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FreudianSlippers posted:The current president of Iceland would be Doctor Professor Mister President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson in that German system. Well yes, but that's because it's OK to be informal with your cousins.
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BonHair posted:But what about the times when you'd use "Mr President"? That is something that exist in written German, but not in spoken German. So someone's office sign or letterhead might say "Prof. Dr. Dr. habil ...", but actually saying the full thing would get you very funny looks.
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You can get some gnarly titles, like Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Bernd Müller, but nowadays you'd usually just call him Bernd. Don't do that in Austria though. They really obsess over titles.
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I somehow just realized that, since I have a PhD, I can be addressed as "Herr Doktor" in Germany and that tickles me immensely.
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Pseudohog posted:Well yes, but that's because it's OK to be informal with your cousins. I'll have you know that our last common ancestor was Sigurður Sigurðsson (1759-1831) which means we're basically not really related.
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Very cool map from r/imaginarymaps
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a fatguy baldspot posted:Very cool map from r/imaginarymaps Imperialist Israel: gives slightly more recognition to Palestine than Actual Israel
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that's honestly the smallest Greater Israel map i've ever seen
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Sep 29, 2023 03:40
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That looks like what if Israel was the state of Virginia.
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evergreen map: I can't find the one that's Germany and starts in 1942 but put that one here too
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Not nearly enough bordergore.
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i say swears online posted:that's honestly the smallest Greater Israel map i've ever seen What are they going to do with all the Muslims and Chr - oh
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:evergreen map: Lol incredible What happened before 1973 that got you all this land you later "gave" to Egypt? Eh, don't worry about it. It says something about a "ceasefire"? I said don't worry about it.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I somehow just realized that, since I have a PhD, I can be addressed as "Herr Doktor" in Germany and that tickles me immensely. Sometimes I like to use "fil. yo." because it's technically correct even though thus far it's gotten a "what the gently caress does that mean?" every time. (Filosofian ylioppilas, i.e. someone who has enrolled to study humanities at university. Since I'd have to formally request to be removed from the rolls, I'm technically a student even though I dropped out a long time ago. If I tried to apply for unemployment benefits, for instance, I'd currently be denied as students aren't unemployed.)
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i say swears online posted:that's honestly the smallest Greater Israel map i've ever seen Just for some context, this map is from some inlay of a bible, detailing exaggerated borders of an already exaggerated and semi imaginary ancient United Kingdom of Israel (and judea). At the same time it also has these weird half circles inside the Israeli territory of other peoples (e.g. Adomites) and I have no idea what's going on with that.
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kiminewt posted:Just for some context, this map is from some inlay of a bible, detailing exaggerated borders of an already exaggerated and semi imaginary ancient United Kingdom of Israel (and judea). Weird to include Sinai in that, since that's very explicitly outside the promised land
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BonHair posted:Weird to include Sinai in that, since that's very explicitly outside the promised land The title is "Settlements/journies of the twelve tribes", so maybe it's trying to say that's where they generally spent time? I don't know, the quote they seem to base it on (top right) mentions the dead sea as an eastern border which doesn't fit the map either. Yet there's a big "Eretz Israel" over the whole white territory. I tried reading about it a bit but it pissed me off so I stopped. kiminewt fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:The current president of Iceland would be Doctor Professor Mister President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson in that German system. Not quite. In order of rank, it would be "Herr Professor Doktor Jóhannesson"
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a sister of one of my ancestors worked for Hr. Landsoverrets- samt Hof- og Stadsretsassessor A.C. Meyer in 1842 (kind of analogous to a US federal circuit court judge, I suppose)
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Not sure why Breezewood is under Virginia, but I love that it's not governed by anything actually around it.
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Personal Union under Canda.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
lol that DeSantis and SHuckS reign over states that buck the trend
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https://twitter.com/dailyturkic/status/1707296583342022730?s=46 There’s brass necks and then there’s this.
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The incredible shrinking Turkey: the extent it will go for peace
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Turkey finally acknowledges the Armenia genocide.
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The fleeing Russians really hosed the Belgrade rental market, my Serbian friends tell me
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My first thought was that I am fairly certain that Zürich is more expensive then Berlin. My second thought was "lol, they be cheating".
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The Anglo-American special relationship is real, lol
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steinrokkan posted:The Anglo-American special relationship is real, lol that's clearly southern iceland
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VictualSquid posted:My first thought was that I am fairly certain that Zürich is more expensive then Berlin. My second thought was "lol, they be cheating". Zurich is not the capital though (or did you mean that)
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Is Washington D.C. really that expensive? I thought that city had been suffering from urban blight for decades, with most middle-class professionals preferring to live in nearby suburbs instead. And I'm not saying that to throw shade at the US, at least half of Brussels is similarly afflicted, which is presumably why it's relatively cheap compared to neighboring countries
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Phlegmish posted:Is Washington D.C. really that expensive? I thought that city had been suffering from urban blight for decades, with most middle-class professionals preferring to live in nearby suburbs instead. D.C. is one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. and has been getting rapidly more expensive since the early 2000's. The urban blight period was in the 1980's and early 1990's. A former NFL player famously became worth a quarter of a billion dollars because he bought a bunch of D.C. real estate for nothing in the 80's and they are all worth 5+ million now. There was a period in the 80's where it was like Detroit in 2009 - people were selling property for $1 just to get the tax liability taken off their hands.
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Isn't the White House at the center of DC? That seems cheap.
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Phlegmish posted:Is Washington D.C. really that expensive? I thought that city had been suffering from urban blight for decades, with most middle-class professionals preferring to live in nearby suburbs instead.
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D.C. also has the American housing crisis on steroids because federal law prevents any residential building in D.C. from being more than 10 stories or taller than the Washington monument. So, the city is almost entirely very small apartment complexes or single family homes and there is nowhere to add more housing. If you look across the river, they have massive apartment complexes in Virginia just outside the border to take advantage of the huge demand for (slightly) cheaper housing for people who work in D.C.
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Byzantine posted:Isn't the White House at the center of DC? That seems cheap. Calculating the price per square meter of the White House using campaign funding as the price
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This is the skyline on the D.C. side of the Potomac where they have the height restrictions: This is the Arlington side that is separated by about 120 feet of river without them: 
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