An uncalled-for "correction" - in the 9th century Russians and Ukrainians would probably write and pronounce it the same (Кыѥвъ).
(Can we even speak of Russians and Ukrainians at that time?)
How can a website be trendy if nobody could use it until now?
Well I've seen a few in passing. They just look like any other AI "art"/porn.
Icelanders just can't catch a break :(
Do people actually enjoy seeing those pictures? I can sort of understand generating them for shock value, but finding them erotic or pleasing??
All Russian citizens who moved to Crimea after 2014 should be expelled
That's not quite the same as your claim regarding those who were originally Ukrainian citizens and who would supposedly be forced out. You're contradicting yourself or disregarding your own statement.
And if you have a Russian passport you will be forced out.
Says who exactly?
He reads ancient Roman poetry, that's where he got this quote from.
No one asked the Chinese natives originally there if they wanted to separate from China.
Ok, but has anyone asked them anything now?
But what do the residents of Alaska have to say? Are they doing fine? Would they be doing better if they were back under US?
conservatives are literally, physiologically hypersensitive to fear
I don't have a background in psychology either, but the prefix hyper- in medical contexts usually means something is abnormally and dangerously excessive in size, amount, etc. Yet from your quote there's no reason to conclude the on-average increased amydagla is necessarily abnormally increased. It isn't, it's just bigger, it's not automatically pathological.
As a native speaker of a language with grammatical gender (Croatian; I've also learned Russian and a bit of German)...
In Slavic languages it serves as an additional syntactic "connector" between words. Masculine nouns are accompanied by masculine forms of adjectives, feminine by feminine, etc. (Other than adjectives, this also applies to pronouns, some numbers and verbs.) This isn't necessary for successful communication, but it can somewhat reduce ambiguity and, along with other trickier parts of grammar such as cases, allows for quite a bit of freedom in how a sentence can be organised. English can be limited in that regard, with its stricter rules on word order, although its lack of grammatical gender is not the most significant factor.
It's more of a name, true. There are prototypical words and situations where grammatical gender really is the same as biological sex (e.g. when referring to specific real people - just as you'd call a woman 'she' in English, so do you have to use feminine adjectives when referring to her), and that relationship is, for the sake of simplicity, projected onto the entirety of nouns in the language.
In Slavic languages, it's really simple because the noun endings usually correspond to gender. There are exceptions and, so to say, "subsystems" within the general system, and there can be changes in how that system works, but the point is that it's based on a set of rules that speakers do know intuitively.
German doesn't have such a clear system of genders that is visible within each word (the endings usually don't tell you anything useful; if the noun ends on 'e' it's relatively likely it's feminine, but that's about it, as far as I know). Yet, interestingly enough, there was an experiment where native Germans were provided with made-up words, and were asked to determine their gender. The majority of people agreed on their choices. So, clearly German does have some rules and procedures to determine gender, even if they're opaque.
Same as above. I can provide some illustrative examples if you want?
I tried to imagine some sentences of that sort in Croatian, with incorrect genders, and it doesn't sound outright stupid, just odd. Some situations allow for some leeway in choice of gender too, and natives can make mistakes if they don't think too clearly which word they intend to use, and none of that is especially bothersome to a native's ear.