Your American mum bringing a leash over and using it on you somewhere in Europe 51 years ago hardly makes me wrong on all fronts.

Great way to dismantle NATO, I guess.

Also, this has nothing to do with security like was the message some days ago. The US has almost free access to Greenland as it is. This if a mineral grab.

I don't really think mastodon needs those 5% to produce content to entertain and advertise a userbase of 95% lurkers. For me it's definitely a bonus that they're not there - I don't need influencer-shit in my feed.

If that kind of content creator and passive user goes to Bluesky that's fine. If they went to mastodon we'd just see calls for an algorithm, which would be directly against what I want in the platform.

I just wonder if it's true. It's certainly true for many indo-european languages, but I wonder if there's been a typological study with a representative sample of languages done for it. I'm not sure I buy it being a language univeral.

Thanks. I don't mind reading manuals at all, but is this not a community for asking questions?

Well, I just rebooted and it's still there, which is what is confusing me :) But thanks!

So I should unmount it in other ways too?

I really hope Denmark does the same

Can we have lower interest rates too?

Well, yes. But not for Indo-European languages which is... mostly a historical artifact. But we're still sticking to teaching traditional grammar using traditional terminology, which is super frustrating. Imagine if you kept teaching maths in a manner which you knew was fundamentally wrong, but it was just too much work to reeducate all maths teachers.

The thing about grammatical gender is that it doesn't really have much to do with sex or gender identity. In German, for instance, 'mädchen' (girl) is neuter. Gender in French is 98% assigned based on the pronunciation of the three final syllables. In Danish, living things tend to be 'common gender' and inanimate objects tend to be 'neuter'.

It'd be more accurate to call it 'noun classes' than gender.

Within Danish law, yes. This is a so-called 'sympathy conflict' which is legal. The Danish model for the work market is that conflicts are legal until a signed agreement exists with a union.

When a signed agreement (overenskomst) exists, strikes are not legal until it is time to renegotiate the agreement, which happens every 4 years.

This system was put in place in 1899 following a four month lockout of more than half the Danish unionized workforce. In the end, the workers won the right to unionize, and the employers won the right to lead and distribute work under the terms on the specific agreement made with the unions.

As a result, Denmark does not have state mandated minimum wages or really much state meddling in the work market. It's all self organising to a degree.

Edit: Here's a bit in English about the September Compromise in 1899

I mean, by all accounts Ukraine has a huge issue with corruption. But it's hardly the fault of the president, although it is of course part of his job (and platform) to force this to change.