PanArab
@PanArab@lemm.ee
- Comment on Die Bart! Die! 3 days ago:
The bar in Bart is cognate of bin/ben in Arabic/Hebrew. It features not just in Aramaic but Nabatean Arabic which was heavily influenced by Aramaic.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Don’t mind me officer, I am just carrying my personal TV and washing machine with me
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 5 days ago:
Wasn’t it part of why he acquired Twitter to shut down the account? The account later moved to Mastodon.
- Comment on This is real 6 days ago:
As someone who looks illegal, I’m glad that I left on my own terms. I can’t imagine the horror this man and many like him are going through.
- Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. 6 days ago:
I never bought a console at launch, this won’t change this time either. I will wait for either the OLED or Lite models, or at least until there’s 5 games that I really want and can’t get anywhere else.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
No, that’s nepotism. He wins elections and is popular.
If your criteria is failing to admit to genocides, then every Western “democracy” is a dictatorship, except perhaps Ireland.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
He isn’t a dictator, he actually survived a military coup, and unlike his nationalist opponents he has welcomed refugees.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 1 week ago:
I think gamers are more reactionary than average. Gamers gave us Gamergate which eventually gave us Trump.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
No you aren’t getting crazy. I stopped double checking my spelling after Trump became president the first time. Clearly most people don’t mind bad spelling so why bother?
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 1 week ago:
Only 4.125% of the world population is affected. No biggy.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 week ago:
NYC didn’t grow any more populous since.
Sources: empirecenter.org/…/slowdown-in-outflow-but-no-rob…
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 week ago:
It depends on how you define the city, here’s my source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to have to interject, NYC is the 11th largest city.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 weeks ago:
If buying isn’t owning then sharing isn’t stealing…
By principle I avoid “online required” games.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
Martyrdom is an honour that Trump doesn’t deserve. If we are lucky, he will die in prison of old age.
- Comment on DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software. 3 weeks ago:
Stealing from corporations is the only good they done and by chance
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 weeks ago:
It may not be related but forest fires are raging in many US states and it isn’t even summer yet
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 3 weeks ago:
The code is already in production, there is no point in rewriting it. It can be maintained for decades to come. New features can be implemented in other languages and over time.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 3 weeks ago:
I bet is cheaper to teach it to new programmers than to rewrite old software. Just because a language is old doesn’t mean it is unlearnable or that software written in it needs to be rewritten.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 3 weeks ago:
COBOL is perfectly suitable for financial purposes for which it was designed. The SSA code has gone through decades worth of changes and improvements that cannot be replicated even in 10 years.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 3 weeks ago:
Take sometime to learn about what you will do with your 401k if have one.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 3 weeks ago:
Why don’t we have similar class solidarity?
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 4 weeks ago:
I agree, I would never give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 4 weeks ago:
The warning can be disabled from the settings
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
More Lemmy posts in search results
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
Upvoting what they deem as bad or violent content.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
Some states also have laws that allow drivers to run over protesters
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t student protesters get arrested and expelled under Biden?
Wed 1 May 2024 Columbia University faculty ‘horrified’ by mass arrests of student protesters
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 4 weeks ago:
You lost me at pressure. I recall one occasion where Biden bypassed Congress to send weapons to Israel. What’s your idea of pressure when the Biden administration vetoes ceasefire at the UN two or three times?
40,000 was the low-end estimate, other sources estimated a higher death count: Gaza: 64,000 deaths due to violence between October 2023 and June 2024, analysis suggests
Gaza war death toll could be significantly higher, researchers say