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English is not the only language with homonyms.
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English is not the only language with homonyms.
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It brings the room together
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It's a reference to the demon core, which was similarly propped open like that with a screwdriver.
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‘You have to find your own recipe’: Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property
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Then you find a home elsewhere.
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Voice comments
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The audio is stored separately and the source code might only contain a comment with specific text and a path which can then be interpreted as the voice note by the IDE.
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Just saw this picture with "good Disney Star Wars", do you agree?
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Han Solo was one of the character iirc
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Ask the crickets
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No I'm pretty sure it was crickets.
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New trailer for True Detective: Night Country
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I think season 3 was better than season 2. I'd suggest giving it a go.
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high speed rail go brrr
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Since when is he an Afrikaner? I doubt he can even speak a full sentence of Afrikaans. It's slightly offensive that you just used an entire demographic group as an insult.
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Donald Trump: ‘I Couldn’t Care Less’ If I Mispronounce Kamala Harris’ Name
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But that's what he said? I don't understand your comment.
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Why is lemmy so popular in the Netherlands?
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Hoi
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Love has a sense of humor
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The username is bold but it's hard to see through all the JPEG compression.
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It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?
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Same in Dutch: sinaasappel
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All I want for Christmas is ____
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You could probably measure someone's age how hanging his balls is.
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I don't know if it's regional, but some people might think you were talking about a fitting room, like in a clothing store.
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South Africa seeks International Court of Justice genocide order against Israel | The Straits Times
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I'm pretty sure the current government, who fought against apartheid, is not "butthurt" about the previous government being sanctioned for apartheid.
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Obscure button tier list
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Capslock is great for writing SQL.
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Russia's egg crisis is spiraling out of control
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You can't just compare the dollar value of items across countries when median incomes and cost of living vary so much. The same dollar has different buying powers in different countries.
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IGN | Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered
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It's expensive in my country.
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Trump order prioritizes US resettlement of white South Africans
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I don't know what specifically Trump wants, I'm just going off of the linked article which mentions Afrikaners as well as the comment I replied to which made a strange correlation between Elon Musk and a demographic group that he is not even part of.
The reason Afrikaners are specifically targeted in these discussions is because apartheid was led by an Afrikaner government. So a lot of the conflict between the black people and white people in South Africa specifically revolves around the Afrikaners. The English South Africas, which form a smaller group than the Afrikaner population, is kind of just stuck in the crossfire. After the fall of apartheid, the new black government adopted laws, referred to as the Black Economic Empowerment laws, which I guess acts a bit like the USA's DEI laws that aim to provide what they refer to as "previously disadvantaged" groups with more opportunities. It is specifically these laws that Elon is referring to, but in the context of the recently passed Land ExpropriationAct, which in my opinion is not yet fully understood by everyone and what exactly it allows the government to do.
Also just a side note, while language is a key identifier, the Afrikaner demographic is more than just the language. It's a whole group of people who originally started in the Cape from mostly Dutch settlers, who then later moved throughout the rest of South Africa. There were also wars between the Afrikaners and English, such as the Second Boer War, so there's been a long history of conflict. That's why I wanted to emphasize that you cannot necessarily put Elon Musk on the side of the Afrikaners, despite him being white and born in South Africa.
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Trump order prioritizes US resettlement of white South Africans
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That's exactly what I'm saying. His father is English South African and his mother Canadian. He also went to an English school. He's not Afrikaans and therefore not an Afrikaner, so I doubt he cares about Afrikaners at all.