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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

what planet? I never heard of this. Wait. Its orion isn't it.

[–] phpinjected@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

it's so easy to break into an apartment in south korea, any basement dweller can do this.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
"The truth is always stronger than the lie."

One is a quote made by Joseph Goebbels,
the other is a paraphrase of a paraphrase
of a quote made by Joseph Goebbels,
with the "In British culture" part missing.

Guess which one is which.

(P.S. I disavow German fascism.
It's just the more I learn about the US or UK,
the more I'm surprised that fascism took hold in Germany... (first.))

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

The correct spelling of pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The word "America" does not come from Amerigo Vespucci, but is likely an amalgamation of
the Mayan word "Amerristiquiqque" for "land where the wind blows constantly", which is the name of a mountain range in Nicaragua, and the Spanish word "Rica" for rich, like in "Costa Rica" (Rich Coast) as Spanish sailors would ask Carib Amerindians where their gold came from.

The smallpox blankets event where a couple of blankets laced with smallpox were knowingly gifted to Native Americans happened before germ theory existed. The plan was based on miasma theory.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

What follows is a guide on how to hurt your hand. No not do it. Do not "do it just a little bit". I actually strained my hand when I first discoverd this and honestly dont want anyone hurt because of my comment:

dont do this

If you wrap your fingers around your thumb (like a closed fist with your thumb on the inside and pull the thumb down you can hurt your hand.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Eric Blair was a Trotskyist who wrote
Animal Farm and 1984 to spite Stalin,
as Stalin turned on Trotsky,
as Trotsky was a one-world-government proponent,
(with Moscow as its capital),
with the argument that capitalist nations would do anything
to isolate and destroy socialist nations,
whereas Stalin thought that socialism would bring the
Soviet Union enough success to defend itself.
This had far-reaching consequences for
Eric Blair who was participating in the
Spanish civil war of 1936 to 1939,
having joined the Trotskyist resistance group
and saw the Stalinists resistance group turn on them
and outright attacked them.

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