ï, ö, ü, ä as well (as a diaeresis, not an umlaut)

At least here in the Netherlands, there was a lot of commotion because a data centre tried to buy a windmill park meant to power households as their dedicated power source

Maybe they're Dutch, there it's only done for words that end in a vowel. Probably not though.

feddit.nl heeft wat Nederlandse gemeenschappen (bijvoorbeeld !thenetherlands@feddit.nl) die normaal zijn, maar ze zijn niet echt actief

In Dutch we only talk about turning screws clockwise and counterclockwise

I don't know about Germany, but in the Netherlands people also kept giving that "no farmers no food" argument even though we produce much more than we actually eat. Most of our food is for export.

Also a thing in the Netherlands!

He has a bunch of English ones on his website as well. Some of them are just the dumbest, least translatable puns though (in a good way).

Sometimes you just have to feed the canal, you know?

Chips? Fries are patat or friet here, depending on whether you're a heretic.

Oof I had no idea. Hopefully the admin will come back soon.

I've never been a Twitter user, but this makes me wish I could follow Mastodon users from here

Unrelated, but it's kind of weird that !politics@lemmy.world is US politics even though there's nothing American about lemmy.world