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I’ve been playing Paradox games, so I’m probably going straight to the Hague and deserving it

Not necessarily. We’re looking at the second-most taught foreign language, so it could be something like:

• Dutch areas: Dutch as first language, French as most common foreign language, English second
• French areas: French as first language, English as most common foreign language, Dutch second
• German areas: German as first language, French as most common foreign language, Dutch second

This would result in the map above even though all three are different once you look at them. I have no idea if it’s actually true of course, just saying that it’s possible

The area shaded for English is the area where most people already speak Dutch as their first language anyway, so maybe that’s why it’s not counted as a “foreign” language there. Although I’d think that Åland wouldn’t be coloured for Swedish if that was being applied consistently

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This is awful. Good work.

That thing must be terrifying to drive

Joules actually are Newton-metres, in a sense. A joule is (genuinely) defined as the work done when a 1 Newton force displaces a mass by one metre. So as long as you’re willing to risk the Bureau international des poids et mesures assassinating you for your physics crimes, you can totally pretend that Newton-metres are for measuring energy and Nm/s is a reasonable way to measure power. While you’re at it, you should measure torque in Coulomb-volts for the same reason

The Fortwo never got anywhere near that much power, not even the Brabus versions. Toyota did make a one-off version of the similarly-sized Aygo called the Aygo Crazy which really did have 200hp and RWD though, so the idea did actually come into being at least once

I think you’ve tripped up with your numbers somewhere. Four million fishing vessels averaging 25m each gives you 100,000km, enough to circle the entire Earth twice over with plenty to spare

The Taiping Rebellion. Basically a Chinese guy claims to be the brother of Jesus and leads a pro-Christian rebellion against the Qing government that results in more deaths than the first world war

There’s a thin bit of Afghanistan separating Pakistan and Tajikistan, and it reaches all the way to the Chinese border. That tiny bit of border (which is closed on the Chinese side and also a mountain pass thousands of metres high, but it is indeed a border) has a three and a half hour difference

It looks like that entire area, which is the size of Albania, only has about fifty people living in it. They’re so far from everything else and there’s few enough of them that they can just agree to do their own thing

I appreciate the clarification! My German is awfully rusty

I don’t know if this is the case for Spanish, but it is worth noting that grammatical gender and human gender don’t always line up when they are both present either. Like German’s Mädchen, meaning “girl” or “young woman”, is not a feminine word. If that sort of thing is common it might help enby people feel a little more comfortable with it, or at least I imagine it might since I’m not one

Same ingredients but make it a quesadilla instead of a sandwich

Getting crucified made hammering nails in to wood a bit of an uncomfortable process for him, so he needed a change of career away from carpentry. Maybe the reason a Middle Eastern guy gets depicted as blonde so often is that he practiced bleaching his own hair

Well kbin’s thumbnail was, uhh, a little misleading. NSFW.

Looks like the author has just be ultra-strict about only showing countries with a Mediterranean coastline. Bosnia-Herzegovina does have a very small one, but Portugal doesn’t

Although it would be quite funny to then include the UK on the basis of Gibraltar

Assuming you’re referring to the IceCube neutrino observatory, yes (although I think it also does regular neutrinos, not just antineutrinos)

They do interact with other stuff a little bit. It’s very difficult to detect them because they hardly interact with anything, but it’s not absolutely nothing so it’s not impossible to detect them. This is well beyond my level of physics knowledge, but apparently one such interaction is a process called inverse beta decay. High-energy antineutrinos that crash in to protons produce a pair of particles that is much more easily detectable. A rule of physics called lepton conservation, which is about the fundamental building blocks of particles involved in a reaction not changing, makes this pair of detectable particles identifiable as being caused by an incoming antineutrino.