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Taiwan is officially listed as "Republic of China" in the US Social Security Administrstion's website.
That is, in fact, their official name, according to them.
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Taiwan is officially listed as "Republic of China" in the US Social Security Administrstion's website.
That is, in fact, their official name, according to them.
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Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever
Using a combination of top day, mark read on scroll, and hide read, I regularly reach the end of the internet, and am glad.
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Israel accuses Mamdani of antisemitism on first day as New York mayor
Mamdani immediately rescinded all of Adams' executive orders made after Adams' indictment. I wish this article clarified if this EO was part of that batch.
Edit: It was: https://bsky.app/profile/hunterw.bsky.social/post/3mbhyhk2egc2e
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Calls for J.D. Vance to resign after he admits that he 'created' pet-eating story about immigrants
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Apple deadnamed the Gulf of America and conservatives are triggered
Who's gonna tell him?
The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years on behalf of Spain and Portugal, with the name given by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller.
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Trump false reply to question about keeping jobs in US: "I was honored as the man of the year. Maybe 20 years ago. The fake news heard about it and said, it never happened…"
This article traces the source of this particular long-time delusion / fabrication:
After Trump made the claim in 2019, Trott contacted CNN to note that at a roundtable event with automotive executives in 2017, Trump had suggested he received the “Man of the Year” award at a 2013 event in Michigan where Trott had invited him to give a speech, a Lincoln Day dinner Trott had chaired in Oakland County. At that event, Trott gave Trump a framed copy of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and other gifts. But Trott emphatically noted that he did not give Trump any “Man of the Year” award, nor did anyone else there.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/16/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-michigan-man-of-the-year/index.html
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What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist?
There is a word anti-partyism, but it doesn't seem to be commonly used.
The literal answer to your literal question is called "believing that US politics should be non-partisan".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-partisan_democracy
The US started as de facto non-partisan democracy. There is a de jure option.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy
Direct democracy would probably give less power to political parties, but there still could be voting blocs. An example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Jewish_bloc_voting
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What do you call these?
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Had to check that out.
Handy = mobile phone
lade[n] = charge
geräte = devices
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Handy
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ladeger%C3%A4t
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Rudy Giuliani’s daughter explains why families have been split wide open by Trump
This is the underlying article written by Caroline Giuliani: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/caroline-giuliani-trump-kamala-harris
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Nova Launcher is basically dead, and Android is worse off for it
With Nova, I set the grid to 13 rows and left off the labels.
Based on recommendations for a Nova replacement, I tried Lawnchair. But it only goes up to 10 rows, leaving space for labels even when labels are off.
Can anyone point me to a launcher that allows 13 rows?
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Trump Says He Knows Nothing About Bombshell Article In The Atlantic
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It is laughable to think this is true because Trump follows news about himself and his administration quite closely, and this is all over the news.
It is also characteristic of Trump to say he "knows nothing about" all kinds of things that he wishes he knew nothing about, from George Papadopoulos to Project 2025.
I do not assume he is telling the truth. I assume he is lying. My interpretation is that the commenter you are responding to also thinks that he is lying, because it would be laughable to think this is true.
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Today I learned: Epstein Island had an area of 28 ha
Epstein also owned Great St James (67 ha, 165 acres), which shields the view of Little St James from the mainland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Saint_James%2C_U.S._Virgin_Islands
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INFLECTION: The Backlash Begins As Elon Goes Wild
Shared from member; anyone can read: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/inflection-the-backlash-begins-as-elon-goes-wild/sharetoken/e39e3cde-a02c-48c6-9901-d775cb25b28e
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‘Like we were trophies’: Activist says he was brutally abused by Israeli settlers — as tensions in West Bank mount
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He did actually. While being beaten. It's in the article. not/s!
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Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97
https://bsky.app/profile/radosh.bsky.social/post/3luxpjmhb4k2l
It is a sobering thought that one of his NYT obituary writers died two years ago.
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Is there a name for the mid point between high and low tides?
Sea level?
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[Feature request] Mark as read on scroll
Yes. I came to this community just to make this request.
It's a feature of Feedly that guides me towards using Feedly as a Lemmy RSS reader. I want to be able to scroll through what's new on the internet and be done, not seeing the same items again.
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Taiwan is officially listed as "Republic of China" in the US Social Security Administrstion's website.
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TIL.
They are a feisty little island, aren't they.
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Is Wiktionary good?
I could be wrong, but my impression is that there is less politics and less bias involved in defining words and and providing pronunciations and etymologies then there is an articles about history and politics and people.
I especially like Wiktionary from the point of view of exploring cognates between languages and etymologies that cross language boundaries, in a big dictionary that covers many languages all at once.
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Woman creates custom one-of-a-kind dolls for unique kids to feel truly seen
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The artist doesn't need my backseat doll designing, but I also think the faces would emotionally read better if the noses were smaller and the smiles were higher and darker. In many photos only the nose is visible and the mouth is obscured.