Having a diverse origin of inhabitants is a plus for many places. It makes them more interesting, gives more opportunities to practise language skills, etc.

I live near Manchester now and it’s great for that, although I do recognise the opposite exists, too! (I live in Bolton which has huge, not-particularly-integrated minority populations). By contrast, when I go to visit my parents in another part of England, it’s all just beige boring people that haven’t ever left this corner of the world

As a pretty multilingual person, just being multilingual isn’t enough. You need qualifications/experience in something else. Especially if your first language is English - companies don’t care to hire you over the non-native whose English is ‘good enough’ (because, to be fair, it often is.

edit: happy to be proven wrong - if you need an English/German/Spanish/Italian speaker and you pay better than the Civil Service - drop me a line 😉

In capitalist America, president gropes you!

Not technically the Onion I suppose, but it is the German equivalent.

English ‘against’ is much less flexible in this context than German ‘gegen’. A jet being ‘against’ Russia implies the jet holds a negative opinion of Russia. (c.f. English ‘what can we do about ____?’ vs. German ‘was kann man für/gegen ____ tun?’)

Good grief. I went into this thinking ‘wash delicates’ was some kind of Australian idiom, perhaps related to the people whose jobs are under threat shitting themselves. That university is wild for suggesting this.

this is a region switcher, rather than a language switcher (the website may of course be conflating the two, though)

There’s also very little land stopping the wind around the Southern Ocean, so the cool temperatures in the Tierra del Fuego might not be your only issue!

I’m not an expert but I think it’s because of the shapes of the continents and oceans and their effect on ocean currents.

The Arctic Ocean is effectively a northern extension of the Atlantic, with relatively little water exchange with the Pacific. So, currents flow primarily north-south, allowing warm water to be exchanged.

By contrast, the Southern Ocean is not hemmed in by land, and so there’s nothing stopping currents flowing longitudinally rather than latitudinally - which is exactly what happens. Cold water is exchanged for other cold water, at least on the surface, keeping the ocean and surrounding areas cooler.

(Please correct me if I’m wrong!)

Dass man eine Straße nicht überall und jederzeit nicht überqueren darf, habe ich nie verstanden. Insbesondere weil manche Ampeln soooo langsam wechseln.

Wir kommen hier in GB ganz gut auf die andere Seite der Straße, auch ohne zu prüfen, ob liebe kleine Süße in der Nähe sind. 😂 (Eines der einzigen Dinge, die wir nicht völlig falsch machen)

Turkey seems like a pretty bad ally recently - Finland and Sweden being delayed joining because of their Kurd genocide obsession comes to mind

I read the title as ‘North Korea fires ICBM at US’ and opened the article and couldn’t find it? I was like damn, lead with that for Christ’s sake!