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I think word count is not the best metric precisely because of what you mention. “Krankenversicherungskarte” is one word vs the three word “health insurance card”, but they convey the same information in roughly the same amount of characters.
Overall I don’t find German particularly verbose, only sometimes a small phrase is condensed into a single word.
dirkgentle@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to passEnglish
0·1 year agoIIRC the wikipedia for each language is pseudo independent. This feature will eventually make it to all, I hope.
You have the president’s face in airports?
I was confused by your wording, but I think you mean South of the USA rather than South America.
dirkgentle@lemmy.cato
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Hey, it's Thanksgiving today in the USA and Brazil, and also kind of in Japan, so maybe it's a good day for me to ask, WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR?
43·2 years agoIt may be a USA Brazilian thing, the diaspora is quite large.
I don’t mean to derail the conversation, but it pains me to say that Europeans have been financing the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh by buying Azerbaijani oil with almost no repercussion.
dirkgentle@lemmy.cato
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?
21·2 years agoNorth America was built by the train, it was later destroyed for the car.
I have a Kobo Libra 2, I quite enjoy it for borrowing books from the public library.
dirkgentle@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix is going to let DVD subscribers keep unreturned discs for freeEnglish
6·2 years agoEverything in the text was important.
dirkgentle@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•AMD unveils its first laptop processor with 3D V-CacheEnglish
23·2 years agoI heard you like cache, so I put some cache on your cache.
dirkgentle@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furiousEnglish
7·2 years agoIt also came with a bot
dirkgentle@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Deleting your Threads account also deletes your Instagram, Meta working quickly on the fixEnglish
8·2 years agoI think a big difference is that an unused Google Drive it has no impact on you, so most people don’t have a good reason to want to close it. Whereas people open and close social media accounts all the time (for personal and social reasons alike).
Also, afaik you can create Threads profiles without Instagram, so conceptually they are separare from the start. You are effectively penalizing Instagram users.
dirkgentle@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or elseEnglish
9·2 years agoOur sub has 77k subscribers and we got the threat.




At some point I stopped trying to make sense of it and let the general feelings carry me forward. It’s bizarre and dark, but in a captivating way.