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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does no one in the bible have a last name?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure you get these if you move. These names are common in my part of the world and they’re never common in the place the name refers to. At some point an ancestor moved and it stuck to their kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The British Empire⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I only ever saw it as controlling the spread of the horrific and anti-human terrorist philosophy of “believing the mass internment and murder of Palestinians is not a good thing actually”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring bathroom doors back to hotels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I never heard of this phenomenon. What on earth? Do you just shit next to your bed like a prisoner (I don’t even want this for prisoners?)? I don’t see any photos on the site. Surely this isn’t that common?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike most people, I get my information from a vetted, trusted source.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m one hypnotic frenzied writing session away from a giant winding post about how magazines gave us curated, focused cross-sections of the world around us, and how we interacted with them before the dopamine reptile brain event horizon era. I really have a lot of thoughts on this.

  I don’t know if this is real and I almost don’t want to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Pseudo) Science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’d have a guy with a bunker full of 1952 Tylenol, which “still had mercury and opium so you know it worked”.

  It’s like you people don’t grapple with conspiracy culture and its tireless army of very well adjusted people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 486 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This might have been the last AAA game I was hyped for, bought at full price, and enjoyed within its buzz cycle.

  I should play it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Wylin'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not word for word then, you got me there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Wylin'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard this word for word but in Arabic back in like 2006 about Yasser Arafat. What’s old is new again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a month that's relevant to me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You ought to really bite down on that filter, give it a good satisfying crunch, just give it a real manly squeeze using your masculine man face working man muscles, just to make sure no particles go anywhere. You’ll be fine, trust

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a month that's relevant to me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The asbestos is probably the healthiest ingredient in that cigarette.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not clicking on the link, but this is right up my alley. Would love to host something like that locally, some sort of convenient museum of emulated stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC I played it a little and it was just mobile microtransaction hell after a certain point, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a whole ass case of assorted fine Lebanese wine for Natenyahu, stashed away in my family’s old home in the mountains.

  Here’s hoping he doesn’t get to it before I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the most popular sporting event on the planet in a country with 300 million people, this is nothing like the Club World Cup that was held this year. The lack of tourists might not be a problem, save for maybe atmosphere.

  This chart, with the huge ticket prices, is why the US was chosen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nostalgia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t even call it a pun, as someone pointed out already. I’m going to sacrifice the joke in the name of explaining it.

  brief Arabic cultural lesson for those who care

  You have your Good Morning (≈Morning of Peace, صباح الخير) in English. In Arabic we have more variations. The standard reply to this first one is Morning of Light (صباح النور). Basically wishing each other a good day by describing what makes it good. There’s a couple but these first two in this order is the standard (and secular *) greeting. * you’ll see why that is even worth pointing out in a second Then you have more abstract ones that imply a good day by referring to something (commonly a pleasant smelling flower), like Morning of Roses (صباح الورد) or Morning of (a specific type of) Jasmine (صباح الفل). All of these have a musical quality to them in a way I can’t write out. You’ll get older relatives sending you standardized photos with these greetings in groups or just to text you to invite you for lunch (or to fix their phone). Here’s the google images result for Good Morning (≈Morning of Peace): Image I’ve highlighted the religious stuff in red and the roses with blue, to see how common they are. The religious stuff is mostly variations with Islamic Duas (prayers asking for something - in the case of all of these it’s basically “asking” God to give the recipient good health / a good day / a pleasant path in life - it’s really just a “good luck” phrased in the only way a religious society can express it. FWIW I’m (mostly) not from a Muslim family so I get secular or Christian versions of these. Often the photos I get are flowers, traditional breakfast food, coffee, a nice breakfast table set in a shaded garden. And often there’s very few pixels. Sometimes an aunt will just take a photo of her coffee and that’s basically a greeting. But it’s usually garbled old jpegs from 2007. Critical subtext: these are literally forwards from grandma. Well-meaning, but eventually obnoxious, especially back when phones had 8GB of storage.

  This meme says Morning of Strawberries (صباح الفراولة) which is both clunky (Arabic’s got a poetic quality and these two words put together just intuitively do not work that way. It has the meter of a punchline if that makes sense) and silly, but with the textured elephant and the 13x12 resolution as you can probably guess it’s just a surreal meme.

  But now you know why it’s a surreal meme.

  Come back next week for the much less wholesome next episode of Arabic forwards from Arabic grandma: videos alleging the Jews invented homosexuality, cancer, and sex

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨facebook ai⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, eating > restaurants > a list with potential promoted entries.

  I really don’t think the intention of integrating this “intelligence” into Facebook is explicitly to make us dumber. I think the only real purpose is to supercharge marketing. Eroding the mental capacity of functional human beings is just a happy little accident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The facists are right!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a special bottle of cognac for Kissinger and I was abroad for work when he returned whence he came. I haven’t opened it yet given how shit the situation everywhere is, but maybe celebrating small wins is vital even when important stuff is happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sorry guys i slept in⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was taken aback when I heard someone I expected better from use “matrix”, although it was used in a “some people call it x” context and not the regular one dripping with… let’s call it baggage.

  Outhouse Perilous is an absolutely spectacular username.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He really said this, look it up!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the translation they forced me to memorize at gunpoint at Liberal Arts University of Woke:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good Guy Humpback⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did notice the same title since they were near each other on my front page. But it does look like you’re posting this uncritically, even with the context. It looks less like you’re showing us something relevant but tasteless to gawk at the state of mainstream online “content” and more like you want to laugh at “annoying fat bitches maaaaan” (who are actually doing their friend a favor seeing what the OOP is going for).

  Childish misogyny is endemic on most online platforms now, none of us here want to see this shit. It’s not people being dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good Guy Humpback⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve posted bad memes in comments I don’t like before to provide context.

  You could have gone with something like “oh this is much better than the rancid original: rancidoriginal.png”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are all asking the same question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re telling me this woman born in 1868 hillbilly country didn’t get married in such a short wedding dress?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best/worst part is that I was worried about battery life, and then I realized that I only have so much time as an adult and it doesn’t matter as much, for most games I’d want to play on it anyway.

  A power bank for the exceptions. Not perfect but it’s okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you still remember?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kia Pride. First generation. Falling apart, basically a soda can with wheels. Clutch so atrocious that I basically had to relearn how to drive during those fifteen minutes. Allegedly someone I knew got one that didn’t even have a gas pedal, just a relatively high idle.

  Only the finest public property here in Lebanon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨title⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a small wave of this style of meta meme in around 2012ish, all about seeing who can break the format of whatever was popular at the time in the most meta way possible. The joke always being that we can understand these weird image arrangements even after tearing out half of their content.

  This one is just as satisfying as those were when they were still a novelty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since we're doing magic eyes now...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can still view these, but it’s much much harder for me.

  I don’t know why parallel isn’t the default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the risk of coming off as too gatekeep-y, Arabic is structurally so different from English and French (the other two languages I know). It has a reputation for being difficult for a reason.

  Despite it being my native language I’ll occasionally still think of an idea phrased primarily in English, and contorting it into Arabic is very clunky (despite Arabic being much more loosey goosey with word order, in general, you can figure out how to tie up an idea as you go - this applies more to MSA, dialects usually sway more towards a small number of forms).

  While strictly more rigid, you might be better off at least grasping the basics of MSA first before jumping into a specific dialect. It is antithetical to how I think about languages (go learn the specific prescriptive form of Arabic instead of the most commonly spoken popularly developed one) but it might be easier to learn that way.

  (I’m thinking of it like learning piano (or MIDI?) as a baseline for music and more instruments vs learning guitar first and having an understanding of notes and scales that is very closely associated to the relational positioning of these notes on these strings.)

  Or maybe it might not be easier that way. I didn’t learn Arabic as an adult with a background in western languages, fuck if I know what the pedagogically optimal way to learn Arabic is. Arabic is hard, dude. Doesn’t help that half of all Arabic media is (I say this as an Arab) embarrassing mindless drivel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not in academia, but I’ve seen my coworkers’ hard work get crunched into a slop machine by higher ups who think it’s a good cleanup filter.

  LLMs are legitimately amazing technology for like six specific use cases but I’m genuinely worried that my own hard work can be defaced that way. Or worse, that someone else in the chain of custody of my work (let’s say, the person advising me who would be reviewing my paper in an academic context) decided to do the same, and suddenly this is attached to my name permanently.

  Absurd, terrifying, genuinely upsetting misuse of technology. I’ve been joking about moving to the woods much more frequently every month for the past two years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't Americans use electric kettles?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not, but you need over twice the current to supply the same power, and since many safety measures and physical constraints limit the current, it effectively means the power limit is more strict.

  This is assuming the same cables and breakers etc being used for both voltage ratings. I know there are specific wiring and connection systems for high amperage stuff in 110v places (probably for some 240v places too, but I’m in a place with notoriously bad electrical everything, fuck if I know)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why God Made Me a Veganivore 🥩🔥 Unlike Weaklings Who Settle for Unfrefined Plants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many people here don’t understand that memes and shitposts are not the same thing.

  Decent enough shitpost.