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hecatiaon Glish: A version of English where every word is only one syllable

How many homophones could emerge from this?

hecatiaon Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content

The "original" word, which "slop" came to existence, would have set internet on deeper fire if it got out of /pol/ today in light of events in israel and palestine.

hecatiaon Nintendo emulator 'Suyu' removed from Gitlab following DMCA request

> which is part of the World Intellectual Property Organization Treaty

That is almost all of the world except micronesia, palau and south sudan

hecatiaon A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald

I think i messed up that one. I wanted to specify which ethnic groups he was hating in his messages that showed up in court documents so certain details are not missed out.

hecatiaon A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald

Them officers should have noticed how many times they were called to raid a same home earlier but no they continued...

On slightly unrelated note, i found court documents related to the swatter "Torswats" (though pages are plastered with "unofficial") and shit is crazy to say the least, especially on materials found by detectives and cops. Such material are messages from Torswats and cops handpicked his diatribes against jews, government officials, homosexuals, black people and ukrainians.

hecatiaon Running Windows 98 in the Browser

Getting KernelEx should not be hard to be able to get a newer Firefox version in it.

hecatiaon Farm in Kenya to produce fossil-free fertilizer on site

Seriously. My mom told me that cow shit that were accumilating in places they were were picked up in a wagon and carried to a designated place to place livestock shit and maybe cover it with something organic (would still smell bad) and leave it there for some time so that shit turn into dirt, soil or something that can be used as fertilizer. I don't remember how long it has to stay before it becomes fertilizer.

hecatiaon EurKEY: The European Keyboard Layout – For Europeans, Coders and Translators

I would like to tell you that 6,25% of 48 million speak Lithuanian

hecatiaon EurKEY: The European Keyboard Layout – For Europeans, Coders and Translators

Like, where are my macrons, tildes and hačky? I get it that not all characters from european language alphabets can be crammed into one keyboard but next time this should be correctly named for what it really is. Someday i might learn western eurpean language if i can challenge my willpower..

hecatiaon Birds Build Nests from Anti-Bird Spikes

This sort of happens in the wild too. Weaverbirds spend their life on spiny trees and build their nests on branches of such spiny trees.

hecatiaon Are you living an AND life or an OR life?

No one is forbidden to ask to clarify :)