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[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 years ago

It's a bit, we like to joke about Guaido declaring himself leader of everything - this is not the first joke like this I've seen on this site. It's funny because if he declared himself the new leader of Wagner, that'd have as much sense and legitimacy as his declaration that he is "interim president" of Venezuela, which is to say, none at all.

[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They actually put that guy in jail? Didn't expect that to happen tbh.

[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's the context behind this? I've seen this same face as an emoji on Hexbear, but I don't know what the actual context is.

[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Chloe and her Eevee, from Pokémon.

Didn't have the time or motivation to watch or read other fiction in the last couple years. I guess that's why. And also Eevee is very cute.

[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

LMAO at all the liberals from lemmy.world already upset at this meme in the comment section, just an hour after it was posted

Cope and seethe

[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Any resources on what the concept of youth liberation is and how it might be implemented? This is the first time I've heard of it... (Yes, I know I could look it up, but considering how search engines can be biased or low-quality, I would rather ask someone already familiar with the concept.)

[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Reject modernity

Embrace tradition

For the non-nerds among us

Bottom logo is X11, an old but still widely-used windowing system for UNIX systems.) This new Twitter logo feels like a total ripoff of that.

[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I thought Hoxhaists don't like Tito? And see him as a revisionist in particular? Wasn't the relationship between Yugoslavia and socialist Albania very strained?

[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Whoever runs that Twitter account posts this, and then has the audacity to accuse us of having evil impulses...

Oh, and if these guys had their way, they would have kids be illiterate and working in factories again:

(source 1 source 2)

But sure, we are the evil ones, for not wanting people to die because they can't afford basic necessities. That's a very evil thing to strive for. I am the most evil person to ever have lived.

 

And of course they use it on a three-year-old post by one of the Lemmygrad admins. The post itself is a based picture: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8886

[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's surreal to see the word "tankies" in something that claims to be an academic paper...

I'm glad that we're apparently so popular, though!

[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I was thinking about this yesterday. Liberals believe that the land where that war is fought is Ukrainian land, right? And for sure, they should know something about how terrible the effects of depleted uranium and cluster munitions are, on civilians, long after the fighting is over? (Though I vaguely remember an article from the BBC or similar media outlet saying depleted uranium is actually not that bad, because of course that's the line these ghouls push.) So, even in the fantasy world where liberals' dream of Ukraine winning this war and taking back all the territory succeeds, the people of the country that liberals claim to support so much would STILL suffer from all the effects of those munitions.

Basically all I have seen from liberals on the matter is "But it's important that Ukraine wins!! We have no other kinds of weapons to send!". If the latter sentence is true, that's just an admission of defeat coming soon. If it's not true, they're just making the land unlivable for the sake of a temporary strategic advantage. Truly, western liberals, are willing to fight this conflict until their proxy country is entirely destroyed. All while sitting in the comfort of their own home, treating this war as just more entertainment for themselves, knowing it's not them blown to pieces by cluster munitions.

 

Source for the screenshot: https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309

I know nothing about this, but it came up on my Mastodon timeline and it sounds very concerning. Unless someone took over the Matrix servers or the account, mastodon.matrix.org seems to be indeed their official instance... Any opinion from the comrades on here who use Matrix?

 

47 years ago today, Red Army Faction founding member Ulrike Meinhof was killed in prison. According to authorities, she took her own life, but comrades and supporters have long believed she was murdered. See this interview with her sister on the 40th anniversary of her death, which discusses independent evidence suggesting a prison cover-up.

 

From the description:

This video clip shows HVO geologist Tim Orr sampling lava from an active pāhoehoe breakout on the episode 61g lava flow. The chemistry of these lava samples provides information on the magma plumbing system. Sampling has been a regular part of monitoring Kīlauea Volcano's ongoing Pu‘u‘ō‘ō eruption.

Today I learned that this is what that looks like. Very impressive.

 

I'd like to try Matrix, but I still don't know of a good client. I don't want Electron on my computer, so the official client is out of the question. I tried nheko, but I didn't like it (though I can install it again if it turns out that there is no better option).

So, can anyone here recommend me a Matrix client? Either terminal-based or GUI, both are fine.

 
 

The two programs involved are toilet and lolcat.

toilet is a program that takes text as input, and turns it into fancy multi-line letters. It has different "fonts" available for this purpose; all the available fonts are stored in the /usr/share/figlet directory. Here are just some examples:

Actually, toilet also has a built-in option to colour it, but it doesn't look very nice IMO, as the colour changes are too sudden:

lolcat is a program that takes some text, and prints the same text, but rainbow-coloured. Note that you need a terminal with 256-colour support (rather than just 16) for the desired effect. It can colour any text in rainbow:

(The wrapping at 80 characters is so that the lines don't get longer than the terminal width. lolcat starts looking weird when they do.

And now, by combining these two, we can get fancy rainbow-coloured text!

Enjoy! :)

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Some people seem to consider them felines, others say they're foxes, and some say they're dogs. I'm curious — what does this community think?

Or is it different for the different Eeveelutions? I've seen someone refer to Espeon as "weird cat" and to the other Eeveelutions as dogs.

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