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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Arabic, Arabian would refer to the geographic region of the Arabian peninsula. The dialects are on a spectrum, neighboring countries might understand each other reasonably well, but not countries further apart. Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian share a lot of features, same goes for gulf countries, Egyptian is pretty distinct but well known outside the country due to its output of movies, music and tv series, Algerian and Tunisian are pretty similar, Moroccan's kind of its own thing, Maghrebi dialects also include a lot of vocabulary from Berber languages, which won't be understood in other regions. Finally, in most countries, local dialects are not taught in school but rather Fusha, or modern standard Arabic, which is the language you'll hear on the news or read in the papers, and is common to the entire Arabic-speaking world. People don't speak it day to day but usually understand it well and can communicate in a mix of that and their dialects if they're speaking to someone from another Arabic-speaking country.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Came here with the same question

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

TIL it's the Latin word for jester

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't say it's surprisingly easy. It's possible, but it comes with substantial costs. Paris is throwing a ton of money at some of the solutions you've mentioned and the results are meager at best. Hopefully they'll improve as time goes on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Give it a few years and a few more heat waves, all the people living in old buildings which are too expensive to insulate will be getting ac. There's no getting around the basic need for fresh air, no matter old habits and environmental costs. I'm sticking to ice packs and cold showers for now, don't know for how much longer though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

As far as Paris is concerned, we're actually extremely ill-prepared for high heats. Parisians have the highest risk of heat-related death in Europe. Hardware stores are packed with AC units every summer now because people are forced to start using them. Luckily we've had terrible weather so far this summer, fingers crossed it stays that way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

CNews, qui a été la première chaîne d’info de France le mois dernier pour la première fois

Eeeeeeeeh bah...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair the supposed point of the snap elections is to make the far right seem impotent by forcing them into a divided government (which is already a terrifying "strategy": just give them the keys to the building and hope for the best?) They're just refusing to play that game. The fact that the president is playing around with the country's future like this is a fucking unconscionable disgrace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thankfully they only last 10 minutes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, you must always throw the other half away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You've got the right idea though, PCR is usually necessary before electrophoresis in order to amplify the sample being tested so that it will give a legible result.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I think probably all people dismiss what is obvious to them as not needing to be said, and for good reason: why overburden a conversation with obvious truths. Though given that we're all just apes with a superiority complex, we're probably entirely wrong about what's obvious or true 🙈

 

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