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Facebook's Days Are Numbered (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Gotta love ELSTER, my favorite social media platform.

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ELSTER, short for ELektronische STeuerERklärung (electronic tax return), is the official German software/web page for creating and submitting your tax return. It has the same logo as Diaspora.

Elster is also the German term for magpie.

The logo:

[–] AlligatorBlizzard 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tax Software called magpie

And they say Germans don't have a sense of humor!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We don't know if this was merely an accident.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I doubt so. The association between magpies and theft is fairly strong in German:

(diebisch = thieving)

Source: DWDS (digital dictionary of the German language - publicly financed)

A logDice of 10.1 is extremely high by the way. For example, "war" has a score of 10.8 with "cold", an 8.1 with "peace" and a 7.3 with "against terror".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I was joking.

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