because the UK spent so long as the dominant world power and just saturated all international discourse

From what I’ve heard, German was still the go-to international language in academia until WW2, when it fell out of favor and US’ post-war boom took over. So it’s a bit more complicated.

Time to conquer Malbolge with ChatGPT.

Ted kinda looks like Zach Weinersmith.

Everyone in Eastern Europe has a dedicated dashcam. They aren’t expensive.

TBF Microsoft also don’t know how to make things look and feel right. For ages, their primary UI design tools were a toolbar crammed with buttons end to end, a vertical list crammed with items, and a table crammed with items row by row — culminating in Windows 8’s tiles. MS didn’t understand that people need spatial organization, spacing and margins, and only recently started separating toolbar buttons with white space in their apps.

Meanwhile principles of grouping are any designer’s most basic tools. One could make good design with sticks and mud if they follow the principles.

The author posts aplenty on Reddit, all their comics are in this psychedelic manner. I’m suspecting they was collecting random textures since early 2000s. Be prepared for an inordinate amount of very gay romance, though.

This question, asked by Jim Jefferies in his bit about guide dogs, ruined my wiping experience. When I was younger, my ass smaller and and my shits smoother, it was enough to give a single wipe and go on with my day. Then Jefferies asked the question of how blind people see the poop on the paper, and the next time I had to look at the paper and do a control wipe to see that it’s clean. But now that I’m fatter and my shits messier, I have to do like six wipes to get a clean one. Curse you Jim Jefferies.

That was in fact one of the original propositions of communism.

the whole bag is gone

Well, that’s how it’s supposed to be done. Since mold is a fungus, what shows up on the surface is the reproductive parts that spawn spores, meaning the rest of the bread probably has mold too.

Ah yes, when it’s Russia then every Russian should suffer for not overthrowing Putin. But when it’s the US, Hillary actually won and “it wasn’t me” anyway, and blaming voters is pathetic.

The film is pretty far from the novel, even. It keeps the themes, but none of the transgressive delivery that is itself a message in that genre. So you might be in for a surprise if you ever decide to check out the source material.

“Are you in Hamas?”

Is that community blocked on .world? Can’t find any certain info on that, only the list of blocked instances — but Voyager doesn’t show anything in that community.

‘99% Invisible’ have an episode about a similarly disliked statue of conquistador Juan de Oñate, in New Mexico. (Note that the podcast sometimes has more info than the written text.)

Overwhelming majority of countries don’t do keyword-based blocking, especially not for incoming requests.

Lemmy itself doesn’t allow posting a link and an image together, at least not in the default UI on lemmy.world. Consequently, apps being able to show them together isn’t the go-to expectation.

P.S. Upon reading your comments further below, it’s outstanding what an annoying prick you are.

‘Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den’

Someone should submit all these comments as ‘community notes’.

Get with the times, it’s all about ‘I Think You Should Leave’ now.

I’ve just recently moved, and I barely see any difference. Same US politics dawn to dusk, just more Linux and commies.