social.outsourcedmath.com


The ole Grey Lady is dead.

Michael mastodon (AP)
UK dropping challenge to ICC Netanyahu arrest warrant ‘not just morally right but legally right’, says human rights lawyer https://www.channel4.com/news/uk-dropping-challenge-to-icc-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-not-just-morally-right-but-legally-right-says-human-rights-lawyer
The fact that #Netanyahu wasn't #arrested and turned over to the #ICC when he came to the #US this past week shows that the US does not care about #InternationalLaw or the #RuleOfLaw.

Trump Lie: “The tax cuts spurred the greatest economy that we’ve ever seen just prior to Covid …. The country was going like never before. And we were ready to start paying down debt.”

Shonin mastodon (AP)
Relative efficacy of masks and respirators as source control for viral aerosol shedding from people infected with SARS-CoV-2: a controlled human exhaled breath aerosol experimental study - eBioMedicine

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(24)00192-0/fulltext

BakersRelay mastodon (AP)
BakersRelay reposting this:

#ParkFire #CAwx

Cole Euken, Staff Reporter
An hour ago · Jul 27, 12:30 AM
Evacuation Warnings have been issued in Butte County for Paradise Zones:
01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14.

The Town of Paradise has issued an EVACUATION WARNING for the entire Town of Paradise in response to the Park Fire.
All zones are under an EVACUATION WARNING.

The evacuation zones can viewed on the Watch Duty map or via the Butte County evacuation map below
https://buttecountygis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9c92e0a2d2e0415fa5248d70cd644a82

https://share.watchduty.org/i/27638

Susanne Schneider mastodon (AP)
Ein neuer Tag.
Es ist regnerisch, gut so.
Wochenende. Wieder eine Flötenbauerfahrt zur Heimholung steht an und dann werden die Segel wieder anders gesetzt…
#KaffeeImGarten
Zinnie beim Aufblühen Große Zucchiniblüte
Himbeeren

Trump Lie: “The only jobs [President Biden] created are for illegal immigrants and bounce-back jobs — they’re bounced back from the Covid.”

The fact that in order to #RDP into a #Windows machine requires a #LocalAccount and the fact that #Microsoft really really doesn't want you to use a local account I find quite humorous.


Ever time I log-in to #LinkedIn I am thankful that I'm now (mostly) retired. Shit, just reading my "feed" which is mainly comprised of industry leaders, former coworkers, vendors, and other #cybersecurity & #PKI "news" literally gives me a minor anxiety attack just looking through it. LinkedIn really needs a setting for "retired" that turns all that shit off! At the same time I don't want to unfollow people because I don't want to burn any bridges. So I very rarely login........

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
NASA nears decision on what to do with Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/nasa-nears-decision-on-what-to-do-with-boeings-troubled-starliner-spacecraft/
Artemesia mastodon (AP)
Stayliner or Starlinger?
Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
@artemesia The situation fits either name!

Uncanny Magazine mastodon (AP)
WRITERS! PLEASE SHARE FAR AND WIDE!!! Uncanny Magazine will be open to story submissions from August 5 to September 2 (750-10,000 words)! We can't wait to read your marvelous stories!! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
Space Unicorn

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Extreme heat poses ‘real risk’ to Spain’s mass tourism industry | Spain | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/27/extreme-heat-poses-real-risk-to-spains-mass-tourism-industry

#ClimateChange #heat

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
Well, it seems to all be working and syncing ... I may just faint ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
J.D. Vance argued for higher tax rate on childless Americans: report - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/vance-higher-tax-rate-childless-americans/?rs=190
“Childless Americans” ALREADY pay higher taxes…as they file without the deductions available for each child. 😵‍💫
Man, so dumb, or incurious. Tax code already does this. So dumb. Let alone that our local taxes go to schools for kids we do not have. Not complaining! I love schools and libraries and streetlights.

Brian Jopek mastodon (AP)
I regret to inform those who know Jagger he is no longer with us. The decision was made today to put him to sleep because of a cancer diagnosis that gave him, at the most, maybe a couple weeks. It wasn’t an easy decision at all and my heart is breaking. Needless to say, the date 23 July, the last time in 2006 I heard my oldest son say “I love you dad” about a week before he was KIA in Iraq, now means that much more to me.
#DogsOfMastodon
#GoldenRetrieverLover
#MahBud
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cobalt mastodon (AP)
I just saw this and I’m so very sorry. July must be a time you have to get through somehow and so very tough to do. Thinking of you.
Brian Jopek mastodon (AP)
@cobalt Thank you. It’s been a rough few days.

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Jasper - Lawyers, Guns & Money

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/jasper

#Wildfire #Canada

Big Head Tales mastodon (AP)
The news media seems to be suggesting that some Republicans are regretting the naming of JD Vance as Trump’s VP.

Really?

They embraced a convicted felon and fraud, a traitor, a rapist, and an apparent pedophile for their candidate for President.

But they’re concerned about Vance?
DING DING DING DING DING!!!!! 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔

CandyK mastodon (AP)
Damn, Democrats keeps exposing themselves.This is just ridiculous

Border crossing is down over 50%.

Fuck-em.

So these are the Dem that would give Harris a hard time when she's president.😡
CandyK mastodon (AP)
@shonin And I believe he's anti-abortion?

Dave Anderson mastodon (AP)
Another cursed factoid: Chapter 39 of the harmonized tariff schedule is dedicated to plastics and manufactured plasticproducts.

It starts with an explanatory note that disambiguates some items that match the definition of a plastic, but are classified under other sections for customs (e.g. a child's toy falls under Chapter 95 "toys" even if made of plastic).

One of the callouts is that chapter 39 does not apply to heparin and its derivatives.
Dave Anderson mastodon (AP)
Heparin is an anticoagulant drug. It's what doctors give you if you have a blood clot or a heart attack, among other things.

And yeah, going to poke on wikipedia... Heparin is a naturally occurring polysaccharide, which falls under tariff heading 3913, "natural polymers and modified natural polymers". Specifically when importing to the USA, 3913.90.20.90 is "Polysaccharides and their derivatives (other than xanthan gum)".
Dave Anderson mastodon (AP)
So, TIL, heparin, off of the first line treatment for heart attacks, is technically a plastic, and as such the harmonized tariff schedule has to specifically say that no, heparin and its salts should not be classified under heading 3913, and that you need to refer to heading 3001.

Which, 3001 is one of those weird clowncar categories: glands and other organs for organotherapeutic uses; extracts of same; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances prepared for therapeutic uses.

Misty hometown (AP)
Great looking project here - @blaft are publishing an English collection of sci-fi stories about an anti-caste future, written by authors from caste-oppressed backgrounds. They’re a great indie publisher from India - I have a few of their books already and I'm consistently impressed with their work.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/anti-caste-speculative-fiction-by-blaft-publications
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Misty hometown (AP)
I backed it right away, obviously! Congrats on the early success - happy for you, and hope that momentum keeps up!
Blaft Publications mastodon (AP)
Yes! This is a super fun one to work on and we are obviously thrilled. Thanks again for the support!

Strypey mastodon (AP)
"It’s the same. It’s always been the same. Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you. Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control.

Stop being human. A mindless bot who makes regular purchases is all that’s really needed."

#CatherynneMValente, 2022

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
Strypey mastodon (AP)
"[Dairyland.com founder Andrew ]Smales requires new users to pay a one-time $2 activation fee to prove they're not a spammer."

#MichelleSterling, 2014

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jp5vdg/the-antisocial-network-how-the-90s-internet-died-like-diaryland

Clever.

Imagine if every responsible email host in the world did this. It could have a similar effect to those 'digital stamp' proposals - tiny charges for sending email aimed at reducing spam - but without the unavoidable friction of avoidable micropayments;

https://freakonomics.com/2009/02/blnk/

#SpamPrevention #AccountCreation
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Strypey mastodon (AP)
As a bonus, if there's a charge to create an account - however small - everyone who creates one is a customer. Giving them legal protections that aren't always available to people using services without paying.

It would also provide some income towards the costs of hosting, of course. Although since revenue would only be coming in as long as new accounts are getting created, it would encourage server hosts to optimise for growth. Which isn't ideal.
Strypey mastodon (AP)
"'People are being more nostalgic about the early web', [Andrew Smales] said, 'and part of me feels like maybe in five or 10 years that might be a thing. I think it's probably too early now, but if somebody revived LiveJournal, I could see old web making a comeback.'.

Maybe Smales will be right."

#MichelleSterling, 2014

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jp5vdg/the-antisocial-network-how-the-90s-internet-died-like-diaryland

10 years on, it's pretty hard to deny that Smales was bang on. Even then, the #IndieWeb and early fediverse had already been around for a few years.
Strypey mastodon (AP)
"And I also understand that we are the generation who has to go through this part of it. We’re the ones born in time to be forced to make the rules and defend them. To say hey maybe one guy shouldn’t be able to own the village square. Because it was never remotely possible before. It’s all new and we have to figure it out. To agitate and legislate and be constantly vigilant."

#CatherynneMValente, 2022

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

#NetCulture #TechRegulation
Strypey mastodon (AP)
#CatherynneMValente
> To say hey maybe one guy shouldn’t be able to own the village square. Because it was never remotely possible before

There is a precedent that predates the net; the mall.

In his book Life Inc. Douglas @Rushkoff talks about how the mall was originally conceived as a utopian vision. But in the hands of US capitalists, it became a tool for corporations to own and control pedestrian shopping streets, which were once public spaces.
Strypey mastodon (AP)
"If you think that’s not true, that it’s only capitalism that curdles the milk, ask yourself whether you think, even with all the money in the world, you ever could pay Amy Coney Barrett or Marjorie Taylor Green or Lindsey Graham or Josh Hawley or Andrew Tate or Brett Kavanaugh or Jim Jordan enough to become a progressive feminist eco-warrior activist."

#CatherynneMValente, 2022

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

Of course you could. These people are mercenary sociopaths.

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Strypey mastodon (AP)
With enough money, could could convince them to kill and eat their own young, and claim it was for the greater good. No amount of money would make them *believe* in being a "progressive feminist eco-warrior activist", but if you offered them enough money, you could *definitely* convince them to claim they did and go through the motions.

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Strypey mastodon (AP)
"... this strange compulsion of conservatism to force other humans to be just like you... A kind of viral solipsism that cannot bear the presence of anything other than its own undifferentiated self, propagating not by convincing or seduction or debate, but by the eradication of any other option."

#CatherynneMValente, 2022

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

This conservatism can also be found among people who call themselves "liberals", or identify with "the left";

https://strypey.dreamwidth.org/2071.html

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Strypey mastodon (AP)
The xenophobia we associate with conservatism is not a property of certain political-economic ideologies. It's a property of a certain stage of cultural development that we have to go through, regardless of our political-economic views - and one that only some of us ever move beyond;

https://meaningness.com/misunderstanding-stage-theory

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Strypey mastodon (AP)
"One awful man should not be able to destroy something the world created together, for good or ill. No, we didn’t create the code or rent the offices, but without the words we put together in those little boxes, Twitter is and was nothing. Humanity made that place, and it is all our best and our worst. One unimaginably rich man should not be able to take away the livelihoods of millions of people ..."

#CatherynneMValente, 2022

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

Sounds like capitalism to me 🤷
Strypey mastodon (AP)
To finish on a positive note, I'm engaging with this rant, both to agree and pick holes in it, because I love it.

I love the passion and the raw emotion with which it expresses something deeply important about what the internet *is*. When we stop reducing it to a set of kitset parts (protocols, software, servers, etc) and see it as grand, new experiment in social life. I love the way it ends with the one good thing about The Last Jedi; it *is* about love and compassion overcoming hatred.
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lunchy mastodon (AP)
people thought of this in the 90s during the spampocalypse
Strypey mastodon (AP)
@lunch
> people thought of this in the 90s during the spampocalypse

I remember reading various proposals for digital stamps per email back then, but I don't remember anyone talking about charging at the point of account creation. Probably because at the time, most people got email as a free extra with their net connection, or were setting up addresses with gratis hosts precisely because they couldn't or didn't want to pay.
Paul H mastodon (AP)
Metafilter requires a one-time USD5 joining fee and I pretty sure it's been that amount for ages - if not for the entire 25 years the site has been in existence. It's enough to keep spammers and trolls away, but not enough to be a barrier for anyone to join.
Strypey mastodon (AP)
> Metafilter requires a one-time USD5 joining fee

Imagine if this had been standard practice among fediverse servers when Eternal November began. All those new accounts people set up would have brought in a huge wave of funding for server admins, some of which could have been passed on to fund software dev. It would also have massively reduced the number of accounts that were created and then never used.
There's nothing stopping people who can afford it, and who value not being advertised at, and not having their personal data sold, from contributing either once or on an ongoing basis.

This service is really worth it to me.

PLEASE DONATE TO MASTODON.NZ IF YOU CAN.

https://ko-fi.com/nzfedi
Strypey mastodon (AP)
> There's nothing stopping people ... from contributing either once or on an ongoing basis

True. But there's also nothing obliging them to. So most don't. Especially if they're only setting up an account as an escape hatch if things get bad on the DataFarm they're still intending to use for now.

@paulhellyer
But *any* payment at all can be a barrier for people - do we really want to obligate people to pay?

This was graphically illustrated to me when I recently said that InternetNZ's $21/year membership fee shouldn't be a barrier. The person sitting next to me reminded me that if I were on the benefit, it would mean having to give up several blocks of cheese or bus fares.

I felt correctly chastised.
Strypey mastodon (AP)
> I recently said that InternetNZ's $21/year membership fee shouldn't be a barrier

There's a huge difference between an ongoing subscription and a one-time contribution.

> The person sitting next to me reminded me that if I were on the benefit, it would mean having to give up several blocks of cheese or bus fares

I am on a benefit and have been for most of my adult life, due to various forms of neurodivergence that make me completely unsuitable for most paid roles.

@paulhellyer
It would be great if we could develop a menu of nonfinancial ways in which people could contribute and be engaged.
Strypey mastodon (AP)
> It would be great if we could develop a menu of nonfinancial ways in which people could contribute and be engaged

100% agree. This is precisely what I've spent my career doing, due to being chronically broke. But I can afford a $2-5 one-off contribution to join a service, and I stand by the arguments I made in favour of this.

@paulhellyer


Anyone in Colorado willing to give away one or two old PCs? Need to be working (though no disk drive is OK), have at least one spare PCIe 3.0 (or 4.0) x8 or x16 slot, and a 2 GHz or faster CPU. That basically requires a PC made in 2012 or newer. Monitor, keyboard, mouse not required.
This is for testing PCIe 40G Ethernet NICs, transceivers, and fiber jumpers, separate from my "production" network.
All my spare PCs aew too old, and I have no money to spend.
Thanks!
big awoo notation sharkey (AP)
I'm sitting here with two i7-11700s in the house, each already several generations old, and I'm like "man, 6th generation is already obsolete?"
Joel Michael mastodon (AP)
@lofty lol I just “upgraded” from an i7-2600K to a 6th-gen i7


Marietje Schaake mastodon (AP)
Feest bij de Russische geheime diensten FSB, GROe en SVR: Hongarije laat 'gastarbeiders' uit Rusland en Belarus toe zónder veiligheidsonderzoek. Twee jaar geldig, kan verlengd worden, familieleden mogen mee. De 'gastarbeiders' kunnen ook alle Schengenlanden bezoeken. Ongekend...
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/yasminalombaert/status/1816779838419607963#m
</p>

[2024-07-26 12:21 UTC]

Liam :fnord: mastodon (AP)
When I went up to get my lunch there were a group of men in suits having coffee, one wearing what looked like a lot like bikie colours, a vest with patches and ribbon trim. Then I saw he was wearing an Iron Cross looking medal on a necklace and thought oh, that’s not good. Then I realised all these men were also wearing aprons and gloves, it’s the Freemasons


Die Lobbyagentur WMP und ihre Freunde...

(Bitte nicht verwechseln: Der "Ex-Außenminister und SPD-Vorsitzende Sigmar Gabriel" ist lediglich ein Freund der Lobbyagentur. Lobbyieren tut er im Interesse von anderen: der Deutschen Bank und ThyssenKrupp Steel, siehe 🧵)
Der Screenshot von der WMP-Homepage zeigt ein Foto von Sigmar Gabriel unter der Überschrift: "Unsere Freunde über uns" - darunter das Zitat von Gabriel: "Wer groß denkt, muss globale Brücken bauen."
EU-Bankenabgabe: Sigmar Gabriel lobbyierte bei Merkel für die Deutsche Bank
https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/lobbyismus/sigmar-gabriel-lobbyierte-bei-merkel-fuer-die-deutsche-bank
Tätigkeit als Stahllobbyist: Wie Sigmar Gabriel einem Milliardenkonzern die Tür zur Bundesregierung öffnete
https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/lobbyismus/wie-sigmar-gabriel-einem-milliardenkonzern-die-tuer-zur-bundesregierung-oeffnete

+++ Großspenden-Ticker +++
NEU: 50.000 Euro an die #SPD von Hans-Dieter Lochmann, Berlin (Investor)
https://www.bundestag.de/parlament/praesidium/parteienfinanzierung/fundstellen50000/2024/
Screenshot Bundestagswebsite:

"Juli 2024

SPD: 50.000 Euro

Hans-Dieter Lochmann
10437 Berlin

Spendendatum: 25.07.2024
Meldedatum: 26.07.2024"
#sPD


LaplacePhi mastodon (AP)
#KiTa #entwicklung
Wir hatten gestern Entwicklungsgespräch und jetzt bin ich echt in der Zwickmühle. Unser Kind ist 2,5, kognitiv und sprachlich sehr weit. Aus unserer Sicht ist er auch motorisch total fit.
Das Problem ist, motorisch scheint er in der Kita nicht alles zu zeigen was er so kann (ich vermute kein Bock weil er merkt dass die Testen) und sie schätzen das jetzt als kritisch ein.
Hinzu kommt, dass er wohl ab und an sehr verträumt ist und er sich durch Geräusche leicht 1/3
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LaplacePhi mastodon (AP)
Ablenken lässt. Auf der anderen Seite macht er aber wenn die Umgebung passt, ganz akribisch große Bügelperlen.
Außerdem scheint er manche Dinge wie Händewaschen manchmal zu können und dann wieder nicht (ich vermute wieder, kein Bock).

Sie empfehlen jetzt die Frühförderung zu kontaktieren, weil die Konzentration und die Ablenkbarkeit aus ihrer Sicht den Übergang in den Kindergarten im März gefährden. Ich sehe das eher als normal für nen 2,5 Jährigen. Ich habe kein Problem mit Förderung sehe 2/3
LaplacePhi mastodon (AP)
Aber den Bedarf nicht wirklich. Auf der anderen Seite will ich aber auch nix versäumen. Hat irgendwer hier vll ähnliche Erfahrungen gemacht?

Ich weiß natürlich dass sowas immer individuell ist, aber ich glaube austausch würde mir helfen.

3/3
#eltern
LaplacePhi mastodon (AP)
mein Gedanke.
Ich finde die sollen einfach Kind sein dürfen. Er wird ja erst nächstes Jahr drei.

Danke euch, ich hab echt schon gedacht ich bin völlig auf dem falschen Dampfer

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1363631/ Donald Trump is suddenly running scared — and he ought to be #AnythingGoesNews #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #WorldNews
Donald Trump is suddenly running scared — and he ought to be

Ian Langham mastodon (AP)
Snoops there. There should be a side event where people take an edible and smoke a blunt with snoop and then have to race to assemble ikea furniture...

If Martha Stewart were there it could be a cooking competition

#Olympics2024
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Myphatself mastodon (AP)
I could be an Olympic hopeful in that category for sure.
Ian Langham mastodon (AP)
I worked in the back at a few places. I might be good at it. Been a while and I am old. I want to watch someone else break stuff.

I guess art handlers and warehouse people might destroy every one though...
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Randahl Fink mastodon (AP)
The postponed sentencing of Donald Trump’s 34 counts of falsifying business records will likely happen on September 18 this year.

Source: Glenn Kirschner

#uspol
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Mx. Luna Corbden mastodon (AP)
Wondering if you’d mind using the #USPol tag on this stuff? I like boosting important pol stuff, but I’ve had complaints, and I can’t add CWs or hashtags to what I boost. It’s going to be a long nasty election season and people should have easy ways to filter.
Randahl Fink mastodon (AP)
@corbden added. Boost away! 🙂

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1363629/ MAGA: “Libs are so hysterical saying Trump will destroy democracy!” #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #UsPolitics
MAGA: “Libs are so hysterical saying Trump will destroy democracy!”


AmiW Streetart 🍃 mastodon (AP)
⚪ Mehr... Lieblingsfotos?
🟤 More... Favorite photos?
📷 by Artist: #JohnDrysdale in Loc.: unknown, England UK 🇬🇧 1986 - Title: "My Greatest Friend" Series - #Streetart #Art #Retro #Animals #Elephant #Artist #Photography #Fotografie #BnW ➡️ #APhotoLove
Photograph. A black and white photo of a little girl sitting on the leg of a reclining elephant and reading. The photo shows the two of them in a meadow. The little blonde girl with white knee-high socks is sitting on the elephant with her legs crossed and is engrossed in reading a Yogi Bear book, while the elephant looks calmly ahead.
Info: The photo is part of a series and comes from the popular illustrated book "Our Peaceable Kingdom" by John Drysdale, a heart-warming ode to friendship between different animal species. About the elephant who had grown up with the girl, he said: "He had the unusual ability to sit on his haunches. Amazing.
Rembrandt1405 mastodon (AP)
Kinder und Tiere, tolle Freundschaft😊

Guten Morgen Ami ☕🥨🥞
AmiW Streetart 🍃 mastodon (AP)
@Rembrandt0514 Mooiiiiiiiin ☕🥐🥐 ja eine besondere Zirkusfamilie 🎪


Lauren Weinstein mastodon (AP)
Fun Fact: You can create a word in German to say pretty much anything, but you'd better declare a really long buffer before you try.
Kevin mastodon (AP)
Kinderzimmerkleiderschrankreparierensrechnung
I'm Afrikaans. The language has the same feature which made learning German a lot easier.
Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein is the name of a farm in South Africa. It has its own wikipedia entry. It means "the spring where two buffaloes were shot stone-dead with one shot"
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