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Partner Communities (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by _MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.world
 
 

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5 minute crafts is a bot farm scam larger than every other channel on YouTube and they’ve gone to great lengths to hide it.

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Since donning the burka, the woman said she had been taunted by neighbours who called her a "smelly Arab" and that Israeli soldiers had asked to see her identification papers to prove she was not a Muslim. They backed down, she said, when she showed them that her children were clearly Jewish.

The trend has also caused tensions in family life. One man went to a rabbinical court in an attempt to get a ruling to force his wife to stop wearing the burka.

The plan backfired, however. The court ruled that that woman's behaviour was so "extreme" that it ordered the couple to undergo an immediate religious divorce.

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It's a notoriously shitty game, but I was surprised when I saw that, despite being a side-scrolling "action" game, it uses WASD for movement on the Amiga and Apple IIgs.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/110/dark-castle/screenshots/

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Mars elevation map (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Shows the elevation of the martian landscape.

red = hill, blue = valley

the big blue crater at 60°E, 45°S is probably an old impact crater from an asteroid and is 4 km deep!

The highest mountain on Mars is olympus mons at 20°N, 130°W with an altitude of 21 km above planet-wide average.

Source: NASA, Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter

Also we have a whole Mars community here: !mars@discuss.tchncs.de
In case you want to know more about the planet, please feel free to ask :)

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Source is Part III § 2 of the US flag code enshrined by 4 U.S.C. § 5.

On the admission of a new State into the Union one star shall be added to the union of the flag; and such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission.

This isn't legally binding – you can fly a US flag with five stars representing the CCP and its four governed social classes if you want. But it does represent official federal guidance on the design of the US flag. So if Washington, D.C. were added as a state, you wouldn't see the 51st star appear on federal buildings until the subsequent Independence Day.

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I knew a lot of the ocean was unknown but I didn't know that it was this much crowded and unknown

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n 1976, a horrifying discovery was made at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California.

A camera crew for the television show The Six Million Dollar Man was visiting the park to film a scene in the funhouse. While preparing the set for filming, one of the crew members went to move what he thought was a mannequin hanging from a noose.

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