Lies, the internet isn’t tubes, it’s a small box

I never quite understood why the Pythons made those characters Australian. Was the alcoholism of the Brits not famous enough to be funny?

Japan sorta did this, but it was with malt percentage rather than alcohol amount. Beers were taxed under laws that taxed any drink malted more than 67%, so beer companies got around it by dropping the malt percentage. Then a new tax category was created and less malted drinks followed. Long story short they now make a beer type drink malted less than 25% called happoshu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happōshu

The populace didn’t vote for her specifically. The last general election was in 2024.

I usually use ddg but sometimes it can’t find things in non-English languages whereas google has the results I’m looking for.

I dunno, English is pretty good at stealing bits of other languages.

Go in early Aug if possible. The Tachineputa festival in Aomori is the best in all of Tohoku. Kanto festival in Akita is up there as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goshogawara_Tachineputa_Festival

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akita_Kantō

What did you think it meant?

Go north. Hardly anyone goes to Tohoku and there’s so much to see

Assuming this AI shit doesn’t kill us all and we make it to the conclusion that robots writing lies on websites perhaps isn’t the best thing for the internet, there’s gonna be a giant hole of like 10 years where you just shouldn’t trust anything written online. Someone’s gonna make a bespoke search engine that automatically excludes searching for anything from 2023 to 2035.

I never knew they used the “suffering work” kanji for that phrase

Perfect, time for the nobel!

Does that mean a bloated orange with alzheimers somehow failed to achieve something again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Machine_(short_story)

Yeah I’m still bouncing between apps bc none of them have all of what I want (mostly to do with swipe gestures plus picture and video functionality–basically trying to replace sync but nothing lives up to it). But at least the new user icon shows up on desktop these days.

Is that an app? I’ve been hoping someone makes a desktop client that improves the lemmy experience like the reddit ones used to do

They tried pay toilets in the states but people vandalized the shit out of them until they were gone. These days it can be hard to find public restrooms in places though.

I got one of those hats they were selling for the rally that said hate with the “E” xed out. It was my hat hat and I’m still upset I lost it.

I don’t necessarily think that would be the wrong thing to do in that situation, but wouldn’t it most likely end up with your death and your wife dragged off somewhere with no one left who knows she’s even gone?

I’m all for shooting masked thugs and I don’t have a good answer here, I just think there are no good outcomes

It might be less common in the UK (eg I know you guys still keep the lay/lie distinction commonly but it’s pretty muddled in the US these days), but you can find usage notes in US-based dictionaries:

the past and past participle hung, as well as hanged, is standard. Hanged is most appropriate for official executions

he was to be hanged, cut down whilst still alive … and his bowels torn out
—Louis Allen

but hung is also used.

gave orders that she should be hung
—Peter Quennell

Hung is more appropriate for less formal hangings.

by morning I’ll be hung in effigy
—Ronald Reagan

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hang