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Uh, wine tasters?

And, de facto also people whose job is to strike deals for a company. And ambassadors, I’d say.

A container container container? Obviously, the planet Earth is a container for the oceans.

Or, to be more specific, a container container.

(Yeah. Just let the buffalo buffalo. Whatever.)

It also contains containers!

Maybe @[email protected] can say? :)
(Though, I’m not sure if they read their Mastodon anymore. But maybe yes?)

The only thing this petition can achieve is maybe getting a few people to move their donations to projects such as PieFed.

Beside that… Well, Nutomic and Dessalines are the two people who decide on how to act regarding this petition – if they should remove themselves or not. I find it unlikely that they will look at the finished petition and go “oh, people want us gone. Okay, we’ll do that”.

But yeah: Do not give money to Lemmy. There are other projects that are compatible with Lemmy and have use for your money as well, without being assholes :)

It is any better.

It’s also not okay what DC did, but the transgressions are very different in scale.

Kimmel was faired for saying “MAGA is trying to make it look like the shooter wasn’t a MAGA activist”, while Felker-Martin got fired for saying “it’s a good thing Kirk can no longer take part in podcasts.”

I don’t think either of those is grounds for firing, but it’s not good to bring them to the same level.

I wouldn’t call it “understanding” if you assume a meaning to a word that doesn’t have that meaning.

It’s funny in the same way as native Americans saying “ugh”. If you’re ignorant, you laugh. If you aren’t, you facepalm. A joke that just makes its teller look like an ignorant idiot who is happy to trample other cultures is not a joke that should me made.

I do understand it’s the entire point.

It’s also super annoying when English-speaker make new “languages” which are just English with each word substituted by another. The joke assumes that Latin is just a dialect of English.

So, what I’m trying to hint in a subtle manner between the lines is that the joke is not among the best ones out there. Of course you can go to some meta levels and find something funny about someone being so stupid that they assume that words have 100 % equal meanings across languages. But, meh.

The joke reeks of monolingual ignorance miles away.

I’ll copypaste this thing I wrote under another comment:

This is a bad translation because the English word “to come” has a double meaning (it also means ejaculation or having an orgasm), while in Latin it doesn’t. There’s a big risk of a misunderstanding, so “I arrived” is a much better translation IMO.

Why do you think “I came” would be better? 🙃

This is a bad translation because the English word “to come” has a double meaning (it also means ejaculation or having an orgasm), while in Latin it doesn’t. There’s a big risk of a misunderstanding, so “I arrived” is a much better translation IMO.

Why do you think “I came” would be better? 🙃

“I arrived, I saw, I arrived”?

Why?