Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.worldcake to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoA Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Insteadwww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square152fedilinkarrow-up11.24Kcross-posted to: usa@midwest.social
arrow-up11.24Kexternal-linkA Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Insteadwww.404media.coSome_Emo_Chick@lemmy.worldcake to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square152fedilinkcross-posted to: usa@midwest.social
minus-squareBluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·24 days agoThis has nothing to do with any translation of any language, it’s a US English expression.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·24 days agoIt is a joke. They are intimating that texas makes so many mistakes that “Don’t mess with texas” may be a blowhard boast to texans, but to everyone else it means “just let the idiots wreck themselves”
minus-squareBluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·24 days agoStill has nothing to do with translating anything from any other language.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·24 days agoAnd since they doubled down on it being the actual origin when pressed on it, I don’t think they were joking.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·23 days ago…it was pretty obviously a shitpost, dude.
minus-squareironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·23 days agoAbsolutely not. You don’t double down on a joke.
minus-squareironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·23 days agoAlso that ‘Texas’ is synonymous with ‘enemy’ for all Americans.
This has nothing to do with any translation of any language, it’s a US English expression.
It is a joke.
They are intimating that texas makes so many mistakes that “Don’t mess with texas” may be a blowhard boast to texans, but to everyone else it means “just let the idiots wreck themselves”
Still has nothing to do with translating anything from any other language.
And since they doubled down on it being the actual origin when pressed on it, I don’t think they were joking.
…it was pretty obviously a shitpost, dude.
Absolutely not. You don’t double down on a joke.
Also that ‘Texas’ is synonymous with ‘enemy’ for all Americans.