Not really sure what he means by the foreign-ness of the name. Unless it’s in Choctaw or whatever, there aren’t really any “American” surnames. The place is only a couple of hundred years old so there’s no history. The house I grew up in is older than that.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?
1·21 days agoHave you seen Threads?
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Like what the hell is going on in major league baseball ?
61·21 days agohow smart of cops
Irony.
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World News@lemmy.world•Christian Nationalism Has Arrived in BritainEnglish
4·21 days agoThis is literally just their normal Islamophobia gussied up in an attempt to make it sound like something more socially acceptable. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s already tried pretending to have been reborn in prison and is spamming his Nazi rallies with prayer. It’s the Victimhood step of the fascists’ playbook. “We’re just simple God-fearing Christians and them there scary towel heads are coming to exterminate us!”
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•How to turn the phrase "The 1%" into a grawlixed slur?
3·1 month agoWhat the fuck does “grawlixed” mean…?
Exactly the same as me. The film’s 30 years old, and I’ve definitely seen it, but probably not in the last 20 years or more. I just about recognised it was Rose but haven’t got a fucking scooby what she does at the end of the film. I thought it ended with her sat on the piece of wood watching Jack sink.
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News@lemmy.world•Trump administration to prioritise seeking death penalty, use firing squads
29·2 months agoThe death penalty is anathema to civilised society.
And basically every test I’ve ever seen. If you don’t have tools or some reference point, people will nine times out of 10 be able to more accurately gauge something using imperial measurements then using metric measurements.
That’s clearly utter bollocks
We use decimetres in chemistry a fair bit. 1 mole of any gas will occupy 24 dm³ at rtp
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a scientific fact that sounds made up but is 100% real?
7·2 months agoKnowledge is power. France is bacon.
la508@lemmy.worldto
movies@piefed.social•What movies ACTUALLY live up to the hype?English
1·2 months agoApplause…?
la508@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•New: Bombshell report says Trump promised to pardon his entire staff
7·2 months agoUS President can’t just kidnap people.
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Veeery nice. Bravo.
There’s no vertical axis in chess.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you respond to "hey, how are you" when you feel like garbage?
3·2 months ago“I’m still here.”
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Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world•The oligarchy will whitewash him for public consumption
2·2 months agoYeah, I just read it and thought “that’s a pretty good joke”
la508@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethaneEnglish
3·2 months agoI can’t stress enough how much heavy lifting the phrase “among other steps” is doing here.
la508@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•When you're the type of person who commits. (xpost, because the Factorio joke inspired me)English
8·2 months agoThere are 42 books in the picture. Seven months is about 210 days, which works out to a book every 5 days. That seems like an insurmountable challenge for me. I’m such a slow reader.




“Assuranced”
I don’t know who this bloke is but he’s fucking illiterate.