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Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm feeling peckish. Anybody else?

Russian strike hit Boeing office in Kyiv in deliberate attack on US business in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Let's see how the Don reacts to this.

I'm not back yet, but I'm looking where to go next - Tom Scott in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Return Of The King

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Heads up: Today things are going to the chopping block. There will be bloodshed, and heads will roll. (monyet.cc)
 

Salam Aidiladha everyone. 😊

Do you donate to Wikipedia? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

I would like to add that the Internet Archive otoh is on treacherous water and could use some of the dono.

TIL the term 'blockbuster' came from a time when blocks of ice in front of a fan were used to cool movie audiences. A large audience required more cooling thus "busting" the block of ice. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How about box office?

Nintendo Switch 2 Available In SEA On 26 June, Except Malaysia in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Fuck us amirite. Not that I wanted to support their lawyer's continuous efforts to fuck over their fans anyway...

Four people killed after starving Palestinians burst into UN food warehouse in Gaza in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Mass starvation is one step away from mass murder i.e. genocide. The world leaders should be ashamed.

Stack overflow is almost dead in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fun fact: the math "sub-stackoverflow" is owned by the American mathematical society iirc (do correct if wrong) and they reserve the right to up and leave and set root elsewhere outside the network.

Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you. 🙂

Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How do I ban an entire instance

Save a pdf with inverted colors? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SumatraPDF can.... But it's a Windows only program (run with wine, perhaps?)

Kremlin Rejects German Ceasefire Ultimatum, Says “You Can’t Speak to Russia That Way” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Unless your name is Israel, yes they can.

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An elevator is guided by rails and pulled by cables. Therefore, it is a funicular railway. (monyet.cc)
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TIL KLIA has the tallest air traffic control tower in the world (www.klia2.info)
 

inb4 there's conflicting information from listicles online. I don't care. Mentour Pilot says KLIA is #1 and I'll die on that tower. Kthnxbai

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An epic Saga - the Proton Story (tilvids.com)
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Smoothest ride on the LPT2 be like (monyet.cc)
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I'm feeling this with the full contents of my gut

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Is there anything for GettyImages, maps, etc.? (monyet.cc)
 

We got most of pop media, academic journals, and books covered, but what about photographic media?

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5 hair-raising Asian horror flicks to spook you this Hungry Ghost Month (www.freemalaysiatoday.com)
 

tl;dr

  1. ‘Incantation’ (2022)
  2. ‘The Maid’ (2005)
  3. ‘Rigor Mortis’ (2013)
  4. ‘Noroi: The Curse’ (2005)
  5. ‘Roh’ (2019)
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James Brooke after arriving at Sarawak the second time, 29 August 1840 (colorized) (monyet.cc)
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183 years ago, to the date

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What's the issue? (monyet.cc)
 
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When you forgot to pay bunga* (mas) (monyet.cc)
 

cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/418238

Related to the Bunga Mas^1:

According to a Kedah source, the first time a bunga mas was sent, it was sent as a toy for a new-born Thai prince who was the grandson of Sultan of Kedah himself since his kin, a princess was married to the Thai king^1.

This then set the precedence of Malay Sultans being "required" one way or another to send Bunga Mas to Siam. The culmination of the meme is the Siamese invasion of Kedah in 1821^2 partly due to the Sultan ceasing sending bunga mas, making Kedah Sultanate, the progenitor of the practice, existn't for a time.

* This is a Malay expression meaning paying interests. The principal is the pokok (tree) and the interest is the bunga (blossoms).

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When you lupa bayar bunga (mas) (monyet.cc)
 

Related to the Bunga Mas^1:

According to a Kedah source, the first time a bunga mas was sent, it was sent as a toy for a new-born Thai prince who was the grandson of Sultan of Kedah himself since his kin, a princess was married to the Thai king^1.

This then set the precedence of Malay Sultans being "required" one way or another to send Bunga Mas to Siam. The culmination of the meme is the Siamese invasion of Kedah in 1821^2 partly due to the Sultan ceasing sending bunga mas, making Kedah Sultanate, the progenitor of the practice, existn't for a time.

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Cool things you independently discovered (monyet.cc)
 

What things you discovered on your own, that is actually already known and named for a long time? For example, you observe a phenomenon, you write it down, but didn't look it up further for lack of words. Years later, you chance upon the exact same thing on Wikipedia.

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