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  • I never claimed that the license couldn't be renewed nor that it wouldn't be running fine.
    The license period had a pre-determined END and it's LIFEtime has not been extended.
    Surely the very existence of a time limit to the license must mean that the option to not renew it after a certain time has been anticipated when the license was originally issued.

    And for all that it does not matter, whether that was the correct decision or not, whether other plants had their licenses renewed orwhether these other plants are operating just fine.

  • closing the nuclear power plants to open coal plants

    Coal power has been steadily decreasing and is at the lowest level in 60 years.
    There is enough stupidity to criticize in politics without having to make up new issues.

  • hochgelobte Experiment Großstadt

    Großstädte gibt es seit tausenden von Jahren. Das ist weder ein Experiment noch ist es grundlegend gescheitert.
    Das Problem ist, dass die Kosten für Wohnraum is den letzten Jahrzehnten wesentlich stärker angestiegen sind als das verfügbare Einkommen.

  • im MDR erklärte der ehemalige Fraktionschef und inzwischen außenpolitische Sprecher der Bundestagsfraktion, Gregor Gysi, zum Giftanschlag auf Nawalny:
    "Es kann ja auch sein, dass es ein Gegner der Erdgasleitung nach Deutschland war. Oder ein beauftragter Gegner, der wusste: Wenn man einen solchen Mord inszeniert, der dann der Regierung in die Schuhe geschoben wird, führt das zur Verschlechterung der Beziehungen."

    https://politik.watson.de/deutschland/meinung/135709990-warum-der-fall-nawalny-zeigt-dass-die-linke-nicht-regierungsfaehig-ist

    Auf einer Wahlkampf-Veranstaltung seiner Partei am gestrigen Donnerstag in Bochum sagte Gysi wörtlich:
    „Der Putin muss doch bescheuert sein, wenn er sowas macht. Er weiß doch, dass das die Beziehungen zum Westen noch mehr verschlechtert.“

    https://www.ruhrbarone.de/gregor-gysi-verdaechtigt-nord-stream2-gegner-des-nawalny-giftanschlags/189721/

    I understand being cautious and not pre-judging before all the facts are known but what Gysi said back then went beyond that to actively dismissing the idea that it might have been Russia after all.

  • tell me the last time a regular person had platinum-iridium ingot

    What, you don't?

    But yeah, I agree, units are made up. I mean, why is the boiling point at 100C and not any other number? Someone made it up.
    I'm just saying the argument "0F is really cold" is just as true as -10F is really cold or +10F is really cold.

  • The problem of English is not so much colloquialisms or slang.
    It's a history of being conquered over and over and mixing the various languages together, throwing in a major vowel shift and then some scholars decided to further change the spelling of some words, just because.

    Let me just say, I'm not necessarily blaming anyone for the mess that is English.
    I merely point out that there is often no clearly recognizable correlation between spelling and pronunciation, which can easily trip up non-native speakers (ant often natives too).

  • Yes that may be the reason why that difference exists.

    The usefulness of that tip is limited when encountering new words for the first time though.
    If I don't know unanimous, chances are I don't know if animous exists either.

    Edit: Also there is understand, which starts with un- although there is no 'derstand'.

  • Is there a difference between 19, 20, and 21 Celsius?

    First off, nobody claimed that Celsius is based on human perception so humans not being able to differentiate between these is simply irrelevant to the argument.
    Second, the bounds of 0 and 100 are based on the freezing temp of water which are specific, non-arbitrary temperatures.

    I'm not arguing one system over the other, I just think the "human scale" argument has been made up just to have an argument.

  • “human scale” is dismissed as even existing by the Celsius users

    Celsius user here.
    I find "I'm more used to it, therefore it makes more intuitive sense to me" is a perfectly understandable argument.

    The problem with the human scale argument is that it makes it sound completely arbitrary.
    To a human there is no objective difference between -1F, 0F or +1F. They are all about the same degree of "cold".

  • Reading a new English word as a foreigner is super frustrating because you never know how to pronounce that.

    Yes sure unanimous is not 'un-animous', it's 'you-nanimous'. Makes total sense.
    Don't even get me started on the dozen different ways to pronounce 'ough'.