It didn't work for me on FireDragon + uBlock Origin... at first. Then after a few seconds of the rest of the article being "redacted", it suddenly appeared.
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So many layers to that name.
I mean, "Yanks" is right there.
Or "septics", if you wish to be politically correct.
/jk
Writer H. L. Mencken collected a number of proposals from between 1789 and 1939, finding terms including Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, and United Stater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_States
I mean, this is a guy who considers rape the highest compliment he can pay a woman.
- Wine
- Windows in a virtual machine
- Cross-platform / web apps, e.g. Photopea
- Alternatives, e.g. Krita
Daniels said, most recently under oath, that after briefly meeting Trump in 2006, she was invited to dinner and to meet him at his hotel room. ...
Daniels testified that she thought they would be going to a restaurant, and eventually used the bathroom in Trump's hotel room, but upon re-emerging was surprised to find Trump stripped to his underwear sitting on the bed. Daniels testified she said "I think we should go" and moved toward the door but Trump allegedly stood in her way saying in part, "This is the only way you're getting out of the trailer park." Daniels could not remember how she ended up on the bed, but testified that they had sex in the missionary position and Trump chose not to use a condom. Daniels insisted she was neither forced nor under the influence, but also said it wasn't something she wanted and that she "blacked out".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormy_Daniels%E2%80%93Donald_Trump_scandal
Tombstone, 1993.
With the passing of Val Kilmer, I realized I had still never seen it!
Finally realized the source of this meme:
EDIT: sooo many actors I recognized. So many that at the end credits, I counted them all: 23 (inc. Robert MItchum doing the narration.)
I think the only film that might compete on that score is Enemy of the State.
Thanks for those.
But wondering... who is getting my login details when I log in with those front-ends?
They appear to be the same TLD as my home instance (lemmy.ca) but I'm already logged in on lemmy.ca yet not logged in on those front-ends.
Over the last couple of days, a few posts on Lemmy led me to read more about:
- Alternatives to (US-based) Wikipedia (triggered by a few comments in this /c)
- Gamergate & Rabid Puppies
Thus I found out about Infogalactic (I won't link to it); it's a fork of Wikipedia created by a far-right white supremacist mysogynist "Vox Day" (a sci fi author and publisher who tried to rig the Hugo Awards to show his disdain for non-white, non-male authors) so as to have an encyclopaedia free of "the left-wing thought police who administer [Wikipedia]".
Trying out Mojeek today, I did a search (population of Rome through history) and an Infogalactic page (History of Rome) was the 6th result.
Not only was a far right website I had never seen before in the 8 years of its existence one of the top results, but the Wikipedia page it forked is nowhere to be found.
- Is this common with Mojeek?
- Are there ways to adjust its settings so as to not return far right search results?
- And should we just stop recommending Mojeek as an alternative to US search engines as long as it does return far right search results to ordinary search queries?
Not sure if this is relevant here.
My tolerance for people faking a US accent when they sing has declined over the years, so a while back I started making a Spotify playlist with tracks where the (usually native English-speaker) vocalist sings in English with their real accent instead of a fake US one. And I called it "No Yankcent".
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4hrV8JElSFZsp9qcjkwrFZ
Maybe people have some tracks they can suggest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_City
Exploring free-gratis channels on my Roku, I came across this "neo-noir erotic thriller", with a martial arts serial killer going after strippers managed by a "mob-adjacent" ex-boxer. Just seeing Tom Berenger and Billy Dee Williams in the cast list was enough to get me to start watching.
Then the opening theme starts... "hey, isn't that David Johansen singing?" Sure enough, it was. The theme is even titled "New York Doll".
And the cast kept coming: Melanie Griffith, B-movie stalwart Jack Scalia, Rossano Brazzi (from South Pacific!), Rae Dawn Chong, María Conchita Alonso (as just Maria Conchita), Joe Santos (Rockford FIles), Michael V. Gazzo (Last Action Hero), Daniel Faraldo (Above the Law), Juan Fernández (slick Latino bad guy in lots of 80s & 90s stuff), Robert Miano (Donnie Brasco) and then "Directed by Abel Ferrara". Awesome!
And really starring... NYC at its seediest.
EDIT: I found the website for the Roku channel where I found Fear City, it's called Free Movies +.
- https://www.freemoviesplus.com/ (viewable on Roku, Fire TV, Vizio and web)
- FreeMovies +: Fear City
Not a great selection (used to be much better a couple of years ago) but has some gems among the dross.
OTT Studio, the company behind Free Movies +, has some more free channels, e.g. Action Plus, Horror +, VHS + etc (which share a lot of content), mainly viewable on certain devices (e.g. Roku, Vizio TVs, Fire TV), but some are also viewable in web browsers.
I see the (Roku & Vizio only) Classic Movies + channel has Abel Ferrara's début feature, the original 'video nasty', Driller Killer.
Availability of these channels and movies on them probably varies according to which country you are in. For some films, I get "Playback unavailable" errors. As far as I know, it's legal. Apparently ad-supported, although I have almost never seen an ad (using a Roku, without Pi-hole or any ad-blocker).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYfnWRp1Q0
- Show: Red Dwarf
- Episode: "Stoke Me a Clipper" (Series 7, Episode 2)
- Original air date: 24th January 1997
- Scene: Ace Rimmer wrestles an alligator out of an exploding plane without a parachute, captures and then surfs the gator through the sky to bite the head off a Nazi in mid-air and then rescues a beautiful princess from a Wehrmacht firing squad on a rocket-powered motorbike. I mean, do you know anything more awesomer than that?
- More info: https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/RD:_Stoke_Me_a_Clipper
I kind of remembered that the European flag is not just for the European Union. (It was actually created for the Council of Europe.)
I had no idea that the stars are properly called mullets.
"On an azure field a circle of twelve golden mullets, their points not touching."
What I think of when I hear "a flag with a circle of twelve golden mullets":
Great job, Trump. Keep up the good work!