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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • The US used to use that as well but I dunno if younger people would be aware of it these days. There’s an old ee cummings poem that mentions “nipponized” metal.

    Nippon still gets used today in names of places or organizations, and the sports chant equivalent of “USA! USA!” is “Nippon cha cha cha!”


  • Older generations definitely do. It got referenced in a Murakami short story set in the 70s (or 80s maybe) where a couple of Japanese guys vacationing in Hawaii who don’t speak English heard a racist guy go off and said they could pick up on that one word without understanding anything else.






  • I’m on sync but I think it’s an instance thing. I tried on desktop and .world had AOC and .zip had Golden. The .zip admin usually updates the software faster than .world does (the zip page shows 0.19.9 at the bottom and world shows 0.19.3), so maybe that has something to do with it.

    Like I said, the AOC pic isn’t anywhere in the linked Independent article and the Golden one is the first one (about a third of the way down the page), so I dunno where it came from. Most of the other thumbnails are the same but there’s an article about the Dow from yesterday where again my instance has the thumbnail from the article and .world has a thumbnail that isn’t in that same link.

    https://lemmy.world/post/26630962