It also didn't help that Poettering isn't particularly popular on a personal level. I think there would have been a lot less drama if he had better people skills.
It's also a volume thing. By the time I reach a reddit comment thread what I wanted to say has already been said, and if I say it again my comment will drown in a sea of heavily upvoted comments. On lemmy you can be several days late to the party and still get both upvotes and responses.
Doesn't matter who you're talking about, my comment is equally valid no matter who you directed your tirade at. Do you think the developers did that as a personal attack on you? Just report the bug in a civilized way! There's no need for attitude.
Edit: And if you think the devs won't see that, it's pretty likely they're checking the comments in the upgrade notification of the largest Lemmy instance in existence.
Almost forgot "jalla" or "jallamekk", originally adopted by Norwegian military from a middle eastern word for "fast", meaning a quick and dirty, but not particularly high quality, solution.
I've found that the meaning depends on regional differences in both English and Norwegian, and as a result I never use "next Sunday". I say "Sunday in a week and a half" or the date instead.
In Norwegian we say "helt sylta" ("completely pickled") when we have a very stuffy nose. I tried using that idiom when calling out of work in the US once, and was informed that I had just told them I was too drunk to go to work!
In Norwegian we say either "you shit on your leg", "you shit on the shovel" or "you shit on the drawbar (of a horse-drawn carriage)" for the same thing.
And if you're "out bicycling" you're making a mistake, like if you're doing a crossword and you realize that some of the previous words definitely weren't right, or you're doing math and you realize that you definitely made a calculation error earlier because nothing makes sense.
If someone says you're "all out on the field" ("helt på jordet") it means they think what you just said was completely wrong.
The Norwegian equivalent of "a hard act to follow" is "like (ski) jumping after Wirkola", a ski jumper who was definitely way better than both you and everyone else.
And if there are owls in the moss ("ugler i mosen") something is pretty fishy.
You wouldn't think so from the amount of churches you see around, but I guess they feed the homeless and run preschools out of their basements more than they do actual preaching these days.
There's an old myth that Ballard used to require a church be constructed for every bar, and they really liked bars.
It also didn't help that Poettering isn't particularly popular on a personal level. I think there would have been a lot less drama if he had better people skills.