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The tool measures distance with vocabulary. Afrikaans may be closer in vocabulary but pronounced very differently (since there’s way less cross talking since it’s so isolated), which would make it harder to understand to a Dutch speaker?

Yes. This is often true. But Flemish and Dutch are far far closer in linguistic distance than dutch and german.

And they are completely mutually intelligeble. Unlike Dutch and German, (which I prefer to call hochdeutsch, since german is a nationalist contruct that erases many other languages spoken by peoples living in Germany-Switzerland-Austria.)

Like here we get a distance between Flemish and Dutch of 5.6, that’s the lowest I’ve ever seen with this tool.

While 13.5 with Dutch and German.

Compare that to French and Occitan, Occitan is a Romance language in southern France, which got erased and often claimed it’s just “part of french”. The distance between them is 20.

Edit: Playing round a bit more with the tool, Your point is proven. The distance between Dutch and Afrikaans is lower. Only 2. Yet that’s considered different languages.

Suprised no ones attacked you for calling Flemish Dutch ahhaha.

(They lowkey are the same language but many people in Flanders hate it being called dutch ahhaha)

Oh totally, wasnt saying they were the same. was just adding an interesting thing to the discussion.

It’s like Catholic Church vs Protestant Church. 😭

Although it’s technically not lice, this is called swimmer’s lice in many languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimmer’s_itch?wprov=sfti1

Or you know, abolish capitalism.

Totalitarist capitalism is not my cuppa tea, but suit yourself ;)

Probably lucky he didn’t get disappeared. Actually he lowkey did, but they released him after.

In any case, fuck Billionaires (but also fuck totalitarian governments like the CCP).

Ah, me a pillar of my insanity.

It really sucks. And like every second post is an add. Urgh

Try nextdns (ie. Addblock at the DNS level). It won’t work for facebook. But works for most apps.

Probably not a good idea, since measles tends to increase risk of something going wrong in the immune system thus triggering autoimmune diseases.

We have drugs that do similar things to measles in the specific sense of wiping out “immune memory” but often in a more targeted, more controlled, and less “random” manner than measles. Like Rituximab or Daratumab that deplete memory B-cells in different ways. They are effective for some subsets of autimmune diseases.

For example Rituximab is the gold standard treatment for Rhematoid Arthritis (RA).