No, it did it's purpose: it made headlines.
Give it another 20 years, then release it with an accompanying series of articles about "wow, check out all the fucked up shit the CIA used to do, aren't you glad they stopped!"
I was actually kinda pissed when I had to switch to a car with a CD player and couldn't use it anymore.
Eh, Eco described it as appealing to the " frustrated middle class", and honestly I can see it.
I have a feeling abridged series are on average better than the originals.
It was kinda funny when lemmy was just taking in the reddit exodus crowd and people were complaining that their front page was full of German and Polish posts.
Organising requires funds, though.
When the competition is "you're not a real person, also you're Russian", even that may be enough.
Pissing on the poor is lemmy's favourite sport.
So, the article itself says the thing it's writing about is irrelevant?
So why write about it?
"Bent" is an old word for "crooked, fake". It's not a photography term, it's plain English, the guy's just too much of an asshole to clarify.
"They're not mine, I swear, I stole them from NYT!"
...You know how basically all Indoeuropean languages have a word for Canis Lupus that sounds vaguely like "Ulku"? Ulv/Ulf/Wolf/Vlk/Vilks/Vuk/Loup/Lykos? Well, there's another word, walhaz that started off meaning "Celt", then "Roman", then generic "foreigner", and can be found today in exonyms all over Europe. It didn't occur to me that Latin wouldn't have had it, since they were the Vlachs in question.
I mean the Welsh/Waloon/Wallachian/waelsc word for "those people over there" that all the rest of Europe seems to have. It's not unheard of for neighboring people to call eachother 'vlach'. I just never noticed Latin doesn't have it.
Or contamination. Could just be something environmental.
There's also that both PRC and ROC claim the area. IIRC, Taiwan actually claims three extra dashes.
Festivity Doctrine, if you will.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1300027
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