This boycott should be in multiple fronts: don’t go there watch it, discourage your country’s team from playing there, discourage people from even watching the games from afar, call out businesses sponsoring the games… and more importantly, call out anyone planning to do those things as a sponsor of fascism. Because guess what, that’s exactly what they are.

In special, sponsors are damn easy to attack with viral propaganda. A 5min shit-edit where the brand in question supports Nazi Germany and/or Hitler is enough, as long as shared by lots of people; businesses hate this sort of association.

It would be great if all three co-ordinated with other governments, so all ban Twitter at the same time.

And yes, ban Twitter; not just Grok. The business behind it (Musk and other clowns) knows fully well what its model is doing, and should be held responsible.

Dunno if sold outside the southern cone, but I recommend the IPAs from the brand Patagonia. They do have some fruitiness, but it’s kind of subtle, and you only feel it after all that typical IPA bitterness.

Both this and the “Final Chapter” you shared in another comment are genuinely interesting. I love how you actually gave her some personality, since my prompt had nothing in this direction. She sounds stubborn, serious, meticulous. And no, they don’t sound like Twilight at all.

Modest Skill “Tidying Up” is the Strongest! ~ Corporate Slave Office Lady Started An Accidental Isekai Revolution, and is Now Adored by the Head Knight and His Majesty the Emperor

Wow. Let me try to fix this:

The Revolution of the Office Janitor ~ She Got the Weakest Skills and Now She’s Adored by Everyone in Another World

I didn’t read the slop (nor I will), but lemme build some simple setup:

Saitou Kiyomi is a 44yo office janitor of a black company in Tokyo. She likes her job, but hates everything around it: the lack of proper working conditions, the ungratefulness of other workers there, the messy working hours, the boss dumping into her odd jobs she was not supposed to (like paperwork, bringing him coffee, taking care of children)…

Then one day, going back from work 2AM, she finds a kitty. Craving for some company, she brings it home. Then she drinks a few too many cans of beer, and tells it her sorry story, without knowing the cat is actually a spirit in disguise. The spirit feels sorry for her and offers to reincarnate her into the magic world of Gahaski, where your experiences are crystallised into skills. And since she worked as a janitor for her whole life, she gets two skills:

1. Clean - magically removes dirt
2. Tidy - magically places something into its proper place.

Those skills rely on what she considers as “dirt” or the “proper place” of something, so they’re extremely overpowered. One of the first things she does in the new world is to look herself at the mirror, and notice how old she was… when she said “damn, I wish I could clean some years off my face”, the cleaning magic activated and she became a 18yo. “Tidy” could be used to disarm opponents, by sending their weapons to the “proper place”; or even to jail criminals automatically.

And the internal power struggle begins!

Ooooh, I remember enjoying the manga quite a bit. Until it drags a bit too long.

The setup (the ghost of the akuyaku reijou wants to discover why she was killed) is fun, and also the contrast between Scarlet and Colette, they’re like night and day.

So far I liked it. It isn’t stellar, but good enough. Like NineSwords said now the setup is out of the way, and the fun begins.

Nah, that’s the cartoonist, it’s TheJaredComix for a reason :-)

B[r]azilian here. We do use “ué”.

I am aware “ué” is also commonly used here, as the “also” in my comment shows. And my point still stands, this stuff is likely from Angola, given the genus in question is African:

Ficou claro agora?

James, listen to him!

Nah, likely Angolan. Angolan Portuguese speakers sometimes also use “ué”, and the genus in question is African.

I’ve seen a lot of the “ackshyually” crowd defending Trump, on the grounds Maduro was a piece of shit. But even if Maduro was a democratic head of government, the cockroaches would still get rid of him. Here’s an example of that, by the way. All this babble about “wurr bringin demacrucy to Venziueluh” is a bloody red herring, Venezuela was an easy target, to test how other governments would react to violations of sovereignty.

This matters for two reasons:

1. Nobody should give a pass to what the roaches are doing; not even the ones who correctly criticise Maduro.
2. You are not safe, not even if you live under a democracy. The government of USA should not be seen as an ally, but as a threat to world peace. People should actively try to dissolve that shit, much like the division of Nazi Germany.

Okay. I could spend hours and hours criticising GNOME for a lot of things, but this is not one of them. It is not removing functionality, as the article implies; as others here highlighted, it’s simply changing a default. That’s completely fine.

Currently planning to watch / watching the following:

Sousou no Frieren s2
Chained Soldier s2
The Holy Grail of Eris
Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling

All four manga series are great. Frieren and Chained Soldier had great s1, and IMO need no introduction.

The Holy Grail of Eris is about a ghost akuyaku reijou trying to untangle the mystery of her own death, and Reincarnanated as a Dragon Hatchling is a lot like I’m a Spider, So What?.

Sentenced to be a Hero

I picked this series to watch on a whim, and I really liked the first episode, from the premise (hero as a criminal sentence, instead of a glory) to the design of the monsters and the bitter MC.

Noble Reincarnation
Hell Mode
There was a Cute Girl in the Hero’s Party, so I Tried Confessing to Her

…yes, I’m a sucker for isekai and reincarnation. Based on the associated manga series I don’t expect those anime series to be great but at least fun. The sort of stuff you watch, enjoy, and then forget about.

Jack of All Trades, Master of None
An Adventurer’s Daily Grind at Age 29
Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord

Picked on a whim. Let’s hope they’re fun. If not, I can always dump them later.

To add to that: that gender you’re talking about is actually two distinct concepts, one social and another grammatical/linguistic. The later is more like a traditional way to refer to noun classes, when they also split humans based on social gender.

Sadly my go-to example for that doesn’t work in English, because of the lack of grammatical gender.

No need to apologise - you didn’t come off as a pedant, and the stuff you said is completely relevant.

Plus as I mentioned my German isn’t exactly stellar, and I only realised there was an English audio after @HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com pointed it out. That increases the odds I got something wrong, by quite a bit.

Thank you for pointing out corrections and clarifications. (I fixed the party’s name.)

I called it a “spiritual successor” because it’s basically the same right “appeal” to the masses, but I’m aware it isn’t a direct successor to the National Socialist Party. If I understood its history correctly, the process AfD went through is similar to the one of the Lega Nord, in Italy: the party starts gathering people for one cause (for AfD it was euroscepticism, for LN it was independence), but internal composition changes and so does the ideology, going further and further onto the right.

That [lower income people are easier to rally into supporting fascism] is a simplification.

Yup, I’m aware. Or rather, a generalisation, that applies better elsewhere — the trashing of their companies is zbs rather specific to East Germany, but elsewhere you still see fascists trying to gather support from poorer demographics (e.g. rural Southerners in USA, Protestants in Brazil, etc.) I love that you went into the specifics though, this is actually important to contextualise it.

Liking beer or not is a matter of personal tastes. However, if the beer tastes like “watered down unsweetened cocoa”, then it’s probably poor quality beer. Good beer should taste different from everything, even other beers.

Dreadbeef recommended IPA; if you’re into bitter flavours, I also recommend it. There’s also sweet stouts if you like sweeter ones. (Juuust in case you’re here from LatAm, note mass produced pilsener are typically really bland and meh. A lot of people like it this way, that’s fine, but it would explain why you think it’s watered down cocoa.)

I couldn’t find English subtitles, but here’s some quick rundown, it’s partially from the video and partially from info I got about the topic from elsewhere. Discretion is advised, my German is getting really shitty over the years (and it was never good to begin with).

They’re talking about the spiritual successor of the Nazi party in Germany, called Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Currently it got ~1/7 of the German parliament, it’s specially popular in Eastern Germany (lower income people are easier to rally into supporting a fascist party by using immigrants as scapegoat for their poverty), and it’s getting stronger.

Currently the party is legalised but people like those two are [IMO rightfully] trying to get it banned as anticonstitutional. And at this rate the AfD being a problem isn’t just a theoretical matter, they’re already threatening and killing people, right-wing violence is exploding there acc. to the video. Check the graphs around 6:40 and you’ll see (Left: criminality split by political ideology; right: criminality in comparison with the share of the parliament the AfD has).

So they’re gathering evidence of all that shit, and pressing politicians to ban the bloody party. There’s a site gathering all this evidence, afd-verbot.de. They’re also using the fact property rights are non-negotiable in Germany to rent the property facing the AfD hall and doing stuff like projecting Hitler’s Young into the AfD hall, since a lot of the AfD modus operandi is to say “nooo~ we walk like ducks, quack like ducks, do salutes like ducks, but we are no ducks”.

Later on they talk on how fascism’s path to power goes through conservatives, so in order for the AfD to seize power it’d need a coalition with the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), and they’re trying to prevent this. Then they mention a regional CDU president, Walter Lübcke (Hesse); he was strongly opposed to the AfD, and got killed by them, so they’re trying to build a memorial to him etc. to warn against a conservative/fascist alliance.