I’ve never even looked at it. Vine was pretty cool but then it died, Periscope was neat, but I dunno, something about Tiktok feels predatory, how addictive it is (from what I’ve seen of others using it).

Plus while they’re all as bad as each other, I still trust China less than Microsoft with my stuff, so yeah. I’m just not interested in it and don’t really see the appeal for myself. But I see why it’s popular and it’s not like, terrible, as a concept.

We don’t suffer fascists easily here.

Who do you think you are kidding Mister Muskler?

You call that a smash? Stop sensationalising, come now.

A car gently tapped a thing during a turn and came to a stop.

Aaahhhh go on

Why am I not seeing a picture? On my end this is just a text post where a guy said oooh yeah and nothing else 😅

Interesting, I’d never trust any USB cable to push anywhere near 100 watts anyway haha good god, the most I ever do is maybe 20w at 5v.

I’ll keep that in mind when buying cables in the future though this is very useful info!

I’ve not heard anyone take umbridge with calling Russians “orcs” or “ruskies” yet, to be fair, not with calling our German and Japanese enemies during WWII Jerry or Japs respectively. Jap is just a handy shortened single syllable way of saying Japanese. For another example of this in peace time, people from Great Britain get called Brits. It’s not a race thing, just a slang thing.

The war slangs aren’t terms we’d use today of course, as they’re no longer our enemies and such slang carries the unspoken “We call them this because they’re our enemy and they don’t get to decide what we call them” connotation, but for the moment in 2024, Russia and North Korea are the enemy of Ukraine, so they’re fair game.

I see your point though, but I don’t believe this is a race thing at all, not in my eyes anyway, I think it’s just a “They’re the enemy and we need a simple, easy and quick to pronounce slang nickname for them that is functionality useful, watch also sometimes shows our current hatred of them as our mortal enemy and as a way to help unite us against a foe, in the case of ‘orcs’ for example”.

But yeah, if people are using these terms to be racist or whatever, screw those guys, they suck.

He’s a modern day Nazi leader, what do you expect him to say?

Yes mate! I checked mate, you’re right mate!

Yaaaayyyy capitalism!

They wanna ruin AI like they ruined their Chocolate after they got bought out by that shite company Kraft?

Cadburys tastes like crap now the same way American chocolate does, such a bloody shame too :-(

Phew, good thing this essential national backbone public service is owned and run by a foreign billionaire.

It’s for the best obviously, or our government wouldn’t do it, duh.

WhatsApp? The instant messenger boomers use on their phones?

Damn, who saw that coming.

I agree but also how the heck did you forget Reach! 😅

What an absolutely phenomenal single player game in the series, and absolutely fantastic multiplayer to boot! :-D

Gosh the Reach score lives rent free in my head all these years later… ♥️

Not bad! Is that actual sliced sausage or is it black pudding?

Gotta have some pudding with a full English, and preferably a couple of pork sausages too, and if you’re really hungry throw some hash browns on there :-D

Such wise words my Nagus

I’m sure it’ll be back up soon don’t worry :-)

Fuck Funko and fuck their shitty CEO.

Not worth thinking about any further. I wish itch.io the best in their lawsuit.

Cop: “So anyway I started blastin”

Instead of some crappy website like Forbes, why not get all the information directly from the source.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2024-DON546

The summary at the top is the only part that needs reading, though the rest is informative too.

Basically, they don’t know what it is yet, though given the malnourished, somewhat cut off, poor region with spotty healthcare at best, this could be one or multiple illnesses that we already know about, which have all struck a weak population at a bad time.

So, no need to panic just yet. They’re sending various test samples off to be checked out, but the road out of the region takes 48 hours to drive due to rainy season issues, so it’s a bit slow going.

All in all, this is likely no big deal, but certainly worth keeping an eye on just to be safe. These sorts of things happen all the time, basically, but before COVID nobody really cared.