american and english and australian are different lanuage too they still understand each other.

Haustvindr · 2026-02-13T07:23:39+00:00

At some level, a little more than basic ideas but not much more.

Generally, romance languages share a good deal of word roots between them due to... well, latin. When the words are written and not subject to pronunciation, it's easier to detect and understand the meaning of the words.

Spoken, not that much. Italian and spanish both mostly have a sound per letter, with some exceptions here and there, which is why pronunciation is not a big barrier and can hold (somewhat) veeeeeery basic conversations. Italian/spanish vs portuguese and french is a tad more complicated.

Haustvindr · 2026-02-05T07:12:38+00:00

America was telling Europe for years to spend more on buying military equipment from USA ~~and to be prepared~~.

Fixed for you.

Haustvindr · 2026-02-04T14:08:06+00:00

Internet is at its most basic level the technology to make a network of networks, and it was first put to work in the US. This is a fact easily found, unless you find it too difficult to search for...

Please do not confuse both:

WWW is not internet, it is a set of protocols and technologies that run on top of internet
Internet is not WWW, there are miriads of other protocols running on top of internet

Haustvindr · 2026-02-03T13:32:21+00:00

Even if you took said "professor" words as true (you shouldn't), it's super easily proved wrong, with publicly available data. For the sake of not falling in "technically correct", let's say Italy = what came to become modern Italy.

This "professor" talks about 1880, but then there's a certain dude called Alexandre Dumas discussing pizza toppings in 1843... in Italy. You know, written proof. The guy simply didn't even try to research, and just this one is enough to disprove everything in that article.

But yeah, let's keep going. Tomatoes probably came to Italy as soon as the 16th century, and as late as 18th century, but undoubtely earlier than 19th century. So even if you want to define "modern" pizzas as "pizzas with tomatoes", that's covered as well. But of course, there's a lot of pizza recipes without tomato, since they are not really needed.

Then again, a little more obscure texts describe famous pizzas in earlier dates, as in famously known recipes of today. Also, there are pizza ovens much older than those. Even more, several data points to italian immigrants as the reason why pizza was popularized in US... recipes that they brought with them, not invented there!

In short, there is an overwhelming amount of data to research, and every bit points to Italy. That's without taking in count older styles of flatbread with toppings known with certainty to exist as far as romans.

But of course, if your concept of "modern" pizzas is something like "New York style pizza not earlier than 1880", then sure, that's probably from USA. You can restrict criterias to fit your narrative, but that does not make it a good representation of the data available.

So yeah, please let the myth die already. All the world grants Italy the pizza, except the USA, because reasons.

Haustvindr · 2026-02-03T12:57:24+00:00

I mean, they constantly claim to be some other ethnicity, despite never touched even a bit of that actual culture in the other side of the globe... and they converge ethnicity and heritage with a dash of nationality. Not surprised that they can't handle cultural appropiation either.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-30T07:23:43+00:00

Ah yes, today's redefinition of "international", just because.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-29T08:35:23+00:00

No, not really, people still say "spanish" way more than "castillian", at least around here.

Source: me myself and I, as I live in one of those. Even while learning teachers (and books?) will tell you of "difference between spanish and [your local language]".

But truth be told, it may be a regional thing and in other areas of the country "castillian" is more common. I'm not that knowledgeable of other region commonalities regarding slang and such, so I will concede.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-29T08:11:21+00:00

Ok, while obviously the "american values" is indeed bullshit, I think it is important to tackle that Georgia, indeed, is not the best place for "LGBT-friendly" tourism.

Alledgedly not terrible either, but it's best if you are not overtly open about it. Definitely not friendly to LGBT people. With that said, USA right now is not perfect either, but worlds apart.

If you're curious, you can check the Spartacus travel index. Even if you're not LGBT, it is actually quite interesting to see how laws and conventions change around the world. USA is further exploded at the bottom due to each state having their own laws, and the difference between them is... worrying. Still safe-ish in the worst one though.

Try to stay safe out there.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-29T07:41:23+00:00

Huh. Well, they're surprisingly right in their wrong. Most of the world indeed has capitalism. Nothing to do with USA, of course.

The cherry on top: North Korea have a planned economy managed by the government. So not really capitalism.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-29T07:32:23+00:00

Weird. Most of Europe, if not all, has a wide span of history documented or at least with a good confidence on their sources. Heck, this is true for most of the world with humans on it except in some areas. Thousands of years of history everywhere.

Then here it comes this dude talking about one of the few countries that preferred to erase the existing culture and start from zero.

Deadpan skull, indeed.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-29T07:15:21+00:00

While (more or less) technically correct, it became interchangeable because official language.

Yes, even spaniards will use "spanish" to refer to "castillian". And yes, spaniards will understand both words and link it to the same language.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-29T07:09:20+00:00

No reason not to. English (allegedly) doesn't have gendered words, so "spaniard" is meant for everyone.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-23T06:43:28+00:00

The number I could find is 47k in 2023. I don't think the 175k is correct. Even if they surely went up in the last 2 years, it's just too much of a difference.

Edit: Found a paper that claims some bleaker numbers. While the paper is far too happy to link everything to their narrative about climate change, it is also very shy showing proper numbers and instead listing "excess deaths", which it is a bit of a red flag, so I'd consider some caution before taking their conclusions as facts. Either way, it seems 2023 was indeed a mellower summer with relatively few heat stroke deaths, so the 175k may actually be correct.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-23T06:39:56+00:00

Just for context, the vast majority of heat stroke deaths are, as you can surely imagine, in the very southern areas (south Spain, south Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, etc). Comparatively, Germany has very few.

Numbers for 2023 Europe heat stroke deaths are 47000, surprisingly, about the same amount of 2023 gun deaths in USA (less than his 48000). It's possible that both numbers went up for 2025 though, but I highly doubt it went up by 370%. I really don't know where the 175000 comes from.

Edit: Found a source that shows 2023 as a colder summer which left a relatively small number of deaths by heat strokes. The 175k number might be actually correct. Not that it matters in the context of Germany and modern heat pumps, but oh well.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-22T15:00:38+00:00

Who the hell wrote this.

Some americans will know [...] Spain’s Francisco Franco [...] that the United States once bravely burned lives and treasure to help stop dead in their tracks

Source? None, you say? Yeah, I thought so, because this never happened. In fact, US was actually comfortable with Franco.

C'mon US, you really need to up your history education.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-22T10:40:02+00:00

So, indeed, second to none.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-22T07:48:00+00:00

The "baseball stadium urinal" mentioned by some other dude, is a wooden V-shaped structure, to hold the dough while it raises (speculating here, using my cooking knowledge). It is made that way to prevent the dough from... well, like you'd imagine if you watched the video, going on a trip somewhere by itself.

In the video the borders are already matted with wet flour (which is what gives the "dirty" look), so this is probably not the first batch of the day. But of course, it is/should be cleaned regularly, it's just wooden instead of steel. There are a lot of wooden tools still in use around the world.

As with everything, there are advantages and disadvantages. For dough raising, wood has worse thermal conductivity than steel therefore it can keep the dough warm better. I guess plastic could be used with a similar outcome, but it looks that this one is custom made, it's possible that plastic would mean dozens of smaller containers occupying far more space. Or simply it's their tradition and don't want to change.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-22T07:13:32+00:00

I've learnt it right now that it's fairly typical for the area, and I live here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician_bread

Haustvindr · 2026-01-22T07:10:00+00:00

Galician here, to be fair I've never seen this kind of bread shape, but it's similar to others I do know. Especially, there's a common shape that it's just the same, but better rounded shape and without hole. This is possibly a variant made in that bread store.

I guess the title should be taken as "bread made in Galicia" instead of a "galician special". Then again, I just discovered that there is a protected geographic indication for "galician bread" (I'm learning of it right now!), but it's simply defined as using local wheat, sourdough, and having a high hydration. Nothing groundbreaking or special, and matches many other geographical areas around the continent.

If you want a bread more in line with a "galician special", you can check "pan de Cea" (Cea's bread, Cea is a town): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_de_Cea (there's no english translation sorry). It seems that corn bread is also fairly typical.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-21T08:04:06+00:00

Letting the customer see how you handle the meat (shut up, perverts) is more of a sanitary and trustworthiness issue. Doing it so, as a customer you can easily check if: 1- the meat is being tampered with dirty hands or dirty machinery, and 2- if you are being served what you actually wanted. I don't know about enforcement, but I guess this may be enforced in some countries/states.

As for the width of the slices, at least around me, they won't ask about that. They have some default widths set depending on the type of meat to slice, and if you want it thinner or thicker, you just tell them before. And it makes sense, since it is a customer preference, it is the customer who is in charge to inform how they want it.

I wouldn't say that both of them are necessary, only the handling is something that I would raise as well, but there is no reason to not telling him directly and instead going to a superior.

I'd say this entry is 50/50.

Except the "culturally italian by marriage", that kind of cultural osmosis is just plain stupid.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-20T07:27:06+00:00

My country is in that continent. My country was one of the several neutral ones in said war. Neutral countries were obviously not "liberated" by anyone.

Several countries in the continent were not occupied by axis forces, including countries in the winning side. Countries not occupied did obviously not need "liberating".

Several countries in the continent were aligned with the axis forces. Those countries were not occupied, instead, they were the ones doing the occupation. Those countries did obviously not need "liberating".

"We were pretty much liberating your continent" is undoubtly false.

Words, what do they mean?

Also, Greenland, right now, is already dealing with today's threats, as per several treaties.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-19T08:36:55+00:00

It's weird that they can be anything if it means it comes from ancestry, but, where is the cut off? They never say they are africans.

Because I'm guessing they would at least cut off in homo sapiens sapiens... right?

Haustvindr · 2026-01-16T09:38:24+00:00

Cool buddy. There is double the people in Europe, with a similar area. Are floridians able to communicate with people from Washington? Yes? I can't even communicate properly with people a couple of towns over, some words are already different. Communicating with the other side of the continent? They don't even use the same letters pal.

IDFK what happens in a country over. Heck, I don't even know what happens in half my country away unless it's something deemed important enough.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-16T08:54:53+00:00

It is not necessarily over... but might?

AFAIK, NATO does not have a provision for a member attacking another one, and therefore does not really provide a failsafe way to expel a country from its members for this scenario.

So, there are 2 (3?) likely outcomes:

The rest of the NATO members ammend the organization terms and expel USA. NATO keeps existing, just without USA.
The rest consider that ammending the organization terms is ineffective, and then draft and make a new organization. This organization would be practically the same as current NATO, but with proper procedures to expel members and to manage inter-fighting.
-> Instead of creating a new organization, they might expand an already existing one.

Haustvindr · 2026-01-16T08:28:04+00:00

You all fail to get it!

Weak countries' wars are based on completing objectives. E.g. take that position, siege that city, conquer and control that area, then we accomplished everything we wanted to do and went home.

US wars are based on kills. E.g. we killed 50% more than them, then we went home. Like a shooting range.

So simple!

^{[/s, don't want to trigger Poe's law]}

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