Literally, “water man” is correct. But I would translate it a bit more loosely as “water bearer”.

Most, if not all, names of zodiac signs in Dutchare are literal translations from Latin. But while most people understand that Leo means Lion, how many know Cancer is Latin for crab?

No worries. I was hesitant to post both comments, knowing they might be misinterpreted.

Oh, absolutely. Was hoping for a “I am all Hamas on this blessed day”.

For the ones not in the know:

Speak for yourself

Yes, but why would you listen to what Hamas has to say?!?!

We’re younger than the US though.

By not voting, you are still, implicitly, voting for the candidate who you wouldn’t have voted for. Do you think he’s not supporting Israel?

Do you think he even has any moral standing?

That’s who you’re voting for by not voting.

You just want to absolve yourself of that moral responsibility.

That’s exactly what you are doing. You’re focusing on this one issue, retreating yourself from the binary decision because neither options stands for what you (or I, or morality) would prefer. Completely ignoring that withdrawing from the choice plays into the hand of the infinitely worse candidate. So by not choosing, you do nothing to stop the situation in Gaza, but might actually make things a lot worse for people all over.

You can virtue signal that you did not compromise on your believes, while actually helping your country make a worse place.

Would this not be considered as “providing comfort to insurrectionists”, as described in the 14th amendment. Even just promising pardoning them.

So even if they argue he supposedly wasn’t involved in it, it would still disqualify him from office.

Do you see a subway on that picture?

You can’t have failing infrastructure if you don’t have infrastructure 👨🏾‍⚕️

When the call is coming from inside the (white) house…

(Edit: to be clear, back in 2020)

I’ve been thinking we should play on xenophobe’s fears to get them to support actions to curb climate change.

At least their bigotry will have some positive result then.

Of course, ideally, they could be convinced that not “all brown people are bad” (sic) and also support climate change action, but we all now how likely that is.

Is this Grok output?

bc they haven’t had as terrible of a racist past as the US

You do know the Holocaust happened in Europe right?

Other than that, I do agree with you. Europe is still very racist but we like to think we’re not. Just because it’s less talked about, doesn’t mean it’s not there.

It’s an easy rule, yes. It’s also an easy one to overlook if you’re not paying attention.

“Word je blij?”, but also “wordt je moeder blij?”.

It’s not like people don’t understand the rule. No native Dutch speaker would say “Loopt jij?”

I think the main errors happen with “voltooide deelwoorden” (past participle). Then you need mnemonic devices like “'t kofschip” to know whether it’s t or d (or determine it using what you would say in the past time of the verb). It doesn’t help that e.g., “gebeurt” and “gebeurd” both are correct depending on the tense used.

Also the fact that the t drops when the verb is inversed in the 2nd person singular present tense, and not e.g., past tense (“Je wordt” but “Word je”) is a weird rule.

It’s not thát complicated and if you pay attention, you should be able to get it all right. That’s why I think such mistakes are more a sign of carelessness and not of stupidity.

Imagine being brainwashed bombarded on a daily basis with messages of how leftist will take over your country and how Trump will save them

So basically Anno 2307?

I haven’t played Anno 2205, but what your describing seems a bit further in time than that game. The start of colonization of the Moon vs settling/trading with the full solar system.

Exactly. In Europe for example, you see the stylized “e” symbol on packaging very often. It means that a negligible amount are below the advertised volume/weight.

So if the package says 600ml, they might have to set the machine to 610ml to ensure they satisfy this condition.

No, it proves me right. People are still willing to pay for the service despite the price hike. So it must mean that people think this non-essential service, for which there are alternatives, is worth the money.

Unfortunately, this is users allowing for this kind of behaviour.

The original comment was that voting with your wallet doesn’t work. I’m saying that it’s a problem with enough people voting with their wallet. If you are the only person that cares about something and stop buying from a particular company, they will not even notice it.

On the other hand, look what happened when bud light had this thing with a trans influencer and conservatives got ridiculously upset with this, as they do. ABInbev is still feeling the effects of that.