People thought I was just a German more than once because of my fluency.
I was flustered when someone was pointing out who could speak what languages and our very gracious host, @ics said "Sie ist Taylor, sie spricht beides" (She's Taylor, she speaks both--as in both English and German ), I was really quite flustered.
I moved here with two suitcases and less than an A1 in German but a decent groundwork. Now just three years later and I am somewhere between a B2 and C1?!
I just picked up a German Translation of Dune. I struggle with it but I can read it, understand it and suck up vocabulary from it like a sponge.
At this point I've run out of reasons to explain . All my friends are German, my Girlishfriend is German, my boss speaks no English, I'm highly intelligent and highly educated. I'm stuck in a position of speak German or don't speak at all even if I speak mostly Denglisch at home. But even still these reasons fall short of my progress. I worked and I worked and I worked and for the first time the vast majority of my vacation I spoke German. I was understood in at least 4 states in several different dialects.
Now finally is my integration and humor and German catching up in ways that are conversational and mostly not too difficult. It's a huge relief. I've got a long way to go but so much behind me that I feel an extreme sense of relief and that fluency and full integration are a possibility for me. phew
India demonstrates academic growth globally.
The World University Rankings by Subject 2024, announced by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), places IIT-Delhi among the top 50 institutions globally in engineering and technology, with a rank of 45.
Can't say I subscribe to any great panic over this. Endless growth capitalism is destroying the planet. It'll be challenging coming up with another economic model, but we can do it.
"By the end of this century, the research predicts just six nations – half of which are in sub-Saharan Africa – will have a fertility level above the replacement rate."
Migration is not Australia’s biggest population problem - declining birth rates and rising death rates are
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This graphic (circulated by Bridget Doran on LinkedIn) neatly sums up the problem with the simple message that growth needs to be prioritised & measured via a nominal GDP measure.
In this sense it reflects a heckle reported by Anand Menon nearly a decade ago, during a lecture on GDP & the problems of growth:
'That’s your bloody GDP. Not ours'!
The simple truth that growth is unevenly distributed is often lost in policy discussions!
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The word "#Degrowth" seems to scare people so that they don't even stop to see what it's about -- AND it still leaves you in that framing of "growth at all costs".
We need to change the frame.
Think about children: they need to grow when they're little. Then, at some point, you want your child to stop growing: they grow UP. They need to start living according to a paradigm which is not all about growth.
Instead of the scary "degrowth", how about talking about growing up?
Did you know?
ALL of the climate models assume endless economic growth.
but what if we question that assumption?
"The results of the study suggest that fast #emissions reductions in countries like Australia could be enabled in scenarios characterized by reduced or zero #growth. Possibly even faster than in virtually all of the most ambitious mitigation scenarios described in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Scenario Database."
"Palestinians across the West Bank describe how Israeli settlers, with military backing, are intensifying their takeover of land for illegal construction."
"Despite their narrow focus, recent international sanctions against settlers are laying the foundations to turn verbal condemnations into tangible action."