I remember it like it was yesterday - slipping into my tracksuit chainmail and popping down to the Gregg’s with good old Aslan. That was before the Dangerous Big Cats bill.
Ok, that’s a new one. Calling you a fascist for saying Lenin was a Marxist…
I can usually take these liberal takes in stride, but this is like they invented some new kind of weapon. I feel this weird itch to engage with them somehow, and that’s not healthy.
So I’ve been having trouble swallowing food if I don’t chew properly for a while. I guess it’s part of getting older, but last week it morphed into a medical emergency. One mouthful of food got stuck and I actually threw it up. It must have done something in my throat, because the day after I vomited blood and my shit...
My favorite part of this is that the lunch eggs can be “poached if necessary”. What do they mean, “necessary”? When they are prescribing a diet they could just tell us to eat 2 hard-boiled eggs for lunch, but instead they pause and concede that it may be impossible to have the lunch eggs be hard-boiled for some unspecified reason.
I am a bit bothered by how the modern borders of Croatia seem like they are designed just to prevent Bosnia and Hercegovina from having a coast. I get that you can have a thin country, but they are really pushing it. Give them one beach!
I think it is kind of darkly funny that “small country that is in the Eurovision despite being wholly located in Asia and should be banned for commiting ethnic cleansing/genocide” is actually a category with more than one member. Because they also let Azerbajdzjan in every year.
Ok, who’s next in line and how many of these fuckers have to go before we end up with a severely disabled child emperor ruling through an all-powerful caste of eunuch beurocrats?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing after conducting a nighttime boarding mission Thursday off the coast of Somalia, according to three U.S. officials....
Who could have seen this coming? Some kind of Pac Man looking dude, but instead of only having a big mouth he is just one big eyeball? An oracle granted the gift of foresight by the gods of Olympus, surgically grafted to the Hubble telescope? Some kind of special forces operator known only as “Spotter Wolf” who is teaching a teenage miscreant how to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend from the Taliban using nothing but throwing knives? They probably could see this coming.
Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, manuscripts in Aramaic, Arabic, and Hebrew, the illuminated Christian Gospels, the Talmud, the Koran—with these forms and collections of writing came the expectation that a person would read them out loud and would, in a manner of speaking, conjure their reality. In his book A...
Silent reading is actually a shockingly recent invention. Because the letters “make sounds”, the natural way to process a phonetic alphabet is to make the sounds of the letters as you read them and listen to yourself speaking the text. This goes on way later than many people realize. Being able to do silent reading at all was still a pretty remarkable skill in the time of Shakespeare. Being unable to read something without speaking the words was common probably well into the 19th century. Actually, as someone who works in education I can tell you that I will still recommend kids to read things out loud if they find something difficult. It’s what phonetic writing languages were designed for, and it increases accuracy and comprehension.
I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.
The idea that different parts of the tongue are responsible for feeling different tastes. This blatantly false idea was made up in 1901 out of thin air and then made its way into biology classrooms somehow. It was taught to schoolchildren (including me) for about 100 years as a biological fact, even though every human being in that time proved it false by experiment thousands of times by eating things and tasting them with the “wrong” parts of the tongue. It doesn’t quite count as an example of this happening today, because we finally realized that it simply wasn’t true and have stopped teaching it, but still: 100 years is a long time to realize that something is false when every human being in the world is confronted with physical evidence several times every day.
…Wait, why did they bring the Swedish flags out for this? Denying that our schools have masturbation rooms makes sense, making it a point of national pride that they don’t is really, really weird.
This is some very weak libertarianism. First, he should not be recognizing that any country at all should have sovereignty over anything. Second, he should not accept that anything is ‘non-negotiable’. And third, this conflict of interest is more than 40 years old at this point, and showing any kind of enthusiastic interest in something that old goes against the very founding idea of libertarianism.
A true libertarian would argue that the Falklands should be the sovereign territory of the highest bidding private investor and that everything is negotiable. And they would reserve their passionate interest for Snapchat, which turns 12 this year.
Wait… Are you guys not doing the Highlander thing? Because I’ve been cutting the heads off of other Lemmy users to absorb their power, but if there can actually be more than one true Lemmy user then wow… That is some egg on my face, but anyway the monthly users should start increasing again once I stop!
Sincerely, the 900 or so Lemmy users I for lack of a better word now “represent”.
I don’t get it. Not saying that in a sarcastic way, I literally do not understand if this meme is for or against leftist/anarchist unity. Maybe I’m just old?
Since the calendar shift was already explained, it may be fun to know that there were two revolutions in Russia in 1917, both named after the wrong month. The February revolution took place in March and the October revolution took place in November. Just as a bit of trivia.
The October revolution? Yeah, we do know how that ended. Or are you talking about how a state that did not yet exist at the time ended close to 80 years later, when the revolutionaries themselves were all dead and buried? Cause if we are bringing all subsequent generations into this I guess we all know that it simply did not end.
Existential trolley problem (mander.xyz)
In Yesterday's Britain 🇬🇧 A Better Britain 🇬🇧 (c.l3n.co)
I remember it like it was yesterday - slipping into my tracksuit chainmail and popping down to the Gregg’s with good old Aslan. That was before the Dangerous Big Cats bill.
I’m a man of many talents (i.imgur.com)
we live in an explosion (mander.xyz)
I'm back from the hospital!
So I’ve been having trouble swallowing food if I don’t chew properly for a while. I guess it’s part of getting older, but last week it morphed into a medical emergency. One mouthful of food got stuck and I actually threw it up. It must have done something in my throat, because the day after I vomited blood and my shit...
Been living like this for years, didn't know it was a diet till now (hexbear.net)
Yeah yeah more stale memes stolen from twitter
Someone should tell him (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Finnish and Icelandic artists call for Israel to be banned from Eurovision (www.theguardian.com)
King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says (www.bbc.com)
Planck (file.coffee)
redditors currently discovering that the drawbacks of calling everyone left of bernie a tankie is that people just stop caring about the word tankie (hexbear.net)
Shot:...
Two Navy SEALs are missing after a night mission off the coast of Somalia (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing after conducting a nighttime boarding mission Thursday off the coast of Somalia, according to three U.S. officials....
U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine (www.telesurenglish.net)
TIL most ancient texts were read out loud and it was strange if someone read to themself (lithub.com)
Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, manuscripts in Aramaic, Arabic, and Hebrew, the illuminated Christian Gospels, the Talmud, the Koran—with these forms and collections of writing came the expectation that a person would read them out loud and would, in a manner of speaking, conjure their reality. In his book A...
We must resist (discuss.tchncs.de)
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny located in Arctic prison 3 weeks after contact with him lost (www.scmp.com)
"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today?
I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.
KISSINGER DIED ON MY BIRTHDAY
HELL FUCKING YES HELL FUCKING YES HAHAHAHAHAHA
Sweden denies Polish official's claim its preschools have "masturbation rooms" (notesfrompoland.com)
Falklands claims by Argentina while a UK tory government is staring down the barrel of a horrible election? I've seen this one before (hexbear.net)
1984 but it’s actually 82
Why? Are we not doing enough? (file.coffee)
by fedidb.org
My experience the past day. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
On this day in 1917 the October Revolution started, marking the rise of the Soviet Union (lemmygrad.ml)
It changed Russia from a tsarist emprie into a global socialist superpower within decades....