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[–] Sendbeer@lemm.ee 70 points 1 year ago

Well, they would know wouldn't they.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

"Notorious wife beater says that his wife may have been punched in the face on purpose."

[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In other news, water is fluid

[–] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

No. Water is delicious.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hate to disagree but it's a solid.

[–] Ieatcrayons@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its a misconception that fluid means liquid. A fluid is a substance that has no fixed geometry, and conforms to the environment around it. If you adjust for time, you could make an argument that ice is a fluid, as glaciers flow almost like a river. Steam is definitely a fluid, as are all liquids and gases.

[–] PigsInClover@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

All my homies love Bernoulli

[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You're both wrong it is a gas

[–] 332@feddit.nu 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I say we wait for more information to come out before we jump to conclusions

[–] silentdon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Planes are so unreliable nowadays

[–] GombeenSysadmin@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

This headline made me snort my gin and tonic out my nose.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

“We kinda…maybe sorta killed him”

[–] entropicshart@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you think about it, this really is the best way for him to get out of the spotlight for the coup attempt.

Plans crashed, everything is burnt to shit, some official list says he was on it, some poor blokes remains get buried, and he moves on living under a different name

[–] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

There is zero chance he's still alive everyone saw the videos before the coup no way he stays quiet if he's still alive

[–] alertsleeper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

no one escapes ~~Stalin~~ Putin

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Russia's Top Exports:

Lies

Misery

Prostitutes

Oil/Gas

[–] supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 9 points 1 year ago

What a shocker! None was expecting that.

(It's obviously sarcasm)

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


MOSCOW, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that investigators were considering the possibility that the plane carrying mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was downed on purpose, the first explicit acknowledgement that he may have been assassinated.

The plane crashed exactly two months since Prigozhin took control of the southern city of Rostov in late June, the opening salvo of a mutiny which shook the foundations of President Vladimir Putin's Russia.

Russia has informed Brazil's aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer (EMBR3.SA) jet under international rules "at the moment", the Brazilian agency told Reuters.

The day after the crash, Putin sent his condolences to the families of those killed and said he had known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the chaotic years of the early 1990s.

The Kremlin has rejected as an "absolute lie" the suggestion by some Western politicians and commentators - for which they have not provided evidence - that Putin ordered Prigozhin to be killed in revenge.

Followers of Prigozhin laid flowers, messages and poetry at his grave on Wednesday, hailing him as a fearless warrior.


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[–] CuriousLibrarian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Are they going to blame Ukrainian drones?

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago

Im shocked, shocked! Well not that shocked.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

You don't say?

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

In other words "we did a poor job trying to convince the whole world it was an accident"

[–] Ace0fBlades@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try it like this: ![](https://media.tenor.com/QrTqjCgS2lsAAAAM/obi-wan.gif)

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Better yet, like this for accessibility:

![well, of course I know him. He's me](https://media.tenor.com/QrTqjCgS2lsAAAAM/obi-wan.gif)
[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not sure about that, maybe certain accessibility apps can get that text but it doesn't appear when you hover over with the mouse.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's in there. If I right click and select accessibility it comes up there, so presumably accessibility apps should be able to parse it. But whatever creates the hover-over text is another metadata variable, and that isn't set to anything.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting. It does feel half baked.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] shadearg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Next week: We believe the purpose was from us but still checking.

[–] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don't believe that sam fired on its own it was the nazi Ukraine wings can fall off you know

[–] hook@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Cobrachickenwing@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

We can blame Kony again, says the Kremlin.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you type it like this you can imbed: ![](link)

Although it looks like your link goes to a page, rather than directly to the file. The link for that is https://media.tenor.com/sLU0qs_Oa30AAAAd/patrick-star.gif so we can imbed with that as ![](https://media.tenor.com/sLU0qs_Oa30AAAAd/patrick-star.gif)

[–] motorwerks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doing the (insert omnipotent being here)'s work! In these situations I always wonder if there's a page, or something, that I should know about that describes all kinds of format/syntax requirements in 1 place. So, ugh, does that exist?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Not that I'm aware of lol. Obviously the main thing lemmy uses is Markdown, but I think the syntax is expanded for links and such. Like, there's also the various ways you can link to communities and users - some are instance agnostic, some aren't.

  • /c/community@instance - will create an instance agnostic community link.
  • !community@instance - will also create an instance agnostic community link.
  • /u/user@instance - will create an instance agnostic user link, but will not send a mention to the user's inbox.
  • @user@instance - typing on the website pops up a dropdown box that allows you to select the user, when you click it generates the code [@user@instance](https://instance/u/user), which is not agnostic (it's in the user's instance) but does send a mention to the user.
  • ![accesssibility text](image link) will create an imbedded image.

The first 3 can be a little hit and miss, as they don't use actual link code but instead rely on the instance or app to generate the link. Lemmy instances running v0.18 and above have this function, with apps it varies more.

There's also currently no easy way to link individual comments or posts across instances. Each lemmy instance assigns each post and comment a number, but every instance assigns a unique number so none of them line up. I'm hoping that eventually they'll just let the first instance decide the number, then every other instance could use number@instance for their copy.