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- Krassy1
Q: "How many languages do you speak?"
Quincy Jones: "Twenty-six. I write seven. I speak Serbo-Croatian. Turkish. I write Arabic."
- I admire the musician but very much doubt anything else. Saw plenty of his interviews to foreign networks, never heard him speak one word that wasn't English.spl33nidoru
- Even in France were he had tons of friends, the ceremony for Officier des Arts et Lettres (decoration) had to be held in English.spl33nidoru
- Who cares?jmckinno
- Saw him in Montreux, he speaks a very good french.gonzalle
- Really gonzalle ? I stand corrected.spl33nidoru
- utopian1
- how to make your microwave stinkshapesalad
- The steam released from the sponge cleaning actually sanitizes your microwave.utopian
- Its a sponge FFS. When it starts smelling, toss it and get another 3-pack for 2.99.Akagiyama
- like and subscribe to the OCD channelsarahfailin
- Krassy2
The world's real-time billionaires tracker:
https://www.forbes.com/real-time…
May 24, 2021:
1. Jeff Bezos
$188.3 B2. Bernard Arnault & family
$187.3 B3. Elon Musk
$150.8 B4. Bill Gates
$125.8 B5. Mark Zuckerberg
$117.8 B6. Warren Buffett
7. Larry Ellison
$103.1 B8. Larry Page
$102.6 B9. Sergey Brin
$99.4 B10.
Amancio Ortega
$89.0 B
- Salarrue1
- Pirates don't pirate?akiersky
- they only made a copy of the doubloons using their own gold ingots. they appreciated the DESIGN. #piratefactssarahfailin
- The copy robs value of the original. This is why we decided NFTS are garbage.doriangrey
- koma_2
For US QBNr's, specifically in LA
I didn't realize public libraries have started to collect zines.
Los Angeles public library has a zine collection:
https://www.lapl.org/zinesOutside of LA, seems like major public libraries have collections as well. If not you might be able to get them through interlibrary loans from here:
Library of Congress zine collection:
https://guides.loc.gov/zines/col…
- Nairn0
There was (is?) a fairly significant Scottish diaspora in Poland.
- Akagiyama1
- where's Tesla?derdennis
- Tesla's not owned by another car company, nor owns any sub marques. Also, <this is incorrect - GM's & FCA's marques are all muddled up.Nairn
- Also, I'm pretty sure that Samsung isn't owned by Renault, lol, whilst TATA isn't a car company as such. Basically, this thing's a mess.Nairn
- Renault - Samsung wtfBeeswax
- yeaaaah https://en.wikipedia…nb
- Toyota owns Toyota! *mindblownnb
- then if I'm not mistaken, off the top of my head, the only pure, undiluted car company out there is Subaru?_niko
- Toyota has a minority stake in Subaru.garbage
- you're right, thanks Garbage_niko
- And Nestlé owns them all.NBQ00
- I thought Ford had a piece of Jaguar.monospaced
- I also thought Daimler and Chrysler were combined at some level at some point.monospaced
- Samsung car??shapesalad
- show me your tata'sHayoth
- lol @ nestleAkagiyama
- where are the Zhiguli, Yugo, Lada, Volga, Škoda, Moskvitch?Krassy
- What about Mazda? And long live the Saab!shapesalad
- So if you drive a Volvo it’s pretty much a London taxi. And a Skoda may as well be a Porsche, Lamborghini or Bugatti.shapesalad
- One thing all these cars have in common: 4 wheels, seats, dash boards, headlamps, and a steering wheel. You pay for logo.shapesalad
- that isn’t true shapemonospaced
- VW owns Audi, Porsche, Seat, Skoda, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghinisandpipe
- ^ Your reading is coming along really well.Hayzilla
- sarahfailin1
https://www.bostonglobe.com/idea…
Until 1987, the American Academy of Pediatrics did not require or advise that babies undergoing surgery be anesthetized, because it was generally believed that babies did not feel pain.
- We are such a primitive species.utopian
- holy shit that's horriblefuturefood
- Just wait 'til you hear what some humans do to their own baby's genitals...Nairn
- SteveJobs1
- You.. microwave cook potato fries?Nairn
- guilty :/SteveJobs
- In the time it takes to pre-heat the oven for 2 minutes worth of cooking, I would have eaten the fries. If you have to do this, an air fryer is your friend!Akagiyama
- uses more electricity than bitcoin.shapesalad
- lol @ shapesalad...prob trueutopian
- grafician1
"The WordPress Economy was worth an estimated $596.7 billion in 2020"
"If the WordPress Economy were a country, it would rank 39th in the world according to an IMF list of countries by GDP."
https://wpengine.com/wordpress-e…
"41% of the Internet is built on WordPress.'
- wp is a mess, i stopped using for building websites 4 yrs ago.renderedred
- What do you use now rndrdrdrd?Nairn
- i now build custom cms systems that fit client's needsrenderedred
- in my experience back-end (cms) is made to fit and people like it. someone needs huge fonts, explanations in the cms, etc. then the front-end and designrenderedred
- are a breeze instead of digging into wp's css and shit.renderedred
- i already have a basic cms of course, so i just adjust it a bit if needed.renderedred
- i've worked on this for a few months basically and now i just improve it here and there: https://www.hoarding…renderedred
- it supports rtl/ltr which i need a lot (i'm in the middle east) and in wp and other cms out there that's not done well.renderedred
- https://media1.tenor…Nairn
- Everyone wants a WP website, everyone!utopian
- Things could be worst...it could be Drupal.utopian
- I read a g. comment recently about there being 3 tiers, depending upon customer type - Squarespace, custom, WP, in that sort of order.Nairn
- WP being at the end of the choice spectrum because whilst it's Fucking Powerful, it's also too much for lots of co. types to maintain.Nairn
- WIX. that's the choice of pros.sted
- WP is just fine, and lol at some of these cunts. @renderedred CSSn shit right? :Dsted
- @sted LOL, yeah, i write the same thing as wp in less than 20% of css code. much easier to navigate.renderedred
- yeah @nairn, i had a very hard time explaining wp admin to people, and customizing it is more work than writing a new one basically.renderedred
- Use it all day, build my own themes, blocks and use it as a CMS ONLY.ArmandoEstrada
- @ArmandoEstrada psst @renderedred doesn't knows lolsted
- pssst @renderedred knows one thing it's always better to be independent, and sure, all the best to you cool kidsrenderedred