Lamedonyx

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait until you learn about Thomas Crapper, who made major improvements to the modern toilet.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

The vast majority of people likely don't know that .tv isn't a vanity or official TLD, but the Tuvalu country TLD. And its royalties make up nearly 10% of the state's budget.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ey Becky u want sum fuck?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A Tiktok reported on Imgflip reposted on Reddit reposted on Lemmy.

Hope you like being at the end of the Internet Centipede.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The English translation is wrong, Gero, 17 and 18 are cyborgs, not androids.

They're originally humans, who were turned into robots, while 16 and 19 were fully robotic androids (and use a different word in Japanese, I believe?)

So 18 must've had her babymaker intact, maybe that's where Gero put the bomb that Krillin wished away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

TeamFourStars is screaming in a corner from reading that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

And then there's Pluto, by Naoki Urasawa, which is what would happen if Philip K. Dick decided to write an Astro Boy story.

(It's a reinterpretation of "The Greatest Robot on Earth", and was supervised by Tezuka's son, 100% worth a read)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The OuLiPo is a French creative writing comitee created in the 60's that uses original constraints to foster original works.

One of their most famous works is A Void (La Disparition in French), which is a 300 page novel entirely written without using the letter E, which is the one banned by the instance. (And yes, there is an English translation that was also written entirely without the letter E)