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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

    As a U.S. citizen, I can only say that the only time I have heard
    "current situation" used to imply an instability would be in the
    conspiracy threads on reddit, which is obviously a regional
    implication.  Since we are dealing with a world-wide audience pretty
    much everyone here limits their speech to the most common meanings
    of such words without attempting to imply any sub-text.  You are
    jumping to the conclusion of a non-standard definition of the words,
    so it makes me wonder if you are attempting to imply that there is
    in fact a conspiracy here.  If so, why would you think that from a
    general news blurb?  If not, then why are you trying to lead others
    to think there is a conspiracy?

On 08/20/2018 06:04 PM, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:

"Current situation" usually implies instability of some sort, as if a business is about to shut down due to lack of funds.

Probably half of the "trolling" going on right now is because of the differences between users' *native* languages, rather than the languages used on the mailing list. 
As another user pointed out, a for-German-eyes-only post about me used phrases which Google translated as nonsense with words like "round" "quick shot" and with "Mr. Quintiliani" and "demolition" in the same sentence. A German speaker, I forget who, pointed out that these are literal translations of German expressions which do not imply death threats.

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-Dan Q

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:54:02 -0600, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

> "OpenNIC's current situation" means this is the way things are at the 
> moment.  The news article basically states that FurNIC is being 
> redefined as a 'peer' to opennic since this is technically what they 
> have really been for a number of years.  It doesn't change the 
> relationship between opennic and furnic, it simply changes the wording 
> to more clearly identify it as what it really is.
>
> However all of this should have been understood from the news article, 
> despite it being obvious that English is not their first language.  Did 
> you read the article before commenting?  Do you need help reading the 
> English language?  You seem to have a lot to say in English on the 
> mailing list so I don't understand why you are having an issue 
> understanding what is being written here, however if you need someone to 
> help you interpret the text being discussed then perhaps we can help 
> you?  Otherwise, what exactly are you trying to ask since the answer you 
> were given apparently did not answer the question you thought you were 
> asking?
>
>
> On 08/20/2018 03:34 PM, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> > So what's "OpenNIC's current situation" then?
> >
> > --
> >
> > -Dan Q
> >
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:25:10 +0000, Philipp Schafft <lion AT lion.leolix.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Good afternoon,
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2018-08-20 at 16:05 -0400, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> > > > May I ask what "OpenNIC's current situation" is? Is it "democracy" or do you just not like certain people on the list including myself?
> > > >             
> > > The managers of the FurNIC released a news article that's only intention
> > > is to clarify the relation between OpenNIC and FurNIC as there has been
> > > confusion in the past. That's what it is. Nothing else.
> > >
> > > With best regards,
> > >
> > >
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