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Ertebolle , to worldnews in Germany bans neo-Nazi group Hammerskins

"Hammerskins" sounds like a bunch of guys who hang around smashing each other's genitals with hammers

acwern ,

The stupidest thing about it is that the name is based on some imagery from the film for The Wall by Pink Floyd which very much made the point of “Fascism bad”

RickyRigatoni ,
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Sometimes satire is too good and just looks like how it is for the people who believe what you’re satirizing.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Why do they have the dumbest names?

Proud boys sound like a bunch of children who never had their parents acknowledge them.

cthonctic , to world in BBC News - Luis Rubiales: Spanish FA will take legal action over Jennifer Hermoso 'lies'
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What a disgusting POS. He needs to be dismissed with extreme prejudice and disgraced.

ShimmeringKoi , to worldnews in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
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FlyingSquid , to world in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
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“What could have possibly caused this crash killing a totally insignificant and unimportant person?!” -RT

LEDZeppelin ,

Who put that surface-to-air missile there?

TheFrirish ,

are they even going to report it? I want to see but I don’t want to burn my eyes with RT’s website

LilDestructiveSheep , to workreform in Zoom orders workers back to the office
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Oh what irony

thefartographer ,

it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh. HEY!

thehatfox ,
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Yeah, you would think a company that would promote remote working would be company that creates tools for remote working.

ZILtoid1991 ,
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These people only care about the supposed "productivity loss" that is supposedly introduced from remote work.

hellishharlot ,

Studies have literally done nothing but show that people are just as or more productive wfh than in office

Perfide ,

Absolutely, but that’s the myth they’re pushing. Really what is going on here is, if remote work became the norm, suddenly all these companies would have huge empty offices that nobody wants to buy because everyone would be trying to offload their unnecessary office space. In the short term, a small productivity hit is nothing compared to multi-million dollar real estate instantly having its value slashed in half.

It’s incredibly short sighted decision making only if you assume the leadership actually cares about the company. When you have a golden parachute guaranteeing you escape the companies implosion unharmed, there’s no reason to think about the long term, you can just keep stacking short term profit shit up and glide away safely when it finally collapses.

hellishharlot ,

Yeah… It sucks that companies have no responsibility to make working for them good or even to be environmentally conscious

Perfide ,

Absolutely agreed

Hunter2 , to worldnews in Spotify raises premium subscription price for millions

It’s my fault guys, just the other day I was thinking of how they had never raised the subscription price (in my country), unlike Netflix, which felt like they were raising it every year.

Dagnet ,

Woah how did you make your username show up as ****** ?

gravitas_deficiency ,

No wait that’s my password, hunter2

FaeDrifter ,

How did you turn your password into *'s like that?

gravitas_deficiency ,

I put on my robe and wizard hat

FoxBJK , to worldnews in Migrant boat from Senegal carrying 200 people missing off Canary Islands
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I’m sure it will garner the kind of media frenzy that submarine with those 5 dudes did.

People only cared because (A) it was rich people laughing at god and (B) the mystery of the search.

Although this is actually three missing boats so maybe this will get a flurry of coverage. Not that I’m betting on it…

FlanFlinger ,
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Oh it’ll probably get a flurry of coverage, but I suspect none of it will be compassionate

Uncrasimatic ,

I don’t think it was even that it was rich people.

We recently had the mystery disappearance of Nicola Bulley in the UK that got huge media attention because everyone was playing detective; we’ve had similar media frenzy over the Chilean miners, the Thai footballers in the cave, the RAF lad who disappeared on a night out (it’s thought he climbed into an industrial bin)…

The common thread is that everyone can speculate on whether the subjects will survive or not. ‘Migrant boats sinks’ stories are focused on too many nameless people and the outcome is too easily predicted for a media frenzy and workplace discussions. People love a bit of speculation.

norimee , (edited ) to nottheonion in Republicans wear ear bandages in 'solidarity' with Trump

As a nurse this bandage trump showed up with looks totally like it is for show only. I would bet real money, that no healthcare professional was near this bandage and it was probably a PR person who sticked stuck this on him.

littlebluespark ,
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Stuck*

norimee ,

Oh no! You exposed me as a non native English speaker. What will I do now?

littlebluespark ,
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Hopefully, you’ll know that “stuck” is the correct term? 🤷🏽‍♂️

mvirts ,

Don’t worry plenty of native speakers would have written the same thing :P

PanArab ,

Wouldn’t that make it correct?

jaemo ,

Not until webster chimes in.

And I’m not switching to “sticked”, so you’ll need to crowdsource your etymological inertia from others.

PanArab ,

Non-standard but still correct.

littlebluespark ,
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Morphological dialectic momentum*

kaffiene ,

No.

Xtallll ,
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Sticked:stuck::hanged:hung

StarshotJohn ,
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I thought that too, it almost looks like a piece of telfa taped to his ear. I was hoping he’d have a glasscock dressing.

III ,

Can’t wait to see some daring journalist ask Trump in a filmed interview to see the scar. I assume Trump will classify that under the “that’s too personal” category of lies he doesn’t want to defend.

reverendsteveii , to world in Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud

Normally I’d say that if you empower the state to execute a certain class of person you can look forward to the state changing that definition so that inconvenient people who did nothing wrong meet it, but I’m unlikely to be mistaken for someone who has committed 10s of billions of dollars in fraud and I can’t help but feel like maybe if just one robber baron is held responsible for the enormous suffering they cause in pursuit of an amount of wealth so vast that it can never be spent and essentially only functions as a high score then the rest will realize that there is the sharp, distinct possibility that they can be held responsible as well.

GBU_28 , to world in Jasmin Paris first woman to complete gruelling Barkley Marathons race

What an achievement, that race is as tough as it gets

jordanlund , to worldnews in King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says
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Would be weird for the longest serving monarch to be replaced by the shortest serving one.

Which raises a good question… who was the shortest serving British monarch?

Oh, of COURSE there’s a Wiki for that…

…wikipedia.org/…/List_of_British_monarchy_records

“The shortest-reigning monarch was Lady Jane Grey who ruled for 9 days from 6 July until 15 July 1553 (although she was only proclaimed queen by the Lords of the council on 10 July). Her husband Lord Guildford Dudley was her consort for the entire reign, making this the shortest tenure of the male consort of a female monarch. Note: Jane’s reign is disputed.

The king with the shortest definitively known reign was Edgar the Ætheling who ruled for 2 months, 12 days in 1066 before submitting to William the Conqueror. Some records indicate that Sweyn Forkbeard reigned for only 40 days in 1013–4.[7]”

Queen Elizabeth II died 9/8/2022, so Charles has already been in 514 days. He’s good…

thessnake03 ,

He’s still pretty far down the overall list though

…wikipedia.org/…/List_of_monarchs_in_Britain_by_l…

tegs_terry ,

Edgar the Aethling was elected after Harold for about a month in 1066

explodicle ,

Would be weird for the longest serving monarch to be replaced by the shortest serving one.

That makes a lot of sense actually. Elizabeth II cut into his time.

foggy , (edited ) to news in George Santos: Expelled congressman is now selling $200 videos on Cameo

Dude I hate the GOP but this man is an icon.

He’s like the post modern artist that politics didn’t know it needed.

He’s truly a masterpiece.

I’d rather this guy’s antics in the news than just about any other political figure.

He could straight up be a hot dog vendor guy in NYC tomorrow, and I’d click that link.

Neato ,
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He's the entire Republican id distilled into a human shape.

foggy ,

Like, if he knows, he’s on the order of Andy Kaufman.

milkjug , (edited )

That’s what the deep state, Soros and gay frogs want you to believe.

shalafi ,

He’s basically Dibbler from the Discworld books.

bestusername , to nottheonion in Kmart: Australian supermarket pulls 'Merry Ham-mas' Christmas bag
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For fuck sake, it’s a ham bag with Christmas trees on it, Kmart should have told them to pull their heads out of their arses.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Idk this was pretty funny, the corporate panic makes it funnier.

You just know there’s some poor advertising peon getting yelled at rn, even though not one person in the office put the dots together.

bestusername ,
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Few months ago no one would have noticed and now the entire stock will likely go into landfill.

Fucking ridiculous!

Viking_Hippie , (edited )

Reminds me of how the Danish (?) organic snacks company now known as Easis was still called Isis long after those letters became toxic.

Personally I found the prospect of terrorists making and selling organic muesli bars pretending to be healthy absolutely hilarious 😂

FuglyDuck ,
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They pretended to be healthy? Wanna bet they’re awful?

Maybe they should mail them to terrorists. You know. As a weapon against morale

Viking_Hippie ,

They’re actually very tasty. Tons of sugar in them to achieve that, though.

FuglyDuck ,
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Why am I not surprised?

Oh well. Guess weird mailing those rice cake thingies that taste like styrofoam

Carighan ,
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long after those letters became toxic

What’s toxic about an egyptian goddess? 😜 (to be fair, the terrorist group is called IS, and calling it ISIS was always a bit weird)

Viking_Hippie , (edited )

Well Danish news first called it ISIS, then ISIL and then IS. Now they usually use the whole name Islamic State, but in Danish.

ArcaneSlime ,

My friends had a CI wear a wire for a fucking weed sale, but they were watching Archer at the time he was there to pick up. Led to some hilarious questions from idiot cops.

JimmyMcGill , to news in Donald Trump fraud trial live updates: Former president takes the stand - BBC News

Are there videos of this? I really need this fix after idk how many years of dealing with this bastard

AstridWipenaugh ,

Nope, no recording allowed. Best we have is this masterpiece from the courtroom sketch artist (this is real).

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/67560482-c126-46ca-a0b3-d44742815def.jpeg

JimmyMcGill ,

Amazing

Thank you for making my day

slurpeesoforion , to technology in FTX: 'King of Crypto' to testify in fraud case

He thinks he’s going to talk his way out of it. How cute.

cheese_greater , (edited )

How “great” would that be if he actually Mind[ed]TheGap[ped]-ed these “TrumpedUp” charges /s

If he manages that I promise to eat my shat!

SMillerNL ,

You won’t talk your way out of that one

cheese_greater ,

I mean what is guilt if not the absence of innocence?

gnate ,

I support this strategy.

Voroxpete ,

He’s already tried to tweet his way out of it, blog his way out of it, witness tamper his way out of it, and talk to the press his way out of it.

I guarantee he’s been begging to take the stand since the moment he first sat down with his lawyers.

This is what a life devoid of consequences does to a motherfucker.

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