Previous post has one unsolved name: Apsni. Comment under that post if you'd like to solve that name!

Like last time, most of these names should be incredibly easy, but you should spoiler your answers nonetheless.

Today's list includes:

• 18 UN member countries
• 3 colonies
• 1 autonomous region in an ongoing independence process
• = 22 names in total

Unsolved names are bolded.

| Name | Hint | |

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| | Bábeyja | | | Bahamiya | | | Bahrayne | | | Baňladeše | | | Belize | | | Beĺe | Endonym. | | Bene | | | Benesuela | | | Bocwana | | | Boliviya | | | Bosniya u Hercegovina | | | Bǒmyúda | | | Brazí | | | Britaniya | | | Bruney | | | Buhmenciya | Conlang roots for "all-mother-land" | | Bulgariya | | | Buneyrǒ | Endonym. | | Burkinafasǒ | | | Burundi | | | Búveyá | Partial calque. | | Búgenví | |

Most of these should be pretty easy but you still may wish to spoiler your answers. Depending on how this goes I might share the B's tomorrow, and C~E the day after that, until I've gone through all the names I've come up with.

Today's list includes:

• 3 continents
• 9 UN member countries
• 1 partially recognized non-UN member country
• 4 colonies^[Perhaps I'm using this term a bit loosely. I'm thinking of territories that are politically, economically, militarily, and/or diplomatically subordinated to a geographically distant metropole/"mainland".]
• 1 disputed territory
• = 18 names in total

Unsolved names are bolded.

| Name | Hint | |

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| | Abya-Yala | Name associated with Indigenous activism. | | Afgániya | | | Afrika | | | Aíti | | | Akrotiri u Dekeliya | | | Aksá | Pars pro toto. | | Alaska | | | Aĺamane | Endonym. | | Alžehi | French name. | | Andora | | | Aňgola | | | Aotearowa | Endonym. | | Apsni | Endonym. | | Aŕentina | | | Aruba | | | Azeriya | | | Aziya | | | Azoriya | |

may the occupiers never know peace

https://en.natopedia.org/wiki/Yaqeen_Hammad

Sorry, had this on my mind for awhile. Epstein might still be alive and gaming in Tel Aviv, but even if he's dead, his spirit is very much alive.

(more in comments)

Tl,dr: Today, someone made a post about the game Wolfenstein with the title "Nazis should be shot". People got up in arms, post got deleted, now the centrists agree that the left extremists went too far.

The post in question, translated by me:

Title: Since when has it become normal to openly call for violence?

It's honestly disturbing, how normalised it has become on reddit to ask for humas to be shot in the head. Regardless of where you stand: since when has this become an acceptabke statement?

What really maes me angry is not just the call for violence, but the intellectual hypocrisy behind it.

On one hand, people preach morals, humanism, "never again", peace and historical responsibility. On the other, the dehumanize humans and discuss their killing as a legitimate option. That's not a moral viewpoint, that's factually paradox!

Instead of engaging with the actual point, that calls for violence are always generally problematic, they just evade it. They use historical comparisons with completely different context, extreme scenarios or rethorical tricks. "Violence is not the solution" becomes "You want to stop extremists with nice words". That's not an argument, that is an intentional misrepresentation.

Even more absurd, when past catastrophes are used as justification to use violence today: "We should have been far more strict with them, far earlier" is used as a moral carte blanche to normalize similar thinking patterns today. History doesn't teach that fantasies of violence are legitimate, butn that they lead to Dehumanization.

And that's the problem: He who denies others the right to exist, adapts exactly the thinking pattern he allegedly fights against.

What also annoys me is the aggressive evasion of the topic. They don't argue, but label. They don't discuss, but accuse. They don't differentiate, but load it up morally.

Downvotes do not replace arguments. Historical analogies don't replace logic. And emotion does not replace reason.

I understand that political topics are emotional. But emotion doesn't justify intellectual impurity.

I don't care about party politics. It's about the principle: if we normalize violence as a legitimate answer - even rethorically, then we move the goalposts in a direction we were trying to avoid.

If the simple sentence "Wishing death upon humans is wrong" has become naive, well, then maybe we shouldn't talk about naivete, but how low our discussion culture has fallen.

I'm not angry about an opinion. I'm angry at the illiogical, the ignorance of their own inconsistency and this self-righteous escalatory thinking.

Violence is violence, even if you believe to be on the morally right side.

As you guessed it, the vast majority of replies agrees.

Unfortunately, I can't answer that post personally, as I have been banned from reddit for saying "trans women are women".

Like the worst these people have to deal with is resigning from "leading" their BS nonprofits. Some government officials had to resign from their positions in Europe. All of these people had 99% of their work done by their secretaries anyway, guaranteed. They still keep their mansions, servants, gourmet food, personal trainer rent-a-friends, endless money, and private jets. They still go on TV every day and talk for hours about how smart they are with interviewers who play right along with them. They sleep well. They feel good. In private, their friends and family are reassuring them that it's all a bunch of nonsense and eventually the brainless masses will forget it ever happened. Meanwhile, if I drive five MPH over the speed limit, I could get pulled over and end up surrendering the day's wages to the pigs (or worse). If I lose my job, I can look forward to months or years of unemployment and possible homelessness.

Someone said that one difference between the rich and poor now is that the rich do stuff, while the poor can only watch. I have known about Epstein for seven fucking years. I remember where I was when he died (I was working for his fucking billionaire friends). All this new information about Epstein is great, but it doesn't really change the fundamentals, which have been public knowledge for many years now. People who are interested in Epstein spend hours going through the files and talking about it...and that's it. No further action. No organizing. Nothing that really scares the bourgeoisie. Because even if Epstein is dead, his spirit is very much still alive, and maybe even stronger than ever. These fuckers really have us by the throat, otherwise the riots would be nonstop and omnipresent, and there would be vanguard parties seizing territory and power.

Also stretching. Or massaging my feet instead of putting on socks

continued this for a very long time. They used bots for this and mass created thousands of accounts that they held on ice to use later, it was a real moderation pain. It was possibly the most persistent wrecker campaign I've seen against any site, ever. So they get some points of respect from me purely for that. It went on for so long.

Yes tagline, I was there for that, it was WEIRD.

I spend a lot of time reading Wikipedia. Most often because I'm suddenly curious about something, type @wikien (my own shortcut for English Wikipedia) into Firefox's address bar, hit the down arrow key, and then type the name of the thing in question in English. I also have shortcuts for @wikija (Japanese Wikipedia), @wikieo (Esperanto Wikipedia), @wikino (Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia) and @wikiru (Russian Wikipedia), but I use these shortcuts way less often than @wikien despite wanting to increase the proportion of non-English reading I do online.

Even if I don't use these shortcuts I've set up, it is of course always possible to click on the language dropdown and select a different language if I really want to read a specific Wikipedia article in a specific language, but this adds "friction" don't people say, so I always end up just reading what I was curious about on English Wikipedia and then closing the tab. So wouldn't it be nice if I could look something up on English Wikipedia and have it automatically redirect to the equivalent article on Norwegian Wikipedia? I think that would be nice, but evidently nobody has ever made such a browser extension despite how easy it seems like it would be. Wikipedia's API has a feature for finding equivalent articles between different languages, right? Surely you could use that for this sort of project, right?

I imagine the Wikipedia Language Redirector browser extension working like this for the end user: you click on the Wikipedia Language Redirector icon in the corner of your web browser, and it opens a popup with (1) a simple button for enabling or disabling the redirector; (2) a searchable list of different editions of Wikipedia, sorted from most to least articles, with names in their respective languages.

Every entry in this list of Wikipedias has two buttons: a pin icon and a prohibition icon. These buttons are for respectively pinning and denylisting that version of Wikipedia. Pinned Wikipedias are marked in blue and moved to the top of the list, and can be dragged up and down relative to each other to prioritize them. Denylisted Wikipedias are marked in red and also moved to the top of the list, just beneath the pinned Wikipedias. The prohibition icon on denylisted Wikipedias is replaced with a checkmark icon for moving that Wikipedia back to the allowlist.

So for myself, I might set English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org / 7,135,897 articles) as denylisted, and then pin these Wikipedias in this order:

1. Norwegian Bokmål (no.wikipedia.org / 672,884 articles)
2. Norwegian Nynorsk (nn.wikipedia.org / 177,247 articles)
3. Danish (da.wikipedia.org / 312,694 articles)
4. Swedish (sv.wikipedia.org / 2,621,329 articles)
5. Esperanto (eo.wikipedia.org / 381,760 articles)
6. Toki Pona (tok.wikipedia.org / 3,570 articles)
7. Russian (ru.wikipedia.org / 2,085,436 articles)
8. Japanese (ja.wikipedia.org / 1,489,743 articles)
9. Chinese (zh.wikipedia.org / 1,523,539 articles)

The behavior of the Wikipedia Language Redirector browser extension is then that when it notices I'm on denylisted English Wikipedia, it will first check if there's an equivalent article on Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia; then if there isn't, it will check Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia; then Danish, Swedish, etc, in my chosen order, and if none of my pinned languages have an equivalent to the article I'm looking for, Wikipedia Language Redirector will just give up and load the English Wikipedia article anyways.

If I'm looking at an allowlisted but not necessarily pinned edition of Wikipedia, the extension just does nothing.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63574663

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63574613

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63574609

I was gonna post this on Reddit, but I got permanently banned a couple months ago, and because of that I decided to post this on Lemmy.

That said, I really like Half-Life. I think it's a pretty good game series, especially the 2004 Valve game Half-Life 2. I also really like Alyx Vance, and I'm very glad Valve did a Half-Life game that's focused on her (Half-Life: Alyx). However, the post-credits scene does have a cliffhanger for a potential Half-Life 3 game, and for a while, people have been wondering when will that game be released, but lately people have been longing for HL3 to the point where they go crazy over it, as evidenced in the subreddit "r/HalfLife3". I don't have to attach images of this subreddit because if you want an idea, it's just people going crazy over whenever HL3 will be released or NOT.

Being someone who really likes the Half-Life games as much as the next person, let me just say this simply: who cares when HL3 will be released or NOT? I get it: you wanna play Half-Life 3, but let me say that Valve is a company with employees who are real people with real lives, and those employees can sometimes be a bit too busy often to focus on Half-Life 3. From as far as I know, Valve doesn't even allow crunch time, and allows their staff (developers, programmers, artists, writers, coders, designer, mo-cap actors and such) to work at their own pace (or "Valve time"). Some people think that Half-Life 3 was already finished and Valve's just keeping it as a surprise for their anniversary, but people like Chet Faliszek (who worked for Valve until 2017) highly doubt that, stating that he has "never heard of a game shipping where they scrambled and then had to release a day zero patch or even a day one patch to fix any of the bugs".

Now let me just say that I too have hopes for Half-Life 3 being released, but I don't always go crazy for whether or not the game gets released, like everytime I come across something that says something like "Hey, Half-Life 3 is still not dead in the water", I just say "okay cool", and then I just move onto something else because I obviously have a lot of bigger fish to fry than Half-Life 3 leaks (ie: Half-Life 3 is rumored to come out as a Steam Machine launch title next spring or so).

So let me say again: who cares when will HL3 be released? It could be released sometime this year, could be released tomorrow, who knows and who cares?! You gotta keep in mind that Valve is a busy company run by busy people. You gotta move on from the Half-Life 3 release insanity. IF you want HL3, just make it yourself. Learn game development, talk to other game programmers, practice your craft, and you'll probably make a good mod that picks up where the post-credit scene for Half-Life Alyx left off (or the very sad ending scene for Half-Life 2 Episode 2 left off).

Maybe Half-Life 3 will never be released, maybe the game might be released - who knows and who cares? The next time you post something insane about Half-Life 3, just do yourself a favor - take the time you usually take to post Half-Life 3 stuff to go outside, touch grass, breathe fresh air, and also talk to people and start dating and such. Life is a very beautiful thing, and you should take the time to enjoy every minute of it and such.

Oh and speaking of dating, I've saw posts from people saying "if Half-Life 3 gets announced/released, I'll get the courage to ask my crush out" (something like that). All I can say is this: it DOESN'T martter when would HL3 be released. What really matters is that nothing's stopping you, and nothing (NOT even an announcement and release for a highly anticipated sequel for a popular video game) can determine when will you ask your crush out. Love is very important, and romance is beautiful. However, if you're a bit too shy or nervous, I think I know of a solution: improv! The act of performing theatre and comedy that's unplanned and unscripted with the main rule being "yes, and", as in having to agree with another improviser's idea and also expand on that, as in: "IMPROVISER 1: This is a pretty good meal we're having. IMPROVISER 2: Yes, and I think it needs a bit more salt. Maybe some pepper or chili powder, maybe."

There are plenty of ways to take up improv (ie: improv can be performed solo), but I think it's best to go to an improv class in person.

According to PsychologyToday, studies have shown that improv theatre can help reduce social anxiety, uncertainty intolerance and stress, as well as boosts interpersonal and performance confidence and creativity. This means that the more you take up improv and put yourself out there, the less shy you'd pretty much when talking to people and asking them out. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/play-your-way-sane/202303/7-research-backed-benefits-of-improv-comedy

Even if you're shy, let me just say that you have the courage and motivation to flirt, ask someone out on a date and such. You're kind, you're passionate and you can do this. You got this. We believe in you. Good luck.

Get some help. Please.

Let a million 3 hour video essays about the gait of a masked man bloom!

Excerpt from "this i cannot forget" by anna larina

completely real apparently