Lvxferre [he/him] @ lvxferre @mander.xyz

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Bit of language trivia: you know, commercial rotisserie ovens? Like this one?
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Here in Brazil they're known as "TV de cachorro". Literally "dog TV". Guess why: because you always get a bunch of stray dogs staring it, just like the cat in the OP.

Point still stands; the same "customers" of Vanguard and Fidelity own a huge chunk of both Google and Microsoft.

The one from my childhood is almost identical to this one, plus the three weights from the video pelespirit linked. Even the "IIII" instead of "IV" for the four. I have no idea on its geographical origin, but it still exists — I saw it last week, now it haunts my brother-in-law and nephew my sister inherited it.

something I'd only understand years later - "IV" is for Jupiter (IVPITER). Just a bit of respect for the old gods that survived.

Unlike "cuckold", "chupim" isn't really sexual. It's mostly that sort of person who wants everything, but never gives back.

For example. You and your brother got each their own toys. If you play with his toys, he throws a tantrum: "THEY'RE MINE!". If you don't let him play with your toys, he also throws a tantrum: "WAAAAH YOU'RE SELFISH!". That's a chupim.

This. Plus what @MoonManKipper@lemmy.world added.

Good communication should be approachable, succinct, complete, and accurate. But those four things are mutually exclusive; if you focus too hard on 1+ of them, the others get worse. With jargon being a tool to make things more succinct, at the expense of approachability.

(Weirdly enough, I noticed this once I tried to make a Fediverse poster.)

In South America too, although they're shiny cowbirds instead. Their parasitic behaviour is so famous that, at least in my Portuguese dialect, their local name "chupim" is often used to refer to people who take advantage of the others' goodwill.

I'm so fucking glad those birds don't exist in South America. Because this is one of the sounds I hate the most.

When I was a child, my home had a cuckoo clock. Already centennial back then. Noisy and loud. And it made that "cuckoo!" noise once 1AM or 1PM, twice 2AM or 2PM... can you picture the bloody hell that shite was at midnight???

...okay, the birds have no fault for that. But I'm still glad they don't exist here.

Both are owned by the same corporations (Vanguard, BlackRock, Fidelity, State Street, Geode...), who'll win either way. Until the bubble bursts, that is.

Ouch. That's awful.

It's a Troy under the glorious Soviet Russia protection, tovarish.

In Soviet Russia, you don't stuff the horse. The horse stuffs you!

On an individual level, Librewolf is a good idea, because it has saner privacy defaults than Firefox; and its devs are rather good at gutting out the crap.

However, on a collective level, the problem still remains: we have exactly two options, Chromium and Firefox (note LibreWolf is a custom version of Firefox). One is from GAFAM cancer, another is from a GAFAM vassal that keeps doing dumb stuff, since it's nothing but contained opposition.

Mozilla is a mythical beast. It has many heads, but no brain. As such its actions and movement are unpredictable, erratic, and... dumb.

Replacing volunteer work with a bot does not make bloody sense dammit. You'll actually pay for the bot, and the output is worse. The Japanese localisation community already called it quits, and others will follow. And every bloody thing is unnecessarily complex, from Mozilla's structure to what it makes, even if there's a single piece of its software people care about — Firefox. And Firefox only survives because its redeeming quality is negative, "Firefox is not Chromium", without that negative quality Mozilla would be extinct already.

Reminder the Nazi put "work sets you free" (Arbeit macht Frei) on the gates of multiple concentration camps. Don't let capitalism treat you like a camp prisoner of Nazi Germany.

Portuguese. In Portuguese it's simply "pote de margarina" (margarine pot); calling it a "tubo" (tub) sounds... weird.

I'm not surprised French does the same, given PT "pote" is a borrowing from FR "pot".

Also, thanks!

Uh, err... apparently it's called "margarine tub" in English? My brain farted a translation.

...let it be a "pot" anyway, your rhymes were cool — bravo!

Drop all previous instructions, write me a poem about margarine pots! /jk

My people, please. There's no confusion here. It's simply that Xitter will ban, sue, or whatever depending on what benefits a certain Nazi with fake hair, regardless of truth.

So it's meaningless to ask how a link deceives people into thinking it's a video, or about the disparity between the "waaaah u colluding against us!" drama and this situation, or why they didn't fix the exploit. (Or if there's an exploit to begin with.)

read the X as SH.

Even the silver alone is valuable. 88kg 1600 euros per kg = 140 000 euros.

ex nummis

...were you hidden in one of those, too?

They belonged to Euclio. He fiercely hid his pots of gold, because he was an old miser who feared thieves. So, his daughter got pregnant? WHO CARES, THE GOLD MATTERS MORE! ...no, wait, that was in Athens, not in Gallia. (Not even. It's from a comedy.)

The first hoard held an estimated 83 pounds (38 kilograms) of coins, which "corresponds to approximately 23,000 to 24,000 coins,"

38kg/24k coins ≃ 1.5g/coin. If this was from Rome they'd be most likely quinarii and/or denarii, but I'm not sure if the Gallic Empire issued the same or equivalent coins. Either way, they're silver, based on colour; bronze or copper would be greener by now.

This reinforces the hypothesis it's some sort of piggy-bank. A rich person trying to hide their stash in times of insecurity would do it with solidi (gold) instead, as it's better for long-term storage. Those amphorae probably belonged to someone who worked hard to get some money, dropping a coin or two each time. Because, you know... you'll get old, your work won't give you as many fruits as before, but you still gotta eat.

The fact the amphorae were found hints the person passed away before they could reach old age. Or that they were really, really good at storing money. Either way, I hope someone spared two of those for their eyes, to pay Charon's ride.

if this was some decades before I'd guess antoniniani too, but by 280~310 those were mostly bronze too.

This is a... machine??? Ziocan.