“Venedig” in German, even though they literally use (almost) the same sound for z as Italian …

It wouldn’t really make sense to use different names than the current locals, though.

OK. German has an H (same as English, which makes it weird that it’s written with a P in the first place) and isn’t shy about spelling reforms, either.

I say we should go the Belarus route.

Austrians are just as able as BRD Germans to pronounce something like Milano, though.

Florenz, but yeah

Take it up with your ancestors (or the English, if you have no English ancestors yourself). They started calling the Dutch “Dutch” when people in what is today The Netherlands and Germany were both called deutsch/dutch, and the English didn’t care to adjust when the distinction started to matter/people from the Netherlands stopped calling themselves deutsch/dutch.

But Germans are not much better, it’s absurd that Italian city names that aren’t at all hard to pronounce for Germans have different names in German, e.g. Torino, Milano, Roma (Turin, Mailand, Rom), and we also call Japan “Japan”, even though Japanese is one of the few languages that uses a word for Germany that is derived from “Deutschland” and “Nippon” isn’t hard to pronounce for Germans, either.

Also, the saxons never lived in the area of the German federal state of Saxony.

Abbreviations aren’t just used to make a word quicker to say or write, but also to obfuscate.

People get emotionally attached to subcultures for much less (though that usually means that they’ll join that subculture, if that’s possible). Sounds to me like it would only really be an issue if the subculture in question was something like criminal biker gangs or neo-nazis.

He also saluted one of NK’s generals, which was a breach of protocol and overall rather uncharacteristic of him.

I mean, Trump barely even bothered to justify what they did in Venezuela. It’s pretty much completely naked imperialism.

The “they have nukes and are going to leverage them against us in some way” thing sounds more like the 2003-era justifications where they actually put some effort into it.

And what does “leverage against us” mean? If it just means that they use it to defy my country’s imperial ambitions, what I should do about that is to go fuck myself. But of course, someone who would actually go fuck themselves would never become their country’s president.

They already gave up years ago …

Yeah, gotta select your allies carefully. The US was kinda always a shitty ally, considering their conduct in south america after WW2 - the leap from fucking with Argentina (itself a white-dominated colonial state) to fucking with Canada isn’t that big.

That said, China considers NK to be in their sphere of influence and you don’t fuck with China. If anything, NK needs nukes to protect itself from China.

Or just have a close ally who has nukes. China definitely wouldn’t let it fly if SK or USA tried to conquer NK.

That isn’t really any better than the other link, it’s pretty hard to be vitamin-deficient enough to e.g. develop scurvy even if you eat only junkfood (AFAIK even french fries contain some amount of vitamin C, and most burgers have raw lettuce and tomato). Early Sailors ate literally nothing but bread (hard tack), cured meat and perhaps fish for months at a time.

OP didn’t ask about only eating skittles and multivitamins, they asked about replacing “traditional carb sources” with skittles and multivitamins. Meat, eggs or hard cheese are not “traditional carb sources” by any definition.

Would you still be eating vegetables? Eating no fiber whatsoever would probably do you in. If you’re still eating sufficient amounts of vegetables, you might not need supplements at all.

And definitely do law carb if all your carbs are sugar …

Influencer sponsorships are still not the same thing as random online ads, though. I totally get how sponsorships work, what I have trouble believing is that showing random ads before YouTube videos or in the middle of some news article works.

Professions that have a high pay cealing do have a different relationship to capital than miners, nurses etc., but most athletes and musicians still aren’t millionaires - a lot of professional athletes and musicians actually earn less than median wage. It just feels like a waste of effort to complain about a celebrity who owns tens of millions, when the core issue is the people who own hundreds and thousands of millions.

OP is also only comparing top earners. For every athlete who earns millions, there’s probably hundreds of athletes who make around median income or less - it’s the kind of career where people will keep doing it even if it pays barely enough to pay the bills. There are a lot of doctors who make more than the poorer professional athletes, and doctors don’t age out.