Couldn’t tell you, I’m afraid. I only know about the game because I happened to be in a pub where it was on the TV at the time
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Those are the names of the German footballers (soccer) that scored to make probably the worst defeat the Brazilian team has ever suffered
Skua@kbin.earthto politics @lemmy.world•An "unimaginable sum:" Trump's Big Beautiful Bill would appropriate $200 billion to ICE501·12 days agoWell they’re gonna need a lot of new brown shirts, I assume
Ahh okay, I get you now
Khajiit are the catfolk from the Elder Scrolls games. They usually also have a notable speech pattern in which they do not use first-person pronouns, preferring “khajiit” or “this one” to “me” or “I”
Skua@kbin.earthto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There's a decent chance that one of the many uncontacted tribes has started to worship airplanes10·14 days agoI’d guess pilot goggles rather than VR
Skua@kbin.earthto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There's a decent chance that one of the many uncontacted tribes has started to worship airplanes14·14 days agoNo, not quite. Cargo cults didn’t worship the vehicles, rather the notion of the abundance that they brought. The famous Melanesian ones in WWII happened in societies in which gift-giving was already the key to social power; when WWII came along, both the Japanese and Allied forces brought unbelievable quantities of supplies to the islands and then also intentionally handed out a lot of stuff in order to play into that social practice. It was enough that some locals interpreted it as a sign that they could return to their old ways that had been suppressed under Christian colonial rule, the first signs of a coming new age of prosperity
Anyway all that is to say that no, uncontacted tribes can’t have cargo cults because part of the formation of a cargo cult involves contact
Skua@kbin.earthto World News@lemmy.world•UK’s largest Jewish group punishes members who broke silence on Gaza genocide17·15 days agoIs that not the suspended deputies describing the act as incompatible with Jewish values? I’m not sure whether “the act” here is the attack on Gaza or the suspensions, though. It’s a very poorly-written sentence on the part of the article’s author
Skua@kbin.earthto World News@lemmy.world•‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts4·15 days agoOh okay, I understand now. Thanks
Skua@kbin.earthto World News@lemmy.world•‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts3·15 days agoWhat do you mean? There are people attributed as saying it in the article
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce784r9njz0o
Volcanic activity from back when the moon did have that
Skua@kbin.earthto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I have never in my 43 years heard of anyone else with the first name Sigourney.43·18 days agoWikipedia has a couple of them! Sigourney Thayer was an American theatre producer born 1896, Sigourney Trask was an American missionary born 1849, and Sigourney Bandjar is a Surinamese footballer born 1984
Skua@kbin.earthto World News@lemmy.ml•Trump announces that the USA has bombed Iranian nuclear sites.8·20 days agoJDAM is supposed to have a circular error probable of 5m and it’s an upgrade kit from 25 years ago. I can definitely believe that a much newer purpose-built weapon can do better than that. The idea of hitting the same spot with multiple bombs might not actually be that unlikely
Skua@kbin.earthto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich.1·24 days agoThe sand which Sam the Witch panned for riches on the strand which spans, to wit, from headland to ridge
I hope we get our act together and come back too. It’ll be a while or something dramatic happening before public sentiment will permit it, though. Many Brexit supporters have soured on Brexit itself, but acrually reversing course would be controversial
You’d think that as a country that describes itself as being made of four countries, we’d be more on board with the idea
I do not need any food whatsoever right now but I could still absolutely demolish a Moroccan feast
Where do you normally get your recipes? I have a small book of tagines but haven’t figured out a good reliable place to look otherwise
Skua@kbin.earthto World News@lemmy.world•[live thread] Israeli Launches Strikes On Iran41·29 days agoTo quote from the modlog:
Or because it’s a theocracy based on religion that literally says “God is telling us to kill everyone else”.
Making claims about what religion says means you’re either talking about the religion the country and missed an “a” before the word “religion”, or you’re talking about every religion. I think it’s probably the former, but either way Islam falls under it
Skua@kbin.earthto World News@lemmy.world•[live thread] Israeli Launches Strikes On Iran224·29 days agoThey’ve had that government for a long time and were content to sign the JCPOA. You don’t have to like the Iranian government at all to recognise that it was not the party to break that deal
Also, Pakistan is a Muslim country which has had nukes for decades without using them on anyone. Being Muslim does not make you want to nuke the rest of the world
If I wasn’t being mean about my boss beforehand, I would most definitely start being mean after he subjected me to a polygraph about it