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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPtoUkraine@sopuli.xyz•‘We’ve Metastasized Russia’s Military,’ Say Ukrainian Partisans
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    1 minute ago

    I am going to take a wild guess here and say that in the language this is translated from the word for mestatasize as in “the process in which cancer spreads throughout the body” more naturally fits in usage as a verb that does something to a noun than a noun that grows inside a body/noun.

    The headline is technically right, but where the awkwardness comes in I think is that mestatasize feels more natural in english to apply to a growing noun within the architecture of a larger body. In otherwords, it is much less natural to make the headline “Atash Metastasizes The Russian Military” than “Atash Mestastasizes Throughout The Russian Military” though in english that is still an unusual use of the word mestatasize though I think it is a good and very precise use of metaphor and support using it.

    Yeah I agree with another commenter, either this is a bit of awkward translation or it is a bit of AI translation being stilted, but honestly if there is a time to forgive such things I would think war would be it. The message being conveyed is clearly good information, there is just a distorting filter being placed on it through the friction of translation.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•What Americans in a 1998 poll expected to happen by the year 2025
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    22 minutes ago

    Yeah but even if things were like that this question is still like asking “Do you participate in recreational activities such as snuggling up with a blanket and reading or bungee jumping?”.

    The two drugs just don’t have much to do with each other, they are done in completely different social environments with totally different intentions.

    I mean I am sure most people who do cocaine also are willing to smoke weed but that is more of a “why not?” thing than there being any logical connection at all between the two drugs (if you are willing to break societal norms and do coke, you are also probably willing to break societal norms less and do marijuana).

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•What Americans in a 1998 poll expected to happen by the year 2025
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    54 minutes ago

    The line my shitty parents would always give was “all the people we know who do a lot of marijuana are burn outs and don’t go anywhere in life” to which my internal mental response has evolved into “CORRECTION all the people you know who are stupid enough to let your judgemental-ass know they smoke marijuana you mean”.

    Some of my parents best friends regularly smoked marijuana when I was growing up and neither me nor my parents knew because those adults knew how childlike and intellectually unserious my parents’ judgements were around drug use.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoTechnology@beehaw.org•Foreign tech workers spurn US as if it were a rabid dog
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    52 minutes ago

    There was a time when tech talent would uproot their lives for the US because it offered collaboration, publishing, company-building and a big conference circuit. Now they run a gauntlet at the border, where even a green card or citizenship does not guarantee they will not be hassled.

    Thus it can be seen how when industries aren’t mitigated in their self defeating behavior by unions, the associated job market and domestic industry can be driven to collapse and there will be zero ability to slow the process down once it begins spiralling.

    Unions, even if you are a super smart techbro who understands EVERYTHING about the world better than other people because you understand computers… you still need Unions or else the company you are working for will inveitably blow itself up and leave nothing but a crater behind.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoUkraine@sopuli.xyz•Latvia just finished building a 280-kilometer fence to keep Russia out
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    2 hours ago

    The immigrants coming over the borders into the US that centrists and conservatives here see delusionally as a threat are the lifeblood of the US economy and culture, they are the precise opposite of Russian soldiers invading, immigrants to the US are hopeful aspiring citizens trying to keep this bigoted hell hole country I live in from strangling itself to death… and yet people here still think it is normal and healthy to portray them as a collective threat to keep out with a shitty scam wall.

    The US is such a scam country lol.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoWorld News@lemmy.ml•UN Warns of “Unprecedented” Hunger in Sudan as Half of Children Under 5 Starve
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    14 hours ago

    Aid groups have estimated that over 100,000 people fled el-Fasher as a result of the siege, or over a third of the former population of 260,000. Experts at the Yale University Humanitarian Research Lab have said that satellite imagery shows the city was turned into a “slaughterhouse,” and British lawmakers said this month that they’ve been told that a “low estimate” of 60,000 people were killed over the course of just a few weeks during and following the takeover.

    The atrocities have renewed calls in recent weeks from lawmakers to cut off the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which supplies the RSF with weapons, from the international arms trade.