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Remember when we thought that the internet was going to be a wonderful thing for the advancement of human knowledge instead of the Library of Babel, with Hitler as the librarian?

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I was working as a programmer on the Internet in the 1980s (before the WWW and social media). Had I known, I'd have given up and joined a monastery.
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@Andrew Ginty Also date from before the eternal September. I worked for ARM in the 90s as well. It’s my fault too.

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I realise this is just the difference output looking silly but I am easily amused by Harris’s burst of groceries bsky.app/profile/nytdiff.bsky.…


Does black mould cause transphobic brain worms send tweet.





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Long form, on fascism on western democracies

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British middle class: These far right riots were disgusting! Where were the police while all this was going on?

Rage Against The Machine: Was there some lack of clarity on our part?



Another name for hydrochloric acid is muriatic acid. My Latin ears immediately pricked and wondered if this was squished down mice (mus, muris) or something to do with destroying a wall (murus, muri). But no, it's derived from the Latin muriaticus meaning "pickled", from muria "brine". Thus neatly connecting it to another name for hydrochoric acid: spirit of salt.

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huh. Brine in French is _saumure_. I wonder if that's related and if so what the _sau_ morpheme is.
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@pseudomonas Sau sounds like it may be related to sal/salt/zout. So that would make it 'salt brine'?
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@pseudomonas Maybe even 'as opposed to pickled with vinegar or lactic acid'?

The Dutch word for hydrochloric acid is 'zoutzuur' (literally 'salt acid').

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sounds plausible; middle french messes with terminal -l words to make them dipthongs, as part of the consonant eradication programme.
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@wynke wiktionary says
> Inherited from Old French salmuire, from Late Latin salimuria, from Latin sal + muria.
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Offal

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@wynke I have just looked up "offal" to see if this CW was in fact labelled strictly correctly, and I'm facepalming at not realising hitherto that it's cognate with _afval_ (and _Abfall_).
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@pseudomonas That one was pretty obvious to me, but then I'm Dutch so I learned 'afval' first. (And my brain really likes to find these connections between languages, although I miss many too.)
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A good word in the lingo of the Olympics is "repechage" which is a sort of second chance to get through to the next stage of a competition. I assume it's from the French and means something like "fishing again"


Bless the hearts of lemmy types thinking that they can play Reddit fiefdom silly buggers on fedi.
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Reddit: you violate subsection 12, clause 14b, section g of the rules and we absolutely have the power to ban you and remove all your posts.

Fedi: I wrote a rules novel. What do you mean I can’t do shit to enforce it? If teacher existed, I’d tell on you!

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Dunno what it is about Reddit, but every single mod there secretly yearns to be a despotic president of one of those seppo HOAs.
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I think most "communities" are like this, tbh, even the fluffy ones, once you get under their skin. The more I see of society, the more I like plants. It all seems to be fine, until there starts being a *thing* independent of the individual pairs of relationships. Then it falls apart.


Dear cis people losing your minds about this boxing thing.

This is cis on cis. Please leave us out of your weird shit.

Signed,
Trans women

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TERFs having a normal one, destroying women’s sports because some of the cis competitors maybe remind them a bit of trans woman, none of whom ever qualify for anything anyway, even when allowed to compete.

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oh and also a good dose of racism, because when you scratch the surface, it's always there.
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@KateKarnage
I always forget who said "my feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit", but it seems really applicable here. (I know it from Flavia Dzodan but IIRC she's quoting someone else).


Boost/reskeet a message which already has 69? The struggle is real.


Watching the Olympic surfing. I’ve still not quite got used to the idea that goofy is a technical term.
in reply to Alexandra Lanes

Goofy footed is also in skateboarding and snowboarding. I am, in fact, goody footed. Basically a left footed boarder
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@Cyberspice Mm, I think I first encountered the term when @Sarah Brown was learning to SUP. No weirder than any other weird word in a specific context, like "squelch" when talking about radio.


Enshittification: coming soon to a mouse near you. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…

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Its a fudging device with a couple of buttons, a wheel and an optical sensor, why would you need updatable software when current os drivers can take care of the task fine! FFS! Down with capitalism and greedy bastards.
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Not a forever mouse but a forever pay for the mouse.
I'll stick with my already paid for Logitech mouse. They do make decent mice and keyboards


Cass deserves to go down alongside Wakefield in my opinion. This is a wholly biased piece of work, produced to order, and to suit an agenda, and that agenda is profoundly hostile to trans people. erininthemorning.com/p/british…


Mainstream social media: "wah wah satanic Olympics last supper"

My social media: "Actually the Jesus/Dionysus syncretism thing has a history going back at least to the 12th Century"

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Honestly the more I hear about European railways the more I appreciate those in GB. troet.cafe/@serac/112854885100…


Arrived on time, would have had plenty of time to make our connection of 15 min. But No. This was not bookable, only the one with 75 min layover. And thanks to the mandatory reservations, you can't just hop on the earlier train. Spain, wanna work on this or invest another billion on a new high speed line? Both saves one hour. Choose wisely.
#Madrid Puerta de Atocha, #Castilla #España
#TrainTravel #connection #Reservation
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fwiw belgian ones are pretty good - and very cheap compared to uk.


Cis people: Here’s a fun thought experiment! What would it be like to live as the other sex?

Trans people: Well, we might have …

Cis people: There’s no way we can ever know, lol!

Trans people: Er, hello?

Cis people: It will forever remain a mystery

Trans people: We’re right here

Cis people: So unknowable

in reply to Sarah Brown

Speaking only for myself (a cis woman), I'd worry that it might seem like an impolite question to ask a trans person. I wouldn't ever ask such a thing, unless I knew the person quite well (and even then I might hesitate). I wouldn't want to make someone feel "othered" just to satisfy my own curiosity.
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@marilyn some trans people might not want to talk about it. With me the trick would more be getting me to shut up.
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@Eric the Cerise I’ve read accounts from cis people who tried, gave themselves gender dysphoria, and got suicidal.

Caveat emptor



Estate agent be like, “you sold a house with us! Now you are on our mailing list! Why not sell ANOTHER HOUSE!!!

Er, because I’m, like, living in it?

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@Sarah Brown When I was getting mine valued I did get the sense of being prey to a variety of differently-suited predators.


British court upholds stochastic homicide of trans youth in UK.

Didn’t really expect anything else, but how bloody bleak.

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American Christians will tell everyone who isn’t them that we’re “special snowflakes” who need to toughen up, and in their next breath go utterly fucking nuclear on Facebook because the French dared to depict Bacchanalia.

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Not an original observation, but what they really hate is people not cowering in shame for being any degree different to them.


TERFs be like, “biology is immutable” as they sit there converting grass seed to skeletal muscle after having replaced >90% of their body mass in the last few years, while being descended from literal fish that breathed water.


Roomba: My bin may be full

Me: Given you just cleaned about as well as an oppositionally defiant teenager, I profoundly fucking doubt that.

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Just gonna preempt the “trans woman said ODD, that’s ableist, ha gotcha!” takes, I do in fact have ADHD with ODD so if you’re tempted, maybe just STFU instead?


Why do the right wing nut jobs have to be so fucking WEIRD?

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Literal grown ass adults thinking the devil is real, and complaining that he’s running the olympics or something. Fuck’s actual sake. Get a fucking grip.
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hahaha I grew up Catholic in the 1980s and the satanic panic in the U.S. was very real. My mom and stepdad really believed the conspiracy theory that the company Procter & Gamble supported the Church of Satan and communicated diabolical messages with their old crescent-moon logo. Now, QAnon is basically the same thing—baby boomers giving each other the chilly willies with spooky stories.
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I assume all those beautiful queer performers didn't go down well with them, either. I, on the other hand, had a constant grin on my face at how the organisers were rubbing it in their faces.




Check out these total losers. Iron tipped. Whoopee doo. One of mine is titanium cored. Where is your loser metal now? edition.cnn.com/2024/07/24/sci…
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you can make pretty oxide colours on it, but a bit wasted down inside an implant.
We do have a student looking at surface effects on implants for ossiointergration but I think they are more concerned with textures than colours.


France: Any journey shorter than 4 hours by train should not be allowed to be taken by plane.

Me, after using French railways for a couple of weeks: They’re running plane services for distances of only 100km?

I’m honestly shocked at how functionally useless French railways are. “Welcome to our interchange. Please wait 2 hours surrounded by screaming kids and chain smokers for your connection. No you can’t have a fucking coffee”

Dear the UK, you have it better than you could possibly believe.

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@TimWardCam well, we do have some 1 #train per 2 hour services overdue for improvement like Peterborough-Ipswich and a few daily oddballs like Cambridge-Harwich, but in general, GB regional service frequency beats French. Slower and fewer high speed services in GB though. Lots of 180 and 160kph lines with little bits of 205.
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@Alexa (She/Her) 🏳️‍⚧️ The infrastructure is clearly there to support integrated public transport. It just doesn't seem to be used to enable it.


Reading about the book that this Vance bloke wrote, and apparently it’s all, “I was poor growing up and struggled but saw people on benefits with phones and that’s not fair”.

And his conclusion seems to be that they shouldn’t have those things if he can’t.

I had a similar childhood, but reached a very different conclusion. I don’t want anyone to struggle. If someone else has something I don’t, I don’t actually care as long as I have what I need.

He seems to feel that what he wants is not for his own needs to be met per-se, but to be ahead of others. As long as he has the biggest slice of cake, it doesn’t matter how small the cake is.

I want enough cake, and I want the rest of the cake to have enough for everyone else.

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There’s the old LBJ adage about needing someone to look down on …
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same! I grew up in a declining industrial town, as the child of an unemployed single mother, growing our own food, couldn't afford a car, etc. I'm now a successful engineer and rich beyond my wildest childhood dreams (not a millionaire or anything, but still). And I want a UBI, and a free NHS with staff who get reasonable pay and work reasonable hours, and for kids to get free school meals, and nobody to be homeless or hungry. Can society afford that? Yes. Poverty costs us all.


Ok, but maybe some sort of IPx7 couch, to accommodate the dolphins?

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I've never seen the alleged cyber truck, and until I do, and confirm it's realistically drivable, I will hold firm to the perception that it's nothing more than a very expensive joke by a very bored gamer.


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Welcome to fucking France, where it is fucking impossible to not be fucking downwind of a fucking lit fucking cigarette at all fucking times.
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It's so bloody infuriating. What's worst are those ignorants smoking at bus/tram stations... That was banned (and people respect it) even in my otherwise super backwards Czechia. Ugh.


Happy π approximation day to those who celebrate. Don't let the continued fractions bite.

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In lieu of the whole "starter motor catching fire" incident, we have decided to end our voyage south for this year and leave the boat here in Quiberon. We Weill resume our journey south in the spring, after repairs and annual maintenance out of the water.
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@Sarah Brown Don’t you mean in light of? While stopping the voyage here instead of the motor having caught fire is appealing it offers certain causality related technical difficulties