Does Nestlé sells bottled water? I only ever see local/regional bottled water.

The problem is the basic idea, what an insurance is.

In the anglophone world, insurance companies developed from brokers who offered bets on whatever you wanted to insure.

In my country, many insurance companies develeoped out of historical mutual aid societies – everybody contributes to the insurance’s fond, and get’s the (reas/in)surance to receive help when needed. That’s especially true for all kind of social insurance or fire insurance companies.

US health insurance seems to be of the betting kind and no mutual aid society. That’s a problem with deep roots.

Well, English prefers genitive constructions, and rarely compounds more than two words, so native English speakers have trouble to parse words like Kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamhedencomitéleden, Speciallægepraksisplanlægningsstabiliseringsperiode or Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, despite compounding being a core feature of Germanic languages, not only German. English just cought a severe case of French back in 1066…-

Most “tenses” in English are not about tense, but about aspects like perfective, progressive, intentive or stative.

In German we use modal particles and auxillary words to express aspects and modality. The “classic” tenses we learn at school are an artificial grammar modelled after latin, not the grammar we use in everyday life. The grammar of actual spoken German is far richer than the school grammar.

Especially modality is a nemesis for German learners, as most languages to not implement modality. Modal particles are these tiny words like aber, auch, bloß, denn, dann, noch, doch, eben, eigentlich, etwa, halt, ja, mal, nur, schon, vielleicht, wohl, and more, that are strewn around almost every sentence

Just try to translate ich mach’ das aber|auch|doch|eben|halt|ja|mal|nur noch|schon|dann wohl into English or explain the difference in meaning.

You’re welcome.

Is Hungary a federation?

Standard procedure for stillborn babies all over the world, at least until the 2000s.

You are aware that disposing of stillborn infants as biologic waste has been the standard procedure until at least the 2000s in all hospitals, anc probably still is in the majority of hospitals world wide? This has nothing to do with religion.

The article said till 1961. Concerning neonatal and infant care, the 1960s was the time when infant mortality started to drop. The article stated that the infant mortality in these homes was double the avarage infant mortality. If you take into account that the babies were separated from their mothers after birth, this is a pretty good result. If the infants had been neglected, you’d exspect a much higher mortality rate.

Regarding disposing of dead babies in septic tanks – that depends. Stillborn babies were not considered human remains until very recently, and disposed of as biological waste all over the world.

The motivation was to protect women, who became pregnant outside of marriage, from becoming outcasts, and giving their children a chance of survival.

A woman who became pregnant outside of marriage in these times had three choices:

• illegal abortion, with a high risk of death, infertility and imprisonment
• giving birth and face a life as social outcast for herself and her child
• “repent”, go to a nunnery, give birth there, give up the child who would be raised in an orphanage, and return to society. As a bonus they often got some education in these “homes for fallen maidens”, at least in my country.

By the way – a 15 % infant mortality rate sounds terrible to us moderners, but according to the article this was only double the normal infant mortality! This is a very good survival rate for new borns and infants who lost their mothers — this was the age before baby formula diet and antibiotics. We should honour these nuns for saving 85 % of the children rather than bashing them for only having the knowledge and tools of their age.

Would be nice if true!

Of course you are technically correct. There are more giantic cars in the US than in Europe.

Nonetheless the avarage European car gets bigger every year – that’s the point of the original post – and they are already too big for our cities.

Well – this might be more succesful in boostering the IT skills of France’s next generation than any curriculum reform.

While you are correct, in a rape case, there are no traditional witnesses. (Unless there are). There are perpetrators and victims, and defendants and plaintiffs. And a plaintiff’s word has not the same quality as a real witness’s word, either.

I doubt that’s worth anything – how do you prove the consenting via app was not coerced?

No problem – they’ll be substituted with Ukrainian drones.

I’d wager extending work hours decreases productivity. There are lots of reasons why this will happen, let alone the demotivating loss of leisure time.

My browser eats timestamps, til. And yes, that is impressive.

Thanks, I’ll listen into it.

This is far worse than being not a reliable source of info. Ms Chen had all the info she needed, and Claude falsified it.

Hm. I wasn’t able to listen to all 9:53:57, but in the samples I watched I heard a voice resembling the classical computer voice of Science Fiction movies of the 70s. Better than most YouTube AI generated audio content, but good enough to narrate audio books? Well, we’ll accustom to anything, I guess.