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[Uncle Sparky]

Were all of these women from the same region of eastern Europe?

[The Mad Monk]

Meanwhile the level of Russophobia at Baltic states hits another record.

The Russian made cleaner-robot is about to be executed (be being pressed by tractor) within the next few days for speaking Russian.

WAY TO GO, NAZIS! YOU ARE INSANE!



A Nazi barbarians!
We give them robots to clean their sh!t and they press them in an irrational hatred.
Their Nazi Latvian brothers already heat their five floors Khrushev's appartment buildings with firewood in their flats. A metal barrel at the kitchen powered by a firewood as a source to heat the flat! Way to go, Nazi dumbasses!
You have being parasites on Soviet legacy for decades and can't make anything good on your own.
All you are good at is to spit poison of your Nazi hatred.
LOSERS!

The only one spitting poison here is you.

[BeBMan]

Surprisingly, though, studies suggest that while garlic definitely makes people's breath smelly, it makes people's armpit sweat more attractive.

Scientists had 42 men wear armpit pads collecting their sweat for 12 hours, while some of them ate a little bit of garlic, some ate a lot of garlic and some took garlic supplements.

Then, 82 women rated the scent collected from those pads according to subjective ratings of pleasantness, attractiveness, masculinity and intensity.

The men with little garlic consumption didn't illicit a huge reaction, but those eating a lot of garlic were perceived as very sexy. And those taking supplements were also more attractive.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251031-the-foods-that-make-you-smell-more-attractive

[Serb]

Meanwhile the level of Russophobia at Baltic states hits another record.

The Russian made cleaner-robot is about to be executed (be being pressed by tractor) within the next few days for speaking Russian.

WAY TO GO, NAZIS! YOU ARE INSANE!


IN Vilnius a scandal broke out over cleaning robotwho spoke to the buyer in Russian. The Lithuanian authorities seriously discussed whether it was possible to punish the car.


A story from Lithuania looks like a farce, but is absolutely real. In one of the supermarkets Vilnius the buyer complained that his path was blocked robot cleaner who spoke to him in Russian. The machine said politely: “Please move away while cleaning”. But this phrase caused a storm of indignation among the client. He recalled the law according to which all information in public places must be exclusively in Lithuanian.

The robot spoke Russian – and provoked a language scandal pic.twitter.com/n0KrZCczPZ

— Athens News (@russianathens) October 24, 2025

The store representative had to apologize, explaining that the contractor who provided the device with Russian-language settings was to blame. A representative joined the case State Language Inspectorate Arunas Dambrauskaswho admitted: it is impossible to punish a robot for using the Russian language. The law, as it turns out, regulates only written inscriptions, not spoken speech.

However, the official noted that “this is an omission in the law” and it can be corrected. In other words, it is possible to create a new clause that will spell out how to punish not only people, but also cars if they dare to speak anything other than Lithuanian.

Baltics This is not the first time he has demonstrated a painful obsession with everything Russian, but this incident has become a symbol absurd stage of Russophobia. When hatred goes beyond the human and turns to objects, it is no longer politics – it is a diagnosis. After all, the robot does not choose a language, it simply executes the program specified by the engineers. However, this was enough for the Lithuanian bureaucracy to start looking for someone to blame.



Until recently, the objects of oppression in Lithuania were people – elderly Russians, teachers, workers, emigrants, those who lived and built the country for decades. Now it’s the turn of soulless machines. This is a clear demonstration of how hatred loses its meaningwhen it no longer has an addressee. After all, the absurdity reaches its peak when even a robot speaking Russian becomes an enemy.

This episode once again proves: hatred does not live in an object, it lives in a person. And if a person is infected with this emotion, he will look for a reason for aggression even where it cannot exist. This is the tragicomedy of Lithuanian politics – you can punish everyone except your own intolerance.

The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/isP_4...?feature=share

A Nazi barbarians!
We give them robots to clean their sh!t and they press them in an irrational hatred.
Their Nazi Latvian brothers already heat their five floors Khrushev's appartment buildings with firewood in their flats. A metal barrel at the kitchen powered by a firewood as a source to heat the flat! Way to go, Nazi dumbasses!
You have being parasites on Soviet legacy for decades and can't make anything good on your own.
All you are good at is to spit poison of your Nazi hatred.
LOSERS!

[BeBMan]

A 60-day cruise around Australia has been cancelled days after the death of an elderly female passenger who was left behind by the ship on a remote island.

Suzanne Rees had been hiking on Lizard Island with fellow passengers from the Coral Adventurer, but broke off from the group for a rest. The ship left without her and returned several hours later after the crew realised the woman was missing.

A major search operation found her body the following day.

(...)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y44ly3vg2o

[BeBMan]

Current state of AI seems to be a perfect sign of the times we're livng in...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

(...)

Key findings:

• 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
• 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
• 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
• Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.
• Comparison between the BBC’s results earlier this year and this study show some improvements but still high levels of errors.

(...)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

[Dauphin]

Jump to 2:12. Kids show from over a decade ago.

https://youtu.be/_hsLE34py2c?si=3SKWy5E7Ip9yfWSU

[Broken_Erika]

I first encountered it in a Best Guest video on Final Fantasy VII

[The Mad Monk]

I first encountered "unalive" a few years ago when YouTube (Google) started demonetizing any reference to suicide in videos or video titles, possibly in reaction to accusations that videos encouraging suicide had been posted. So, creators started referencing suicide in more creative ways, and eventually that community informally settled on unalive. Apparently, this has been extended to murder (and other references to death, maybe?) on YouTube and other media. English does this fairly often.

Certain creators, like Ren (video below, it's a masterpiece), have crossed that line, for various reasons, but most follow the money.

[EPW]

Ming is going to start unposting us

[Dauphin]

It’s a word that was used to avoid content filters and became often a jocular way to describe a just killing. Don’t see how it is PC.

[N35t0r]

I just never heard unliving before.
New P.C.

It's not political correctness.

[Ming]

How about sticking to the topic... there are more than enough other threads where this can be discussed if you wish

[SlowwHand]

Another b.s. pne

[EPW]

Have you heard the word "unhoused" as a substitute for homeless? That one always makes me cringe when they say it on NPR.