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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Once phones became the default device for browsing and commenting on Reddit, comments began to grow shorter. (Some people might claim they can type on their phone just as comfortably as on a keyboard, but this clearly isn’t the case society
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Even that taboo against punching down is a peculiarity of (some parts of) modern Western culture. The blind, deaf, crippled, and mentally retarded are a favourite butt of jokes all over the world.
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
In Chinese media it is common to make fun of how foreigners look and how they speak Chinese. The Chinese don’t see such poking fun as a problem, nor do a great many other peoples on earth. Parts of Western culture, like yourself feeling suc
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> it's starting to become hard to really qualify what I really get for being american I’m preparing to renounce my American citizenship (lived most of my life elsewhere, no remaining ties to the USA), and I am amused by the frequent
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Not only Whatsapp. Banks in a number of countries are getting rid of passwords, SMS 2FA, or code cards for their online banking. Instead, you either have to use their phone app for online banking, or you have to use the phone app as the sec
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> A smartphone without social media is a tool. A smartphone with social media is a prison. Smartphones are a dopamine feed regardless. I got a modern Android smartphone only after deleting my Facebook account some years ago, and I have n
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
There is an upside to that: since pay is so low, kombinis began to hire foreign workers. That in turn made has made Japanese society more accepting than in decades past of the idea of foreigners speaking Japanese (prior to this, the supers
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
The OP’s statement is perfectly coherent and sensible. A number of soixante-huitards who flirted with Maoism are now in favour of strong European defense against Russia. Moreover, Maoism deemphasized the individual, but today those ex-Mao
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
The bookworm apt repository is in the final state, so Bookworm is released for those with existing Debian installations who can just do a search/replace of "bullseye" to "bookworm" in their apt.sources file, and run
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Surely the good reason for the early start on a Saturday, is that all the adults running the exam can finish everything quickly enough to still have a restful weekend.
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Fry & Laurie had a sketch[0] that, behind the silliness and ridiculous characterization, sets out Ferdinand de Saussure’s distinction of langue versus parole that is the foundation of modern linguistics. [0] https://www.y
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
I have run my own email server off a Linode for the last decade-plus, and I have never encountered this. Most of the people with whom I correspond (I run my own business from my server) are on Gmail, and I have always received their emails
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> Post your own blog on reddit, mignt as well have committed a war crime. Many subreddits are fine with posting a link to your own content, as long as you observe the 10% rule mentioned in the Reddit wiki: for every one link to your own
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
The sagas abound in obsolete vocabulary, things that are never said in spoken language today and unrecognizable to Icelanders without a commentary. Icelandic is conservative in some vocabulary, due to a decision since the 19th century to re
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
This is a useful resource, but it is a pity that the Icelandic originals are in a spelling based on Modern Icelandic, not the standard used in Old Norse scholarship. For example, writing the nominative singular ending -r as -ur , and the
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Debian Testing doesn’t get security updates quickly, unlike Stable and Unstable. Hence why the Debian wiki does not recommend Testing for ordinary users.
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Debian Testing doesn’t get security updates quickly, unlike Stable and Unstable. Hence why the Debian wiki does not recommend Testing for ordinary users.
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In addition to Mastodon as the other poster mentions, Signal (obviously not a business tracking/advertising users) will require a mobile number to sign up even after usernames are rolled out, all in the name of spam prevention.
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Some of the Nordic bog bodies speculated to be human sacrifices, were not exactly the most youthful and sprightly people of their society.
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
The mental issues you describe hit everyone, even that vast majority of people who go in to work every day. I would more readily ascribe them to the declining amount of healthy “third places” (i.e. neither work nor home) in modern US societ
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Translations of foreign media that make the story about something else entirely, are a well-established genre. For example, one of Woody Allen’s earliest films.[0] Granted, this wasn’t done “subtly” at all. [0] https://en.wikiped
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"It's important for a sub for disabled individuals to have mods with that disability." Reddit is notorious for having mods on various special-demographic subreddits where members of that demographic would not necessarily reco
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> who has no obligation to know of Lincoln whatsoever Part of being a decent translator is having a knowledge of the common cultural references of the source-language’s country/countries. Films very frequently generally play on loca
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In the Finnish subs for The Royal Tenenbaums DVD, a character who says in English “There’s a dent in the car. There’s one here, too” gets translated as “There’s a dentist in that car. There is a dentist, too.” A few years after I saw this