liv @ liv @beehaw.org

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If movies are more your thing, there's a very good biopic of Lumumba.

Thanks, this book looks like an interesting read. Will probably have to wait until my blood pressure is under control. One of history's great injustices that is still felt today.

Here is the speech that led to his death.

Yes, it's a massive level of cringe.

Gmail is convenient, but if it's about to be filled with 😊 and 👍 then I've got to stop using it for any serious communication.

I agree, it is technically true. Sorry if I sounded too nitpicking, I've just come back from a week with no internet access /news so for a moment I thought you were talking about all of them doing it during the events of the last few days!

Germany, France and Spain also have killed and kidnapped citizens.

You may wish to rephrase that...

I’m in America, so for me, “East Asia” is actually the far west. For them, America is the far east.

It's not the far west of Asia though. It's the east part of Asia.

Similarly, you are from North America. Where I live doesn't change that about you, because it's a position relative to the land mass we call "America" not to the location of whoever happens to be speaking.

Even though Facebook has been caught funneling people into extremist echo chambers I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything as bad as what I’m seeing on Twitter right now.

Maybe you haven't, but mileage really, really varies on this. Facebook has literally been used to actively incite genocide against ethnic minorities. Not just once, but for years on end despite being alerted many times to what was going on.

Disturbingly, Zuckerberg's excuse was essentially that they were too cheap to hire moderators who spoke the language of the genocidaires, and too greedy to forgo a presence in those countries.

When the Rohingya Genocide was investigated by the International Criminal Court, Facebook added insult to injury by actively impeding the investigation.

I didn't tell him, just sat there in shock getting my lap peppered.

If it happened to me now I would say something, but I was young and not that assertive, so was probably like a rabbit in the headlights!

Yes I had a family member in a right wing conspiracy area. It was infuriating because his friends would tell him their nonsense and he would be skeptical and google it, only for google to seemingly support what they were saying.

I couldn't replicate his results at all and it would take a lot of searching to even find what he was talking about so I could debunk it for him.

If I were to ask for salt for chips in a cafe or something, no problem. But in a proper restaurant, that would be the same as what @ScrollinMyDayAway@lemm.ee describes: it would mark me as some kind of philistine that can't appreciate the chef.

I'm fascinated by this stuff too! We share a language and consume a lot of your pop culture but there are still so many little things that are different.

Eg "tuna noodle casserole" sounded super gross to me because of the language difference. Here, casserole = a thin, liquid stew with chunks of meat in it, cooked in a ceramic pot, and noodles = only Asian noodles (ramen, udon, etc). But it turns out it's more like what we call a "pasta bake", a totally normal dish.

When will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?

The first thing you’ll see if you search Google for “tank man” right now will not be the iconic picture of the unidentified Chinese man who stood in protest in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square, but an entirely fake, AI-generated selfie of that historical event.

No, this is the first thing the author saw. Probably because they are a journalist writing about AI.

When I google tank man I don't even get the AI image on the first page. The top result is from history.com. If I go to google image search it is the 7th result on the page. The top result is from wikipedia.

Pretty sure kbin has this feature.

I think this must be a language barrier thing because cafes serve a lot more than that here.

A picture's worth a thousand words, so here is a random article with pictures of some cafes,

and here is an article with pictures of restaurants in the same town.

Obviously there's a bit of crossover.

I guess that's not surprising, based on the people I used to know in hospitality. One person who was a chef changed field and retrained after one too many hostile workplaces.

That charity sounds good.

New Zealand. Another cultural difference I know about is we also don't really have filter coffee, except in really old-fashioned working class cafeterias.

The espresso culture in this part of the world is so well established that Starbucks struggled when it expanded into Australia and New Zealand and instead of proliferating, shrank to just a few stores that cater to overseas tourists.

the tradition and experience

Even though this happened over 20 years ago, I will never forget the experience I once had of a waiter grinding all the pepper into my lap instead. It was an upmarket restaurant, but I think perhaps he was on something.

Really? Where I live salt on the table or lying around is something in cafes, not restaurants.

This. Last time New Zealand carried out this exercise there were only 3 who didn't.

My pleasure. I really relate about your dog memory scar! I have one from my deceased cat and love it for the same reason.

Sorry, I mean AFAB people (who are not Intersex. Unfortunately I'm not sure how biology affects the symptoms/ presentation of heart attacks for Intersex people).

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