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[–] quink@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, in English it apparently means ‘-ly’, in German it means ‘Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland’… I guess some languages are just more expressive than others.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago

I love it simply because it's the near enough closest incarnation we have these day of this quote:

We are going to use this organisation to change the way the rest of the country thinks. We want them to see stuff they don't like. We don't really care if they complain.

  • Hugh Greene, first director general of the NWDR (later NDR and WDR), and later the BBC

Would be nice to see more people take this attitude in this day and age.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Or, more natively put, きょうと is not an anagram of とうきょう, missing out on a う. And 都 isn't 東.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

the Libertarians… hopefully never recover

A strong FDP hurts the CDU/CSU and even more importantly AfD disproportionately. That is a very good thing. If they have 5 to 10% in perpetuity that'll be a very good thing indeed. Any more than that though and they can fuck right off again, because not least of all the way the AfD slotted straight into where the FDP sat (but at least with some of a cordon sanitaire) is creeping me out like few other things.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of Education Queensland's approach to creating usernames. First letter of the first name, first four letters of the surname. Followed by a sequential number.

I nearly lost it when I saw a staff member by the name of something like Sharon Laverton (names slightly anonymised, but odds are someone else by that name exists) have an email that not only started slave, but also ended with a number for that final dehumanising touch. slave384@eq.edu.au.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And to avoid that, all they have to do is became big damn heroes by giving their money in charity, or tax, or fund a research lab or whatever way of throwing their money back out there that they choose.

Astounding that they'd find it so detestable that they'd rather risk death in the hands of a class revolution than see their money feed kids or cure cancer or whatnot.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Gee, however long ago could we have foreseen that Trump would have just the worst takes when it comes to first responders and 9/11.

Washington Post: On 9/11, Trump pointed out he now had the tallest building in Lower Manhattan. He didn’t.

Right. Publicly, since literally 9/11.

I guess it must have been too late for them to possibly know, when he already had the shittiest take possible the day it happened, a quarter century ago.