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- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 1 week ago:
Germany.
8 patients per room is really the upper legal limit (as anything more is considered intolerable) and exceedingly rare but having at least one other patient in the same room is the default. Even if single rooms are available, hospitals prefer to put you into rooms with other people as they offer single patient rooms for ~120€/day and dual patient rooms for ~70€/day.
When I was in the hospital for a pretty severe gastrointestinal infection as a child, I had one bed neighbor with a severe cough which I obviously caught after the stay. It wasn’t as severe but pretty annoying nonetheless.
TVs generally exist for free but usually only one per room so you’ll have to negotiate with your roommates. WiFi, if existant, definitely costs money and will have early 2000’s speed.
In general, hospital stays have roughly the same standard as in the 70’s or 80’s as there hasn’t been noteworthy investment ever since. Anything considered a luxury and unnecessary for treatment will likely not be provided for free.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 1 week ago:
Solitude? Damn, are your hospitals made out of gold as well?
If you’re unlucky over here you get up to 7 other patiens in the same, unventilated room. Including patients who have air-transmittable infections because why not?
Air conditioning doesn’t exist in hospitals either by the way. That’s a luxury hospitals aren’t obligated to (and as such never) provide. Enjoy dehydrating in 30°C+ rooms.
I’d much rather just stay in solitude in my home for a week.
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 1 week ago:
How about 31415?
- Comment on Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi 1 week ago:
Over here in Germany encryption is most definitely illegal. This includes encoded messages only the intended recipient could decode.
- Comment on No rational person would do this... 1 week ago:
Try to find it - you won’t succeed.
Therefore it doesn’t exist.
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- Comment on You got it, buddy 1 week ago:
To be fair, the atom names are literally just German. Except sunstuff, that’s Helium in German too. Not too difficult to parse imo but I may be biased.
But it’s not like I want all French influence be gone. Rather, for common things it feels… artificial(?) to use some fancy Latin word when it just refers to something so basic it shouldn’t have a Latin word outside of scientific contexts to begin with.
It’s like a science fiction novel where the author insists on naming the Earth Terra, the Moon Luna and the Sun Sol. It feels needlessly artificial and somewhat clinical.
- Comment on Math 1 week ago:
Is that James Grime from Numberphile?
- Comment on You got it, buddy 1 week ago:
Wasn’t English’s French influence mostly over by this point? The Norman conquest added a bunch of French vocabulary but by the 1700’s, England was a stable colonial power.
And for very frequently used terms - like anatomical terms - the English root remained mostly intact and loanwords weren’t used. Arm, nose, shoulder, knee, elbow etc. are not French in origin.
I suspect it could be remnant of nobility separating itself from the common people. By only ever referring to anything with its Latin term, you can distinguish the wealthy, highly-educated from the poorer, lesser-educated people. After all, if you spoke Latin and/or Greek those terms make a lot of intuitive sense.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 1 week ago:
This doesn’t apply to most other fields though.
In physics, only the abbreviations are (mostly) the same internationally. But the full terms are always translated into languages, despite being equally as technical.
In math, no terms are international - only the specification of formulas is standardized.
Music is the exception but their field belonged to elitist pricks for most of history tbf.
Art (painting) uses translated terms everywhere from what I can tell. There are no translated terms for paints, canvas type, style, periods etc.
History certainly doesn’t use international terms either. Medieval, stone age, bronze age, modern age etc. are all translated into each language.
Amd frankly, I don’t see why anatomy has to use international terms whatsoever while other fields can use translated terms without any issue.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 1 week ago:
Partially. In German, the term eye doctor has first been recorded in 1401 (ougenarzt) (according to Wikipedia).
The 1700’s made enormous medical progress - but it’s not like people prior to that had no need for specialized doctors. For example, according to etymonline the term “dentist” was first used in 1759. You can’t tell me dentists didn’t exist for many centuries prior to that and didn’t have an “English-derived”, self-explanatory term. I mean, I never knew “dent” was Latin for tooth until reading the etymology just now.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 1 week ago:
Optometrists/opticians aren’t doctors over here though. They belong to the trades. This field doesn’t exist in Germany the same way it does in the US/Britain:
Optometric tasks are performed by ophthalmologists and professionally trained and certified opticians.
Eye doctors does actually refer to ophthalmologist though, I picked the “wrong” translation which ignores the differing legal frameworks. Looking back, I certainly went to the full blown ophthalmologist just for optometric purposes.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have an issue with using scientific names in scientific contexts if you intend to publish something international researchers should be able to parse. But just like maths, there is no problem in just… translating names? Imagine if you had to phrase sentences like: “The numerus realis make up a copia infinita.” You’d have to translate Latin every time new studens would be taught because most mathematical terms convey a decent amount of information.
What I do have an issue with is using these terms anywhere outside of international contexts.
A doctor should not tell their patient they have a “humerus” fracture. In German they would take about the upper arm bone.
Or imagine if a doctor told you there is an infection in your digitus pedis. Fortunately English didn’t replace the term “toes” with its scientific one… YET.
Hell, I could even apply this to doctor names in English which require a dictionary for anyone trying to parse them. I had to look up half of them by the way.
Children’s Doctor <> Pediatrician
Women’s Doctor <> Gynecologist
Tooth Doctor <> Dentist (the least bad in my opinion - at least it’s short)
Eye Doctor <> Optometrist
Neck-Nose-Ear Doctor <> Otorhinolaryngologist (wtf???)
Skin Doctor <> Dermatologist
Like, surely there must have been (native) English terms for those doctors in the past. It’s not like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700’s. You can’t tell me a 15th century English peasent used Latin/Greek derived names for common specialized doctors.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.
But for some reason everyone decided to only use Latin and Greek derived words.
Like seriously. Nearly every time I look at Wikipedia for anything, English articles only ever use scientific terms hardly anyone one will find useful.
Example:
Wolf’s entire biological taxonomical tree from species to order. Both the translated German Wikipedia title and the English one:
Species: Wolf <> Wolf
Genus: Wolf- and Jackal-like <> Canis
Tribe: True Dogs <> Canini
Family: Dogs <> Canidae
Suborder: Doglike <> Caniformia
Order: Predatory animal <> Carnivora
Ask someone what “Caniformia” is and most would probably think you’re talking about some region on the US West Coast. Ask someone what “Doglike” refers to and most would probably guess reasonably correct.
- Comment on No rational person would do this... 2 weeks ago:
Pi doesn’t contain a 10^9999999999^ long string of (uninterrupted) 1s.
You can verify it.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 weeks ago:
USB-C requires a lot of space for charging, data transfer etc.
Let’s remove it too and make phones rely on wireless charging instead.
- Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 2 weeks ago:
Not in wildfires though which you have a shitton as well.
- Comment on Oh to go back... 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, any realistic hacking scene would be extremely boring to watch.
It would be like watching someone solve a jigsaw puzzle. Except there is no light so you just hear them click a piece in place occasionally.
- Comment on AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic 2 weeks ago:
AI literally produces better answers than 99% of ad supported, SEOptimized websites.
That’s saying not a lot about AI though. It tells you how utterly awful searching the web is thanks to those sites.
- Comment on Brand awareness 3 weeks ago:
How? Nowadays GIMP is predominantly used for the software and all the top results reflect that.
Hell, GIMP is only used for the software in non-English speaking countries.
- Comment on Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever. 3 weeks ago:
The store will be liable for any and all damages to life and property which incurs from selling faulty products though.
There’s significantly more risk when purchasing directly from a Chinese supplier. It’s borderline impossible to hold a foreign company with no actual presence in your country accountable for damages.
- Comment on Missing Matter in Universe Found 3 weeks ago:
That’s cool. But come on, the headline should have been the obvious “Shining a light on dark matter”!
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 3 weeks ago:
which can also be gotten literally anywhere other than work
Can it? For absolutely everyone, regardless of (mental) health? No one benefits from being monetarily pressured to interact with people even if the interaction is only surface level?
- Comment on TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont 5 weeks ago:
Nearly every single restaurant had food delivery services prior to Uber/Doordash’s existence. Many still have.
I mean, there’s a reason pizza delivery scooters have been a thing since the 1980’s.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 5 weeks ago:
Depends on the country tbf. Countries (besides the US) generally have labor rights which make working conditions not great but certainly acceptable. Hell, I’d argue the conditions a business needs to meet to fire workers are actually fairly decent over here.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 5 weeks ago:
They aren’t but it doesn’t make notice periods any less important in contracts - for everyone involved. It’s a win-win situation to have these clauses because they guarantee a minimum of stability.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Keep in mind in Germany this only applies to children making 100,000€ per year or more with impoverished parents provided the parents did not abuse the children. If you can prove you were abused and it would be an undue hardship to provide support then you can be exempted.
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 1 month ago:
Have you ever used the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation ToolKit America Online Instant Messenger?
- Comment on Vince always at it 1 month ago:
Why does the flag have two Pinkmen but only one White?
- Comment on Speak American 1 month ago:
I use Denmark English for sane date formatting.
Though I don’t know why that locale exists.
- Comment on What a knobhead 1 month ago:
ssself
