The tech bro hive mind on HN is furiously flagging (i.e., voting into invisibility) any submissions dealing with Tesla, Elon Musk or the kafkaesque US immigration detention situation. Add “/active” to the URL to see.
The site’s moderator says it’s fine because users are “tired of the repetition”. Repetition of what exactly? Attempts to get through the censorship wall?
I suppose it’d be Regeln sind Regeln in German, though I don’t know if that’s an actual saying there or not.
I just started learning German recently* and so far it’s a lovely language. I’ve already noticed how similar Dutch is just from browsing Wiktionary. Wiktionary is great because it has a declension / conjugation chart for every word I’ve tried – a lot of dictionaries kind of assume you already know the grammar basics.
* As part of some in-progress US exit plans I’m not ready to talk about just yet because they might still fall through