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- Risa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I am sure the germans have a precise term for this
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Sorry, were we talking about modern America or Star Trek
Could also be Russia, Israel… Britain used to be that, but now we’re just hated.
ah, classic Sichalskardassianerselbsterkennunddannaufdenbodenguckerei aka Eigenvergarakung
Not sure if real word or cat walked over your keyboard.
It’s how you write German compound nouns. You say a phrase and your cat types it without spaces
You know that cats are gods, right? This is exactly how all languages have formed. Cats walking over the primordial keyboard, generating the first languages for the first humans. Then some cats decided to go down and live with the humans, continuing to walk on their new keyboards. This is why languages evolve.
Also: Curious Cat Walks Over Medieval Manuscript (National Geographic)
It’s real (and it’s two words, you skipped over the aka)
What are going to do, doublecheck me?
Eigenvergarakung is fucking hilarious
You are sure doing your best to… keep up with the Cardassians.
If I thought about it as much as my brain wants to I would drive myself mad. The system has too much inertia and the fixes we are forced to implement now (and for the next little while) are damage mitigation, not fixes. It’s just not going to be fixed for a while. If I tried to address it with the same tenacity that I approach my day-to-day problems my mind would overheat and I’d die. So I just have to spend most of my time brushing my teeth and keeping my car from breaking down and trying to find a fucking job so I can continue to buy food at my accustomed rate. I squeeze in a little damage mitigation where I can but I can’t afford to dwell on the elephant that we have to eat. Too much problem for tonight.
It’s the middle class that are the drivers of revolutions. Eliminate them, make people worry about rent and food, and there’s no energy for organization.
Same thing that happened to Iran in the past 10 years by the way.
“Wir haben es nicht gewußt” (although that one seems to be more of an idiom in Belgium and the Netherlands talking about the German civilians’ defense of not knowing about the Holocaust)
Sigh
“My child”
It’s a testament to Louise Fletcher’s acting abilities that I would instantly experience utter revulsion whenever she appeared in DS9. Right up there with Trump in levels of disgust.
Oh especially those last episodes where things really ramp up (yes it’s ancient but I’m not gonna spoil it for those who haven’t seen it) she really takes you along for the insanity ride.
The German word for it is “Mitläufer”.
hm, i don’t know if that’s the right word. i think it’s more for doing something because everyone else does as well, which applies less here? although i guess it could be argued that living a “productive” life under an imperial system does still prop up that system, even if it is not in direct support of its imperial actions. to not be a mitläufer then, one would need to either leave that system or sabotage/fight it as much as possible.
Mitläufer ist korrekt.
Die heutige Verwendung betont vor allem den Gesichtspunkt, dass ein Mitläufer alles passiv geschehen lässt oder einfach mitmacht, ohne dabei für sein Verhalten Rechenschaft abzulegen oder Verantwortung zu übernehmen.
Mooching off of it seems acceptable too especially if you can manage to slow any of it down in the process.
This is why Garak and Bashir is the best ship ⛴️
Kinda sounds like the plot from an anime that’s currently airing (except a pharmaceutical company family instead of reality TV stars).
Are you confusing cardassian (an alien species from Star Trek) with the Kardashians?
Oh, lol. Yes. Yes I am. I was like “I thought it was spelled with a K” but I see enough people with romanized named that get spelled differently all the time for seemingly no reason that I kinda just ignore it. The “the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as ‘the evil ones’” seems extreme, but I assumed it was just exaggerated for comedic effect 🤣
Close enough.
Oh, so that’s why it seemed odd.
Fooken spoonheads
