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So the main stage of a festival nearby burned down just now (Tomorrowland, huge festival). Not only are people treating it like some 9/11 (festival didn’t start, nobody hurt), the media were spreading fake AI images of a burned down stage as well. Scary stuff. Guess that happens when you need to be the first to get the clicks.
🇰🇵 DPRK bank’s official exchange rates for foreign currencies.
Image -> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gv--YMdWQAAiYRM.jpg?name=orig
hello comrades. i got laid off from my job. i have about a year of free money from the government coming. i would love your suggestions on how to spend this time
currently my plans are:
learning french
reading das kapital along with david harvey lectures
putting a lot of effort in to making nice foodIf you have the space plant a herb garden. Once established herbs are generally low maintenance and fresh herbs are an easy +10% bonus to your cooking skills.
Blackshirts and Reds from Michael Parenti is a good book to include in your plans!
Also, I am sorry for your loss in your job. Hope this opens a door for a better future for you.
thank you, to be honest i’m glad to see the back of it
It will never cease to suprise me the speed in which the DPRK builds towns:
February/July
So jealous. Here in the Netherlands they are planning a neighborhood in Utrecht, where they will only start building in 2035.
I finally figured out why these images wouldn’t load. I had to add an exception for lemmygrad.ml because pbs.twimg.com is on the no-no list. It seems that domain is a x/Twitter thing.
Well, that may explain why people are unable to see content that I post from the DPRK/China like the following:
I could solve this restriction by downloading the pictures and then uploading it to Lemmygrad. However, the videos can’t be processed this way due to it being heavier. 🤔
The way I got to them before was to click “view source,” copy the twimg.com link, and open it in its own window.
That is certainly not ideal 🫠 Having extra clicks may discourage people from reaching some fabulous content.
I gotta make it easier for folks with these restrictions somehow. 🤔
Maybe include the URL so it’s easy to click on? Still not ideal, but it’s something.
Ok, will do that. Thanks Davel!
Bonito de ver, camarada!
“Enemies of the people”
Nice
With me living in the Benelux, it amazes how little I hear and know about Luxembourg. I feel like as someone living in the Netherlands I feel like I still don’t know enough about the country, even though I was there for a couple of days last summer
A tax haven full of french speaking germans. The left-wing movement died once the steel industry went kaput.
do they even have culture of their own? i always seen them as a belgium larping as another state for tax haven reasons.
They speak their own language called Luxembourgish which developed from a German dialect but it seems they speak French more. When I was in Luxembourg I heard more French. Kind of a shame.
Luxembourgish is basically the dialect they speak in trier but with more french loanwords mixed in - it was constructed post-ww2 for obvious reasons. French is more popular due to the large Portuguese, french and belgian diaspora/commuters, so luxembourgish is only prioritized by like the local right-wing culture war people.
Fun fact its also spoken in Arlon in belgium but is practically extinct there.
Really? I actually know a Luxembourgish song about how refugees should be accepted into Luxembourg. It doesn’t seem like it is only prioritized by right wingers
Local people speak it of course, its not as politicized as Ukrainian for example, but its losing ground to French which is spoken by more people. So, the culture war types usually want to enforce it as the sole national language, as the large Portuguese and francophone population refuses to learn it. Similar to how flemish speakers in belgium usally know french better than francophones do dutch/flemish.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I mean it’s a country with a population the size of Rotterdam only most of them are living pretty comfortable, so no real outrageous shit happens there.
Last I heard they do have free public transport though. Good hiking trails too.
Also: Belgium has a part of Luxemburg too. Nothing ever happens there either. Just small villages in between rolling hills.
Had the honor to create a garden for a friend this weekend. It was my first garden I have done for someone else. I made a border with native bee friendly plants. I go to the gym quite often but there are some muscles that the gym can’t train that only manual labor seems to target lol. My forearms are sore as fuck from removing grass, lifting tiles and stuff.
Political wise things seemed to have died down a bit for some reason. Maybe because of the holiday but then again life goes on and things can be done. Bit of a bummer.
Yours?
No 😔
dayum…
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Good article, thanks!
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too comrade!
You too comrade 😊
Oh cool place 😄 , looks similar to somewhere in Indonesia , but this isn’t Indonesia . where is this ?
Congo
I hope you have a nice week too! :-D
You too Oppo!
I’m just taking a Fedi break
