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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm guessing, the translators just looked at typical English Legalese and emulated that style (even though the German text also uses the stronger "is"). For example, the US constitution is also written with "shall be": https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

Ultimately, no matter how you formulate it, constitutions do still need to be upheld by people. Both, their continued existence, but also enforcement.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

Comeback as in "A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comeback

Franklin's response is the 'comeback' in this case.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

Official translation is "Human dignity shall be inviolable", but yeah, same thing.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.html#p0020

[–] [email protected] 32 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

Really don't feel like this one needed a comeback. Publicly posting that is enough of a self-own.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

I do enjoy the irony of them ignoring that particular social cue. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

"Elmer's" is a glue manufacturer, for others wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%27s_Products

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I'll let the hivemind know that we're supposed to have only one opinion.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (6 children)

On a definitely related note, I've recently been thinking it's wild how we build foot paths out of rocks and then put on rubber socks for actually walking on them.

In other words, asphalt is a scam by Big Foot to sell more shoes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I imagine, they can still get inflamed gums or similar, if something gets stuck in there...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I believe, you have to take turns pushing down individual teeth. By random chance, it will close the mouth when you do that. So, you lose when you get bitten.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I'm always amazed how badly companies understand the concept of human interaction. Showing appreciation requires putting in some amount of effort. If you just type some words into a box and an image comes out, that's not anything. Might as well use the first clipart that comes up in image search...

 

Was looking for the logo of Perl in image search and this showed up...

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🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 (lemmynsfw.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

So, I use KDE Connect to sync my clipboard contents from my PC to my phone. Since a few weeks ago, it updates those clipboard contents regularly, even when said PC is suspended.
And apparently, the last thing I copied is 🙃, so now my phone weirdly smiles at me every so often. 🫠

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Ring of Fire (en.wikipedia.org)
 
 

Bought a pot of chives and every time I look away, it seems to grow multiple centimeters in size. I have to give it a haircut almost daily...

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IEEE 754 (cdn.fosstodon.org)
 

~~Stolen~~ Cross-posted from here: https://fosstodon.org/@foo/113731569632505985

 
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