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  • TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.

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  • To be fair some languages like English or French have so horrendous and outdated orthography that I'm not going to fault the writers.

    Writers. Why is there even a W in that word still? Ridiculous, write?

  • TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.

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  • I initially wrote 'temptor' in the title but then double checked. Not today, Titivillus.

  • xkcd #2992: UK Coal

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  • It's quite relevant if you consider that coal mining is concentrated to a much smaller area really. Besides the destroyed habitat, the pollution, the dangers of sinkholes and the cost of renaturation you also have to contend with rain and ground water constantly filling in the mining pits.

    Don't know about the UK but in West Germany's Rhein-Ruhr area, a former coal mining hotspot, the energy used to operate the pumps that keep the water out will eventually be greater than the energy gained from burning all the coal. Can't find a source on the quick but I think it might have happened already. Of course it's not a simple subtraction as all that energy was used to generate more infrastructure and capital that can now pay for the pumps. According to this German source their operation costs around 300 million euros yearly which gives you a rough idea of just how expensive that is.

  • Um die Geburtenrate anzukurbeln, führt Russland ein neues Schulfach ein. Darin haben nur bestimmte Familien Platz.

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  • Geheimtipp um die Geburtenrate anzukurbeln: Männer, die Familien mitgründen und unterstützen, nicht in sinnlosen Invasionen verheizen.

    Bonustipp: Keine sinnlosen Invasionen anzetteln. Ist es nicht wert, wenn dann Millionen an Menschen, vor allem junge und fähige, aus dem eigenen Land fliehen.

  • Do Not Tap the Glass [beetlemoses]

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  • Nice. I'm wondering how often this cycle has played out so far ...?

  • What is he? [Last Place Comics]

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  • That was a wild ride. Well done 👏

  • Back to work! [Nancy]

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  • This has some real draw the rest of the fucking owl vibes, well done.

  • Harris pledges to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if elected

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  • Listened to the entire interview. At no point does she pledge that. She simply doesn't rule it out and is willing to consider.

    That header is clickbait bullshit .

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    Pick your seat, Lemmy

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  • The gentleman seated in aisle 3, left sends a stewardess to inform you that you could actually live thru the whole ordeal if you just promise him this one tiny little thing. But he wants it in writing to be sure.

  • How's it going?

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  • Can we appreciate #7?

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    From Kursk to Kursk: Putin’s attempt to project an image as Russia’s ‘protector’ has been punctured throughout his 25 years in power

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  • It's true but the title doesn't seem onion-y to me.

  • The unpleasantness of mosquito bites is not something useful for mosquitoes, but it is useful for the ones who suffer it

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  • While mosquito bites are unpleasant in themselves due to the itching and swelling I don't think it's common for cultures to have worked out the causal relationship between mosquitos and diseases like malaria. But I'd be happily educated otherwise.

  • US to resume sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia

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  • Saudi Arabi is hostile to Iran (as is Israel) too.

  • Mystery-Boxen bei Media Markt: Wie der Schmäh mit den Überraschungen rennt - IT-Business - derStandard.de › Web

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  • Lootboxen im echten Leben. Jeden Tag rückt die Finsternis näher.

  • Innovation

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  • The wheel (for transportation) is really a concomitant of stable roads existing. Really wheels only work on flat, paved surfaces. The "invention" of the wheel isn't the stroke of genius that pop culture likes to portray it as. It's just something that follows from having the right environment. The Romans for instance built and maintained widespread road networks throughout Europe to quickly move troops to the front lines. It turns out that those roads also were a tremendous boon for traders and travellers using carts.

    Comic's still funny though.

  • Flameshot, an Open Source screenshot software

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  • I often use this over KDE's inbuilt screenshot tool because this one has a quick way to crop a screenshot

  • What sort of 12th dimensional chess game is she playing?

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  • Nice, the 3 panels work in pretty much any order (some are better).

  • EVIL GUY

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  • Too many games I've seen conflate being evil with being a jerk. Few games let you play the 'long game' where you are specifically nice and cooperative to deceive and manipulate. I think this partly due to decisions being made modular and point to point. Your overall morality then is calculated as some form of average of all the decisions you made. Mass effect series comes to mind.

    But if you want to play as a scheming villain the opposite should be the case: you set your primary long term goal (eg taking over a country or institution) and then your actions are chosen in the vein of that goal. And those actions might in isolation actually be seen as beneficial or benign. But you ultimately do them to gain trust or deceive.

  • Poor guy

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  • Ime it's not only the quality/style of music but being compressed and transmitted over phone line (which is optimized for human voice) and also often being way too loud (sudden shock plus clipped dynamic range).