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I'm also conflicted on that one, and to further compound yours, I can give you the destruction of the Egyptian museum of Berlin in ww2 as an example of a case where stuff would better have been left in the country of origin, or even in the sand.

I would in principle agree with you, however not about English, mainly because it is now a language of international discourse of any kind, and it thus no longer belongs to the local speakers.

It now has a role Latin had until just a few centuries ago, and extrapolating a bit into the future from that example, will remain quite stable while your dialect, American, Australian, Indian, Jamaican, will change until it becomes another language entirely, no longer mutually intelligible with the other dialects.

If you want to participate in the international dialog however, you will have to learn International, which is now English including the differentiation of the theiy'res, even if your native language is English. Your grand-grandchildren may have to learn English like an Italian in 1800 had to learn Latin if he wanted to join the international discourse.

It's super interesting to watch this process unfold right now!

That's actually one of the best ways to learn a language short of full immersion, we call it a tandem!

Mach eine brühige Suppe, also z.B. aus Fond, Karotte, Sellerie, Pilzen und Asianudeln wie Soba, nimm eine Kelle ab, lös von Deinem Miso darin auf, kipp es in die nicht mehr kochende Suppe zurück.

Misosuppe.

Allergies. Very popular fabric softeners contain one perfume that makes me asthmatic, every year someone in the office has watched a fabric softener commercial and thinks they are a good idea.

They are not.

Fix the stupid little things first.

Do you have a friend? Ask them if they would stick around for a few while you fix a bunch of stupid little problems you can't find the motivation to do by yourself. You'll need them only for structure, or maybe the occasional stimulus "OK, now write that email", not to do any of it.

Most people can relate. Ask them directly, don't beat around the bush.

IMO "Icelandic met office" provides these warnings. Windy with a chance of pyroclasts.

https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/volcanic-unrest-grindavik

Germany, born early seventies. Background, there was a strong "never again" sentiment after WW2 and to that end we were educated about the horrors of war from an early age. WW2 and the Third Reich was discussed in school and also very present in living memories of grandparents and their friends.

It was made very clear to us where the first nukes would drop (Germany) and who would drop them (Germans). Flexible response was explained to us, the Nato strategy of using nukes first, as well as MAD. We were given estimated times from sirens blaring to explosion. We visited a bunker, and we were imagining nuclear hellscapes and asking ourselves if one should even try to enter a bunker to try to survive. Pershing II were discussed and MIRV, which were new technologies at the time.

Sonic booms from military jets were common, we would respond to that with "Russians are coming". Not fear, but fatalism was the usual response, and a large number of young men would reject draft and opt for civilian service, wanting to do something productive during service instead of training to get pulverized in the first wave.

Then came Gorbatschow, and Reagan would still pursue his star wars programme, which left us scratching our heads.

Geheimer Spezialisten-Hinweis: Mangos aus der Dose nehmen.

Around 1000 km per second. Mph, come on.

Edit: says so right in tfa, I'll take the come on back

Edit 2: the escape velocity of the milky way is said to be 550 km per second. The orbital velocity of the sun around the milky way is 230 km per second.

Thanks, I was using thermonuclear wrong.

Japan got struck twice with thermonuclear bombs in world war 2, in 2 cities named Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Look it up. They are very much against nuclear arms in general since then.