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Weshesh, one of the groups Ramesses III said he defeated when the Sea Peoples attacked Egypt. As far as I know, though, they’re one of the groups that we have basically no other mentions or evidence of, so we have no idea who they were
That fact that this is coming from a lemmynsfw.com account is beautiful
The feature itself is fine, the fact that it’s literally in between you and turning regular shuffle on and off is incredibly irritating
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL the US government once banned sliced bread
30·2 years ago“During WW1” is the context for this
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft word update messes up exams in Denmark
10·2 years agoThe article says that the Ministry has suggested students use other programs, so it sounds like it’s just something students often use rather than something that’s actually required. I’ve not been in school for a long time, but I am doing a distance learning course and when I had to submit some written stuff I definitely found it more comfortable to type it up in an actual word processor than the web platform that only showed about a paragraph at a time, so I did that and then copied it to the web platform.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•I'm with McCoy here
42·2 years agoExistential Comics’ “The Machine” feels highly relevant here
Huh, not sure what’s going on there. It looks fine on my instance obviously, but it seems fine on yours and the post’s in the browser at least. Then again kbin seems to be particularly janky with links in particular. Thanks for making a version everyone can see
Use the other hand to count twelves! Each time you fill up one hand, add one to the other. That way you can get all the way to 156, which is probably more than you’d ever want to count one by one anyway
I find it useful if I’m counting only specific instances of something that meet some criteria. That way my brain can focus on picking out the right things and not have to worry about keeping the current count in mind. I use the method with your thumb on each segment of your fingers though, so you can get up to twelve with one hand and 156 with both
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World News@lemmy.world•Europe’s new political consensus: We need to make more weapons
9·2 years agoThey’re only struggling because the West is arming Ukraine. The Ukrainians fought hard from day one, but they’d have been overrun and at best operating a guerilla campaign without being given heaps of equipment. Look what has happened while America stopped sending stuff over, and’s while Europe was still sending stuff. Europe’s arms industry is substantial, pretty much on par with the US in terms of value exported, but it’s lacking things like the ability to supply an artillery war like the one going on in Ukraine. Since the US doesn’t seem to be very reliable, Europe is gonna have to cover that base itself if it wants to be able to deter actions like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Actual explanation: these squid are transparent normally, but can turn on a dark pigmentation when that is a more effective camouflage. Being transparent works quite well most of the time, but if the predator has its own light source (as several deep-sea predators do) then their transparent state becomes a problem, because it’s relatively reflective compared to the water around them. In this situation, turning on the dark pigment helps them blend in with the dark water better.
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World News@lemmy.world•Europe’s new political consensus: We need to make more weapons
2·2 years agoThey’re American
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia
3·2 years agoWell you see, the UN’s logo is actually a top-down view of Earth. Apparently. Because they can’t keep a conspiracy secret without leaving some clues in the open for kicks.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Maybe Ukraine would win if we gave them bigger planes?
31·2 years agoSoon he’s gonna go grab the sword from the Motherland Calls and take to the frontlines himself
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World News@lemmy.world•Estonia Says Russia Removed Narva River Buoys Marking Border
15·2 years agoThe European NATO members did continue supplying Ukraine. However, the US had previously accounted for roughly half of the total arms supplied and Europe didn’t do anything extra to make up for that sudden colossal shortfall.
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World News@lemmy.world•The US is thinking about letting Ukraine use its weapons to strike Russia, even if it enrages Putin: report
111·2 years agoThe UK openly said Ukraine could use British-supplied weapons on Russian territory a few weeks ago. We’re much closer to the Russian heartlands and have a much less scary military than America, but Russia hasn’t done shit about it
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World News@lemmy.world•Rishi Sunak announces UK general election for Thursday 4 July
10·2 years agoThey got to announce that inflation is more or less back down to normal levels, so this is about as good as the polling is likely to be. A there was one a few months back that actually showed the Conservatives getting fewer seats than the SNP. To be clear it was only one poll and I do not think it will happen, but for readers that don’t already know this, the SNP only even contest less than 10% of the total seats. The fact that that was ever even close to the bounds of possibility is wild.



Console commands also let you apply some non-spell effects as enchantments. If you want to have a bit of fun cheating, you can put a max strength fus ro dah on a hammer and pretend to be Thor