gramie

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[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be a good idea to spell it correctly, then:

Atheist

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I remember upgrading from a Commodore Vic-20, with 3.5 KB of RAM, to a Commodore 64 with 64 KB. I was already in university at the time.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not to mention that the Germans themselves took a few years out, and then put a lot of the Nazi political machine back in charge.

Does anyone remember when Kurt Waldheim, UN Secretary General for 9 years and President of Austria for 6, turned out to be a former nazi? Whoops ie!

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Even if you turn off your phone, there is a lower-level operating system that is still connecting to cell phone towers. You either have to take the battery out, or leave your phone at home.

Try doing a search for "baseband processor".

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Wow, their website is really shitty on a phone, though (not sure about on a desktop). Half of all the pages are taken up with ads. Much too easy to hit one by mistake.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You mean RPN, right? Reverse Polish Notation.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Alternatively, they could go to one of the "penis temples" in Japan. I know that there is more than one, because a Google search turned up this one, and I have been to another in southern Osaka Prefecture.

The one that I went to was actually devoted to fertility and appeasing The souls of aborted/miscarried babies, but it had its fair share of penises as well.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I would recommend using Language Transfer.

It has courses for about 10 languages. All of them are sets of MP3 files, about 10 minutes each. You can download them from soundcloud, listen via YouTube, or install the simple but very effective app.

I think you would be shocked at how natural and effective this system is. I have been using it to learn Spanish as my fifth language, and it is easily the best language acquisition system I have ever used short of living in the target country. It explicitly avoids and discourages memorization.

It's completely free, but the creator asks for donations to cover his expenses. Believe it or not, one man has created courses for French, Spanish, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili, and recently Japanese.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

You might think that they have already forgotten the warm welcome that Vance received when he went to Greenland!

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Chariot of the Gods, by Erich von Däniken, was actually published in 1968. The nonsense has been going on for quite a while.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There was a story recently about music companies being sued because it turns out their audiophile editions of vinyl records were typically pressed from digital sources (to save money, even though audiophile pressings were being sold for many times the price of regular ones), rather than through a fully analog chain.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A group of international sommeliers were unable to detect that the red wine they were tasting was actually white wine with food coloring in it. I think that the bar for genuinely assessing wines by taste is very low.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by gramie@lemmy.ca to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca
 

Prime Minister Jean Chretien grabbed a protester and wrestled him to the ground, it has become known as "The Shawinigan Handshake".

 

I've added to yesterday's post with Steam keys I'm giving away, and moved it to Randomactsofgaming@lemm.ee

Here is the direct link

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