Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)S

Skua

@ Skua @kbin.earth

Posts
5
Comments
17
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Cheating scandal rocks world stone skimming championships

    Jump

  • Here was me thinking that Toss Master was the one to go for

  • Cheating scandal rocks world stone skimming championships

    Jump

  • I think I can skim a stone farther than I can throw one, given a good stone and flat water... and a few attempts. I'm definitely not getting remotely near 60m though, that's wild

  • Cheating scandal rocks world stone skimming championships

    Jump

  • Aside from that this article only comes to the conclusion of broad implications and the author himself says he used both interchangeably in his book, this is an American source and the headline for this post is British. I don't know about American Engkish, but there is no expectation of a stone being worked by humans in British English. In common usage here a rock is generally bigger than a stone - I'd say whether you can throw it one-handed is roughly where the extremely fuzzy line is - but you could absolutely just pick up any small piece of stone from the ground in nature and call it "a stone" without anyone questioning it

  • Scotland @lemmy.world
    Skua @kbin.earth

    Some cool miniatures of the planned Eden Project site in the old Dundee gasworks

  • Elon Musk Appears to Be Completely Addicted to Anime Gooner AI Slop

    Jump

  • It's worth noting that there are several other Grok personas besides Ani. If he's only engaging with / posting the Ani stuff but not the others, that's something of a smoking gun to me

  • Ukrainian morale suffers as troop favourite Warhammer stops translating novels

    Jump

  • I'm basing that on just transcribing the text and putting it into google translate with "detect language" turned on. That said I also assumed it'd be a Slavic language too, but I don't think any of them use the ү character that's in the second word on the second line, whereas Mongolian, other Mongolic languages, and Turkic languages often do when written in Cyrillic. The first word is "avtomashin", but Mongolian got that word from Russian

    Edit: transcriptions

    Автомашин

    • тай бүх зургийг сонгоно уу

    Roughly Romanised, just using Wiktionary's versions (I do not know how to pronounce any of this myself)

    Avtomašína

    • Tai büx zurgiig songono uu

    Assuming I've got that right, it's quite definitely not Slavic

    And then the machine translation from Mongolian

    Car

    • Select all images with

  • Ukrainian morale suffers as troop favourite Warhammer stops translating novels

    Jump

  • It seems like it's Mongolian, if that helps you figure it out at all

  • Ukrainian morale suffers as troop favourite Warhammer stops translating novels

    Jump

  • Ahh, good point

  • Ukrainian morale suffers as troop favourite Warhammer stops translating novels

    Jump

  • That's definitely Wanker's Workshop. Clearly they really have been reading a lot of British material

  • Department of Defense to be renamed 'Department of War' within week, Trump says

    Jump

  • My inner conspiracy theorist is telling me that someone at the DoD described climate change as a national security threat that the department needs to address as part of handling defence and that's what triggered this

  • The paedophile-hunting granny who built a heroin empire

    Jump

  • Absolutely phenomenal headline and it's not even an exaggeration

  • Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

    Jump

  • Anecdotally, I'm in the UK and Discord has never asked me for ID. I don't have nitro, though, so if it's a nitro thing I would not know

  • British Airways crew mistakenly booked into a sex dungeon and were kept awake by 24-hour orgy.

    Jump

  • The Sun is an insult to the craft of journalism and should not be posted anywhere

  • RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions

    Jump

  • If we go by impact factor (a measure of how often the articles a journal publishes are cited elsewhere), various Nature publications are six of the top ten journals in the world and Nature itself is 15th

  • Trump announces that the USA has bombed Iranian nuclear sites.

    Jump

  • JDAM is supposed to have a circular error probable of 5m and it's an upgrade kit from 25 years ago. I can definitely believe that a much newer purpose-built weapon can do better than that. The idea of hitting the same spot with multiple bombs might not actually be that unlikely

  • Removed

    Ms Lindsey has lost his mind

    Jump

  • Viral CIA File on Alleged Alien Encounter With Soldiers Sparks UFO Interest

    Jump

  • "A tabloid says the CIA says the KGB saw aliens turn people to stone. Also this is a news article on something that was declassified 25 years ago with no new developments."

    okay