katkit

@katkit@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨human geography⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And sometimes there’s a comparison to 50 years ago and there were 3 dozen different rare to semi-common linguistic variations for it back then. But somehow only this one small one didn’t get assimilated into the two prevailing ones. Makes you wonder what kind of secrets that town is up to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Patrick Breyer with the pirate party is my go to example of why small parties and extraparliamentary opposition is important. 99% of the people don’t even know him and he’s just doing such an sucessful job of protecting them anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True. English isn’t my native language and I thought about this, but it somehow just makes sense in my head. The way the “just” is used reminds me of the Modalpartikel we have in German. They’re basically filler words that add nuance, emphasis or expectation to a sentence.

  Sometimes people ask “Just why?”, and that’s a bit different than only “Why?”, because it adds a sense of confusion or urgency to the question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [Imagine] you wake up in 1995. [There’s] no wifi [and] no cell phones. [What’s] the first thing you do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even think about the German word, which is Bierdeckel - literally beer cover. Well the boring word for it would be Untersetzer, which is the substantive of “to place underneath”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Additionally to what else was said, I’ve seen them used in beergardens to cover the drink to prevent bugs from drowning themselves in your drink. I guess then the coasters don’t serve to protect the table anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comfy cozy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Trumps cabinet leveraged the German company SAP to adhere to their DEI agenda. Trumps ideological ilk connects with each other worldwide to share strategies and knowledge, which of course includes our AfD, which used to be pretty vocal about their support for Trump and has now become uncannily quiet about it.