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Zagorath

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I used to think people talking about “horseshoe theory” were all bullshitters. Because I had never seen people on the left unironically doing anything close to what the right does.

Then I saw the tankies on Lemmy. I’m still a proud leftist, but geez nothing has made me question that stance more than seeing how fervently the tankies deny genocides and defend aggressive warmongering—as long as the country perpetrating it is one that calls itself “communist”, or is a successor to one that used to call itself communist. Exactly the same way the right and centre-left do regarding Israel’s genocides. Lemmy’s tankies are way more similar to the nazis of other social media than any other group around.

Which scares me a little as someone who basically completely agrees with them on economic issues.

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You hadn’t thought of it because it’s completely made up. Xi started getting compared to Winnie the Pooh by Chinese citizens after a picture came out showing Xi and former US President Obama together in a similar pose to Pooh and Tigger. Used originally for rather light-hearted ribbing of Xi, the Chinese government decided to crack down on it hard, which has had a massive Streisand Effect with the comparison between Xi and Pooh becoming popular in the West because Xi has shown how sensitive he is to it.

There’s no racial component to it at all. It’s all about being critical of the absurd censorship of the current PRC’s government.

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The left doesn’t think Jewish people are monsters. They think people who support the Israeli government are monsters.

Because yeah, supporting genocide is monstrous. And one would have thought that Jewish people should be the most sensitive to this issue. And certainly, there are a lot of Jewish people who do recognise how evil the Israeli government is. At least one of the people tragically killed on 7 October was a Jewish supporter of Palestine, and their family came out in the aftermath saying they hoped the Israeli government didn’t use it as an excuse to do…precisely what they have ended up doing. At least some of the many pro-Palestine protests around the world have been organised in part by organisations like Loud Jew Collective and Jews Against Genocide.

Don’t fall for the propaganda that says if you’re Jewish, you must support Israel. Heck, even if you are Israeli or have family in Israel, you don’t need to be supportive of what the government is doing. One of the few good things that can be said about Israel is that it is a fairly free liberal democracy—as long as you’re not Palestinian, at least—and that comes with the freedom to be critical of the government. A freedom you can and should exercise when your government is committing genocide.

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Plagiarism, by definition, is taking the work of someone else without attribution. If you’ve provided attribution, it cannot ever be plagiarism.

Note that this is not the same as copyright infringement. If I upload the complete 3rd season of Knight Rider to YouTube, that’s copyright infringement, no matter what. But if I were to do it and say “created by Glen Larson for NBC” in the description of every video, it would not also be plagiarism.

The above site cannot be plagiarism because every single one points back to a specific XKCD comic or comics that it used as its source. It could be copyright infringement, although I suspect it would probably qualify for a fair use defence due to being parody.

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The formatting of the website looks completely different to me. The buttons don’t look similar, they’re not in the same place. It has its clear logo which basically tells you it’s not Randall Monroe’s site: “Making XKCD Slightly Worse”.

The only thing that’s similar is the art style of the comic itself. Which like…yeah? That’s the point.

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I do know for a fact that the Pope has someone working at the Vatican who is precisely the kind of nerd that might be on this site. The Pope himself…probably not.

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Eh, the British “countries” are countries in name only. They don’t really fit any of the usual things people would think of as constituting a country.

In reality, they’re constituted like less than the state of a federation like the US, Germany, or Australia. A state has a constitutional right to its governance, and cedes some power to the federal government. The devolved governments of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are rights granted by Westminster, and could be taken away at will. Nothing Biden, or Trump, or Mike Johnson wanted could ever take away Maine’s right to its own governance like that.

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The technical term for quotation marks used that way is “scare quotes”.

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male witch is a warlock right

Depends on your source. I’m sure there’s some context on which that’s true.

If we’re talking the transphobic author’s world, a male witch is a wizard. Warlock, there, is a title kinda like “knight”.

In D&D a warlock is a person who gets magic by forming a pact with an otherworldly patron, like a devil or fey. A witch has meant different things at different times, but probably most strongly conjured images of an old-looking hag brewing potions with a familiar.

According to IRL wiccan lore a warlock is an evil male practiser of witchcraft, while a witch can be male or female.

Other contexts will have other explanations, I’m sure.

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Expliquez s’il vous plait ?

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I had one today where it was click on all the squares that contain a bus. One square very clearly contained a truck, not a bus. When I didn’t select that square, it told me I was wrong.

They’re so infuriating.

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you have made a grammer mistake

I love a good case of Muphry’s Law.

*grammar

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Intentional.

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I used LastPass up until they re-started charging for multiple devices. I was happy to pay LastPass back in like 2013 when they used to charge for multiple devices, but when they decided to bring that charge back in 2022 (or whatever year it was) they were charging an obscenely high amount for it, and frankly the UX wasn’t good enough to justify that price. On Android, more often than not I was having to go into the app to copy/paste it, because the native integration just wasn’t working.

With Bitwarden I’m back to free, and it works so much better anyway. I never looked back.

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They have a tool for directly doing the import for you.

Or if, for whatever reason, that doesn’t work for you/you don’t want to use that, they have detailed step-by-step instructions for how to manually export your LastPass vault and import it into Bitwarden.

Hope this helps!

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Ooh, Defunctland was also the creator of my choice. But I went with Disney Channel’s Theme.

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Disney Channel’s Theme: A History Mystery. A documentary by Defunctland about the previously unknown composer of the Disney Channel’s signature theme.

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No, absolutely never. /s

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