I’m Romanian and I recently came across the definition of bangmaid which fits me perfectly, so that’s how my username came to be.

  • Uranus_Hz@lemm.ee
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    1 hour ago

    A dilbert cartoon from the mid 90s. Long before Scott Adams revealed his complete asshattery.

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    Downloaded Kernkraft 400 off Morpheus and the file name omitted the ‘e’ from the band and I thought that was neat when I was registering a handle to play a Half Life mod.

    And then name. Because creative.

    Been using it since.

  • NorthWestWind@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    My name’s initials (NW) and a Chinese slang (西北風).

    西北風 means north-west wind (translated by character, “west north wind”). Other than its meaning in weather, people would often use “eat north-west wind” (食西北風, Cantonese) or “drink north-west wind” (喝西北風, Mandarin) to mean running out of business.

    I have been using this name ever since I learnt that diagonal compass directions in Chinese and English are flipped, like “west north” becomes “north-west” here.

  • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee
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    Epicureanism rejects immortality. It believes in the soul, but suggests that the soul is mortal and material, just like the body. Epicurus rejected any possibility of an afterlife, while still contending that one need not fear death: “Death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved, is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.” From this doctrine arose the Epicurean Epitaph: Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo (“I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.”), which is inscribed on the gravestones of his followers and seen on many ancient gravestones of the Roman Empire.

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

  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip
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    API fiasco at Reddit. Spez called mods “landed gentry” basically signaling how much disdain they not only have for their users but the people who make their site possible. Decided I had too much self respect to mod there for even one more day. Fuck that shit hole site, glad to be done with it