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JohnnyCanuck

@ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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  • How many languages can you say Please and Thank You in?

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  • Yeah I definitely don't know enough to say. You can definitely translate please in translators for those languages, but for whatever reason I just haven't been seeing it in language basics. Once I spend more time there I'll learn more.

    For Thai specifically, you say "ka" (if you're a woman) or "kraub"/"kaub"/"kaup" (if you're a man) at the end of everything you say. Whenever you finish a sentence you say it. I saw a woman relating a phone number, and she would say "ka" after every number. It's all about politeness.

  • Suggestions for amplify lead singer at a camp fire

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  • Yeah, I'm not sure on the quality either. Try to get one with a wired mic to avoid latency as much as possible.

    Good luck.

  • Suggestions for amplify lead singer at a camp fire

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  • I like the Bluetooth speaker idea, but if that doesn't work I've seen tour guides on buses/boats use portable karaoke machines for this. One problem might be that they add reverb by default which may not be desirable in this scenario, and I'm not sure if you can turn it off.

    Edit: just thinking about this, there are systems like you're talking about designed specifically for tour guides or teachers. It's a mic attached to a speaker that can sit on your hip (for example.) They're probably well under your budget, even for a good quality one.

  • Bev's Hangover

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  • Bev's fine cuz she's chronic

  • Trump posted a photo of Abrego Garcia’s hand with an MS-13 knuckle tattoo. Internet sleuths say it’s photoshopped

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  • I don't think all of the gang members being deported from the US are wearing the tattoos so boldly. They probably had to be a bit more subtle than that in the US than in Venezuela or El Salvador (before last year).

    Look at these 5 guys from 2023 https://www.foxnews.com/us/five-suspected-ms-13-gang-members-us-illegally-charged-murder-death-maryland-15-year-old

    Or these three from 2018: https://www.foxnews.com/us/3-ms-13-gang-members-who-took-turns-shooting-suspected-rival-sentenced-to-prison-for-murder

    Or all of these ones from 2021: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/06/illegal-alien-ms-13-gang-members-indicted-for-murders-kidnappings/

    It's going to be hard to find subtle versions of the tattoos with image search since they all give the same results of blatant face tattoos.

  • Trump posted a photo of Abrego Garcia’s hand with an MS-13 knuckle tattoo. Internet sleuths say it’s photoshopped

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  • "Knuckle tattoo" is the common term for tattoos on the back of the fingers like that.

  • Trump posted a photo of Abrego Garcia’s hand with an MS-13 knuckle tattoo. Internet sleuths say it’s photoshopped

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  • The annotations are bullshit tho

    How so? Marijuana, Smile are pretty clear, the cross you can see in place of 1 on other MS13 tattoos (using image search of MS13 tattoos).

    The only one I'm not sure of is the skull, but the available image is a bit blurry. Maybe the 2 eye holes plus the nose hole?

  • Trump posted a photo of Abrego Garcia’s hand with an MS-13 knuckle tattoo. Internet sleuths say it’s photoshopped

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  • It's so obvious that the letters and numbers are there to show what the tattooed symbols represent. I feel like I'm in bizarro world that people don't understand that and think they've found some smoking gun.

    It doesn't change the need for due process, but come on people.

  • What are some hard things for charades?

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  • "The Manchurian Candidate"

  • If you knew the internet was going to be shutdown, damaged, or colossally enshittified what software would you archive for use locally and use for a neighborhood/town mesh network? Why?

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  • Yeah boiii!

  • How many languages can you say Please and Thank You in?

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  • So, this is an odd one because I travel a lot and try to learn basic words in local languages, usually hello, please, thank you, sorry/excuse me, and numbers are my basic go to. For some reason, in a number of languages "please" isn't something you get by default. I've found this particularly in southeast Asia.

    I can say please and thank you (and generally converse and read) in French and Spanish. In Spanish I find myself using "por favor" a lot. "You're welcome" takes different forms in Spanish depending where your are, and what's polite in one place can be confusing or even rude in another.

    I can say hello, please, and thank you in German, Italian, and Greek. I mostly said hello and thank you in Greece and Italy, rarely please. I've never actually used German in situ, I just know it from pop culture I think.

    I can say hello and thank you (and various other things) in Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), Malay, Thai, Lao, Khmer, and Vietnamese. I might need to think hard for a minute or get a quick refresher so that I don't mix some of them up sometimes, especially when I'm moving from one country to the next... I don't think I ever learned please specifically in any of these, though I think it's kind of built into the other things you say in a lot of them (especially Thai).

    So, please and thank you, 6 for sure. But if the goal is to talk about language basics for getting around as a visitor, I would say 13 :)

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    Jews Have Religious Right to Genocide, Says Israeli Supreme Court

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  • Sigh. This was already explained by someone else. It's called cynical sarcasm, (or bitter sarcasm, rhetorical provocation, hyperbole, provocative irony, etc.) It's meant to express outrage by drawing an extreme comparison, not agreement with it. The "just made" phrasing is part of that - they don't actually think history was undone and revised, and its a bit disingenuous or outright obtuse to interpret it that way.

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    Jews Have Religious Right to Genocide, Says Israeli Supreme Court

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  • Maybe you're misunderstanding DarkCloud's comment? DarkCloud is not saying Hitler was right. DarkCloud is saying the Israeli supreme court just ruled that Hitler was right, and that doing that is completely fucked up. Which I think you agree with.

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  • All I can think about is how they made that inverse colour version. I'm thinking reduce the blue channel to 0, then do the invert?

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    Biden Recalls Seeing ‘Colored Kids’ on Bus During First Major Speech Since Leaving White House

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  • A bit clickbaity.

    Reminiscing about his childhood in the Pennsylvania city on Tuesday, Biden said, “I remember pulling in, pulling into the parking lot and I had never seen– I had never seen hardly any Black people in Scranton at the time, and I was only going on fourth grade, and I remember seeing the kids going by, at the time called colored kids, on a bus going by.”

    He recalled, “They never turned right to go to the Claymont High School. I wondered why, asked my mom, ‘Why?’ She said in Delaware they’re not allowed to go to school, in public school, with white kids.”

    Emphasis mine. He was trying to make a point about how they were treated differently.

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  • Yes, but I'm saying the algorithm for layoffs factors in "performance", which can be factored from past bonus allocations.

    The algorithm isn't going to lay off 150's, but might preferentially select 100's.

    I don't have inside info, I'm just making assumptions that the data has to come from somewhere.

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

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  • Based on how this has gone somewhat viral, it seems like a lot of people are having trouble with it.

    I skipped over it at first too, but was suspicious of the language and when I saw CWWN described as "authoritative" I stopped reading and started trying to figure out where it was coming from lol.

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

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  • Look above that. It says the full text is a reprint from a Soviet newspaper. The line you're quoting as being confirmation comes from a Russian/Ukrainian newspaper, not the CIA. The hint is the "authoritative" in the description of "Canadian weekly world news".

    SUBJ*SUBJ: PAPER REPORTS ALLEGED EVIDENCE ON MISHAP INVOLVING UFO

    TEXT TEXT: // ((REPRINT FROM THE NEWSPAPER TERNOPIL VECHIRNIY: "COSMIC REVENGE" -- FIRST PARAGRAPH PUBLISHED IN BOLDFACE)) ((TEXT ) AFTER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DISSOlVED, IN 1991, THE KGB TOP SECRET INTELLIGENCE ADMINISTRATION, A lOT OF MATERIAL FROM THAT DEPARTMENT FOUND THEIR WAY ABROAD,' IN PARTICULAR TO THE CIA. AS REPORTED BY THE AUTHORITATIVE MAGAZINE CANADIAN WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, *U.S. INTELLIGENCE OBTAINED A 250-PAGE FILE ON THE ATTACK BY A UFO ON A MILITARY UNIT IN SIBERIA, THE FILE CONTAINS...

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

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  • If you mean "confirmed" in that it shows that the CIA knew this article had been written and kept a copy, then yes.

    Or if you mean they are confirming the contents of the article, well yeah, I guess they are confirming that this russian(?) newspaper wrote about an article some tabloid rag wrote, then yeah, I guess that's true, too.

    But if you're saying they're confirming the contents of whatever the Canadian world weekly news might have written, then no, not by any means is this file a confirmation of that.

    CWWN made up a story that involved soviets; Ternopil Vechirniy picked it up and wrote their own piece on it; the CIA kept a copy. That's it.

  • 'Build your own manufacturing': Trump-voting business owner stung by tariffs savaged after asking for ways to keep company afloat

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  • "You sound like a commie!"