because “production” already means something else and there already is the very good word “multiplication” for it; “summation” doesn’t mean anything else common

My country is Austria, not Germany. Pretty sure my description is true for ÖBB PV vs WESTbahn.

Why not both?

In my country we have both state-run and privately-run trains for example. The state-run ones are mostly not profitable, they are funded by taxes. But on a few profitable routes there is a private competitor, taking it is usually cheaper but somewhat less comfortable.

Buses (and other public transport) being run by private companies is in no way a new idea, the only reason why it’s not very widely done is that it is no longer profitable on most routes. I fail to see anything inherently bad in this, it will reduce the number of cars on the road.

Many probably are, I don’t know about “most”. There are plenty of people who just don’t know proper typography without that having this kind of explanation.

In principle account deletions, post/comment deletions and edits to posts/comments should all get federated… but ultimately the federated model means that there’s no guarantee all instances that have copies will receive that or act on it. The fediverse doesn’t forget as easily as centralized platforms do.

Technically “he rains”

There have been a few explanations of “dummy pronoun” already. What’s going on is that English doesn’t allow sentences without a subject, so an “it” needs to be added even though it doesn’t refer to anything. In other languages, especially pro-drop ones, you can say just “is raining” or “is cold”, ungrammatical in English (also eg German, French).

Idk but if you’re just looking for the repo I think this is it: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

I think most people don’t snore most of the time actually. I’ve observed different people sleep several times in my life and the vast majority mostly didn’t snore.

I’m from eastern Austria and I’ve had people from other German-speaking regions think I’m Swiss or completely non-native because of my accent when speaking German.

Though most major browsers use Chrome’s rendering engine now except for Firefox and its derivatives.

Apple’s browsers don’t either. They share a common ancestor, but they’re now different rendering engines.

It’s true that docx (also other Office Open XML and OpenDocument file types) is a zip file containing the files that make up the document, but those files have little in common with HTML, they are their own XML schemas.

By definition if it is “banned” then no one gets to eat it, not even the rich.

What might cause that scenario is if meat is very expensive. This was the case for much of human history anyway.

LMAO, no

Not an April Fools joke, this was reported in media I read too in the last few days, ie not on April 1, eg https://www.nau.ch/news/europa/billig-airline-soll-bald-stehplatze-anbieten-66994378

My first language is German and this was one of the first lessons we ever got in English: how to form questions and that you need to use the verb “do” to do that.

And then we later had to learn the exceptions like “be” and “can” because “do you be stupid?” and “do you can swim?” are definitely not valid English.

The technical term you’re looking for is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-support

English is somewhat weird in how to form questions and negations, most other languages don’t do this kind of thing.

not as a full sentence, certainly as a subclause: “can you tell me what it means?”

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