This sort of happened in Australia. A high profile military veteran was accused of war crimes based on whistleblower documents. He sued the news org and the reporters.

Witnesses were heard, documents scrutinized. The whole thing was thrown away. Appeals were dismissed. And a couple years later he was arrested for allegations of war crimes.

RAM prices exploding only means Apple takes a tiny hit to their profit margin per device, considering how inflated they were in the first place.

Not just folders, every icon has 4-way configurable swipe. I’ve gone a little swipe crazy now. Who needs folders when you can launch 5 different things by swiping a single icon…

The Act of Killing

That was one of the toughest movies to watch. It’s been more than a decade, and I still can’t bring myself to watch the follow-up.

I absolutely support your points.

But the guards only carry halberds for ceremonial duties. Otherwise they are reasonably well armed, from personal sidearms to assault rifles.

Usually it’s the ones that were once a Reddit app, modified to work with Lemmy. I’ve not seen one specifically written for Lemmy/PieFed to not support spoilers.

As in, a companion to the planet.

Moons are satellites.

Satellite: from Latin satellitem (nominative satelles) “an attendant” upon a distinguished person; “a body-guard, a courtier; an assistant”

Yes.

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No, what they’re describing is a False Friend. A very specific type of homophone/graph/nym. They work across languages. And in many cases (though not a hard rule) have close enough meaning/usage that would confuse non-native speakers trying to comprehend things via context.

E.g. A German telling his English friend, “I’ll meet you at the gymnasium”. The sentence is correct, and makes perfect sense to both. But they’ll end up at two different places.

Yes

You know what? A stick arrangement would actually be cool. And not having to regularly change the water is an added bonus.

It’s called a cloaca, you uneducated swine!

(Sorry, couldn’t pass on a good streak of online insult throwing)

Many comic artists have side gigs to actually make a living. I could guess what this person does for their day job.

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In the context of the richest person on earth saying, “empathy is a weakness”, yes. You’re absolutely right.

They are a wizard, yes. Nobody in their right mind would want to do it for so long.

They also reckon the other 50% is trying to harness the magic by randomly tweaking stuff in the hope it doesn’t blow up in their face…

I worked with someone that’s been designing RF circuits close to 4 decades. They reckon it’s only about 50% magic.

I have never accepted this explanation. Yes, using base 12 is logical and well documented. But that means you’ve got 12 on the other hand as well. 144 would’ve made more sense.