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I don’t think this is a name clash in any meaningful way but I’d nevertheless like to share that in Dutch, a “stemfie” is a selfie that you take from inside the

• Beldin 2y ago
  As someone who studied privacy in voting, it's horrific that we have a word for this. Cat was out of the bag when the then-minister (of the interior) started pushing this. Somehow, despite the "how are you, fellow kids" vibe, the word became unstoppable. Too bad no one explained the minister that we'd like to not enable vote buying (nor other forms of boter coercion). (The official guidelines make a distinction between allowed - no info visible - and illegal stemfies, but no one's doing any enforcement.)
• aleph_minus_one 2y ago
  > in Dutch, a “stemfie” is a selfie that you take from inside the voting booth and I love that we have a 7 character word for that. If we are talking about voting and words from Germanic languagues: with just one vowel difference (when pronounced), there exists the German (derogatory) word "Stimmvieh" [vote cattle] > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimmvieh https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimmvieh * for voters who vote for a party or candidate without informing themselves about their actual political goals and qualifications * for politicians who vote for their party line because they fear sanctions if they don't * for how politicans see their voters: just a stupid cattle that put them into power
  • t0mas88 2y ago
    That word also exists in Dutch, but as "stemvee"