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Hoimo

@ Hoimo @ani.social

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  • Amsterdam headquarters of Doctors Without Borders vandalized with paint

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  • Nltimes is an English-only website targeting expats/immigrants who want to read Dutch news. They have literally one job, which is translating Dutch news articles into English for their English-speaking audience. I expect a certain level of care, especially when this translation error makes it seem like the banner was part of the vandalism and not the target of the vandalism, completely reversing the meaning of the act:

    the building’s facade, entrance door, and sidewalk were smeared with white and blue paint, and a banner displayed the message, “End the genocide now.”

    But Parool opens the article with "the banner was smeared with paint" and "MSF placed the banner after consulting with Joods Cultureel Kwartier" (which I assume is a Jewish organisation).

  • Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife?

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  • You're all talking about this as if he's gay, but he clearly says his wife is the one having orgasms during gay sex.

  • Amsterdam headquarters of Doctors Without Borders vandalized with paint

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  • So this "nltimes" website couldn't even properly translate the article they copied? What a waste of digital space.

  • I wish the Steam Controller used AA batteries

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  • Those exist, but they're really expensive and not very good. Lithium needs circuitry to get down to the 1.5V of a nickel battery, but that circuitry takes up a good chunk of the available space in an AA.

    Why AA Batteries Still Suck - Hank Green

  • Trump administration designates 4 left-wing European networks as terrorist organizations

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  • Europe has a long history of left-wing political violence, while in the United States political violence has been more likely to come from the right in recent decades, according to multiple studies

    That second part is according to multiple studies, that first part is [citation needed].

    I can't really think of any famous instances of left-wing violence in Europe in the last 100 years. The Years of Lead? But the deadliest attack during that time was by fascist terrorists.

    The right screams bloody murder when a left-wing group blocks a highway for an hour. Meanwhile, right-wing groups are arrested for conspiracy to murder high profile politicians.

  • Assuming I am using F-Droid for all apps and taking other precautions, what information is stock Android collecting?

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  • There's not really a stock Android though. Every manufacturer has its own flavor, so unless you go out of your way to build AOSP for your device, it could be anything.

  • Law

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  • Kinda disproven, but it's also a question of what a word even is. Most of those snow words might not make it into a dictionary, but they will get their separate entries in a glossary for a book on snow, because the general sense of the word can be extracted from the parts, but words take on more precise meaning when they're used more often.

    However, we shouldn't single out Inuits and snow, because the general principle is "words are created and forgotten according to need". Carpenters have a lot of words for wood. Barely anyone still knows a lot of words for stone tools.

    And sure, people who spend a lot of their life in snow will have a lot of words to describe their experiences with snow. But every human language can be used to describe any experience, even if you need to combine some words in new ways to do it. So when we say "Inuit have this many words", we ignore that people don't really communicate in single words, but saying "Inuit have this many sentences" makes it immediately obvious that it's a silly thing to say: all languages have infinite sentences.

  • Make Your Java Code Null-Safe Without Rewriting

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  • Nulls are useful, but you can't work with them in Java. Anything can be null at any time without warning, even when you have absolutely no reason to ever allow a null. Null safety as a language feature gives you the choice to allow nulls when they make sense or guarantee a value when needed. It saves you checking for nulls in the core of your logic when you already ruled them out at the boundary and enforced it at compile time.

  • Definitely spongeworthy

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  • It was JFK Jr, he crashed a plane in the ocean in 1999, the year after Seinfeld ended.

    The episode is S04E10 "The Contest", "The Sponge" is S07E09 and Elaine is in a steady relationship with Puddy around that time, so who knows what she was using with Kennedy.

  • EU lawmakers press Commission to open DSA probes on Shein, Temu, AliExpress over listings for 'child-like sex dolls'

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  • The real child abuse is in the Shein supply chain, will the French authorities investigate that too? Or are they busy protecting the feelings of dolls?

  • What

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  • What? Of course you can, the entire Holocaust was about that. Unless "settler" in your mind is morally equivalent to "invader", even when they're third-generation German "settlers" in Brazil, a state that already existed for 200 years before the first-generation Germans even arrived.

    Note that Germans in Brazil were not exterminated in any way. They were forced to assimilate during WW2, which is a form of genocide, but kept enough of their cultural identity that millions currently speak Riograndese Hunsrik, a German-Portuguese hybrid language.

  • hogtide is terrifying I guess

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  • The hogs there are so organized, they shaped their territory in the letters of their gang sign.

  • Peak movie idea

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  • What's this flattened piece of metal doing on the table? Wait a minute... Are you Superman in disguise and the bullets fired from a silenced gun bounced off your invulnerable chest and landed on the table? ...What am I saying? If that were true, Superman obviously would have eaten them to hide the evidence.

  • Where will the next 1000 babies be born?

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  • The weird thing is, they estimated these numbers based on the population and the per-capita birth rate. They didn't even take the raw data, they took the corrected data and uncorrected it.

  • Pretty sure this is happening in my game

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  • The Good Place is unspoilable, I enjoyed it much more when I knew some of the plot points beforehand.

  • Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?

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  • Like Sword in the Stone Merlin on vacation?

    Picture for reference:

  • Top 10 drunkest countries

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  • wish

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  • I wish I was animeI wish I looked animeI wish I had an anime nameI wish I could go to an anime school

  • Birthday Gift for a smart 6 year old girl

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  • I think the problem with the marble run is the constant "rrrrrrr tick-tick rrrrr tick rrrr", but aside from the noise it's a great toy and a core component of any child's toy box. It's also the start of many Rube Goldberg machines running through your living room.