Nope, the red flag is easy to recognise.
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Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Kim Kardashian’s Skims lingerie range now includes thong with built-in pubic wigEnglish33·5 hours agoThank you for making me read the article about pubic wigs. .
But now I can ask you: why do you think that? Nowhere in the article does it say or imply that she invented it. They said it’s a publicity stunt.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgto politics @lemmy.world•Trump threatens to cut US aid to Argentina if Milei loses election14·23 hours agoOh, so it’s going so well in Argentina that Trump even needs to employ his mafia tactics to strengthen Milei. Really great endorsement Trump!
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?7·1 day agoICO and Shadow of the Colossus don’t have a lot of dialogue, but what they have is in a fantasy language with subtitles for you to understand
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgto RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Shadow of the Colossus: An oral historyEnglish1·1 day agoIt was a different time. As you said, it is not a true statement in general, but I can understand where it comes from in the 2000s video game history.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgto politics @lemmy.world•Washington Post columnist proudly boasts ‘we’re now a conservative opinion page’4·1 day agoHmm, am I petty enough to find my discussion from many months ago, where somebody tried to argue with me that the Washington post is neutral and I’m just seeing fascists everywhere in order to send them a “told ya so!”? … At the moment no, but let’s see how the day goes.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgOPto Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•King of Dragon Pass, making you feel like a bronze age tribe chieftain1·1 day agoYes, that is definitely a gimmick that isn’t for everybody. I also played it by feels instead of carefully strategizing.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How have you given two week notices in the past?4·2 days agoSorry but that sounds so American. Are you USAmerican?
Because nearly every other first world country in the world doesn’t have at will, but rather worker rights to have a certain notice period.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?2·3 days agoOh hell yes. There is still a lot to improve, but we shouldn’t forget what has already been gained!
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?11·3 days agoPassports for everyone are a relatively new invention, but passports as sign of being the emissary of somebody important are much older. Paiza is one such example in the Mongols empire. Wikipedia has examples reaching into antiquity.
500+ years ago there very much was border control, at least in certain parts of the world, because every regional lord wants to control what goes into his kingdom and what leaves. I can only speak for Europe, but probably every feudal lord over the world did the same. They levied taxes on merchants transporting goods through their kingdom. That happened on border checkpoints where the big merchant routes where passing through. This is how a lot of regions got rich: by being between a source and a big buyer region and taxing the shit out of merchants.
That’s why smuggling was so attractive. Go through the official road and pay 10% of your profits or pay this nice man with the donkey 5% and he leads you through the woods on a path the lord’s soldiers don’t patrol…
Secondly, in feudal Europe 500 years ago, peasants were still often the property of their lords, they weren’t allowed to leave the country. Another reason why border control existed. So no, most normal people could not just leave and travel to another kingdom.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgOPto Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium1·4 days agoAs somebody with depression: it is dark, yes, but in a hopeful kind of way? That even at the bottom there is a light we create for is and others and we can always improve.
It definitely has dark moments, but the game doesn’t wallow in it. Instead it takes the approach of: this is you at your lowest, now build yourself up.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some loanwords (originated in another language and usually retains original spelling in equivalent english) for concepts, things, or experiences that English doesnt necessarily have yet?0·4 days agoIt’s exactly what they described in English. It’s that nonsense just expressed in German and written together because you are allowed to simply combine multiple words into one compound word in German. There is no “real meaning” to it. Or not yet, feel free to start using it and give it any meaning you want. If it catches on, it has a meaning from then on.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgto News@lemmy.world•Trump Literally Brags About Taking Away People’s Free Speech1·7 days agoAh, so you knowingly lied in the other comment and know what freedom of speech is. Good to know, tagging your current account with liar then.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgto News@lemmy.world•Trump Literally Brags About Taking Away People’s Free Speech1·7 days agoYou do know that freedom of speech protects you from government sanctions for speech, right? Last I checked the Fediverse wasn’t the government. So the moderators and admins here are free to say: “we don’t want you here” and ban you and nobodies freedom of speech was hurt.
Private organisations could always exclude you from their premise, same as you are free to exclude them from your premise. That’s called house rules.
Maybe because they thought their readers wouldn’t know what a merkin is but can probably imagine what a pubic wig is?
And it is not an invented term when it is literally the description of what something is.
~50 % of USAmericans read at middle school level and you think CNN doesn’t use the word merkin because they want to hype a Kardashian?