Dimitri

imagine this is how we find out UFOs are real

Screenshot of a game. A girl in front of a brick wall

Gameover screen saying "Dohraliś" in ukrainian

I have just recalled a soviet Ukrainian bootleg game Pryhody Pionerky Kseni (1991). Clone of Adventures of Captain Comic

My gramps told me his mother was mad if she found him reading in the bed before sleep.

Gives kinda similar vibes with "no screen time before bed" of today.

meanwhile in Germany: a company offers AI services via fax

simple-fax.de/fax-ki

Main character syndrome

Achievement unlocked: My Dutch colleague just said "that's too direct for me".

The best out of context post on this platform.

Bosna i Hercegovina is clearly Belgium, they even have their own capital region with bipolar disorder, and multiple dysfunctional governments.

>Finnish acts as cyrillic

Earliest attested Finnic text was written in Cyrillic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_b...

>Popaj

Попаj... де сеjлор мен?

!vanish

For russian Cyrill there are 12 "shapesakes". The russian number plates use only those.

"norma" spelled in Latin cursive script

Once in Slovenia I have read a shop sign which was saying "почта" (rus: post) in Cyrillic cursive. But in a second I realised it was "norma" in Latin cursive.

As someone living in Belgium I agree and disagree. From the outside it might seem like this indeed. But from the inside: people are just multilingual because of the environment.

Damn I never knew the post code of the place I grew up. The other two though...

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

Beginning to think my buddy's theory of political carcinization (all states naturally develop into 90s Russia) to have serious merit

The most impressive thing I have witnessed is an Indian IT worker in Saudi Arabia piling up on chicken in the Al Baik fastfood chain, in order to bring it home to his friend back in India.

The Pakistani and Indians' obsession with Al Baik chicken in S. Arabia is something I still cannot understand.

Boo-boo is you

>we have financial independence
>Raises another round
This doesn't compute, unfortunately. If anything it makes me even more worried that at a certain point the investors will start looking for their returns, and will squeeze you out, change the management and ruin your company in the process :(

AI cannot into Levenshtein distance?

Originally they were invited by queen Catherine the Great (who was German herself) to settle in the Volga region (-> Volga Germans). Then during WWII Stalin was like "what of these Germans sabotage us from the inside?" So they were deported to Siberia (-> Siberian Germans).

Siberian Germans somehow still exist. Probably not "thanks to" but rather "despite".

The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, was a reference resource produced by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

CC @gone-things.bsky.social

Completely differet sounds and stress.
/ə ˈpɑp/ vs /ˈeɪ ˌpɑp/

Screenshot of a social media exchange where user svinto says, "i'm going to start calling american music a-pop. for no reason," followed by a tag from a user cordy-muses reading, "#my mutuals are posting about their a-dramas again."

I like the idea of calling American music a-pop, a-rock, etc, and American shows a-drama.

At least we have finally understood what the oldest bar joke was about. (Thanks to the internet, not the scientists)

Left as an exercise to the reader.

If you consider making one, pretty please make it in Lisp, and call it `thiff`

Slightly off topic about diff utilities. Apparently `diff3` is the one of two remaining GNU tools used in the FreeBSD codebase. The other one is `dialog`.

Imagine bankrupting Oracle just being purchased by Broadcom