AstroStelar

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[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 9 points 16 hours ago

The two allotropes of phosphorus

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
 

And his name carried over into cabinet he headed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois_Government

He looks like a stock photo of a eurolib politician.

 
[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

Bedankt, Rutte...

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

So there's three things going on:

  1. Rutte's broken English means he didn't understand the nuances of "daddy" versus "papa" in Dutch, which doesn't carry the submissive undertones as much as the former.
  2. In the Netherlands he's known for his very casual and informal personality ("he's the world leader that cycles to work!"). Dutch business culture is more relaxed, so here it works, but internationally it doesn't.
  3. He's always been like this much of a bootlicker with Trump, even back during his first term. He really wants to be on good terms with the United States, so when Trump is in charge he always kisses the ring.
[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

You weren't kidding...

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

In Dutch we have "wappie" which means the same thing

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Woah, you actually live in Alaska?

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The "Phoney War" was the first months of the Second World War

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

Sounded familiar, so I checked and it's from 4 years ago.

Faced with these serious allegations, Cuomo at first attempted a bizarre defence. “I’m not perverted, I’m just Italian,” is how Fox News characterised it, which was amusingly accurate. Cuomo suggested that the fact that some women had perceived sexual abuse might be attributed to differing “generational or cultural perspectives”. In a video statement, he proceeded to show lots of photographs of him kissing people in public – a gesture, he said, that is intended to show “warmth”. He further admitted that he sometimes calls people “sweetheart”, as if that were his greatest fault.

I also found this in the search results:

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

Someone here defined it as knowing when to follow authority, which I found a good one.

 
 

I recently became obsessed with trying to work out whether China really does have coin-operated park benches that stab you in the butt when your sitting time is up. This 'fact' was all over the internet, and had made its way into the NY Times, The Guardian, NPR, an academic journal, and a professor's book.

This fixation cost me $55, several days, and a significant chunk of my sanity.

To try to move past it, I have made this video taking you on my journey of internet factchecking.

spoilerthe story comes from a content mill that lost a libel suit against an expose by Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/central-european-news

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Professor Yu says China's expansive internet infrastructure plays a key role in driving the trend. "Internet connection is everywhere. The internet connectivity in the small villages is no different to Beijing." And this had allowed young people to both share their lives and earn an income using digital media, Professor Yu says.

"The old kind of rural lives are limited to farming or herding, but digital media has created new opportunities," Mr Chen says. "For example, what I'm doing helped the farmers to sell their products and brought more attention to the village." "Our town has become quite commercialised now," Ms Wang adds. "There is a mixture of local and outsiders' shops. A mixture of old and new things."

 
 

The TTP investigation found that more than 200 X users including individuals who appear to be affiliated with Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Syrian and Iraqi militia groups — all deemed foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) by the US government — are paying for subscriptions to Elon Musk's X.

Another Futurism.com banger I found alongside the other one I found.

 

Elon Musk's well-documented drug use made him an easy target for Russian secret service agents, former FBI agent Johnathan Buma told German television broadcaster ZDF during a recently aired documentary.

Buma said there was evidence that both he and fellow billionaire Peter Thiel were targeted by Russian operatives.

"Musk's susceptibility to promiscuous women and drug use, in particular ketamine, and his gravitation towards club life... would have been seen by Russian intelligence service as an entry point for an operative to be sent in after studying their psychological profile and find a way to bump into them, and quickly brought in to their inner circle," Buma told ZDF.

"I'm not allowed to discuss the details of exactly how we obtained this information," he added. "But there's a vast amount of evidence to support this fact."

it-is-known

Buma was arrested shortly after his interview with ZDF in March. His passport was confiscated and was temporarily released on bail.

michael-laugh

 

volcel-judge

 

volcel-judge

 
 

Tangent: when looking up Mamoru Oshii I found an interview where he compared the work culture at Studio Ghibli to a communist dictatorship ("communism is when capitalism"), because people of the 1960s "Anpo generation" (like Miyazaki) have "no morals" when they believe their cause is just...

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by AstroStelar@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net
 

(in hindsight, c/slop would have been a better place to post it)

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