despite the best efforts of e.g. Academie Française the language develops as the speakers want it to, on average.

This legislation seems symbolic at best, and like a nonstarter at worst. And I dobt think it makes anyone’s life better…

In Danish it’s definitely a shape, so… Which underlines the fact that this sort of legislation is pretty ridiculous in a multilingual society like the EU.

Please also remember, as per Saussure, that for the language user only the present exists. Etymologies are curious facts at best and doesn’t necessarily mean anything for current usage.

Last I checked it included ‘sausage’ too, but that’s a shape??

https://www.brugt-bazar.dk/

As the admin, thanks for using it and spreading the word 🙂 if anyone feels like setting up a local instance let me know, I will point a subdomain (like aarhus.brugt-bazar.dk) your way and federate 😁

The answer to that is no, we’re not currently able to do that. They’re not commercially available drones, and drones are hard to track.

Can you think of ANYONE ELSE with anything to gain from this besides Russia?

It does, it just depends on how it’s coded. Like, take word order. If you have a case system with nominative, accusative, etc. your word order can be pretty free, you can move objects to the front of the sentence like ‘food-ACC eat I-NOM’.

Remove the case system and it’s simpler to encode the words, but word order becomes much more fixed.

All languages are equally complex, in theory at least, but where the complexity lies is different.

I sometimes feel like all the negative experiences people post about rude waiters in e.g. Paris is down to this, just a cultural difference in what we expect.

I feel uncomfortable every time a waiter comes by my table and I am not about to order or ask for the check.

Denmark… I don’t think we have a lot of serious national problems. Our main problem seems to be climate change, a global issue, and our allies in the US having lost their marbles.

According to my 6 year old that’s a definite yes!

Denmark has absolutely done many awful things in Greenland, and I am the first to argue for actual equality and reparations for transgressions.

But they are not, politically, a colony at all. And reducing the question to be about a currency unit (which is pegged to the euro btw), is simplistic and disrespectful to everyone involved.

Don’t be like that.

I mean, it’s not. Greenland has self-rule and parliamentary representation, and a generous bag of cash for running an arctic society delivered every year.

What they don’t get a lot of is respect, which is unfortunate.