Gregory's Servergoogle employee:*taking bong rip* whatever, let ‘em go to the fucking library if that’s not good enough
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 @UncleDuke1969 some of the other states count bavaria as kingdom, so a point has been made here  @young_ullrich What? I've been learning German for a long time, regularly watch German TV, and never heard that. I feel like there's a joke I need explained here? Usually it's “Freistaat”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_state_(polity)#Germany Even though some are freistaaten, calling the länder “states” in English sounds like a US-centric mistranslation. @nex 'Freistaat' or 'Freie und Hansestadt' is history naming only.  They are states. 16 states with a constitution (Länderverfassung) and a parliament each. Some of these states just have different ways of defining themselves and their role within the federation. @AdeptVeritatis @nex @young_ullrich The Grundgesetz absolutely is a constitution. It's only called Grundgesetz, because it was supposed to be a temporary constitution for West Germany only, until a united Germany could replace it with a constitution made by all germans. The name was supposed to reflect that preliminary nature. That replacement never happened, so that name stuck around, but it is and always was a constitution. @UncleDuke1969 It really does depend! And obviously Google don't take a political stance if they can avoid sacrificing profits. I just asked it how many Chinas there are and all I got was a link to Wikipedia; they could have just as well put no info box and make that the first search result. (The link is very relevant, though. It's doing a decent job at being a search engine; no complaints there.)   @UncleDuke1969 in fairness, can't blame them for not wanting to have the Mallorca debate  @UncleDuke1969 @mhoye “all the world’s information” I guess includes all the really low-grade stuff too or something.   |
@UncleDuke1969 Polling their coworkers to figure out if #fensterfreitag is a province