Lol, they don’t even match consistently between Portuguese and Spanish which are much closer, even when the noun is literally the same (e.g.a água vs el água)
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Chebyshev distance can also be called chessboard distance if you want something more descriptive.
It takes a special kind of person to accept being punched in the head for a living.
We can solve those problems directly or indirectly by tying superman to a dynamo. With free energy even the issues with materials can be solved over time.
The same applies to most gang members.
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News•From ‘Tudo bem?’ to ‘Gracias,’ a growing share of US residents speak a language other than English
1·1 year ago*Portuguese. We also use it as informal greeting in Portugal, and I’m pretty sure it’s universal to all portuguese speaking countries.
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News•Musk calls for Trump to be impeached as extraordinary feud escalates
1·1 year agoFor the impeachment itself, assuming the Democrats all vote for it, Musk only needs to buy 9 republicans.
For the trial, he needs to get 20 republicans for the two thirds. It’s not going to be cheap, but it sounds doable.
The problem is that leaves Vance in charge, and a focused autocrat is not an upgrade.
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News•US slams ICC judges with sanctions over investigation into Israel
4·1 year agoGermany it’s because of the holocaust (funny that it never translates into wanting to make a safe homeland for Roma people at all costs).
US it’s because of Christian death cults wanting a new temple in Jerusalem because they think it will bring Jesus back.
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News•Netanyahu says Israel has 'activated' some Palestinian clans opposed to Hamas
26·1 year agoBenny was caught giving weapons to the Islamic Fucking State and for some reason decided to own it.
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NonCredibleDefense•The eternal march of technology continuesEnglish
22·1 year agoAll armed forces are probably on a permanent anxiety attack with everything drone related that’s happening in the war in Ukraine.
Outside of keeping everything in deep bunkers there’s not much defense possible against all the attack vectors drones open up.
Is https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10630722/ real science for you enough?
This announcement doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
The solution is turning this on its head and having a law saying which weapons are allowed.
Granted it’s hard with how the archaic constitution of the US is written and how creatively the conservative judges read it, but decisions like this give room for states to try more tiered access to weapons.
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News•Bill Gates: Microsoft founder to give most of $200bn fortune to Africa
111·1 year agoWhich still has no material impact on his well being and keeps most people distracted from his behaviours from all kinds of inappropriate conduct at Microsoft to his efforts to rehabilitate Epstein after his first conviction, with a bunch of economic crimes and things that should be economic crimes in the middle.
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KDE@lemmy.kde.social•Firefox supposedly now supports the Global Menu on Linux
1·1 year agoWhen Ubuntu used Unity. I think there 3rd party GNOME applets for it but never anything official from the GNOME team.
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NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works•NCD productions presents:English
23·1 year agoI think this classifies as an Eurasian spinoff. Now with possibility for a relaxing drive through thousands of kilometres of nothingness before the trip ends up in fireworks.
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UK Politics@feddit.uk•Labour plots ‘family bathtime tax’ on water bills
6·1 year agoIMO those measures should include allowances for family size, but people with swimming pools should get eye watering bills.
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Linux Gaming•Here's all the games to claim for Steam Deck / Linux from Prime Gaming as of May 30thEnglish
4·1 year agoI think it’s Samurai Bringer.
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Leopards Ate My Face•Citadel CEO Ken Griffin donated over $108 million to the GOP in 2024. Now he warns Trump’s Tariffs Are Tarnishing the ‘American Brand’.English
15·1 year agoAbsorb blame assumes they would face consequences when things go wrong.
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Leopards Ate My Face•Citadel CEO Ken Griffin donated over $108 million to the GOP in 2024. Now he warns Trump’s Tariffs Are Tarnishing the ‘American Brand’.English
69·1 year agoCan you imagine your entire job being forecasting what other people’s intentions are and making decisions based on it, and being so shit at it that you decide to prop up a guy that’s openly saying he’s going to obliterate the international economic system that makes your job easy?










Software company’s CEO wants the money to go to his company.