In the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, there was a video in which James Bond takes the Queen skydiving. The Queen’s stunt double in the skydive scene was a bloke with a beard (which was invisible from the distance it was shot at)

You mean this isn’t c/lemmyshitpost?

I haven’t been to a zoo with gorillas since childhood. Are these really the current accepted practice near gorilla enclosures?

Someone needs to inform these kids about the Clam Engram, and how to restimulate it with a simple hand gesture.

I’m guessing it would have been a memorial to victims of the gulag. In which case, it’s possible that the authorities will get around to destroying it at some point.

This girl is fine

“I was just helping him pray the gay away!”

Mark Fisher’s KPunk blog/Capitalist Realism. That and/or play Disco Elysium.

For some people, their burger is the closest thing they’ll get to an emotional support animal.

IIRC, they even had their own custom-made office computers, running their own internally developed operating system and software, during the 80s. Not sure if that was standard practice for Japanese zaibatsu at the time or just a YKK idiosyncrasy.

Most of these are bought as going-away gifts for coworkers

The lack of phonetic information is a challenge. If you see an unfamiliar English word, you can guess the pronunciation, and usually be pretty close (sometimes you’ll get a phoneme wrong or stress the wrong syllable, but listeners will be able to infer what you meant). With kanji, as well as not knowing what it means, you have no information of how it’s pronounced. It is theoretically possible for kanji to exist which not only lack meaning but also have no pronunciation, and indeed, there are about a dozen meaningless, soundless “ghost kanji”that ended up in Unicode due to bureaucratic errors at the Japanese standards agency.

Or you just revealed the porcine equivalent of Lovecraftian cosmic horror to it.

This doesn’t necessarily hold in the fediverse

It’s tempting to wish that the Iranians succeeded in assassinating him, though we know that if they did, he’d be instantly beatified into a global centrist Charlie Kirk: a statesman of peace and liberalism ruthlessly murdered by evil terrorist fanatics. There’d be statues of him alongside Mandela and Gandhi, Berlin would rename one of its central squares to Netanjahuplatz, and the next year’s Oscars would be swept by the biopic Bibi. The gaslighting would be incessant.

Apparently they were popular in the Middle Ages

Nope, that’s what’s called in the industry a honeybucket

Maybe the push to remove dependencies on US vendors will save it. Cisco might not be interested in implementing it, but with them and Chinese companies out of the picture, some European competitors that are a few orders of magnitude smaller might be, which may be enough to bootstrap it to where larger vendors take notice.

Slightly disappointing none of them has feet instead of hands or some similar artefact.

Vibe coding, the crystal meth of software