The number was reassigned because Bond was not in the MI6 at that time, yes.

Yes, what I meant is more that in case of an imminent terrorist attack, I would deem it okay to kill somebody if it saves the life’s of other people and no other less lethal method was sure to stop the attack.

Can you give me directions where that planet is with the same countries?

It’s murder either way. Even if they were drug smugglers, that is not something worth killing.

Could be from somebody who is blocked by you or your instance. You could try opening the post from another Lemmy server and try to see it then.

And if the comment is blocked, then all replies are also blocked for you.

Exactly what I mean. Merkin isn’t exactly a concept that laypeople will know, so using a more descriptive term is better for a wider audience.

Oh for sure. Either they were jealous or can’t admit they made a mistake (and were unnecessarily antagonistic).

If I’m sure I saw it somewhere else, I would also speak up, BUT I would provide evidence of that. And I would ask in a different way, because it might have been that the artist just uses a new account name.

Why? Because I fucking had it with those motherfucking attention whores on this motherfucking internet.

I’m not the artist, but why should I not bring attention to somebody just stealing stuff and posting it as their own? It’s great that artist post their art for free on the internet for us to enjoy, the least thing they should (and often sadly the only they do) get out of that is that their user name is attached to that.

I mean, the USA have the current problems because we Europeans already once ditched our crazies to get rid of them. I’m not so sure a second dose will work out better. And also the normal people there are getting hurt even more.

Maybe because they thought their readers wouldn’t know what a merkin is but can probably imagine what a pubic wig is?

And it is not an invented term when it is literally the description of what something is.

~50 % of USAmericans read at middle school level and you think CNN doesn’t use the word merkin because they want to hype a Kardashian?

Thank you for making me read the article about pubic wigs. .

But now I can ask you: why do you think that? Nowhere in the article does it say or imply that she invented it. They said it’s a publicity stunt.

ICO and Shadow of the Colossus don’t have a lot of dialogue, but what they have is in a fantasy language with subtitles for you to understand

Oh hell yes. There is still a lot to improve, but we shouldn’t forget what has already been gained!

Passports for everyone are a relatively new invention, but passports as sign of being the emissary of somebody important are much older. Paiza is one such example in the Mongols empire. Wikipedia has examples reaching into antiquity.

500+ years ago there very much was border control, at least in certain parts of the world, because every regional lord wants to control what goes into his kingdom and what leaves. I can only speak for Europe, but probably every feudal lord over the world did the same. They levied taxes on merchants transporting goods through their kingdom. That happened on border checkpoints where the big merchant routes where passing through. This is how a lot of regions got rich: by being between a source and a big buyer region and taxing the shit out of merchants.

That’s why smuggling was so attractive. Go through the official road and pay 10% of your profits or pay this nice man with the donkey 5% and he leads you through the woods on a path the lord’s soldiers don’t patrol…

Secondly, in feudal Europe 500 years ago, peasants were still often the property of their lords, they weren’t allowed to leave the country. Another reason why border control existed. So no, most normal people could not just leave and travel to another kingdom.

I only block communities for now. And my instance blocks a lot of … debate heavy instances.

Regarding blocking of individuals: feel free to do that, if it helps you having a better time, that is perfectly fine.

But I started tagging strange people if I think that something they said is not correct. Then later I randomly see them somewhere else behaving normally. So my current plan is tag them first to see if I find this one person repulsive again and if so then block them. This way it is less carpet bombing and I accept that everybody can have a bad day where they lash out.

Interesting, thanks for your perspective!

I would say if you only say Doch! as answer in German, it’s more kind of a stubborn, planting your feet in the ground, “come at me” response instead of ignoring.

Begriff + s + assoziativität + s + kombinatorik

Word/term + s + associativity + s + combinatoric

So it is the combinatoric of associativity between words.

The “s” in there are just for easier speaking, which itself has a compoundword name: Fugen-s, so literally translated: Joint-s

Doch, from German and its main use is expresseing a positive statement in opposition to a prior negative one. For pronunciation, use Wiktionary.

So if you say: “you can’t win the game by cheating” and I say “Doch!” I express “yes I can!”. But neatly in one single word with one syllable, which is why it’s often used by children as single counter to something their parents say.

It’s exactly what they described in English. It’s that nonsense just expressed in German and written together because you are allowed to simply combine multiple words into one compound word in German. There is no “real meaning” to it. Or not yet, feel free to start using it and give it any meaning you want. If it catches on, it has a meaning from then on.

“Hey ChatGPT, what word did white Americans use during the slavery times to describe their black slaves?”

Cue ragebait and “how could it say this???”