WellTheresYourCobbler

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nepal chooses a 2-year-old girl as new living goddess worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this on wikipedias homepage and yeah this feels so weird. Idk if it’s disrespectful but the selection process especially is just uhhh
  ::: spoiler Body evaluation of a child? Idk how to CW this
  
  Girls who pass these basic eligibility requirements are examined for the battis lakshanas, or “thirty-two perfections” of a goddess, which involves their bodies being stripped of all clothing and caressed by the priests. Some of these “perfections” are poetically listed, as such:
  A neck like a conch shell
  A body like a banyan tree
  Eyelashes like a cow
  Thighs like a deer
  Chest like a lion
  Voice as soft and clear as a duck’s
  In addition to this, her hair and eyes should be as black as possible, and she should have dainty hands and feet, small and well-recessed sexual organs, and a set of twenty 
  
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTokers are calling LA ICE raids 'music festivals' to trick the algorithm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all so bleak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is taking me out

  “I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes. I am a disgrace to all possible universes. I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes. I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe,”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exciting! I have been wishing it would get some love lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well-known VPN service shuts down, killing lifetime members' subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you read the article it’s a surprisingly decent thing for them to do, but still just get Mullvad yall come on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Titan 2 is a modernized BlackBerry with 5G, Android, and a second screen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If this could be jailbroken it seems like it would make a nice Linux phone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave for Android now lets you block annoying page elements with a tap⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Element blocking is a great feature nice work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The development of DeepSeek-V3 was probably much more expensive than suggested by the Chinese company, researchers say⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this logic different from saying that my project that I built using python wasn’t free and that the R&D costs of building python should also be included?