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wohnen wohnte, würde

oder

wohnen würde, würde

Da bin ich ja Grammatiknazi. Finde den Nazi in dir!

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Ja das habe ich da ein paar mal gehört. War schön.

Ja den Pedant kann ich nicht bestreiten. Bitte beachte das ich den "Deutsch"-Tag auf diesem Kommentar gesetzt hab, aber nicht auf den beiden anderen.

Diplomat is kind of understating it though.

::: spoiler Minor spoiler She is the scion of a political dynasty that is serving as "Under-Secretary-General" in the UN when we get to know her, so two steps away from the throne of Earth, having access to black ops and military assets, without ever having been elected. :::

Also towards your earlier point, I always took her brash attitude as intentionally annoying. Like that's the whole point of it, narratively. It's a tool she uses to unsettle others. Which is why it fits so nicely in the OP.

es gäbe IFG-Anfragen, die “gar einige hunderttausend Euro” kosten würden.

Na kann eine gewesen sein die ihm einen hundertausende Euro schweren Lobbydeal versaut hat, er sagt ja nicht wem die was kosten.

PSA for my fellow colour blind people, you can use inspect element option of your browser to add a filter: saturate(100); rule to the element for this kind of image:

I don't know if there is any single takeaway here, this story is just fucking ridiculous on every single level.

1. They bullshited themselves into a search warrant based on typical cannabis "investigation methods".
2. In a state where recreational cannabis use is legal.
3. Persisted in the search even after their main argument for it, high energy usage indicating a grow-op, fell away when it was clear it was indeed a medical facility.
4. Made the motherfucking "Gun flies to MRI" TV trope a certified reality. This is a thing that verifiably happened now.
5. Instead of getting help, used a sealed (!) emergency shutdown button...
6. ...which damaged the machine. And released thousands of dollars worth of helium gas.
7. Forgot their loaded magazine on the ground.

This can't be real. I'm fucking dying over here. Please let there be bodycam footage of the cop speaking in a high pitched voice after. (I know the helium was probably not released into the room, but one can hope I guess)

I see you there random Krita user! Shill baby, shill!

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Correct, and the drop-off and pick-up is done through QR codes over WeChat, here is a (German) documentary about this very building showing the process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgVXPEORuA0&t=724s

Der Merz hat lächelnd daneben gesessen als Trump offen die Souveränität Spaniens in Frage gestellt hat, indem er sagte die USA können einfach Spanische Flughäfen benutzen wann und wie sie wollen, egal ob Spanien zustimmt. Glaube nicht das Merkel das kommentarlos hätte stehen lassen. Scholz schon eher, aber glaub auch nicht.

Once saw a (German) documentary about this building. They have drop-off places on the ground floor where delivery drivers leave their goods in locked boxes. Payment and and locking/unlocking of the box is done digitally through phone.

P.S.: This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgVXPEORuA0

In Germany there is a legally recognised form of volunteering called Ehrenamt (honorary office), mostly used by non-profit organisations. It has benefits for taxes, gaining public funding, and such. E.g. if you are the primary caretaker of an elderly family member you can get unemployment benefits without having to look for work, since it is recognised as a public good.

The petition aims to recognise work on Open Source software as such an honorary office.

Good on Reuters for sending a drone over there.

Nah other way around. The astronauts asked a NASA administrator if they are still on the line or if there was a handover. Then Tump replied "I am, yes, I am".

Well I can't speak for others, but I'm on lemmy.ml because the instance says it's "A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy's developers". And in my experience that pretty much checks out, for all the talk I see from others about how it's a den of authoritarianism and whatnot the actual amount of that I see on the actual instance is minimal. Yeah moderation sucks sometimes, but so it does on most every other instance though. Their approach to defederation seems to be avoiding it, and I don't have to see any Nazi stuff or shit like that, so I'm good for now. Pick your poison.

The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.

Well if you look a bit closer at the history of the cold war you will find that "the West", mostly in the form of the CIA, destroyed a lot of nascent communist or even just social democratic governments worldwide through covert means, and sometimes even militarily. In the face of such a threat you are basically forced to become even more authoritarian, if you want your communist government to survive that is. So "the West" instituted a process of selection through political (and military) pressure if you will. Hence why there are no surviving liberal communist states left to discuss.

Anyway, I don't think there is much of consensus here on lemmy.ml whether these countries are good or bad (or even something more nuanced). What I think often happens is that someone voices "critical support", as in they say something like "Iran has a right to self-defence" although they don't agree with everything else Iran does, and someone from another instance comes along to read it and confirmation-biases that into "typical lemmy.ml user, fully supports that theocratic regime".

I mean just look at the straw man you build in your OP, supposedly I'm supporting the Islamic regime in Iran, and the anti-Islamic regime in China!? Bit of a stretch there mate...

I see the Reuters video has already been posted to this community, so I'll refrain from cross-posting the Guardian article here as well. @[email protected] if you edit the post and set the following as "Thumbnail URL" it will show up in the websites/apps better: https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e439f142-4f5c-475a-b1b0-d0ee102de6f7.jpeg

Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/venezuelans-sos-texas

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“leadership is a lateral move”

Ahahaha, what the fuck? This is simply perfect. Peak oxymoron. A work of art. *chef's kiss*

FYI you have a typo in your last screenshot (This sign m[a]y not...):