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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL in 1982 William Shatner paid $10,000-15,000 to an ex-Green Beret named Bo Gritz leading a mercenary force on a raid into LaosEnglish
2·13 days agooh boy there was one recently where they didn’t even get to the guy in the first episode.
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•League of Legends Faker [Lee 'Faker' Sang-hyeok: won more LoL World Championships] becomes first esports athlete to appear on Korean postage stampsEnglish
2·15 days agofrom the greek “athlon” - prize -> athlein - wanting a prize -> athlētēs- one who competes for a prize -> athleta - Latin version -> modern English (note similarity between athlētēs and athletes)
Although the physical side is culturally connotated, there’s nothing in the strict definition that requires “someone who competes for a prize” to be a physical, e.g. chess, math, science, economics…competitor
The papal conclave decide on a successor to Pope Paul III, going into session in the Apostolic Palace in Rome with 51 cardinal electors.Participants at the papal conclave agree to elect the next Pope by secret ballot.
Robert Kett is hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle after being found guilty of treason for leading Kett’s Rebellion. His brother William is hanged from the walls of Wymondham Abbey on the same day.
Ottoman Empire Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent abandons his campaign against Safavid Iran after 21 months, during which he was unable to proceed further than Tabriz.
I bet you can’t find a year between 1550 and now where someone who would nowadays align with the right wing wasn’t offended by something.
it usually indicates “golden” raisins in the uk
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Migration minister fails UK citizenship test questionEnglish
5·1 month agothe fuck is a statue of liberty
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•“God is nonbinary”: GOP activates over Talarico’s past comments characterizing him as too radical for TexasEnglish
16·1 month agoor particularly unusual for deities
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•You never know if you're gonna need one some day
2·1 month agoAuks were similar to penguins, members of the aukling family include guillemots and puffins.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leadersEnglish
9·2 months agoaryan, bugger, coffee, doodle, horde, kiosk, lackey, mammoth, ottoman, pillar, quiver, sofa, turquoise, yogurt.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leadersEnglish
211·2 months agoand Celtic, Greek, Dutch, Turkish, various Indian/South Asian languages and Arabic.
Not to mention the “French” and “German” you mention were actually Saxon and Norman which became those languages.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Pastors gather in Oval Office to ‘pray for Donald Trump’ amidst Iran WarEnglish
5·2 months agothere’s one in the middle of the photo
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Cooking @lemmy.world•Soldiers and soft boiled goose eggs
5·2 months agoyou didn’t have me until anchovies
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Politics@sh.itjust.works•US is moving towards asking tourists for five-year social media history and biometrics before entryEnglish
21·2 months agofamily, friends, business… there are lots of reasons besides sightseeing.
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•'We're actively embracing generative AI,' Take-Two boss says, after previously expressing skepticism: 'We have hundreds of pilots and implementations across our company'English
3·3 months agoI dont need the scientific method not to stick my hand in fire.
And I’ve used AI. Its shit. It don’t work. It makes pure nonsense.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Jeffrey Epstein was banned on Xbox LiveEnglish
25·3 months agoI knew he was a wrong’un. Finally, some proof.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•For that modern web feeling
24·3 months ago“make the page transparent and show a spinning icon, wait 750ms, then make the page display normally”
it’s a fake loading screen
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•What a joke, can't believe people still voluntarily use this OS
4·3 months agoif it helps, I installed it today using winget which I liked.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Mo Validation Mo Problems
2·3 months agoI use a mental algorithm that means my password is always different on paper, but is always deducible by me.




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