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If only it was like that
I checked for others who, like me, are too European to understand the joke: 50°F is 10°C.
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If only it was like that
I checked for others who, like me, are too European to understand the joke: 50°F is 10°C.
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Satanic display at Iowa Capitol vandalized ‘beyond repair’; arrest made
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Given that one of their goals is to highlight unfair treatment on religious basis, I'm sure they are delighted that someone illustrated their point.
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"enjoy the show"
A moment of normalcy and laughter before the events of the evening unfold.
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This is a real thing in the Netherlands
I'm countering with this from my home country of Belgium
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Reddit: open /r/pics or else. Mods: OK but you didn't say how
That's a classic reddit moment. There's such a good community on that website, it's tragic that reddit wants to use that against itself.
These kind of protest won't reduce the traffic on the platform though. They might even gain traction and increase it. If it's not linked to reduced ad revenue, I'm afraid it's counter-productive.
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Do you use adblock? Why? Why not?
Of course. And I'll continue to do so as long as advertisement is detrimental to my online experience. If it wastes my time by forcing me to watch an ad before a video, if it distracts me from reading a text because of animations, if it tries to scam or shock me, I'm better off blocking it. I'm not against advertisement as communication that a useful product or service exists, I'm against advertisement abuse and greed.
I'll happily pay for, donate to, or otherwise support services important to me that need and deserve it.
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Oglaf Rule
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Another possible interpretation I haven't seen in the comments: it's possibly about capitalism under which companies fund school where you learn that it's normal to be a wage slave or something like that?
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Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout (From the Lemmy Developer)
It seems to have become a habit that most good things about the internet is linked to the EU. I'm really grateful. That being said, I hope that Lemmy can become a collaborative project uniting a lot of devs rather than rely on two people.
About the scandal; as long as their opinions do not influence the platform I don't see them as relevant to Lemmy. If they are illegal, let justice do its work.
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In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars
Are the US and EU late, or is it a deliberate business decision from EV car manufacturers to aim for bigger and luxury cars because they make more profit?
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How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?
When we look at the sky, there is a line where there is way more stars than usual. This line goes all the way around the sky. This was called the milky way by the Greeks because it was like a road sparkled with milk drops. At some point, we deduced that we were in a group of stars arranged in a flat disk. Later, we realized that some weird space clouds (nebulae) were much further away than we thought and were actually other huge groups of stars like our own that we named galaxies, still after milk.
There are more details me course. Even along the line in the sky drawn by the milky way, there is one side where there is much more stars and dust than the other. We deduced that we were at the edge of the disk and the bright region was the center of our galaxy. Also, the amount of gas and dust that block certain types of light that teach us that our galaxy has arms.
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I did it
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Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
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There's also a "simple english" Wikipedia: simple.wikipedia.org
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Trying to get my partner to switch from Windows to Linux. Has anyone tried Scrivener with Wine?
I haven't tried Scrinever. What follows is about trying to convert people to Linux, you can safely ignore the comment if you're not interested.
If the will doesn't come from him, he will certainly look for things he doesn't like and that will confort him in staying on Windows.
I'd say keep him informed and let him make his decisions with the information he has.
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New Jersey Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic school that fired a teacher for having premarital sex
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Sometimes, the contents of contracts are illegal even when they are signed. It's apparently not the case here according to the Court, but the question can be worth to ask.
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Neptune isn’t a beautiful oceanic blue
The censorship makes it worse actually
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With the new tram system in Liège, lots of car lanes were replaced with grassy tram tracks
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Well, you do need a flat surface below the tram. A lawn will dampen more sound and re-emit less heat than concrete or asphalt.
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Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases
The original source of the article is Bild, a German tabloid. I don't see this story relayed on other reputable news outlets.
Big red flag for me. Let's see how things are evolving but I'll be skeptical until then.
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Austria is getting a new coalition government without the far-right election winner
Like for any country with a "cordon sanitaire" as we call it in Belgium, this coalition now needs to address the fundamental reason motivating people to vote for the far right. If they fail to do so, the far right will gain points elections after elections until they reach the outright majority.
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Poland’s new government sacks state TV, radio and news bosses
The important is now ensuring that they stay impartial and resilient even if populists are in power.
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Mme
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We were mostly the egg.