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  • Dutch Rule

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  • It's Dutch with a few cute changes, I think. My Dutch is very weak, but I believe it'd be:

    we [zijn] [heel] hard aan t werk om dit te [maken], [mischien] kan je beter [fietsen]

    which gives a rough literal translation of something like:

    we are very hard to the work for this to do, maybe can you better cycle

    i.e. "we're working hard to sort this out, but maybe it'd be better if you cycled"

  • AI slop mugs hitting the thrift store shelves

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  • I found a matching listing on Amazon (with the expected deluge of one- and two-star reviews); I won't link it because fuck Amazon, but here are the two prominent product pictures:

    My favorite part is the inexplicable extra angle on the top book that made it into the actual cup.

  • Spheres of influence

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  • Don't forget Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair and the gold Sharpie.

    To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him — generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers. I almost feel sorry for the poor fellow because, to me, the fingers still look abnormally stubby.

    (I think this photo is actually a reconstruction by BBC Newsbeat rather than a Short-Fingered Vulgarian original, but still).

  • Man who failed to remove backyard cheese facility told to pay $120,000

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  • At the risk of sounding stupid, what would the problems caused by a large number of people making their own cheese be?

  • 'Foldy Bird' uses your foldable hinge to play Flappy Bird, and it hurts my soul

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  • 5½ flaps per second is impressive; you must be playing Foldy Hummingbird.

  • Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog

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  • I don't for a second want to sound like an AI apologist, but ignoring the AI being predictably shit, the reporting here is shockingly bad. The facts are basically true, but neither this article or the one it links go any way to really actually provide any substance.

    From local news, it sounds like the original context given to the press was a second-hand report given by Police Chief Parker Sever to the Heber City council:

    I read the report, and I'm like, "Man, this really looks like an officer wrote it." But when it got to one part, it said, "And then the officer turned into a frog, and a magic book appeared and began granting wishes." … It was because they had, like, Harry Potter on in the background. So it picked up the noise from the TV and added it to the report.

  • Made a lamp!

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  • different spacing between the shelves is intentional to be able to fit my glasses properly

    Always good to have a dedicated place for your regular glasses, your pince-nez, your opera glasses, and your monocle.

    (Seriously, though, it looks nice -- good work!)

  • Makes sense

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  • It's hypothesized but not evidenced that dwarf elephant skulls on Sicily might have caused locals to fantasize about cyclopes.

    Paleoartist Mark Witton has a good article encouraging skepticism of this conclusion, though. Worth a read.

  • What's your favorite movie that is in a language which you do not speak?

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  • Thanks. I really wrote "Castilian" to mean that sources on the web suggest his dialogue is at least somewhat modern Spanish Spanish (so to speak) -- but I'm ignorant of the differences between Spanish spoken in the Americas, including North America as you rightly point out, and the Iberian peninsula. I didn't mean to suggest that Castilian was archaic.

  • the more you know

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  • Ingredients be like... "Vegetarian, but not vegan"

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  • I'm out of the loop - does the hyacinth emoji imply something, or did the responder just replace their original message wholesale with that emoji?

  • What's your favorite movie that is in a language which you do not speak?

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  • Thank you, that's interesting to know!

  • What's your favorite movie that is in a language which you do not speak?

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  • I can't find anything to really support the note about the faun speaking an early version of Spanish; do you have a link I could read/watch?

    I've found people noting that Doug Jones is dubbed by the Spanish voice actor into Castilian (rather than any Central or South American dialect) and that his language is formal and somewhat archaic.

  • Wise words

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  • Every time this guy's posts get shared, I briefly wonder why Edward Snowden is posting whimsical observational humor.

  • What are some alternatives to Google Docs?

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  • FYI, OnlyOffice is entirely Russian-owned, through a holding company in Singapore and a subsidiary in Latvia. I don't know if money you give CryptPad ends up in Russian hands, but OnlyOffice put a lot of effort into obscuring this.

  • Who is in this meme?

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  • Susyphean update rule

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  • Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud

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  • As I understand it, if any seller is using Amazon fulfillment centers, the product you're given is picked out of the same box regardless of the named seller. That makes it impossible to buy confidently from Amazon based on the reputation of the seller, and makes Amazon themselves an unreputable seller.

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  • A quick search suggests that it's specific dioceses in the States (e.g. San Bernardino in CA and Nashville, TN) that have given dispensations in the past few months.

  • ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition

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  • For sure, but the onus shouldn't be entirely on the consumer to individually fight invasion of privacy.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    egrets @lemmy.world

    TIL baking and brewing yeasts produce alcohol to kill off competing microorganisms