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it is, yeah. I've heard this idea but if you dig a bit more, you'll find that it's a universally agreed upon principle, i think, that it is unfair if we both steal a car and you get three days in jail whereas i get three years, so yeah, everyone does this afaik, though to different degrees. the law...

Had a great trip to the Netherlands this past week. Got to see a friend in Ghent (Belgium) on the way, then spent a nice five nights sightseeing, eating stroopwafels, and also meeting up with some various former coworkers. Also, it looks like I'll be going to Portugal for work in about a month, so t...

sick visa. the language looks like icelandic and hungarian had a baby Thank you. Though Ilian (the language of the passport) is more the Hungarian–Estonian lovechild, while indeed the Germanic language on the visa (Mis/Mislandic) is a mix between Icelandic and other assorted Germanic languages. (Yo...

Surely it depe"nds on what food we buy. Fresh produce seems to be unreasonably dear in the US. Are there reduced aisles where items are reduced to half price or even 10c when the expiry date is coming up? You get that more in the UK than in France from my experience. It's not very common, at l...

Played around with a few things. https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/368fae4f-fdc7-4cbb-b7a4-709ac40d3198/dlvd4ow-c47e66c7-216d-4203-891d-8fb3c43e7aa9.png/v1/fill/w_1024,h_727/passport_playtime__april_2026_by_requindesang_dlvd4ow-fullview.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIU...

We had a few days of snow flurries the last week of March here in the Grand Duchy, but I also remember getting snow in southeastern Germany on 1 April about four years ago (and we had 21ºC weather to start that week!). There was quite a bit more snow here in Luxembourg this year, though, but the bul...

we got a light snow over lunch break here in northeastern Wyoming. it didn't stick, (probably because it was 10°C / 50°F,) but it nonetheless came as quite a shock after the past week of 25°C / 80°F. We got snow on Thursday here in Luxembourg, though the temperatures haven't been as warm (more ~16-...

And German orthography is simpler than that of Dutch. Fo sahtm no! Holandes raying mana u isi pas Jahman, sef dem batm twin-"n". Definitely not! Dutch ortography is easier than German's, except for the dreaded between-"n". ik leef we/wij lev en ik heb ge leef d And German orthog...

someone seriously ought to book you a vacation to a Hawai'ian resort or something. I would jokingly ask if I could go on the Hawai'ian vacation as well; I haven't been there in over three decades*. *I was born in Hawai'i, but my family left when I was two, so I remember pretty much nothing of it.

Other one that I just thought of, but because I hear it pronounced a very... "particular" way quite often: how do you pronounce determine ? (And this is especially for non-native speakers.) I pronounce it [dɪˈtʰɝmɪn], incidentally. My usual pronunciation of determine is equivalent to your...

No, never heard of them. It was the eyes. Messenger_creation_750D29EC-65A0-4AF0-AC66-1F67C509D376.jpeg [reaches into the screen to pet the kitty] Happy for today: I picked up my Luxembourgish ID card and passport. Really is sinking in, and it feels quite nice. (I can also put my passports away and ...

How do y'all pronounce colonel? I've always pronounced it /ˈkɚnəl/, but I've heard several people pronounce it as it's spelled, and it got me wondering which is correct. It's always [ˈkʰɝnəl̪] for me, which incidentally also rhymes with kernel , but I grew up in a military environment, so it's a wo...

How do y'all pronounce colonel? I've always pronounced it /ˈkɚnəl/, but I've heard several people pronounce it as it's spelled, and it got me wondering which is correct. It's always [ˈkʰɝnəl̪] for me, which incidentally also rhymes with kernel , but I grew up in a military environment, so it's a wo...

I've been looking at the Section 122 of Trade Act of 1974 and I don't see how it makes the new 15% tariffs lawful. The authorisation depends on there being a balance-of-payments problem, but it also talks of balance-of-trade problems, as though they were indeed different things. As far as I underst...

Many times, when those citizenship criteria are widened, you still have to take an active step to claim or "activate" the citizenship, so Obama's case is more likely that he could claim Kenyan citizenship if he wished and not that it was granted outright. I couldn't wring that interpretat...

@lëtzeshark: I guess someone could argue that the laws providing for giving up US citizenship are unconstitutional. The 14th Amendment clearly says "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State...

Did I say across-the-board 10% tariffs? Turns out they're 15%, which is the maximum allowed under the Trade Act. "Fun". like one bill I saw proposed to outright ban double citizenship (this question was litigated long ago: Afroyim v. Rusk , Vance v. Terrazas ...). So if some other country ...

The "Liberation Day" tariffs were just declared invalid in Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc. , though the response was just to impose an across-the-board 10% tariff under a different provision (the Trade Act of 1974). Tariffs under the Trade Act, though, are time-limited (150 days), so whet...

It's true: also in the Nether Regions , Are these metaphorical, or purely geographical? These indeed are the geographical kind , not metaphorical or anatomical. (Minor Freudian slip, just like how a mispronunciation/misreading of the name of the city I used to live in could be a bit unfortunate.)

(Also, apparently in the German-speaking "Herr Professor" is a much higher position than being a "professor" in much of the English-speaking world, where here in the US commonly people will refer to any old faculty as a "professor".) It's true: also in the Nether Regio...