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Cake day: July 6th, 2023
  • Dicska@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Hungary opposition figures urge Democrats to organize against autocratic takeover by Trump
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    1 day ago

    If I got right what you’re saying (I might have misunderstood it), the situation is slightly different in Hungary. Instead of the media outlets and conglomerates trying to appease the governing party, it was actually an active takeover by direct and indirect government relationships/strawmen.

    Slightly less relevant context:

    spoiler

    Back when the popularity of Internet was on the rise in Hungary, one of the biggest news media sites was origo.hu. It got later bought out by a company that kept getting funds from one of the organisations handled by the later minister of finance. Nothing to see here.

    One of the largest and most popular independent media sites, index.hu got also taken over in a similar fashion by Orbán’s most infamous strawmen of the times, Lajos Simicska. Later on they had a falling out, and it was funny to see how suddenly his media took a 180, and in a phone call with a reporter he also called Orbán a scumbag (well, ‘geci’ /p.:~getsy/ was the actual term, which is a slur word for semen/cum, basically meaning scumbag, and the paraphrased ‘Orbán egy geci’ /Orbán is a ‘geci’/ became a meme, but I’m meandering off). However, his control over these portals was taken over, and for a short while there were only one or two significant news/media sites independent from the party’s control.

    Huge media corporations are selling us out

    So the situation here is rather similar; the only difference was that we’re not the US, so let’s take the ‘us’ out of the above.

  • Dicska@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•grabs popcorn 🍿
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    11 days ago

    For a second I was playing with the thought: what if this was done for an actual reason? Like, you don’t have a garage, a huge storm is coming, and you don’t want your quad to be blown into someone’s bathroom. Plus, it makes the car heavier as well, so it’s two birds with one stone. But there’s nothing else I could think of (provided it’s not a moron).

  • Dicska@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Fart kontrol
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    11 days ago

    hastighet

    As a native speaker of a language that’s unlike anything, I envy you folks so much. Knowing enough English and German you just look at it, and go ‘aaah, speediness’ (I guess the ‘hast’/‘hastig’ bit is the same as ‘haste’/‘hasty’ in English, and the ‘het’ is the same as ‘heit’ /~ness’/ in German).

    You wouldn’t guess the word, but reading it in context is so much easier.

  • Dicska@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•Unciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release!English
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    15 days ago

    I was looking for the changes - I hope I found them at the right place:

    
Resolves  - Fix ancient ruins not spawning as much as they should

Maybe fix Android dev console - will require testing

Fixed Happiness being found as a global stat

Resolves  - trigger conditionals are a superset not global uniques

"Unowned" capitalized for consistency, whoops

Added "unowned" tileFilter for 



By SomeTroglodyte:

- Move parsing of localized numbers to UncivTextField 

- Better Validation of Nation colors 

- Avoid List.removeFirst() not being available on Android API 21..34 levels 

- Minor Unique documentation improvements 

- Fix doc writer escaping 


By RobLoach:

- When capturing settlers, fix finding the Worker units with conditionals 

- Add ability to remove policies with ModOptions

    EDIT: Lol, how the heck do I remove colour highlighting if I want to keep the code style otherwise?

  • Dicska@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your grammar bugbears?
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    15 days ago

    Oh, if anything, unless it’s in the last element, it’s easier to see paired items in the list ( ‘,’ -> next element; ’ and ’ -> still the same element, with ‘and’ inside). When it’s the last element, it’s indeed ambiguous. And then there’s /u/hakase 's comment:

    “They went to Oregon with Betty, a maid, and a cook”, where Betty is the maid mentioned.

  • Dicska@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•BREAKING: Deputy commander of Russian Navy killed in Ukrainian strike in Kursk, Russian official confirmsEnglish
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    15 days ago

    As a complete military noob: how does this affect the current conflict? By my naïve guess, it slows down the advance for a while, but ideally a well organised army has someone to stand in very shortly to minimise the effect. I understand it might lower the level of expertise, but considering such a large force (as in, many to pick from) I expect around the same level of competence from a substitute. Is it actually more significant than that? Are there other aspects I missed?

    EDIT: Thank you all for the insights! It seems like it does have a tangible effect, and it actually takes longer to replace leadership than I anticipated. A life is a life, and nobody should die like this (especially when some power hungry megalomaniac sends you to), but you all helped me appreciate this news more, regardless.