Ja, die meisten Ameisen verschwinden, weil ihr Lebensraum zerstört wird, unter anderem durch Pestizide oder weil z.B. weniger totes Holz in den Wäldern gelassen wird.
Wenn man als Ameise nur 'ne bewässerte Wiese braucht, dann kann ich mir schon vorstellen, dass dein Garten Freude bereitet.

Kann gerade keine wirklich gute Statistik finden, aber hier sieht man zum Beispiel in Abb. 2, dass 60% der Ameisenarten in Deutschland rückläufig sind: https://www.bmuv.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Download_PDF/Artenschutz/bericht_insektensterben_bf.pdf

I’m guessing, the translators just looked at typical English Legalese and emulated that style (even though the German text also uses the stronger “is”). For example, the US constitution is also written with “shall be”: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

Ultimately, no matter how you formulate it, constitutions do still need to be upheld by people. Both, their continued existence, but also enforcement.

Comeback as in “A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.”

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comeback

Franklin’s response is the ‘comeback’ in this case.

Official translation is “Human dignity shall be inviolable”, but yeah, same thing.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.html#p0020

Really don’t feel like this one needed a comeback. Publicly posting that is enough of a self-own.

I also enjoy “one”. There’s just a random “w” in there when you pronounce it.

We have a concept of word inflection, which can be used to replace a lot of words that English would use to denote something being a question, ownership markers, causes and effects etc.

I don’t speak Finnish, but I believe a good example for such an inflection is how in English you can glue an -s to words to make them plural. In some other languages, you say “many word” instead, because they don’t have such an inflection.

Hab vor 'ner Weile im Laden “Ameisen-Buffet” gesehen und dachte, krass, hätte nicht gedacht, dass das schon im Mainstream angekommen ist, dass die Ameisen in Deutschland aktuell hart am Aussterben sind, so dass es genug Interesse an einem Produkt wie dem Bienenhotel nur eben für Ameisen gibt.

Ja, es war Gift.

Hmm, what’s the berry he holds in his hand? I don’t think the others are poisonous, except maybe if you do eat them whole, then I don’t know…

It’s mainly horrid, because it means you have to code extremely defensively (or I guess, use a different API).
You can’t rely on new Date("not a date") aborting execution of your function by throwing an error. Instead, you have to know that it can produce an Invalid Date object and check for that. Otherwise a random NaN shows up during execution, which is gonna be extremely fun to try to find the source of.

I understand that it’s implemented like that partially for historical reasons, partially because it’s often better to display “NaN” rather than nothing, but it’s still the sort of behavior that puts me in a cold sweat, because I should be memorizing all kinds of Best Practices™ before trying to code JavaScript.

(saying something more realistic like “2015” or whatever your inexperience or AI told you to)

User input is probably the big one where this API is gonna get stress-tested…

Hmm, I can believe that it was based on java.util.Date, but I don’t remember that being as unpredictable. I guess, a different API to begin with, would have avoided a lot of problems, though…

I do enjoy the irony of them ignoring that particular social cue. 🙃

“Elmer’s” is a glue manufacturer, for others wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer’s_Products

For testing new speakers, this song: http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Robbero/59698

I’ll let the hivemind know that we’re supposed to have only one opinion.

On a definitely related note, I’ve recently been thinking it’s wild how we build foot paths out of rocks and then put on rubber socks for actually walking on them.

In other words, asphalt is a scam by Big Foot to sell more shoes.

I imagine, they can still get inflamed gums or similar, if something gets stuck in there…

I believe, you have to take turns pushing down individual teeth. By random chance, it will close the mouth when you do that. So, you lose when you get bitten.

I’m always amazed how badly companies understand the concept of human interaction. Showing appreciation requires putting in some amount of effort. If you just type some words into a box and an image comes out, that’s not anything. Might as well use the first clipart that comes up in image search…