Erika3sis

Erika3sis , 2 months ago to World News in US says Israel has not violated international law during Gaza war

John Kirby's just trying to figure out whether or not he's become a real boy yet. pinocchio-evil

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to Ireland in Ireland moves towards intervening in South Africa's genocide case against Israel. Foreign Affairs minister Micheál Martin and his department officials are to prepare a declaration of intervention.

Yes, intervening on South Africa's side with South Africa's consultation, although he stresses that "it's for the court to decide whether it's a genocide". And the title could be clearer, although we might think it would be a bit out of character to go the other route.

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to China, 中国 in China issues guidelines to phase out use of Intel and AMD chips, Windows operating systems and foreign centralized database systems in government computers.

based-department holy shit based

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to Linguistics in New Linguistics Technique Could Reveal Who Spoke the First Indo-European Languages

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no", and any headline that includes the word "could" should probably be appended with "but all things considered most likely won't"

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to Videos in Ireland's Unfinished Revolution

The fact that I can recognize that picture even with my instance's default blur filter over it

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to Ibis in I changed my mind: I'm now on board for Ibis! (rant post)

Alright so long story short: Wikipedia cited Wikisource (another Wikimedia project) on Salvador Allende's final speech, which is bad enough, but Wikisource deleted its page on that speech for "copyright reasons" despite that speech obviously being a very important piece of history. OP argues that an organization "with its priorities in order" would not have done something so bogus, and that federation might be a viable way to achieve this.

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

Nazi forum

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

I can see why. Although the stars occupy a larger portion of the sky, they are also further away than the moon. So either version of the phrase makes sense in its own way.

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

as they say - shoot for the stars, and you may just land on the moon.

I've only ever heard, "shoot for the moon, [and] even if you miss you'll land among the stars", which is the phrase as it was first said by Norman Vincent Peale. But maybe swapping "moon" and "stars" is a common enough variant of the phrase that I just haven't heard before.

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

I'm honestly curious about what abuse potential this has compared to other federated platforms, because "it could be used to host dox" is a complaint that I've heard about Lemmy as well.

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

Why the heck would it be referring to the Israeli special forces? It's obviously in reference to Thoth.

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to Share Funny Videos, Images, Memes, Quotes and more in Man avoids LGBT

Cause they seem to be hating on pretty much everything LGBT related.

In which case I might phrase it as "bizarrely, vitriolically anti-LGBT comments" or something

Erika3sis , 3 months ago to Share Funny Videos, Images, Memes, Quotes and more in Man avoids LGBT

I don't know if I was foolish for reading the comments but shyeesh that crap feels like it needs a content warning

Erika3sis , 4 months ago to Memes in Possibly the best song to ever song and I mean it.

It is now only a few days until my laptop gets a new charger, which means that it is now only a few days until I install Linux Mint for realsies for the first time and go absolutely got dang crazy customizing it into the most absolutely horrendous and ridiculous mix of 2000s nostalgia and weeb shit and communism and eclectic personal creativity and whatever else that I can think of. It's going to be glorious.