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Cake day: November 29th, 2023

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  • Same reason Mastodon isn’t as popular as Twitter… a lot of people really don’t understand the concept of federation, or why it’s important in order to maintain a robust and healthy discussion. They’re fine with dictatorship as long as it aligns with their sensibilities.

    Also, the concept of “one website, one app” is infinitely easier to comprehend than “many instances, many apps, still one protocol”.


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    23 days ago

    In German, dogs are male by default (der Hund can be used as a generic term for both male and female dogs), but bitches are female (die Hündin). Cats are female by default (die Katze), but tomcats are male (der Kater).

    We do not use Hündin as a slur for women, but Hund can be used as a slur for men.






  • I can’t argue with that, because the German “wenn” is definitely more ambiguous than the English “when”, but since it’s a lullaby, you kinda have to assume that perhaps it’s leaning more on the positive side, because who on earth would want their baby to die in their sleep?

    If Germans really were this cruel, they would have been wiped off the face of the earth a long time ago.


  • This seems to be a mistranslation, because in German, “wenn” can mean both “if” and “when”, but it’s actually closer to “when”. If you really mean “if”, you use “falls” instead of “wenn”.

    So the intended meaning is in fact “tomorrow morning, when God wants it (ie. at the time God wants it), you will wake up again”