charonn0

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

FTA:

A Danish artist has been ordered to return nearly 500,000 kroner ($72,000; £58,000) to a museum after giving it two blank canvasses for a project he named Take the Money and Run.

The Kunsten Museum in Aalborg had intended for Jens Haaning to embed the banknotes in two pieces of art in 2021.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China's Ministry of State Security on Wednesday released a post on its official WeChat account titled "Revealing key despicable methods by U.S. intelligence agencies in cyberespionage and theft."

Espionage I can believe. But what trade secrets would be worth stealing?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Supposedly, it invokes the Christian symbol of the cross.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I still cross my fingers for luck.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago

Flash freezing is how frozen foods are made.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago

It is perfectly reasonable and fair to judge someone's character by the company they keep. Particularly if they know the company is disreputable.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

He's outspoken about dogs with fleas, but lay down with them anyway.

I don't know about you, but I don't count that in his favor.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 70 points 1 year ago (48 children)

“A very large portion of my party really doesn’t believe in the Constitution,” he told Coppins a few months after Jan. 6.

"But I lay down with the dogs anyway."

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

I work for/with a religiously-affiliated charitable organization, so doublespeak is pretty constant. Worse, not only do people use it but they also police the speech of those around them.

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