Maybe the November 2024 spike was caused by VPN users?

I further looked up interest in the search term Lemmy as a social network in Iceland over the last five years and found a peak in November 2024.

I can’t really find a good explanation for that. Lemmy Kilmister was both born and died in the month of December, but this doesn’t explain an Iceland specific peak only in the year 2024, nine years after his death and 79 years after his birth. There was also a concert by the band GulaR bauniR the Lemmy in Reykjavik in November 2023, maybe that’s the reason?

Your chart of world-wide interest in the search term Lemmy as a social network shows a peak in July 2023, probably caused by the Reddit API drama. Iceland, meanwhile, is curiously the country with the most imterest in this search term.

Google offers three categorizations for the search term Lemmy:

• this social network,
• the musician Lemmy Kilmister, and
• a film about his life.

I looked up interest in the search term Lemmy in Iceland specifically without applying any categorization, for all time and for the last five years.

On the first chart (all time), there are two noticeable peaks: one in 2015, the year Lemmy Kilmister died, and one in 2022, about a year before the Reddit API drama.

On the second chart (last 5 years), there are noticeable peaks every summer since 2022. I googled Iceland Lemmy, and stumbled across a bar, restaurant and music venue in Reykjavik called Lemmy. I’d guess it’s named after Kilmister. This venue’s Facebook page was created in October 2021. Some more research brought up a rock festival organised by the venue called ROKKHÁTÍÐ LEMMY which seems to take place every year since 2022 in late July or early August.

My guess is that Google, to some degree at least, confuses interest in this festival for interest in the social network of the same name.

No, that would be stealing ideas from centrist democrats.

The UK’s first-past-the-post electoral system usually ensures that one party wins more than 50% of seats, often without winning more than 50% of the votes.

Von Neumann to the right of Mendel

February 17, Hodenhagen

February 18, Düsseldorf

February 18, Hamburg

In a country as large as Germany, such incidents are bound to happen fairly regularly. But international media usually only reports them if the perpetrator is a foreigner. A headline like “German man (25) from Hamburg stabs female relative (51)” won’t receive much attention, after all. This though obviously distorts the public’s perception of what is going on.

With a quick Google search I could find three knife attacks in Germany in the last few days not involving any foreigners. Why should knife attacks by foreigners be singler out like in that article?

Her sign doesn’t tell people who don’t think she’s sexy what to do. A better statement would have been: run if and only if you think I’m sexy.

The countries south of Germany are generally poorer and couldn’t individually take in nearly as many refugees as Germany. Germany in return heavily benefits from free trade across Europe. Closing its borders and letting southern Europe struggle would have pretty negative economic consequences for Germany. Denmark doesn’t have the same problem. If Germany, Italy, France and co take care of most refugees, they will still trade with Germany. Should these countries get overwhelmed and start to struggle, Denmark would feel the economic repercussions but would be unable to help in a meaningful way by taking in some of these refugees due to its relatively small size.

Sweden did so voluntarily. Countries like Germany and especially Italy have less of a choice.

Marder documentaries (where Germans learn everything there is to know about Mustelidae)

A gold-digger

So your argument is that neighbouring Sweden could replicate Denmark’s policy?

My argument was that such a policy can only work for countries like Denmark or Sweden that are far away from any country refugees might come from and relies on other countries in between to take in all the refugees. This obviously wouldn’t stop Denmark from changing course and taking in more refugees, like Sweden.

Which only works because there are other countries in between Denmark and the majority of places refugees come from that have the capacity to take in these refugees. Denmark is lucky it can hide behind Italy, Germany and co.

For Meta, it’s all about the money.

And avoiding regulation

Neuschwanstein (1892) is younger than the White House (1819).

Diese Fraktionslosen wurden ja auch alle ursprünglich für die AfD in den Bundestag gewählt. Wissing (ehemals FDP) und Seidler (SSW) waren die einzigen Fraktionslosen, die mit nein gestimmt haben.

Ich auch, und das sehr positiv

Vielleicht hätte ich einen roten Kreis einbauen sollen.

Edit: Jetzt ist er da