The VBA part of the meme is real, VBA is (was?) localized. Turns out it’s a horrible idea: some keywords are badly translated, some are not translated at all. Googling localized error messages is useless, so you need to guess the original error message from the translation. Want to copy/paste a function from SO? Not so fast, you need to translate the keywords first! And the variable names as well while you’re at it.

Ironically, you end up spending a lot of time on translation-related issues. I’ve worked on a french-VBA app, and it was a miserable experience (well, even more miserable than english VBA).

Sure but they still wouldn’t have my email password or recovery codes, which was my point.

Print or write down your recovery codes, and stash them in a safe spot. And don’t store your primary email password in bitwarden either.

With your current setup, you’re one keylogger away from losing all your stuff.

Just tried framed out of curiosity, it works fine on my Pixel 9.

As others have said I believe the meme didn’t originate in Russia, but was used disparagingly by its enemies. That said, a Russian author did write The Last Ringbearer, an alternative perspective on the events of LOTR:

Kirill Yeskov bases his novel on the premise that the Tolkien account is a “history written by the victors”.[1][2] Mordor is home to an “amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic”, posing a threat to the war-mongering faction represented by Gandalf (whose attitude is described by Saruman as “crafting the Final Solution to the Mordorian problem”) and the Elves.[1]

Sounds familiar?

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Yeah, it also says that they have a low opinion of the local government, which they blame when the reforms promised in the state press fail to materialize.

Regardless of the country, I’m very suspicious about such unanimous acclaim. There’s just no way 9 out of 10 people are happy with any given government. Have you ever been in a group of more than 10 people, trying to make a choice that’s OK for everyone?

Look, I’m not saying that the west is perfect and China is horrible, but maybe try considering the opposite is not true either.

Yes, I am aware that .ml lives in a fantasy world where there are no dissidents in China. It also helps that speaking ill of the CCP has never been harshly repressed in China.

OK maybe not started (couldn’t find a definitive origin), but they did use it quite a bit.

Additionally, the original image of Xi and Obama together as Pooh and Tigger, and the subsequent picture of Xi and Shinzo Abe as Pooh and Eeyore, emerged as group pictures of world leaders, but only the comparison of Xi to Pooh stuck.

Maybe because the others didn’t throw a tantrum about it. Or maybe because Chinese users have to use euphemisms and memes to avoid censorship.

Further, that doesn’t explain the immense popularity among westerners in portraying Xi as a yellow bear, nor why it seems to be especially popular among western right-wingers.

If you say so. I for one had not seen this meme for quite some time and had completely forgotten about it until you brought it up.

You’d have to ask the Chinese internet users who started the meme. Or there is a detailed wikipedia article if you’re interested in the backstory.

Add this to the pile of reasons why it’s a terrible idea, except for traffickers and politics looking to score cheap points with the right I guess…

Nah, here in France we’ve been using the same revolutionary approach to drugs for decades now: be tougher on crime. We’re more and more repressive, while usage keeps climbing. Each new interior minister scoffs at the idea of legalization, explaining instead that his predecessors failed because they just weren’t tough enough.

Oh he knows, he’s been doing it for a long time. Only this time he’s bought the US government, and spends most of his time with the president-elect, so these tweets have consequences in the real world too. He’s also perfectly aware of this, as is his buddy Putin.

If I had to guess, I’d say her OF gig is far from a full time job. So she still has time to spare to work on what she enjoys, and the capital to start an actual business down the road.

Well yeah, that’s like the whole point of prostitution.

I think he meant SSN.

Bonus: Elon “fuck yourself in the face” Musk pretending to be shocked.

The title text mentions imagemagick, there are other examples in the wiki.

It’s the amount of data you can download from the usenet network. The data can be anything stored on Usenet servers, but the overwhelming majority of users use it for piracy: movies, tv shows, music, video games, you name it.

Robin farted

That’s how they translated it in French so I guess you’re right