SeikoAlpinist

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[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a big deal because it's a bunch of white people who died.

More Lao kids will die this year from unexploded ordinance left over from an undeclared war where the US dropped a planeload of bombs on the country every eight minutes around the clock, every single day, for nine years.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1186949348/us-cluster-munitions-civilian-casualties-laos

Oh look the loser Biden administration is in Laos right now and refusing to even mention it because "muh China." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/21/us-secret-war-remembered-as-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-austin-visits-laos

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

There are other search engines. Maybe Firefox can partner with them.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Large outlet center on interstate 40 in North Carolina between two metropolitan areas needed a Spanish translator. I applied and interviewed, having spent significant time working IT jobs in South America. They asked if I spoke Mexican. I said no, I am working proficient in Spanish. They said sorry, they were looking for someone who spoke Mexican.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Cool, an Oxford study that isn't insulting.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mr. Biden signed a proclamation declaring every Nov. 17 to be International Conservation Day and vowed that the United States would spend millions of dollars across the Amazon on restoring land, planting native tree species, supporting biodiversity efforts and increasing fertilizer efficiency programs. It was the first time a sitting American president had visited the Amazon.

This reminds me of when President Obama went to Laos with a couple weeks left in his Presidency, and vowed to clean up the US bombs that still explode and maim children every year. It was the most heavily bombed nation in history by the US, and they didn't even declare war. Then Trump came in and threw it all away.

The United States eventually dropped the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years

https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ghosting is a normal part of life. It happens, and 95% of the time it's inadvertent and not a slight. People come in and leave your life. That's just how it works.

If someone isn't worth the hassle, move on. It doesn't even deserve an explanation or second thought.

Only you get to determine how your time is spent. Nobody deserves a monopoly over your emotions or effort, and anybody who demands an explanation is just manipulating you because they don't respect your agency as a person as much as they value their own pride. Don't fall for the toxicity.

There are eight billion people out there. It would take 250 years to high-five them all. Lots of noise, very little signal.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, better vantage point.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

The most recent commercial game using the modified 2.5D Doom engine, was released in May 2024 on Steam. It is called Selaco.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Dalí was a huge Alice Cooper fan

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

US Civil war vets who lived to be 90 married little girls at the end of their life. Usually it was an arrangement. The little girls would then be eligible for the pension and it transferred to them when the veteran died. Some of these girls themselves lived to their 90s, hence you had state governments still pay civil war annuities in the era of TikTok.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

+1 Singapore. Good food, I don't stand out in a crowd, future city.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 69 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I guess the world burning was worth sticking it to Kamala for Gaza.

 

“I think it's mostly the culture of just kind of being second-class, almost like and we kind of feel like we don't have a voice...”

 

Two brothers in town for their sisters' wedding were killed while riding bikes last night. One is an NHL hockey star. Fuck cars. Also, sorry for linking TMZ, it's more detailed than the SI article.

 

From Android Police.

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