Tbf, it was an art installation and the overreactions it generated are hilarious.

So outright annexation.

I can lie under the table, puking my guts out and still remember the year.
You need more training, son.

Except this skull is unusable now because skulls are not closed at the bottom and someone seems to have cut off the top.
Also the “skulls of your enemies” industry usually doesn’t use the whole body. Quite wasteful if you ask me.

For file names, absolutely.
When I’m asking what date it is I typically know the current year.

and dissent must not be tolerated, as they can lead to chaos and rebellion

The party is always right

Well, they couldn’t go with Helles because it’s actually good.

Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?

According to wikipedia the phonetic usage includes:
[g] [d͡ʒ] [ʒ] [ŋ] [j] [ɣ~ʝ] [x~χ] [d͡z] [ɟ] [k] [ɠ] [ɢ] /dʒiː/

For English pronunciation it lists:
/dʒ/ /ɡ/ /ʒ/ and silent

I’m saying that there are no consistent rules so language learners have to learn each word individually.
If you learn languages by memorizing every singe vowel shift since proto-indo-european then be my guest but for someone who just wants to speak the language and has to learn the difference between plough, through, though etc, it seems pretty damn arbitrary.

Yes, but we’re not talking about the linguistic history of how words developed.
We’re talking about learning a language and the lack of consistent rules can make that quite difficult.

Bavarian

On that note, I also understand some Swabian, Franconian, and Austrian.

It’s just not comparable to having to memorize arbitrary gender for every noun in the language

Yes, instead of having to memorize one of up to three possible genders for every noun, you only have to memorize an infinity of arbitrary pronunciations for every word.
Much easier.

Fuck Communism and fuck unchecked capitalism

Interesting how capitalism needs the qualifier ‘unchecked’ while apparently communism has only one possible form.

phone

You mean, your German peers literally use the English word ‘phone’ or do they say ‘Telefon’?

Serial Experiments Lain

The problem for those operating a Lemmy instance is that they are hosting copies of the content of all federated instances.
So if one instance is filled with illegal content, the admins of all federated instances must remove it on their instances to avoid law enforcement kicking down their doors.

If there is too much illegal content on one instance to effectively moderate manually, defederation is the solution.

This is beside the fact, that some might have their own additional non-legally mandated requirements for content they host on their platform.