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TIL that climbing the full height of Everest means starting at sea level
  • I believe the term for height from base is called prominence. The highest one can climb is Denali in Alaska, at around 5500m. Obviously omitting mountains that have their bases on the ocean floor like Mauna Kea ofc.

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    Gang of wild otters mauls jogger
  • I'm otterly shocked! 😧

    Btw in the local language their name can also mean something like "warring" so that kinda tells you something.

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    New employee
  • We totally need cute critters as flight staff in every flight. A kittyo for good behaving passengers, and a leopard to eat the faces of unruly ones.

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    Religious people: The world is ending
  • Christians in 1st century: the world is ending very soon!
    Muslims in 7th century: the world is ending very soon!
    Mormons in 19th century: the world is ending very soon!

    Given enough apocalyptic religions one of them would be right, but I think that religion doesn't exist yet.

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    ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • Hack? It's not even that. Just musk in his infinite wisdom enabling pay-to-get-checkmark on Xitter so all the fake/satire accounts immediately jumped on the opportunity.

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    Woman plunges into 8-meter deep hole after pavement sinks in Malaysia
  • You know that meme where a guy in uniform was giving lessons to a few cobras? This is that uniform. He was a member of the Malaysian fire and rescue service.

    He passed away a while back though, from, yup, cobra bites.

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  • Just gonna say this: putting edgy words into a character's mouth, using them as a vessel, is not cool. I saw it happen to Hyouka's Oreki Houtarou for years, and simply put, they did my boy dirty. 😣

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  • tilvids.com An epic Saga - the Proton Story

    I do YouTube community polls from time to time where you get to choose the subject of an upcoming video, and in a recent poll the Aston Martin Lagonda won with 30% of the vote, but a video on Proton Cars got 29% so it would be a crying shame if I didn’t also do that one, especially as you seemed to ...

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    We got most of pop media, academic journals, and books covered, but what about photographic media?

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    cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/418238

    > Related to the Bunga Mas[^1]: > > According to a Kedah source, the first time a bunga mas was sent, it was sent as a toy for a new-born Thai prince who was the grandson of Sultan of Kedah himself since his kin, a princess was married to the Thai king[^1]. > > This then set the precedence of Malay Sultans being "required" one way or another to send Bunga Mas to Siam. The culmination of the meme is the Siamese invasion of Kedah in 1821[^2] partly due to the Sultan ceasing sending bunga mas, making Kedah Sultanate, the progenitor of the practice, existn't for a time. > > [^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunga_mas > [^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_invasion_of_Kedah

    \* This is a Malay expression meaning paying interests. The principal is the pokok (tree) and the interest is the bunga (blossoms).

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    I mean, I wanted to start work on it, but if someone's already released/working on one then I'd just happily use those instead.

    Also, the absence of a thing usually means it's not possible to have. In my mind I think it's easy to have userscript code make API posts on behalf of the user, but maybe somehow in the intricate layers of tech it's made impossible or tedious. If so, I'd like to know before I learn it the hard way.

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    I'm having my comments I made the past few days receive zero engagements. It's not just me losing the early bird lottery too; my replies to a highly engaged comment has zero likes, while several comments immediately after me has double digits. It's nothing incendiary at all, just normal people's comments. But something just tripped the enigmatic AI and thenceforth I'm shadow banned.

    Why you should know this?

    Because YouTube is being a thought police between creators and their communities. It feels to me like 99.999% of creators on YouTube have no idea that this is happening, that honest to goodness people's engagements are never going to reach them on the platform; they're being silently silenced, by an AI that is figuratively a black box.

    Look at this screenshot. If that's not damning evidence you tell me what is. |!Imgur| |:---:|

    The comment is straight up gone when viewing with a logged out tab. I'm definitely 100% shadow banned right now. |! | |:---:|

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    #justswirlythings

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    The enigma of degeneracy

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