• DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Belgian winter sucks ass. I have seen the sun for maybe three days in the past few months. Otherwise it’s just gray or rainy. Great for your vitamin D levels.

    • Oppo@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Whenever it rains in winter I always think to myself “10 years ago this would have been snow”

      • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        Yup. It’s been years since we had a proper winter with multiple days of snow I think. Just rain and 8 to 10 degrees.

  • Comradesexual@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I made a Discord. It’s in my profile in case someone wants to reach out. I will have to get used to using it. Considering my situation, I am a hell of a downer and may respond slowly, but I am available if you need a more personal approach.

    In all seriousness, a friend made me make it, because no other service worked for sharing pirated stuff to watch together synchronized 1:1, so I may as well let anyone reach out if they want to.

      • Comradesexual@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        9 months ago

        My friend gets the stuff and then streams to me. No watch together website allowed for anything but links to youtube or synchronizing watching over websites such as netflix if both people have an account. I use FMHY for links to watch stuff on my own.

  • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Two more drones got intercepted over Dzerzjinsk. Which is pretty darn far from the Ukrainian border. So they’ve likely been launched locally.

    Lovely

  • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Finally managed to find a home after having to precariously couch surf for nearly 3 weeks. Feels good to have proper internet again. How have things been going meanwhile?

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The portrayal of Saracens as quasi‐Jewish killers of Christ enables Christians not only to glorify those who defeat them in battle but also to inspire new military campaigns. The Muslim chronicler Izz al‐Din Ibn al‐Athir provides a vivid example of such rhetoric when recounting what happened after Muslim forces retook Jerusalem in 1187.

    Ibn al‐Athir, perhaps drawing on firsthand knowledge, reports that the city’s patriarch aroused fellow Franks to avenge this loss by making a picture of Jesus that “portrayed Christ (peace be upon him) along with an Arab, depicted as beating him. They put blood on the portrait of Christ and said to the people, ‘This is Christ with Muhammad, the prophet of the Muslims, beating him. [Muhammad] has wounded and slain him.’”

    Ibn al‐Athir inserts the customary Islamic honorific for Jesus, whom Muslims revere as a messenger of God, but provides no further editorial commentary: he trusts that his Muslim audience will recognize the preposterous nature of the allegation that Muhammad killed Christ. Preposterous though it is, this propaganda builds on longstanding Frankish rhetoric associating Muslims with Christ’s persecutors, and it provides powerful religious motivation for Christian warriors to avenge the maltreatment of their God.

    Ibn al‐Athir credits this propaganda with raising “more men and money than there would be any way of counting” toward what academic historians call the Third Crusade; “even the women,” he emphasized, “answered the call in great numbers.” If Ibn al‐Athir is reliable, he provides valuable evidence regarding the broad impact of religious rhetoric designed to appeal to a specific subset of Christian society, namely fighting men.12

    (Source.)

  • ronweasleysl@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m an SE dude. We have to do a group project at my university. Sometimes I just wanna scream everytime a professor rejects a good project idea because it wouldn’t be economically feasible. Also every competition here is just yet another shitty startup competition where they’re more concerned about your business plan than on the utility of your idea.

    Ended up having to go with yet another AI idea. At least we don’t have to do anything with LLMs \_(o.o)_/

  • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    What is a ‘skill issue’? And where does the phrase come from? I think I get the gist but I’m uncertain.

    • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Besides what others have pointed out, it’s funny to use the phrase on situations where no reasonable person could think the issue was a lack of skill. Kind of like asking “vaxed?” as a response to someone dying in a car accident or something.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      It comes from gaming originally I think, where someone might complain about a mechanic in the game or tactic the other players use and someone responds with “skill issue” basically blaming the person complaining rather than examining whether the game has issues or not. Very common in very competitive online games, but outside of that I think it is mostly used ironically.

      • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        Thanks for explaining. I thought it had something to do with gaming. That’s one of the reasons I was reluctant to use it.

    • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      I think it means the reason you can’t do something well is you lack the innate talent. Kind of a stupid phrase.