It’s like China banning Winnie the Pooh for hurting Xi’s feelings…

Tragic irony, when it’s republicans that are a measles, tuberculosis, and covid risk…

Oops, guess I’m next on the chopping block right after Tom!

To HR office,

Walking into the office this morning, I saw Tom in the parking lot, waved at Tom, and wished Tom a good morning. Tom then asked if I had seen Phil, wondering how “he”(!!!) was doing. I reminded Tom that of the newly-enacted no-pronouns policy and informed Tom that Tom should be careful in the future, or Tom could face consequences for not following policy!

As a good friend of Tom, I know Tom didn’t mean to sound too liberal by it, but for Tom’s own good I had to remind Tom of his mistake.

Sincerely, -Loyal NASA Employee

/s

He’s off to a bad start; announcements like that only serve to increase anti-Christian bias, mine included.

At least in the case of the Hisense TV I got for my grandparents, a “glitch” with accessibility controls (makes directional inputs unresponsive or multi-press at times) just so happens to make remapping the sponsored remote buttons impossible, as well as breaking the most common method of changing the system launcher, so screen size alone isn’t everything.

Although Hisense still tries to reinstall sponsored apps after I delete them, using Launcher Manager to set a custom launcher that allows for the hiding of unwanted applications and channels made it much more usable for my grandparents.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to redirect YouTube voice input commands to SmartTube Next, so if I ever replace it, that’ll be a factor in my decision too.

Billionaires bought the election; enough propaganda, both via manipulated social media platforms and marketing in swing states, can buy anyone willing to be the stooge of private interests the presidency.

Most Americans don’t deserve to suffer at the hands at such corruption.

That’s the equivalent of them being thankful for Israeli “investment” in building settlements after killing or displacing Palestinians and stealing their land. How anyone, let alone Arab Americans, could see it any other way, is far beyond me.

Hopefully at least half of them stick around; the MAU count is much more impactful in terms of post frequency and variety than the total number of users in general.

The affordability of a Pokemon game being $120 after factoring in the cost of its two DLCs?

Also deceptive for them to list it on the Play Store as having 500,000,000 “downloads”, when the vast majority of those are non-consensual automatic installations.

MKVToolNix Batch Tool should be able to do it automatically, assuming the subtitle format is supported.

“And reduce the surplus population” -Scrooge

Yes, since the pronunciation of Volkswagen can be inferred from taking ‘Volks’ as rhyming with ‘Folks’ and either pronouncing ‘wagen’ as intended—with ‘gen’ rhyming with the ‘gain’ in ‘again’—or just pronouncing it as ‘wagon’. In contrast, the pronunciation of ‘kt’ at the end of ‘flohmarkt’ can’t be inferred from an existing English word. Additionally, using the spelling ‘flow’ disambiguates the English pronunciation of ‘floh’, especially when dialect is taken into account.

Ultimately, because Volkswagen has had decades of advertisements marketing its proper pronunciation and making the brand name widely-recognized, it has an inherent advantage in terms of brand recognition to start with.

I didn’t say it was. An important aspect of promoting the adoption of any product or service is having a brand name that is easily pronounceable to facilitate word-of-mouth promotion. It’s something that’s all the more important for a Fediverse service, given the lack of means to promote Flohmarkt with paid advertising campaigns.

While Flohmarkt works as a brand name in German, it’s not immediately clear how to pronounce it in English, versus the easily pronounced Lemmy, Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, Loops, and Friendica. For that reason, ‘Flohmarkt’ should be kept as the platform’s name in German-speaking countries, but be localized as ‘Flowmarkt’ or ‘Flowmarket’ in English-speaking ones.

I think an English localization as ‘Flowmarkt’ or ‘Flowmarket’ might be more catchy in English-speaking countries, since the intended pronunciation for ‘Flohmarkt’ isn’t clear at a first glance.

“Use your memory” doesn’t make for a great reference in trying to dispute a statement made in a well-referenced encyclopedia article.

The article itself has an abundant number of reliable references. Reviewing details throughout the article such as the Junta taking an anti-Ukraine stance merely to stay on Putin’s good side in terms of weapon shipments, selling out to China as yet another source of weapons, India engaging in the same sort of war profiteering that they’ve done with Russian oil by providing them with yet more weapons, and the Junta proceeding to use all of those weapons on its own people, at times intentionally targeting civilians, any sympathy towards the Junta seems difficult to comprehend.

As an analogy, many far-right extremists have framed the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol Building as a valid protest of a “rigged” election, but their unsubstantiated claims neither change the fact that the 2020 US presidential election hadn’t been rigged, nor that the violent MAGA protestors deserved the prison time that they were subsequently sentenced to.

In a political landscape as heated as Myanmar, there were bound to be protests regardless of who won the election, but protests alone don’t invalidate election results. So, unless you have reliable sources to base your claims off of, “memory” isn’t a valid reference on Wikipedia.

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US Private Security Company Is Hiring Nearly 100 Armed US Veterans Mercenaries to Run Gaza Checkpoint, Report Says

FTFY

Thanks; that worked for me 👍