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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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Admiral Yi

I don't think a keep necessarily has to be a tower or particularly tall.

Grey Fox

What do you guys think is the percentage of humanity pooping at any given moment?

1%, 10%?
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Thanks for the reminder! BRB
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Actually pooping < 0.1
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In English Donjon means Donjon since it is a word in English and refers to the tallest tower. Now does Donjon mean Keep in French?

Is this tallest tower fortified and/or does it serve as a prison?

A bit of overlap, according to word reference.com

QuoteAnglais      Français
dungeon n   (underground prison cell)   cachot nm
   Anyone caught trespassing will be taken to the dungeon.
dungeon,
donjon n   (castle: fortified keep)   donjon nm
   The king's rival has been kept in the dungeon for years.

Juste use donjon for donjon and all will be fine. :)

The question was if keep and donjon are the same. The dungeon thing isn't part of the question.
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Josquius

Oddly the donjon in question does have a prison in its attic, in a sort of sky towery arrangement :hmm:
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Quote from: Grey Fox on August 13, 2017, 08:08:35 PM
What do you guys think is the percentage of humanity pooping at any given moment?

1%, 10%?

People who figure this out are worthy of an IG nobel prize  :bowler:

The Brain

Quote from: Grey Fox on August 13, 2017, 08:08:35 PM
What do you guys think is the percentage of humanity pooping at any given moment?

1%, 10%?

Use yourself as a reaonable estimate.
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Syt

http://www.newnownext.com/twitter-graffitti-hate-speech/08/2017/?xrs=synd_facebook_logo

QuoteAfter Twitter Refused To Delete Homophobic, Racist Tweets, An Activist Spray Painted Them Outside The Company's Office

"If Twitter forces me to see those things, then they'll have to see them too."

After Twitter refused to delete hundreds of abusive tweets, a German activist spray painted them all over the pavement outside the company's offices in Hamburg.

Shahak Shapira, who is of German-Israeli descent, says he's reported nearly 450 homophobic, racist, anti-Semitic, and sexist posts to Twitter and Facebook over the last six months. A majority of the approximately 150 Facebook posts were removed within three days, but, of the more than than 300 abusive tweets he reported, he received responses to only nine. And each one stated that there'd been no violation of Twitter's rules.

The posts included tweets like "Lets gas some Jews together" and "hang these lowlifes from the nearest street post," as well as calls for violence against Muslims, gays, women and people of color.

"[They] weren't just plain insults or jokes," Shapira explains, "but absolutely serious threats of violence. Homophobia, xenophobia, Holocaust denial. Things no one should say and no one should read."

He decided the best way to draw attention to the issue was to take the hate speech off the web and put in the street where everyone—including Twitter—would have to look at it. "I thought, okay, if Twitter forces me to see those things, then they'll have to see them, too."

Shapira made large stencils out of 30 reported tweets, then he and several friends used temporary, chalk-based spray paint to cover the sidewalk, stairs and street in front of Twitter's office building. The next morning several passersby complimented Shapira on his efforts.

"It angers me that most people don't revolt against this," one man said. "They just accept it. I think that's fucked up."

Another pointed out that it's a bad look for Twitter to leave abusive tweets in place: "It's careless to let this happen to your own product. It shouldn't happen."

Shapira is working to spread that message using the hashtag #HeyTwitter. "This will never be big enough to visualize the amount of hate tweets on Twitter," he says, "but maybe we can at least give them some food for though."

Learn more about his project in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzMTBINlLFU





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Admiral Yi

It's a nice protest, but how does Twitter force anyone to see anything?

The Brain

Spreading hateful propaganda is one of the best cures for hateful propaganda.

Does Animal Mother tweet btw?
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garbon

Thanks for wasting my time with that...
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Quote from: garbon on August 12, 2017, 12:24:17 PM
So how about that violent white supremacy march in the US?

You sound like that's a new thing after 240 years.

I don't recall one getting this much coverage.

Prople died and the President refused to condem literal Nazis. That makes it newsworthy.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

garbon

I didn't say it wasn't. :huh:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.