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  • Not that I'm aware. Probably Baader-Meinhof.

    To wit, coincidences are more noticeable than non-coincidences, and once you've noticed one it'll be much easier to notice others you might have missed.

    I myself once spent about a week seeing Curta hand-held mechanical calculators everywhere. Books, magazines, blog posts, youtube... I wasn't complaining, of course, the Curta is an amazing piece of engineering, but still, it was a bit weird.

  • Argentina: Milei government on crusade against inclusive language
  • Yeah, some Catalan politicians say “els ciutadans i les ciutadanes”, much like some Spanish politicians say “los ciudadanos y las ciudadanas”. Romance languages tend to have gendered nouns (and by extension articles). 🤷‍♂️

  • Anon learns to love the bath bomb
  • Had to do x km/day on the static bike, because fat.

    Got no time for that.

    Old static bike, with mechanical revolution counter.

    Unscrew spinning cable that feeds from the bike into the counter.

    MacGyver Lego contraption, with motor, with a pointy bit that fits where the cable would go.

    Motor goes brrr, do required km in seconds, plug cable back in, rinse and repeat;, parents never find out (I "exercised" while they were working).

    Still fat. 😞

  • Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy?
  • Every Lemmygrad account I've been exposed to seemed to be a Chinese and / or Russian bot single-mindedly trying to sell the idea that despite all evidence to the contrary China and / or Russia are somehow not oligarchic dictatorships as far as you can get from Marx's views without going full fascist.

    As for Hexbear, they appear to be adolescent or younger far right lunatic trolls affected by lead poisoning and foetal alcohol syndrome acting like they believe leftists and "woke" people would act, for shits and giggles, and just to try to derail any serious conversation in the fediverse.

    Therefore they're both essentially spam, and despised as such by anyone who doesn't find them funny.

  • Imagine voting for someone that wants to get rid of the department of education.
  • Also, especially in Argentina's case, because the other guys are literally the worst. ¹

    ¹ Except that this guy is somehow even more worst. But hey, at least it's new ² worst.

    ² It's not really new. Just the same old fascism ³, with a new shiny coat of paint. ⁴

    ³ Except somehow even more stupid and irrational than ever before.

    ⁴ It's not really paint. ⁵

    ⁵ Shit. It's shit. Brightly coloured shit, because of all the blood and other bodily fluids mixed in.

  • Before French Girls, There Were...
  • Top left one is just stretching. I've seen cats look exactly like that when stretching, same face and all, no stylisation required, other than what's already naturally built-in due to them being cats.

    Top right one is somewhat stylised, but mostly is just high on catnip.

    The other two... yeah, those ain't very good.

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