What on Earth is the context for this lmao
AstroStelar [he/him]
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8·10 days agoI sometimes think about getting the game to do things like this. I just want to explore, the game itself doesn’t interest me that much.
3·10 days ago@aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net All four MPs of Plaid Cymru abstained: https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/2078#notrecorded
16·11 days agoWhy should we bother to reply to Kautsky? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There’s no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything.
11·17 days agoSo there’s three things going on:
- Rutte’s broken English means he didn’t understand the nuances of “daddy” versus “papa” in Dutch, which doesn’t carry the submissive undertones as much as the former.
- In the Netherlands he’s known for his very casual and informal personality (“he’s the world leader that cycles to work!”). Dutch business culture is more relaxed, so here it works, but internationally it doesn’t.
- He’s always been like this much of a bootlicker with Trump, even back during his first term. He really wants to be on good terms with the United States, so when Trump is in charge he always kisses the ring.
2·18 days agoIn Dutch we have “wappie” which means the same thing
7·19 days agoWoah, you actually live in Alaska?
15·29 days agoSounded familiar, so I checked and it’s from 4 years ago.
Faced with these serious allegations, Cuomo at first attempted a bizarre defence. “I’m not perverted, I’m just Italian,” is how Fox News characterised it, which was amusingly accurate. Cuomo suggested that the fact that some women had perceived sexual abuse might be attributed to differing “generational or cultural perspectives”. In a video statement, he proceeded to show lots of photographs of him kissing people in public – a gesture, he said, that is intended to show “warmth”. He further admitted that he sometimes calls people “sweetheart”, as if that were his greatest fault.
I also found this in the search results:
11·1 month agoProfessor Yu says China’s expansive internet infrastructure plays a key role in driving the trend. “Internet connection is everywhere. The internet connectivity in the small villages is no different to Beijing.” And this had allowed young people to both share their lives and earn an income using digital media, Professor Yu says.
“The old kind of rural lives are limited to farming or herding, but digital media has created new opportunities,” Mr Chen says. “For example, what I’m doing helped the farmers to sell their products and brought more attention to the village.” “Our town has become quite commercialised now,” Ms Wang adds. “There is a mixture of local and outsiders’ shops. A mixture of old and new things.”
Some of the opinion pieces in the sidebar while I was reading this:
Earlier this month, another disgruntled Brit slammed a tourist hotspot in Greece for serving “no English food” - describing it as “the [worst] holiday I’ve ever been on”.
Susan Edwards, 69, from Westerhope, in Newcastle, said the all-inclusive TUI getaway to Corfu offered guests “no hot bacon or sausage”, but a buffet of salads, fish and rice, which she was “sick to death of looking at” by the end of her trip.
I found the article, but be warned, it’s stuffed with bloat in between paragraphs: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2065841/british-tourist-benidorm-holiday-ruined-spanish-people
Read the article here
A British pensioner was left in tears after her Benidorm holiday because there were “too many Spaniards” at her resort. The coastal city is well-known as a mecca for Brits abroad, but Freda Jackson’s expectations of being surrounded by fellow tourists during her trip may have pushed the stereotype to its limit.
The pensioner from Blackburn in Lancashire, who is in her eighties, raged over the number of locals she saw during her summer break in 2018, insisting that Spaniards should have “gone somewhere else for their holidays”. While protests against an influx of foreign tourists has defined discourse across European travel hotspots in recent years, Ms Jackson’s complaints tackled an entirely different issue. “The hotel was full of Spanish holidaymakers and they really got on our nerves because they were just so rude,” the grandmother-of-six said.
“The entertainment in the hotel was all focused [on] and catered for the Spanish,” she added. “[And] one evening, a Spanish guy nearly knocked me flying and he just walked off without even apologising.”
The Brit said she and a friend had paid for the trip using their pensions, but claimed they were given a hotel room on a slope despite requesting flat-ground access, and were allegedly forced to travel 1,500 miles from Manchester Airport to Alicante after they weren’t told their flight dates had been changed.
“I have never complained about a holiday before - but this one was a disaster from start to finish,” Ms Jackson said. “My friend and I paid for it from our pensions and it was a struggle trying to fund it over 12 months. The holiday was totally ruined. I cried after.”
A spokesperson for Thomas Cook said the pensioner wasn’t told about the change to her flights until six days before departure due to a “system error”.
“We are very sorry for the inconvenience this caused and are investigating to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” they added. “We … offered Ms Jackson and her travel companion a gesture of goodwill to try and put things right, which we hope she will accept.”
Earlier this month, another disgruntled Brit slammed a tourist hotspot in Greece for serving “no English food” - describing it as “the world holiday I’ve ever been on”.
Susan Edwards, 69, from Westerhope, in Newcastle, said the all-inclusive TUI getaway to Corfu offered guests “no hot bacon or sausage”, but a buffet of salads, fish and rice, which she was “sick to death of looking at” by the end of her trip.
On that note, China also recently made headlines with a ‘quantum-proof’ encryption system: https://hexbear.net/post/5176306
So the claim being made here is accurate, but fair warning: this website is full of anti-vax stuff and various other far-right conspiracy theories. I was suspecting that when I noticed half the article is about parliamentary questions by a politician from ‘Forum voor Democratie’, a far-right party that fell down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and esoteric fascism. Unfortunately, they are also the only party in parliament that is explicitly anti-NATO, but that’s because they like Russia for protecting “boreal culture” against le wokisme.
A few years ago, I learned that the official typeface used by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is called “Bandera”.
23·1 month agoHaven’t haka (is that the plural term?) been performed in parliament before without issue?
Well, it’s in Guangxi, which borders Vietnam, so you’re not that far off. Guangxi’s karst landscapes are wild.
6·1 month agoI have two main gripes with the video:
- Skyscrapers are overkill, just making middle density the norm in our suburbs would go a long way. Spanish cities can be used as inspiration.
- Supply alone won’t fix housing unaffordability, which is also driven by privatisation of the housing market, cash-strapped local governments raising land prices after budget cuts and homeowners not wanting to see their homes lose value.
The channel as a whole gives me a bad vibe as well, it comes across as
aka Dutch redditor
I-I guess that makes… sense?