Agora

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora

Nah, I strongly believe the ones who are so butthurt by this are the developer equivalent of NIMBYs

TÄCK FÖR HËLPEN

Absolute cinema

Check out winboat

No, the Mediterranean doesn’t freeze. I don’t know the exact temperature, I’d say about 10°C to 15°C? Outside the water though, it could be much lower, like 0°C

Greece here! We put on decorations pretty much when we please, as far as it’s before the Christmas eve. The timeline is:

• December 6th, St. Nicholas day: rather than gift giving, this day is attributed to sailors. There are special ceremonies held by the coast by decorated boats
• December 24th, Christmas eve: Kids go door- to-door and sing christmas carols (κάλαντα, /kalanda/) accompanied with triangles and drums. It’s a cacophony, but it’s cute. They usually expect money or sweets in return (money is more appreciated) or even both, so make sure you’re stocked with coins! Some religious households bake “christopsomo” (χριστόψωμο, meaning Christ bread), a ceremonial round loaf of bread with religious markings on top. There’s a midnight mass for the religious ones too.
• December 25th: still no gift giving, this day focuses on feasting and gathering up, usually famillialy. Tables overflow with festive cooking, including christopsomo, melomakarona (μελομακάρονα, a syrupy biscuit) and kourampiedes (κουραμπιέδες, a spicy, dry, crumbly biscuit with a generous sprinkle of icing sugar, enough to make it look snowy). Some of the most religious have been fasting for quite some time till this day comes as well.
• January 1st, new year’s, st. Basil’s day: Now’s the time for gifts! St. Basil (Άγιος Βασίλης, Ayios Vasilis) is our own version of Santa Claus, so the children get gifts on new year’s instead of Christmas. Another feast happens, and usually ends gloriously with the Vasillopita (Βασιλόπιτα) which is something like a dry cake with a single coin inside. It’s split radially in pieces or in squares, each one given to a single member of the table, except for some that are “given” to Christ, to the holy Mary, to st. Basil, to the house, etc. so you always cut more pieces than you actually need. Someone’s piece will have the coin inside, they “win” the year and are said to have good luck. Companies also tend to hold Vasillopita ceremonies later in the year, and in those ones whoever wins the coin gets generous gifts, like a bonus or extra time off.
• January 6th, Epiphany (Θεοφάνεια, Theofaneia): The Christmas season concludes with Epiphany celebrations, where brave souls dive into cold waters to retrieve crosses blessed by priests, commemorating Christ’s baptism and marking the end of the festive period.

Smart 👏 Home 👏 Is 👏 A 👏 Scam

That’s why China is ahead of the US. They don’t need to hire violent idiots for the photoshoot, they just fill the entire place with cameras and they work out the big data instead. /s

It’s rather amusing to me, a language nerd. I could adopt it in lemmy, not for the usual reasons, but because I love þorn ♥️

“Mariah thawing”

That’s grim

Do it. Shut the government down. I don’t think you got the guts to give away your power in protest, you orange bum

Time was when an American about to go abroad would be warned by his friends or the guidebooks not to drink the water. But times have changed, and now a foreigner coming to this country might be offered the following advice:

If you visit American city,

You will find it very prett

Just two things of which you must beware

Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air!

Pollution, pollution!

They got smog and sewage and mud.

Turn on your tap

And get hot and cold running crud!

• Tom Lehrer

Oh yes, please, older people, maybe I’ll have my late great grandma run a campaign for the democrats from her grave.

Edit: not that I prefer a republican after trump. I’m certainly not far right. But I’m tired of seeing running leaders being this old. Can you americans get AOC to run for once?

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Guantanamo bay was a thing ever since 2002. Biden and Obama tried to make it smaller. Trump is trying to grow it. If there was a clear action to be done that ended this abhorrence it would have been done by now already, but it has proved too resilient already. So no, there isn’t anything that’s gonna be done about it, except grow it as per Trump’s request.

Awwww, Trump is one special snowflake who cannot take criticism

I seem to be out of the loop, isn’t Bluesky decentralised? Am I missing sth?

Tbh, it’s tik tom blocking you, not the US, the US only requires the app stores to remove it. I think the easiest way for TikTok to find out where the request comes from is the client IP. And the only way to get around this is through a VPN. I don’t exactly know though, I haven’t seen a lot of technical stuff around it, and I’m not in the US to test it. I’d love to know if anyone else has a tip on this.

Do as all the shithole countries do. Use a VPN.

This is why side loading is important. Fuck apple and google