China won’t attack Russia. They’ll simply start moving there and gaslight that it’s Chinese land.
China won’t attack Russia. They’ll simply start moving there and gaslight that it’s Chinese land.
Is there any historical significance behind the “River to the sea” reference?
Edit:
“Between the river and the sea” is a fragment from a slogan used since the 1960s by an array of activists with different agendas. It has a range of interpretations around the world, from the genocidal to the democratic.”
”The full saying is a reference to land between the Jordan River to the east and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, encompassing Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Yeah, I added 2FA. I will try disabling it to see if anything changes.
It’s been a month since I’ve been able to post anything from my lemmy.world account using any app.
Huh, I looked that up and still messed it up. I’m terrible with European geopolitics…
I would honestly laugh if someone slipped up and called the states Canada. If they called it something like “Trump land”, I might actually get properly annoyed. But there’s no way that would have been a slip up, so I think my reaction would be justified.
It was sincere. I’m American, and the US didn’t officially adopt the “Czechia” name until 2021. The only reason I knew about it was because I noticed the name on Apple Maps (which apparently added it in 2020) and asked a European friend about it. I literally told my mother and sister about it a month ago and they had no idea.
I have no idea why “Czechoslovakia” often remains in the mindshare of Americans but I’d guess it’s to do with WWII in history books, and the fact that Czechia is rarely ever a topic of conversation. "Czechoslovakia” was apparently dropped in the 1940s. Recent enough that people’s grandparents might never have known. Information didn’t flow as fast or freely back then. I was born in the 80s, and I know I had to look up the difference between the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia at some point.
The announcer guy, I promise it was a slip up and no intent of disrespect. He corrected himself. And in whose interest would it serve to be disrespectful towards Czechia anyway? There’s no incentive, is there?
I’m not blocking ads, I’m just avoiding them.
Why would someone get upset about that? Is it not Czechia now?
Absolutely. I’m not religious, so the hypocrisy stood out to me.
Under catholic grandparents, I was taught that crosses are there to make satan’s minions flee.
This is a really good idea. Perhaps this is what should be happening in the first place rather than resorting to direct legal enforcement, which can be problematic and damaging, especially for children.
Technically, no. In fact, if you want to be a stickler for details, it was actually 8 sentences, not five, and it was absolutely longer than a minute, but I encouraged the class to help him. It’s a 1-2 week ESL program in the Mediterranean, and he was an Italian 12 year old who likely signed up for girls on beaches than speak English. The Italian government is apparently paying students’ ways into programs like the one I teach at in order to improve general English proficiency across the country, so we end up with a lot of kids who just come to party.
You’re right on that I should have taken his phone away sooner, but he was the weakest student in class. Three of his sentences were the same sentence said more and more poorly each time. Not sure what he thought he was getting away with there. Of course I did a peer correction check of his presentation and had him do it again.
I usually let my students keep their devices, but I had one student… I had asked everyone to write 5 sentences about a made up place. The kid was on his phone, showing things to his classmates while assuring me he was doing his work. Everyone finished but him, with nothing. I let every other student share their answers first to buy him time, then when it was his turn, nothing. I took away his phone and he had it done in less than a minute.
I didn’t even know there was a desktop app. I’ve been using a safari PWA. Aren’t those sandboxed?
The internet was so fast you must have missed it.
Betcha one of them is actually working just fine.
Scrap paper? It isn’t propaganda or anything? They’re just sending over scrap paper? What the hell are they doing over there?
Can they teach the adults as well?