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SanguinePar

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  • US drops drug cartel claims against Maduro after invasion, kidnap

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  • “Cartel de los Soles” is not a verifiable organization but a slang term coined by Venezuelan media in the 1990s to describe corruption among individual military officials — not a structured cartel.

    Same approach as they have done with Antifa - the notion that a descriptive term can be repurposed as a (non-existant) oppositional entity is perfect for people who want to scare their followers with bogeymen.

    See also the absurd misusage of "woke" to encompass anything that isn't hateful sexism, racism, etc.

  • Why in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' appreciated as "GSW"-

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  • I saw Stephen Fry suggest once that it be pronounced "Wuh Wuh Wuh" which I kind of like :-)

  • If you could add one book to the required reading curriculum for people under 18, what would it be?

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  • Ha, yes, certainly got plenty of disdain for the world. I'll give it another go 👍

  • How come Netflix removed the N from their shows, kind of make it seem like they borrow all the stuff? I usually use it for a segway into other shows/movies not made by them?

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  • I think OP was saying the opposite. They use(d) the N to avoid Netflix originals. Which may also be an answer as to why they have (apparently) removed it.

    Seems better to me though, the N was annoying, and there have been some very good Netflix originals, so it'd be a shame if people refused to even consider them on that basis alone.

  • If you could add one book to the required reading curriculum for people under 18, what would it be?

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  • I love Brave New World, but couldn't get into Island at all. I still have it though, I should give it another go.

  • TIL why María Corina Machado is relevant in the whole Venezuela thing

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  • Although Time's Man (now Person) of the Year is about who has had the most impact in a given year, it's not meant to be an honour or endorsement of the person chosen, or at least not officially. Not is it something Hitler "won". He was named it.

    In their wording, he was "the newsmaker who most influenced world events for better or worse” in that year (1938), which tbh is hard to argue with.

    From this article about it,

    Time named Hitler 1938’s Man of the Year in its Jan. 2, 1939, issue, whose cover illustration, did not feature the portrait of Hitler in the circulating posts, but rather a black-and-white drawing depicting Hitler as a small figure playing a large organ with the caption: “From the unholy organist, a hymn of hate.”

  • YSK the basic components of a Personal Computer (PC)

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  • Last week, same OP was absolutely peppering a few communities I'm subbed to. Definitely time to block.

  • NATO could end if US takes over Greenland — Danish PM

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  • I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?

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  • As long as you are not in major target city ... you will be fine.

    That seems pretty complacent tbh.

    First of all even just the top 30 cities in the US are home to about 41 million people. Which seems a lot of folk to simply write off.

    Also, the destruction of the major cities would cause huge/complete economic, social, infrastructural and legal collapse for the rest of the country.

    Plus, even for those outside the immediate blast radius, there'd be the massive environmental impact of pollution to land and water, not least the potential for a nuclear winter killing off crops, and then animals.

    Turns out my house was outside the blast radius if the base was nuked.

    Without knowing the size of the bomb, how could you know you would be outside it? Not that blast radius is all that matters anyway.

  • I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?

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  • Come, friendly nukes...

  • Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation?

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  • It's not at all uncommon for major cities to be on or near bodies of water, eg London, LA, NYC, Sydney, Tokyo, Rio, etc. It's a facilitator to (and outcome of) trade/travel and also can be a source of food and water (for cities on rivers/lakes, obviously).

    And it's also not uncommon for major cities to become capital cities.

    Not really surprising that as a country with one coastline, they have their capital so close to the sea.

  • Why do SO MANY reviews now talk about "phone wobble"?

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  • The majority of phone reviewers (and modern tech reviewers in general) get their review units for free so they lack that feeling and awareness that comes with spending $1000+ of their own money on a new device.

    Agreed, but if I ever spent a 1000 bucks on any product, I'd expect it to be able to sit in a usable position without wobbling.

    I'm glad they're highlighting this - the more the better until phone design is improved to eliminate such a stupid flaw.

  • 'We Are Going to Run the Country,' Trump Says of Venezuela After Maduro Abduction

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  • Outrageous. Impeach him.

  • What Are Your Predictions For 2026

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  • It's just backed by two of the worst people on the planet. They're probably hoping to see people die in these games.

    They probably took Squid Game as a fun suggestion.

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  • In the way that this supreme power would exist, there is no way for us to quantify it.

    So, dark matter, then?

    /jk

  • Whats the worst baby name?

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  • Great song too. And a pretty decent spy agency. On their day.

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  • Oh, that's a shame. It's really tremendously useful. Probably a third party app that could replicate it, but I'm not sure.

  • Honor launches Win and Win RT gaming-focused smartphones with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and massive 10,000 mAh battery

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  • Swipe down on bottom of the screen (from anywhere) to open notification bar. So handy. It very occasionally seems to stop working, but a reboot sorts it.

    I think it's technically an accessibility feature, and it may be unique to Pixels, I'm not sure? Either way, it's essential for me.

    For anyone looking for it, it's not in Gestures as you might expect, it's in One Handed Mode, and is one of two options for what the gesture does:

  • Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.

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  • Ha, easily done! 😁

  • Android @lemmy.world
    SanguinePar @lemmy.world

    Did Android 16 mess up anyone else's text and object sizes?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    SanguinePar @lemmy.world

    Inconsistent distances on Google Maps

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

    TIL that not only is Measles very dangerous in itself but it also strips away and resets much/most of your immune system.

    www.bbc.com /future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia
  • Sync for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Is it possible to group favourited communities or users into a single feed?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    SanguinePar @lemmy.world

    Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)?

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
    SanguinePar @lemmy.world

    YSK: It's possible to get search results from Google without the annoying 'AI' answers at the top

  • Football (Soccer fútbol fußball 足球 ) @lemmy.world
    SanguinePar @lemmy.world
    The Guardian

    Blue cards to be introduced into football for sin-bins under Ifab trials

    www.theguardian.com /football/2024/feb/08/blue-cards-and-sin-bins-could-be-introduced-to-football-under-ifab-plans