inb4 there's conflicting information from listicles online. I don't care. Mentour Pilot says KLIA is #1 and I'll die on that tower. Kthnxbai

We got most of pop media, academic journals, and books covered, but what about photographic media?

cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/418238

Related to the Bunga Mas^1:

According to a Kedah source, the first time a bunga mas was sent, it was sent as a toy for a new-born Thai prince who was the grandson of Sultan of Kedah himself since his kin, a princess was married to the Thai king^1.

This then set the precedence of Malay Sultans being "required" one way or another to send Bunga Mas to Siam. The culmination of the meme is the Siamese invasion of Kedah in 1821^2 partly due to the Sultan ceasing sending bunga mas, making Kedah Sultanate, the progenitor of the practice, existn't for a time.

* This is a Malay expression meaning paying interests. The principal is the pokok (tree) and the interest is the bunga (blossoms).

What things you discovered on your own, that is actually already known and named for a long time? For example, you observe a phenomenon, you write it down, but didn't look it up further for lack of words. Years later, you chance upon the exact same thing on Wikipedia.

Kuala Linggi, Melaka ca. 2014

Welcoming pictures from you lemmings around today's elections.

Please follow SPR officials instructions and not take photos of things you're not allowed to, most importantly your ballot papers. I expect you guys to know better than the average Facebooker, ok? ☝️

Your performing the civic duty is much appreciated. Thank you. 🙏

I mean, I wanted to start work on it, but if someone's already released/working on one then I'd just happily use those instead.

Also, the absence of a thing usually means it's not possible to have. In my mind I think it's easy to have userscript code make API posts on behalf of the user, but maybe somehow in the intricate layers of tech it's made impossible or tedious. If so, I'd like to know before I learn it the hard way.

I'm having my comments I made the past few days receive zero engagements. It's not just me losing the early bird lottery too; my replies to a highly engaged comment has zero likes, while several comments immediately after me has double digits. It's nothing incendiary at all, just normal people's comments. But something just tripped the enigmatic AI and thenceforth I'm shadow banned.

Why you should know this?

Because YouTube is being a thought police between creators and their communities. It feels to me like 99.999% of creators on YouTube have no idea that this is happening, that honest to goodness people's engagements are never going to reach them on the platform; they're being silently silenced, by an AI that is figuratively a black box.

Look at this screenshot. If that's not damning evidence you tell me what is.

The comment is straight up gone when viewing with a logged out tab. I'm definitely 100% shadow banned right now.

[WT03] Weekly Thread

Welcome to the third weekly public transportation stories and discussions (PTSD) thread! Here you can share stories, info, opinions, and discussions about anything related to transportation. All modes of transport are welcomed.

As an optional prompt, here's this week's topic:

State Elections General thread:

• discuss transportation policy manifestos
• plan your travels to your hometowns

Reminder that the state elections polling day is Saturday, 12 August 2023 for the following states:

• Kedah
• Pulau Pinang
• Selangor
• Negeri Sembilan
• Kelantan
• Terengganu

Sit back and enjoy the ride together! And don't forget to vote; do your duty!

Credit: Bernama

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