So, uh, what is the difference?

Right, that’s why I listed several languages where the surname is gendered, and people who are native to those languages (including their naming conventions) also live in Germany. Especially today, considering the exodus of Ukrainians.

For example, the current president of Ukraine is called Zelensky. His wife, who took up his surname, is called Zelenska. Or, there’s Putin, and his mother/sister/wife/daughter have or would have the surname Putina. The -y and “null” endings are masculine, -a is feminine.

Thank you, it’s possible he or his gf misunderstood some aspect of the law. I pretty much just retold what my friend told me. I’ll definitely ask them both for details when I get the opportunity.

A friend of mine has a trans gf from Germany so he explained this quite nicely to me today. There are still two relatively peripheral issues. One is that surnames can’t be changed, which is a problem for anyone from a language with gender-marked surnames (e.g. Russian, Ukrainian, Czech). It’s not an acceptable situation neither with regards to gender nor to grammar (masculine name + feminine surname is just… wrong). The other is that apparently when transitioning you have to change your name, which shouldn’t be necessary for those with gender neutral names that they’d prefer to keep.

Still, it’s a big and nice step forward.

Platypuses are mammals, but they’re weird enough

We probably wouldn’t consider them nearly as weird if they were more numerous than any other mammal species and lived all over the world. So their comparison to catholicism is weird.

In Croatia, we call(ed) it ‘snow’ (snijeg).

Ehhhh, if you have expertise in ANY field outside of like programming, you can easily test various models and see that they produce a lot of crap. That doesn’t require you to understand how LLMs work exactly.

A lot of AI LLMs have been trained on reddit…

I do believe reddit pops up in my search results more frequently these days than it did a year ago, without any explicit prompting with ‘reddit’ keyword… (just based on my impression, though)

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Same. I learned about the ‘releases’ section only recently thanks to some kind Lemmy user (kinder than some I’ve seen on Lemmy and reddit discussing this same image, some people are openly supporting gatekeeping of software).

No one asked the Chinese natives originally there if they wanted to separate from China.

Ok, but has anyone asked them anything now?

But what do the residents of Alaska have to say? Are they doing fine? Would they be doing better if they were back under US?

That’s not how sarcasm works.

Unironically Facebook is fairly reliable for what you’re describing. It nags you with a login popup regularly, but beyond that everything important is readable even without an account.

At this point I’m impressed by how much effort Twitter devs must’ve have put into making the site shittier and less accessible.

By the time you finished making this snarky meme, you could’ve set up a program to OCR a book yourself.

When someone says “osam” (eight), you reply with one of the rhyming insults

“Nos ti posran” = Your nose is covered in shit

or

“Na kurcu te nosam” = I carry you on my cock

They’re rather silly insults, I think nobody actually uses them beyond the age of 12, but everyone knows them.

I’ve no idea why Croatia and Bosnia have 69 while Serbia and Montenegro have 8, when surely both “funny numbers” are well-known in the area equally. 420 is also known just about everywhere, not just Netherlands.

AFAIK, lemmy.world only blocked !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com community, not the whole instance, and unblocked it a few months afterwards.