Literally translates as "lamb's penis", roughly equivalent to calling someone a dickhead but with an emphasis on belittling them.
Twmffat twp.
"Idiot spout", someone who doesn't think things through before speaking.
On the political side "Dic Siôn Dafydd" is how you refer to a Welsh person who's aligned themselves on England's side in an issue between England and Wales.
The Pareto Principle is a bullshit theory where a crank saw a handful of statistics were similar and thus decided it was a natural law. The only reason it's still considered seriously is because economics is to mathematics what astrology is to physics.
At the risk of sounding optimistic, the culture shock of our respective instances federating feels like it's starting to die down now and folks can finally get on with more respectful discussion.
So is this article another one that uses Radio Free Asia as a source?
'cos I don't know shit about North Korea but I don't trust any news source that is owned and run by the CIA.
Edit:
Radio Free Asia, a broadcasting service which aims to get the bottom of propaganda put out by totalitarian countries, interviewed an anonymous resident.
Hexbear user here so I've no say in whether you defed or not.
Just wanted to say, I appreciate how level headed you've been in this post and with defederation as a whole even though your previous interaction with Hexbear users has made you the target of comments that were heated (to say the least).
The popular consensus on Hexbear is anti-NATO, rather than pro-Russia. If this is a sticking point for you, I don't think you will agree much with the average users on geopolitics.
But, as long as you stay out of the news megathread, you likely won't see much discussion of the war on Hexbear.
The emote problem seems like it'd be really annoying, I've stopped using them when I'm not on hexbear communities (though sometimes I forget what instance I'm on sorry in advance).
As for the "wrong type of leftist" sort of stuff, hexbear tries to be a big tent community for leftists (we've got all sorts over there although it's admittedly heavily leaning towards marxist-leninists) and it tends to be a much more welcoming site outside of those overcrowded threads on active where everyone is arguing.
You could just, I don't know, browse my posting history and see the very human things I've posted.
I've got two years of stuff on this account.
Some shitposts, some sincere.
You on the other hand have been on this site, what, nine hours. During that time you have mostly posted extremely similar comments about how everyone else must be foreign bots.
Remember that time it was leaked that Mi5 was running a bot farm out of a disused mill?
The British state had (has?) a literal propaganda mill.
For months leading up to the general election, you'd see the same comments in their tens, sometimes hundreds, popping up to defend Boris Johnson. And the same same copy-paste comments attacking Jeremy Corbyn.
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IDK, armchair diagnosing someone like this comes across as ableist.