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They call themselves a news channel
  • Fox news was brought to court over fake news. They lost and had to pay 6 months of revenue. But their argument in court was not that they didn't have fake news, but that they are an entertainment channel, not a news channel.

  • Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
  • Been using Linux since the early 2000's and I've dual booted a few times, but mostly had Linux as my main os for this time. This has happened so many times to me, the last time like 4 years ago, I just will live without the software that doesn't work in wine...

  • Zen Z
  • Jokes on you, because just that you learned to read analogue clocks, makes your brain more plastic. I am sure you know what that word means, but for anyone else, plastic means adaptable. The more things you learn the easier it is to learn more things.

  • My Empire of Podzols
  • I don't know how to speak music, but I'll try. I think the dissonant notes together with i believe micro tonal pitch bending (maybe I don't know i have bad pitch) in the original better illustrate the discomfort of Trent very poetically.

    Also Cash sensoring the original lyrics is okay, but it doesn't deliver has hard.

    Don't get me wrong, both versions are beautiful, and this is just nit picking

  • Balders Gate is the name of a street in Oslo, Norway

    I hope this fluff post will be allowed if I actually share some facts about DnD and etymology

    Balders Gate is named after the Norse god Baldr/Balder/Baldur

    Baldur in DnD is named after a legendary explorer Baldurian from Faerûn, name obviously inspired by the norse god's name.

    The word Gate means street in Norwegian, as well in Swedish/Danish/Icelandish but its spelled differently in those languages

    The word Gate in English is a cognate with the word Gate in Norwegian, meaning they stem from the same root word, incidentally they are also spelled the same way today, which is not a requirement to be a cognate, Gate in English is also a cognate with the word for street in other nordic languages even though they spell it differently.

    Swedish still spell it the same as in Old Norse, Gata, which at the that point meant path, road, or way, which is how it is used in current day nordic languages, but you can see how the English word Gate is now used for an entrance with a door of some kind. Other English definitions for the word gate, like a manner of walking or even a path, among others also stem from the same root word.

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