zloubida @ zloubida @sh.itjust.works

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Exactly, and that's why more men than women die at the hands of their partners. (/s, if it's not obvious)

Of course it's unacceptable for women to hurt men, but please, let's not reverse the problem.

Yeah, but we don't educate our children in a cultural vacuum. We have to teach our children to respect everyone, but when we educate boys we have to fight the culture of rape, so we have to be especially attentive to teach boys how to interact with women.

I did using Gemini (the protocol, not Google's thing) and Gopher.

Your machine is not only pretty, but also very interesting!

So, after asking on the typewriter Discord, people there confirmed my suspicions, there's something off with this number: it lacks a prefix and is black on white while normally they are white on black. Conclusion: it's probably reinscribed, so there's no way to know if it's the original one or not.

However, the features are coherent for a machine with that serial, so it's probable that it's the original one, but reinscribed after a service, for example. So it looks like you have a machine constructed within the first year of production. It turns 100 this year, or in 2026, that's cool :-).

But there's also an other possibility: there's stories that typewriter enthusiasts tell each others around campfires that some Underwood could have been assembled in Europe. Is the country of fabrication mentioned anywhere on the machine? Probably in the back, under the patents?

It looks like it is, and if it is you have a very old machine! Probably from 1925 or 1926 (the first year of production). But there's something a little strange, so I'll ask people more knowledgeable than me and I confirm this claim, or not.

Gorgeous thing! The model is quite easily discernable: it's an Underwood Portable, in the 4-bank version (there were a 3-bank version too). Constructed between the end of the First World War and the Great Depression of 1929 and the 1950s, it's a very beautiful machine!

If you give me its serial number (on the right front flange or leg by which the machine is fastened to the case board) I should be able to give you its exact year of construction, if you're interested.

Thanks! Do you know the brand and / or model of your typewriter?

Thanks!

Thanks!

Have you ever advertised it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ?

Now I did 😅. Thanks for the recommendation!

I'm a typewriter fan. 15 days ago, I asked the admins of lemmy.cafe to be nominated moderator of !typewriters@lemmy.cafe which was abandoned and they quickly and kindly answered positively.

I'm not sure it's a good strategy, but for a month and a half I post links to all typewriter-related blogposts, YouTube videos and podcasts that appear in my RSS-feed, and I have a handful upvotes for every post, so at least a few persons find them interesting. And three other persons published things since I begun, even if each one published only once; it's more than in the months that preceded my implication. It's still not much, but I'm quite happy with the result for now!

I also created !typecasts@sh.itjust.works, which is a home for things published with a typewriter but not necessarily about typewriters. It's even more niche than !typewriters@lemmy.cafe, nobody but me ever published, but it works I guess.

Not against q regional adversary. But against their own population, they would.

Assad gazed Syrian rebels, so I don't think the Guardians of the Revolution wouldn't nuke a rebelled city. That would stop the revolt instantly.

Boooooooo

I first read “a zombie princess” and I like this idea more.

You click on a username, and somewhere there's a link to send a message. I use Voyager, so it's hidden under the three dots.

Just sent you one :-)

:3

xxx_{…I liked dis caus' I cry evry time…}*xxx

I'm sorry, my English must suck quite more than I knew: my message is in favour of kicking the oppressive and intolerant. The thing I oppose is to consider by default that the Christian who published the Tik Tok comment tolerated the MAGA Christian, when they probably didn't.

So Jesus didn't come for them.

Sorry, English, as you probably understood, is not my first language. But I think my idea is quite simple: asking all Christians to eject the MAGA from their churches is like asking all Muslims to eject terrorists from their mosques, or all Jews to stop supporting the Gaza genocide. A lot already do, so that demand makes no sense, and is just bigotry.

So, when someone posts: “As a Christian, I don't think you can be both MAGA and Christian,” answering saying that all people eating with Nazis are Nazis makes no sense and is bigotry, as the author of the comment doesn't necessarily prays with people supporting Trump. They even probably doesn't.