pragmakist
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pragmakist@kbin.socialto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.4·1 year agoSurely the only languages that are not weird are those specifically designed to be widely spoken?
And no-one wants to speak those!
It keeps the butter hard and useless?
“Who goes there”, John Campbell, 1938.
(And I seem to recall more movies that are rehashes of that novella.)
So, yeah, looking at those examples I’d say we should try to prevent our opponets from going fascist.
If there’s anything fascists are good at it’s murdering lots and lots of people, so Id say we should stop them from gaining a following or try to remove their following if they already got one.
Easier said then done, but, to steal your words, doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
Yeah , but …
In Paris we fought and were massacred.
In Korea/Manchuria we fought and were massacred.
In Ukraine we fought and were massacred.
And as you say in Spain we fought, but then we were massacred.There’s more of course, but you get the idea.
Something probably should be done differently in the future.
I think what’s happening in the US today rhymes hard on the fall of the Roman Republic.
And I’m sorry, but I don’t think the people won back then.
pragmakist@kbin.socialto Science@kbin.social•1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world'2·1 year agoOr Earth.
Pieces of Earth was do doubt also flung about.
Somebody missed out on doing some simple, bog standard population dynamics.
You have r(t) rabbits, where r= …
pragmakist@kbin.socialto News@lemmy.world•Ukrainian Drones Strike Russia's Largest Oil Refinery10·1 year agoHopefully they are enough to disperse Russian anti-aircraft defences.
pragmakist@kbin.socialto Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Lemmy is a bigger echo chamber than reddit1·1 year agoWill you kids get your bloody GUIs off my lawn!
pragmakist@kbin.socialto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)?3·1 year agoHeh. I used to run leafnode as my own, in house, single person server.
I’m quite surprised to find out it’s still alive and maintained.
pragmakist@kbin.socialto politics @lemmy.world•Rep. Jim Clyburn helped Biden win young Black voters in 2020. This time, they're not listening.3·1 year agoYou make larger districts that elect more than one representative each.
Or at least that was how it was done here in Denmark.
pragmakist@kbin.socialto 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•This isn't a rule, its just something worth knowing if you speak or write english3·1 year agoThat’s actually a nice one.
pragmakist@kbin.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Artists are making creative companies apologize for using AI8·2 years agoYou know, that’s a good idea anyway.
I wonder though what that would mean for the copyright?
pragmakist@kbin.socialto News@lemmy.world•Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews industry safety debate261·2 years agoI’m just guessing, but if the plane suddenly decided it’s parked and shut down while it’s actually in the air …
We might want that recording.
The Secret Superpower of Civilization.
(Reading is also kinda neat!)
pragmakist@kbin.socialto News@lemmy.world•California becomes first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants1118·2 years ago“Undocumented”? “health insurance”?
“Undocumented health insurance”!?
“as long as they met eligibility requirements, including income limits and California residency in 2014.”
But not documented!?Are you quite sure you’re all right over there?
We also have some constraints built in by evolution, but yeah.