Boss makes a dollar, …

True, sometimes we focus too much on the big things and forget to appreciate the small things in life. Thanks for reminding us to be humble

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Germany apologized for oppressing white people. We never apologized for the colonialism and the genocide of the Herero and Nama and barely talk about Slavic or Roma victims of the Holocaust. It’s white Jews we talk about, people not considered white back then but now.

A while back? The screenshot says “3 days ago”. At least keep your story straight

I’m neither a Brit nor a calendologist but I think it’s somewhere at the end of June or a few days later, not sure. Hope that helps

You don’t think it has something to do with the energy consumption?

Self censorship gone too far

You named your dog Antifa?

A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense, and usually including non-plants lumped into the same culinary category, such as edible mushrooms and seaweed.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vegetable

usually herbaceous plant (such as the cabbage, bean, or potato) grown for an edible part that is usually eaten as part of a meal

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vegetable

it may include savoury fruits such as tomatoes and squash, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as pulses, but exclude foods derived from some plants that are fruits, flowers, nuts, and cereal grains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable

I have never used dictionary.com but it’s so full of adds that it’s hard for me to take it seriously

Fruit also has a cultural (culinary) definition

Yes, that’s why I broad up the German translation where there are different terms for the technical (Frucht) and cultural (Obst) definition

vegetable also has a technical definition (probably more than one)

Can you elaborate? In which context(s) is the technical one applied and what exactly is it?

Who uses such a broad and meaningless definition? Are nuts also vegetables? What about rice, pasta, buckwheat? Herbs? What about plants that are edible but we don’t eat at all like many flowers? You can’t just use the first ad hoc definition you come up with as absolute proof.

It describes any edible plant

I think you meant to say “any edible part of the plant”. Pretty sure the poisonous fruits of potatoes aren’t vegetables.

It even refers to fruits other than tomatoes, e.g. peppers, squash, okra, corn, peas…

I already gave a few examples, you found even more. Yes, there is overlap as I said.

all fruits, some even berries

Berries in the botanical sense I guess. That does mean that all fruits are vegetables. This is like sending a photo gallery of red houses and saying “see, all houses are red”

If we wanted, right now, we could ALL just decide to start naming another subclass of vegetables, let’s say roots are now called beebles

Why even make a new word up? They are called roots. And quite a number of roots are vegetables. But would you eat the root of an apple tree or of wheat? There are vegetables that are fruits and vegetables that are roots and vegetables that are leaves. Sometimes we even eat the stem or the flower. Still there are many we don’t consume like leaves of tomatoes or roots of cucumber. Still others we consume in a different way. You Most people wouldn’t consider nuts as vegetables just because other seeds are (like some of your “fruit” examples). Same with tea leaves. There are leaves that are vegetables but that doesn’t make rooibos a vegetable. Same with herbs. Botanically not very different but used in a different way. The fact that zucchini is a fruit that happens to be a vegetable doesn’t mean all fruits are. That’s a logical error of categories I think.

No, they aren’t. Fruit describes a part of a plant, vegetable is defined in a cultural way and by the way they are consumed. So there is an overlap (including tomatos, zucchini, pumpkin, …) but most fruits aren’t vegetables. When we say “fruit”, we think of those fruits that are sweet and eaten raw or in cake or marmalade, …

German has two words that can be translated into fruit: Frucht is the part of the plant and Obst is a social category of fruits that are sweet and you would expect in a fruit salad. So tomato is Frucht but not Obst.

“I apologize, I mean, I’m sorry for your loss”

Bavaria, Hessen, Niedersachsen and Hamburg

So Hel is a place on earth, who would have guessed

I don’t believe that voting will save the world but neither will this comment, still I wrote it and still I vote.

Never open up. Never trust anyone. Why do you make it about gender?