An explanation for the French one:
It’s the id of a law that allow the president to bypass one of the chamber. This is of course one of those “it’s just in case of emergency, bro. I swear we will not use it to force the passage of unpopular laws, bro…”
It has been used 420 times by the current government.
420 is definitely not a funny number in the Netherlands. Except maybe with the permanently online or stoner crowd. I’ve never heard or seen a joke with 420 in the Netherlands. Most people wouldn’t even get what it means and more people would recognize 69 as a funny number than 420.
Wondering why Poland and Turkey aren’t in the “Other” category when as far as I can see they’re the only ones with that number
On a separate topic, I am thinking about creating a more laid-back, relaxed community for Europeans, without news (as they seem to be the central focus of this community). I’m still investigating which server would be the best to host it, lemm.ee seems to be a good candidate.
I really liked YUROP on the spezSite, they had good silly memes about Europe and were eager to post pro-Europe stuff.
I joined a similarly named community when I switched to Lemmy, but it died off pretty quickly !yurop@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
Maybe we could revive it, speak with their mod, or create a new one that’s active?
Interesting, thanks for the pointer! http://lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz/ seems down indeed, so I guess this one is lost.
I’ll probably post a dedicated post today or tomorrow about this, I can ping you if you want
It would be awesome to have a laid-back Europe community on lemm.ee, let me know if I can support you in any way with that!
That’s for the offer, but isn’t the kbin.social hosted in the US? https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list
What about 1312, 1337, 161 or 42?
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